HIGH POINT, N.C. – High Point’s Mickey Jannis became the Atlantic League’s first eight-game winner as he threw six shutout innings and held York to just four hits in leading the Rockers to a 5-1 win over the Revolution in front of a crowd of 2,001 at Truist Point on Saturday night.
The win allowed the Rockers to make up ground on Gastonia which split a doubleheader with Southern Maryland on Saturday. The Rockers are 38-19 in the Atlantic League and trail the Honey Hunters (40-18) by 1.5 games with six contests remaining in the first half.
Jannis (W, 8-1) allowed just four hits and three walks while striking out three over his six innings of work. A.J. Cole struck out the side in the seventh in his lone inning of work while Jameson McGrane set the Revolution down in order in the eighth. Jeremy Rhoades allowed a run in the ninth before Ryan Dull came on to record the final two outs and collect his league-leading 11th save of the season.
The Rockers scored all the runs they would need with three in the bottom of the second. Dai-Kang Yang led off the inning with single and moved to third on a ground rule double to right by Beau Taylor. Ryan Grotjohn was hit by a pitch by York starter Nick Raquet to load the bases. Ben Aklinski delivered a line drive to center that became an RBI sacrifice fly for High Point’s first run. Catcher Brian Parreira then singled to bring home Taylor and Grotjohn scored on John Daly’s ground out to second base.
The Rockers increased their lead to 4-0 in the fifth when Shed Long, Jr. drew a one out walk and scored from first on Zander Wiel’s double off the left field wall. Michael Russell padded the Rockers’ lead to 5-0 with his sixth homer of the year, a solo shot with one out in the seventh.
York starter Nick Raquet (L, 6-5) gave up four runs in his six innings of work on five hits while walking two and striking out two.
The Rockers had just six hits on the night with Parreira leading the way with two.
Game three of the four-game series is scheduled for 4:05 p.m. on Sunday at Truist Point. The game will be streamed live on FLO Baseball and available on the Mixlr app.
