This Day in Shuckers History: June 30
While we wait until we can bring you live baseball, let’s take a look back at this date in Biloxi Shuckers history. The Shuckers have played four games all-time on June 30 and have a 2–2 record.
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Nick Ramirez clobbered a grand slam to lead Biloxi to an 11–6 victory in Birmingham in 2016. Tyrone Taylor had three hits in the game, Brett Phillips doubled twice and drove in three runs, and Jacob Nottingham hit a late two-run double to put the game away in the eighth inning.
The Shuckers again won at Regions Field in 2017, this time by a 5–2 final. The biggest hit came off the bat of Clint Coulter, who hit a two-run homer in the fourth inning. Biloxi then scored three runs in the fifth as a Blake Allemand RBI single was sandwiched between a sacrifice fly by Angel Ortega and a run-scoring groundout off the bat of Michael Choice. In 2018, Corey Ray homered for the Shuckers, but a ninth-inning grand slam by Mobile’s Brennon Lund broke the game open in an 8–3 victory for the BayBears.
It was another late grand slam by Mobile that opened things up last year, as Zane Gurwitz blasted one in the seventh inning of an 8–2 win over the Shuckers at MGM Park. C.J. Hinojosa homered for Biloxi in the first, and Drew Rasmussen struck out four batters in 2.2 scoreless innings in his first start since June 5 before he was moved to the bullpen for four outings.
June 30 has been a day of grand slams in Shuckers contests, as three of four games have featured a “granny.” In another oddity, Biloxi has only had two opponents on the date, facing Birmingham in 2016 and 2017 and then taking on Mobile in each of the last two years
