Snell earns win in Durham Bulls’ 9-4 victory over Charlotte Knights
Blake Snell worked five innings, permitting just two runs to lead Durham to a 9-4 win over the Charlotte Knights on Friday night at BB&T BallPark.
Snell (W, 6-2), who is in line potentially for multiple national minor league player of the year honors, earned his 15th combined victory in a season that started in High-A for the 22-year-old lefty. Snell completed his final outing with the lowest ERA of any pitcher in the minors at 1.41.
The Knights (73-68), who took a 2-0 lead in the first against Snell, were officially eliminated from South Division contention with the loss.
With the game tied 2-2 in the fifth, Boog Powell homered to right to give the Bulls (72-69) a 3-2 lead. The homer was Powell’s second in as many games. Taylor Motter stroked a two-run shot in the seventh to boost the Durham lead to 5-2, his 12th of the season.
Corey Brown drilled a two-run homer in the ninth, his 19th.
The Bulls return home to close out the regular season in the first of three against the first-place Norfolk Tides Saturday night at 6:35 p.m.
Friday’s box score
Durham | ab | r | h | bi |
Powell, DH | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Brett, 2B | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Motter, SS | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
Brown, CF | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Rickard, RF | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Seitzer, 1B | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Elmore, 3B | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Constanza, LF | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Acosta, C | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Totals | 39 | 9 | 11 | 8 |
Charlotte | ab | r | h | bi |
Johnson, 2B | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Coats, CF | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Viciedo, 1B | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Davidson, 3B | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
Tuiasosopo, RF | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Curley, LF | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Garcia, SS | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
O’Connell, C | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Wilson, DH | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 31 | 4 | 8 | 4 |
Durham | 000 | 210 | 222 | — | 9 | 11 | 0 |
Charlotte | 200 | 000 | 020 | — | 4 | 8 | 0 |
DP– Durham 3. LOB– Durham 6, Charolotte 6. HR—Powell 1( 2), Motter 1 (12), Brown 1 (19), Davidson 1 (23).SB– Constanza 2(8), Johnson 1 (28).
DurhamIP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | |
Snell (W, 6-2) | 5 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
Zarate (H, 4) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Frieri (H, 1) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Dominguez | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Marinez | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
CharlotteIP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | |
Marin (L, 3-4) | 5 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
Casey | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
Leon | 2/3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Wendelken | 2/3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Phillips | 2/3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
This story was originally published September 4, 2015 at 10:29 PM with the headline "Snell earns win in Durham Bulls’ 9-4 victory over Charlotte Knights."