Columbia Fireflies Game Notes 5.22 at Delmarva

May 22, 2024 – Carolina League (CarL)
Columbia Fireflies News Release

The Fireflies continue their series with the Delmarva Shorebirds today at Arthur W. Perdue Field at 7:05 pm. RHP Logan Martin (1-0, 3.91 ERA) takes the bump for Columbia and Delmarva counters with RHP Eccel Correa (1-0, 2.00 ERA).

The Fireflies return to Segra Park June 4 to start a set with the Fayetteville Woodpeckers. Help the team unmask some villains Saturday, June 8 for Scooby-Doo! Night presented by Escapology. Buy your tickets now at ColumbiaFireflies.com.

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SIX-RUN RALLY LEADS TO SERIES OPENING WIN: The Fireflies rallied from down 4-0 to win 6-5 over the Delmarva Shorebirds Tuesday afternoon against the Delmarva Shorebirds at Perdue Field. Columbia (20-18) pounced on Delmarva’s (13-26) bullpen after Michael Forret offered five scoreless frames to start the game. Down 5-0, the rally started small, with a Derlin Figueroa single that plated Brennon McNair to cut the Shorebird’s lead to 4-1 in the top of the sixth inning. The next inning, Erick Torres slapped a two-bagger to score Erick Pena and Dionmy Salon to cut Delmarva’s lead to one. Columbia tied the game in the eighth. Austin Charles singled and scored Daniel Vazquez to even the score 4-4 and later, Jhonny Perdomo hustled out an infield single with the bases loaded to bring around Figueroa and grant the Fireflies their first lead of the game.

WE’RE GOING STREAKING: Derlin Figueroa started an eight-game hitting streak May 12, and he is 10-28 (.357) with one homer and six RBI. He streak is tied with Myrtle Beach’s Leonel Espinoza for the second-longest active hitting streak in the Carolina League. They trail Freili Encarnacion who is currently riding an 11-game hitting streak. Austin Charles owns the Fireflies longest hitting streak of the season, a nine-game stretch from April 10-23. If that hitting streak weren’t enough, Figueroa is also on a 14-game on-base streak, which is four games behind Roismar Quintana for the longest in the League. It’s the second-longest on-base streak for a Fireflies hitter this year (Blake Mitchell, 18)

THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME: Tuesday, left-handed hitter Derlin Figueroa mashed his fourth homer of the season. It was a solo blast that produced the only run of the day for Columbia. All four of the infielders homers have come at Segra Park this year and all four of them have gone out to the right field lawn area. It’s not just Figueroa who has found the long ball at Segra…