This Day in Shuckers History: Aug. 30
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 30 and have a 2–4 record.
Adrian Houser worked six scoreless innings with just three hits allowed to improve to 4–0 in a Biloxi uniform, as his team held on for a 4–3 victory in Pearl in 2015. Tyrone Taylor was 3-for-5 with a triple while Josh Fellhauer and Garrett Cooper each picked up two hits and combined to drive in three runs.
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The Shuckers playoff hopes took a hit on this day in 2016 as they fell 3–1 at home to Jackson. Nick Ramirez doubled home a run in the ninth inning and then Gabriel Noriega singled for his third hit to bring the winning run to the plate, but Tom Belza popped out to end the game. The loss, combined with a Mississippi victory, dropped the Shuckers 5.5 games out of the second-half division lead and a half-game behind in the wild-card standings, something that would only be used if first-half winner Pensacola also claimed the second half. At the end of play, the Blue Wahoos sat just a half-game behind the M-Braves for that jurisdiction.
On August 30, 2017, the Shuckers were mathematically eliminated from postseason contention after they were swept in a doubleheader against first-place Jacksonville in the final home games of the season. The first game was scoreless until the 11th inning, the fourth extra inning of the contest, when a wild pitch plated the only run of the game in a 1–0 Jumbo Shrimp win. Biloxi starter Jon Perrin worked 6.1 innings of two-hit without giving up a run in Game 1, and each side mustered only four hits in Game 1, all of them singles. Dustin DeMuth homered in the seventh inning of Game 2 as the Shuckers avoided being blanked in both games, but Jacksonville claimed a 4–1 victory to end Biloxi’s playoff hopes.
On this day in 2018, Gabriel Noriega lined a two-run single in the bottom of the tenth inning, leading the Shuckers past the Barons 3–2 and giving Biloxi their ninth walk-off win of the campaign. Southern League Most Outstanding Pitcher Zack Brown worked six innings of one-run ball and Jon Olczak earned his tenth win of the season, a franchise-best for a relief pitcher.
Biloxi plated five runs in the first inning at Regions Field last year, but Birmingham came roaring back for a 6–5 victory. C.J. Hinojosa, Cooper Hummel, Jake Gatewood and Max McDowell all knocked in runs for the Shuckers in the opening stanza, but then they were held hitless by the Barons bullpen over the final eight innings of the game. Former Shucker Kodi Medeiros worked the second through fifth innings to start the dominance of Birmingham’s relief core. Despite the loss, Biloxi clinched the second-half division title when Pensacola was defeated, meaning the Shuckers would host four of five games against the Blue Wahoos in the first round of the playoffs if necessary.
In an oddity, the Shuckers have played a doubleheader to end their regular-season home schedule in each of their odd-numbered years, 2015, 2017 and 2019. The loss at Birmingham last year mirrored a game from 2018, when the Shuckers scored seven runs in the top of the first but the Barons ended up scoring 11 unanswered to win 11–7.
