DURHAM, N.C. – A huge night from Jacob Berry spurred the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp to an 11-4 victory on Wednesday over the Durham Bulls from Durham Bulls Athletic Park.
Jacksonville (14-15) jumped out to a huge lead in the first. Durham (10-19) starter Brody Hopkins (0-3) walked Deyvison De Los Santos to begin the ballgame. After a fielder’s choice put Berry on, Hopkins issued another free pass to Joe Mack. Kemp Alderman followed with an RBI single for the game’s first run. Two batters later, Maximo Acosta did the same to make it 2-0. An Andrew Pintar two-run base knock increased the margin to 4-0.
The Bulls got on the board when Carson Williams led off the bottom of the first with a home run.
A Dom Keegan walk started the Durham second. Two batters later, Homer Bush Jr. singled. Consecutive RBI singles from Blake Sabol and Brock Jones pulled the Bulls to within 4-3, but after a Williams single, Jumbo Shrimp starter Dax Fulton was able to get out of a bases-loaded, one-out situation without any further damage.
Matthew Etzel drew a one-out walk in the fourth before Jesús Bastidas blasted a two-run shot, his first in a Jumbo Shrimp uniform. De Los Santos doubled and Berry walked. After a double steal, a Mack sacrifice fly made it 7-3.
The score remained that way until the sixth. De Los Santos doubled with one out and scored on a Berry RBI single.
Williams began the Durham seventh with a walk. After an error, Williams advanced to third on a fly out and scored on Raynel Delgado’s RBI ground out. The 8-4 margin was the closest the Bulls was get the rest of the night.
Berry walked with one out in the eighth, advanced to second on a pickoff error, moved to third on a wild pitch and then scored on an Alderman single.
In the ninth, Bastidas walked with two outs De Los Santos singled and then Berry, who finished 2-for-3 with three walks, three RBIs and two runs scored, doubled in the pair to set the final margin at 11-4.
Josh White (2-0) earned the win with 3.0 scoreless and hitless innings of relief.
Jacksonville and Durham meet again in Thursday’s 6:45 p.m. first pitch. LHP Thomas White (0-0, 1.13 ERA) starts for the Jumbo Shrimp against Bulls RHP Chase Solesky (1-1, 7.45 ERA). Coverage begins at 6:30 p.m. on ESPN 690 AM and www.ESPN690.com.
ABOUT THE JUMBO SHRIMP: The Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp are the Triple-A affiliate of the Miami Marlins and compete in the International League. The 2025 International League and Triple-A National Champions, the Jumbo Shrimp call VyStar Ballpark home for baseball but also a wide variety of additional community focused events with a goal of providing Affordable, Family, FUN to Northeast Florida. Winners of many marketing and sales awards and recognition since the team was rebranded prior to the 2017 season, the Jumbo Shrimp continually lead the state of Florida in attendance across all minor league professional sports organizations.