Triple-A: Norfolk Tides 4, Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp (MIA) 1

The Tides ended their season with a tidy 4-1 win over the Jumbo Shrimp in which they never trailed. It was a day of small ball from start to finish.

Norfolk rallied for two runs in the first inning. Leadoff hitter Reed Trimble singled and advanced to second on a wild pitch. Then, with two outs, Ryan Noda walked and Silas Ardoin and Terrin Vavra strung together back-to-back RBI singles.

Norfolk manufactured another run in the sixth: Noda got hit by a pitch, Ardoin walked, both runners advanced on a sac bunt, and Noda scored on Jud Fabian’s POFO groundout.

In the eighth, Gary Sánchez walked and—stop me if you’ve heard this one—Noda got hit by a pitch (his fifth time on base with no hits). Vavra singled to move the runners over

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