The Tides took a walkoff loss on Lewin Diaz’s RBI double off Logan Gillaspie in the bottom of the ninth, which plated the game’s only run. As you can imagine, it was a great night for pitching and not so much for hitters. Tides starter Cody Sedlock worked five scoreless innings, Rico Garcia followed with two, and Gillaspie tossed a perfect eighth before losing in the ninth.
Norfolk, though, couldn’t get anything going against veteran big leaguer Elieser Hernandez, who struck out nine and allowed just two hits in five innings. Despite their top five hitters all being prospects of some intrigue — Gunnar Henderson (#3 tied), Jordan Westburg (#6), Kyle Stowers (#8 tied), Terrin Vavra (#12), and Yusniel Diaz (#29) — that quintet was a combined 1-for-20 with nine strikeouts, the only hit a Vavra leadoff single.