Game Recaps from the 2019 West Virginia Power season

Power scores six unanswered runs to take finale

Having promoted most of their top talent to High-A Modesto at the tail end of the 2019 season, the Power was struggling down the stretch. However, DeAires Moses and Nick Rodriguez came alive in the team's final game against the Charleston RiverDogs, producing a thrilling late-inning comeback win to cap their road trip.

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After being held scoreless for 13 consecutive innings, West Virginia's offense came alive late Thursday evening, tallying six runs from the sixth to the eighth inning to pull away from the Charleston RiverDogs in a 6-1 win at Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Park.
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Josias De Los Santos created some trouble for himself early on, walking four batters over the first two innings, but did not allow a hit and evaded any damage. However, the RiverDogs (30-29, 67-62) pounced on the Power starter in the third, as Josh Breaux scorched a two-out homer to deep left-center field that gave Charleston a 1-0 lead. 

Sweet hurls first nine-inning complete game in Power history

​At the end of July, Devin Sweet turned in one of the most remarkable performances in Power history, firing a nine-inning complete game against the Rome Braves in Georgia, one of his many masterful outings in the second half. However, this one had a little bit of something extra added on to it.

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Devin Sweet tossed the first-ever nine-inning complete game in Power history, striking out a career-best 12 men to guide West Virginia to a 6-1 win over the Rome Braves Sunday afternoon at State Mutual Stadium. 
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Sweet (5-4) started off his outing very strong, retiring the first six batters he faced in order with three strikeouts. Jeremy Fernandez and Braulio Vasquez snapped that streak with back-to-back singles to begin the third, but Sweet buckled down to strand them both in scoring position with a couple of flyouts and a strikeout.

Game Recaps from the 2018 West Virginia Power season

Wallace twirls gem in 4-2 win Saturday

Gavin Wallace was one of the Power's most consistent starters until his promotion to Class-A Advanced Bradenton in early July. His gem in Lakewood in mid-May turned his season around, while also coming in front of his New Jersey-bred family and one day before Mother's Day with his mom in attendance.

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Gavin Wallace's third quality start of the season and a three-run first inning were more than enough for the Power on Saturday afternoon at FirstEnergy Park, as West Virginia claimed a 4-2 victory against the Lakewood BlueClaws.

Wallace (3-0) spun a career-high seven brilliant innings, allowing just four hits and one run on a Quincy Nieporte solo homer to lead off the fifth. Besides that, the Madison, New Jersey, native stymied Lakewood's lineup, inducing 14 ground ball outs and not issuing a walk over 69 pitches. Evan Piechota (S, 2) tossed the final two frames to pick up his second save, despite surrendering a run in the ninth on an RBI groundout from Nick Maton.

Seven-run ninth fuels Power to wild 15-11 victory

Arguably the most exciting game of the 2018 season came within the campaign's first two weeks, as West Virginia tallied its first seven-run frame of the year in Hickory North Carolina and claimed a valiant win over the Crawdads.

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After squandering an early four-run cushion, the Power exploded for seven runs in the ninth inning to stun the Hickory Crawdads, 15-11, on Saturday evening at L.P. Frans Stadium. Deon Stafford's two-run double ended up marking the difference in the comeback win.

Trailing by three runs entering the final frame, West Virginia would not go away quietly against Hickory reliever Grant Zawadzki (0-1). Chris Sharpe led off the inning with a single and quickly moved to third on a wild pitch and a single from Calvin Mitchell. Dylan Busby then drove him in on a line drive to center field that shrunk the deficit to 11-9.

Game Recaps from the 2017 Winston-Salem Dash season

Collins' walk-off grand slam lifts Dash in extras

On July 10, White Sox first-rounder Zack Collins delivered the first walk-off hit of his baseball career, encompassing his time in Little League, high school, the University of Miami and his first full season of pro ball. Here's how the 2016 sixth-overall pick got the opportunity for his heroics.

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Tied at four with two outs in the bottom of the 11th, Zack Collins smacked a dramatic walk-off grand slam to lift the Dash to an 8-4, series-clinching victory over the Carolina Mudcats on Monday night at BB&T Ballpark.

Collins, who had never hit a grand slam professionally or a walk-off hit in his playing career, clobbered the first pitch he saw from Mudcats (9-10, 45-42) reliever Frank Lopez (2-3) into the porch in right field. The White Sox seventh-best prospect per MLB Pipeline, Collins also netted a career-high five RBIs in his 3-for-5 effort at the plate.

Frederick holds off Winston-Salem in wild opener

In one of the wildest games during the Dash's 2017 season, superstar prospect Eloy Jimenez needed just a triple to complete the cycle and nearly carried Winston-Salem over the homer-happy Frederick Keys in an early August loss that struck a blow to the Dash's playoff hopes.

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Eloy Jimenez fell a triple shy of the cycle, and Seby Zavala posted a 3-for-5 effort with two RBIs, but a late-inning homer proved to be the difference as Frederick outslugged Winston-Salem 8-7 in Tuesday's series opener at Nymeo Field at Harry Grove Stadium.

Jimenez went 3-for-5 with a homer, a double and a single, notching three runs scored and an RBI in the loss. Since joining Winston-Salem on July 13, Jimenez boasts a .369 average with six homers, 20 RBIs and 16 runs in 23 games.