The New Hampshire Fisher Cats began this season’s southern-most road trip with a 5-0 victory on Tuesday over the Richmond Flying Squirrels.
New Hampshire got on the board in the top of the first, beginning with a Danny Jansen double bringing home Jonathan Davis.
Jansen came home later in the inning thanks to a Harold Ramirez single that rolled into leftfield.
The Fisher Cats got their other three runs in the third inning. Derrick Loveless contributed two of those runs with another groundball that reached the outfield.
Davis added New Hampshire’s final run one at-bat later on a fielder’s choice that sent Andrew Guillotte.
By the end of the evening, the Fisher Cats would collect 10 hits off Richmond pitching, with Jansen and Tim Lopes getting two hits each.
Meanwhile, New Hampshire held the Squirrels’ bats at bay, allowing only three Richmond hits throughout the contest.
Glenn Sparkman (1-1) allowed two of those Richmond hits on his way to the win, striking out five and walking one in five innings of work.
Sam Conrood (2-7) got the loss, leaving after the sixth inning. Although he saw more than half of his pitches go for strikes, nearly duplicating the performance that gave him a win last week against Binghamton, those strikes couldn’t translate into results on Tuesday.
He was on the hook for seven of New Hampshire’s hits and five walks, striking out only two Fisher Cat batters.
On Wednesday, Connor Greene (2-5, 3.80 ERA) will seek to bounce back after his defeat last week against Erie. Green goes up against Richmond’s Cory Taylor (2-5, 4.80 ERA).
First pitch is scheduled for 6:35 pm.
