This Day in Shuckers History: June 5
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 five games all-time on June 5 and have a 3–2 record.
On June 5, 2015, Biloxi’s marathon, record-setting 54-game road trip finally came to an end at Regions Field in Birmingham, and would anything else besides extra innings be expected? The Shuckers and Barons were locked in a 1–1 battle through regulation before Biloxi exploded for five runs in the top of the tenth. The visitors went in front on a base hit by Kyle Wren, and then Tyrone Taylor and Orlando Arcia each followed with a run-scoring hit to give the Shuckers some breathing room. Another run scored on a wild pitch before Michael Reed capped the onslaught with a sacrifice fly. Damien Magnifico induced Birmingham’s Danny Hayes to ground out to first base to bring the game to its conclusion at 9:52 p.m. and send the Shuckers on a bus back to Biloxi for the first time in nearly two months.
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Jacob Nottingham homered as part of a three-hit, three-RBI day in a 4–2 victory for the Shuckers in Montgomery in 2016. Brandon Woodruff pitched 5.2 innings of two-run ball to earn his second victory of the season, while Tristan Archer, Stephen Peterson and Daniel Tillman allowed just one baserunner out of the bullpen.
On this day in 2017, Bubba Derby was sensational for the Shuckers, taking a no-hitter into the seventh inning, but the M-Braves bats caught fire late for a 4–2 win in Pearl. Derby finished with just two hits and one run allowed in 6.2 innings with nine strikeouts. On the other side, Mike Soroka turned in a gem for Mississippi with three singles allowed and nine strikeouts in eight scoreless innings. Dustin DeMuth drove in both runs for Biloxi with a double in the ninth inning.
Shuckers ace Zack Brown was once again at it in 2018, as he struck out 11 batters while allowing just one earned run in six innings as his team beat the Blue Wahoos 6–3 in Florida. Troy Stokes Jr. homered while Corey Ray and Jake Hager each had a two-run hit to supply all the offense Brown and the Shuckers would need. Nate Griep earned his 20th save of the season with a hitless ninth frame. Cooper Hummel homered in a 5–1 loss to the M-Braves in Pearl last year.
In each of the Shuckers first three games on June 5, the winning team allowed two runs in the contest. The only baserunner that Derby allowed in his first six innings in 2017 came on a strikeout in which the batter reached first base on a wild pitch.
