This Day in Shuckers History: June 4
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 4 and have a 1–3 record.
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Biloxi dropped the penultimate game of their 54-game road trip in Birmingham by a final score of 6–4 in 2015. The Shuckers trailed 1–0 into the seventh inning before plating three runs on a base hit by Taylor Green and a two-run double by Tyrone Taylor. Birmingham scored a run in the bottom half before Biloxi extended their advantage on a two-bagger by Adam Weisenburger in the next frame, but the Barons ultimately had the last laugh. The hosts scored four times in the bottom of the eighth inning for the 6–4 win.
The Shuckers waited out a 33-minute rain delay in 2017 before jumping on former major leaguer Kris Medlen for a run in the top of the first inning in Pearl thanks to a single by Jacob Nottingham, but that is all Biloxi would get. The M-Braves scored six unanswered runs before another 33-minute precipitation stoppage in the sixth inning ended the game early.
In 2018, the Blue Wahoos broke a scoreless tie with five runs in the home half of the seventh inning for a 5–1 win over the Shuckers. Again playing in Pearl on this day in 2019, Biloxi scored three times in the first inning after a triple by Patrick Leonard and a two-run single by C.J. Hinojosa, and then hung on for a 4–3 victory. The bullpen trio of Devin Williams, Aaron Kurcz and Luke Barker did not allow a hit over the final four innings of the game.
Close contests have been aplenty for the Shuckers on June 4, and even though the history books show they have only played on the road on this day, there is a discrepancy. Biloxi started a game at MGM Park against the M-Braves on June 4, 2016 and gave up two runs in the top of the first inning, but the game was subsequently delayed due to rain and then eventually canceled. It marked the final scheduled meeting between Biloxi and Mississippi in the first half of the season and could not be made up.
