This Day in Shuckers History: Aug. 3
While we unfortunately won’t be able to bring you any live baseball until 2021, let’s take a look back at this date in Biloxi Shuckers history. The Shuckers have played six games all-time on August 3 and have a 2–4 record.
The Mobile BayBears came back from a 3–0 deficit to rally past the Shuckers 4–3 in walk-off fashion in 2015. Adrian Houser made his first start for Biloxi after coming over in the trade from Houston four days prior and pitched five scoreless innings before Mobile’s Socrates Brito tied the game with a three-run homer, leaving Houser with a no-decision. Orlando Arcia doubled home a run for Biloxi and Nate Orf had two different run-scoring knocks, including a triple.
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On this day in 2016, the Shuckers and Suns split a doubleheader in a pair of matinee contests in Florida. Gabriel Noriega had two doubles and drove in a run in a 7–2 loss in Game 1 for Biloxi. Brandon Woodruff pitched well in the next game, allowing just one run in six innings to earn the victory in a 3–1 Shuckers triumph. Noriega was at it again with his bat, belting a three-run homer in the first inning to account for the entirety of his team’s offense.
Corbin Burnes tossed five dominant innings of scoreless baseball with two hits allowed, no walks and seven strikeouts in 2017, but Jacksonville prevailed 3–0 at MGM Park. Jumbo Shrimp starter Chris Mazza came within two outs of a complete-game shutout.
The outcome was reversed between the same two opponents at the same ballpark in 2018, as Trey Supak pitched six scoreless frames to lead Biloxi to a 3–0 win over Jacksonville. Lucas Erceg broke a scoreless tie with a two-run single in the sixth and Clint Coulter added insurance in the seventh by belting a solo shot. Jeff Ames and Nate Griep each struck out two batters in relief to seal the victory for the Shuckers.
On this day in 2019, there was yet another dominant pitching performance in a game between the Jumbo Shrimp and Shuckers on the Gulf Coast. Jacksonville’s Jorge Guzman took a no-hitter into the eighth inning before C.J. Hinojosa broke it up with a clean single to left. That would be Biloxi’s only knock of the contest in a 5–0 loss. The Jumbo Shrimp scored all five of their runs in the third inning, capped by a three-run homer off the bat of Lewin Diaz, the third straight game with a big fly for the recent Marlins acquisition.
In the last four contests the Shuckers have played on August 3 (all against Jacksonville), the winning pitchers have put up video game numbers, tossing a combined 27.1 innings while allowing just one run on 13 hits.
