Baseball
South Atlantic League
Lexington Legends vs. Greenville Drive
What: Three-game series
When: Sunday through Tuesday (4 Sunday afternoon, 7 Monday and Tuesday nights)
Where: Fluor Field (Greenville, S.C.)
Major League affiliates: Houston Astros (Legends), Boston Red Sox
Sogard
Quevedo
Bushue
Probable pitchers (Legends listed first): Sunday, RH Tanner Bushue (5-1, 3.57) vs. LH Manuel Rivera (4-1, 3.83); Monday, RH Carlos Quevedo (4-3, 5.27) vs. RH Miguel Celestino (3-3, 4.70); Tuesday, LH Alex Sogard (1-1, 3.14) vs. RH Keith Couch (0-1, 3.86).
Drive to watch: CF/RF Henry Ramos (6-foot-2, 187 pounds, from Maunabo, Puerto Rico) is a right-handed-throwing, switch-hitter who is equally versatile in a variety of sports — having been a member of Puerto Rico’s junior national soccer and tennis teams. With the Drive, Ramos is batting .277 with a homer, seven RBI and seven runs scored over 12 games. A 2010 fifth-round draft pick out of Alfonso Casta Martinez High School, broke into pro ball last year with the Gulf Coast League Red Sox (43 games) and the New York-Penn League’s Lowell Spinners (7 games). In the Gulf Coast League, Ramos hit .309 with eight doubles, a triple, three homers, 26 RBI and 18 runs, while stealing 12 bases in 18 attempts. He also had a .370 on-base percentage and .449 slugging percentage. With Lowell, he went 3-for-24 (.125) with two RBI and a run scored.
Tyler Burnett
Legend to watch: 1B Tyler Burnett (6-0, 205, from Murfreesboro, Tenn.) batting .286 with six doubles, a triple, two homers, 13 RBI and 19 runs scored over 38 games. The left-handed hitting, right-handed thrower has drawn 13 walks to 15 strikeouts and is 6-for-8 in stolen-base attempts. He is 10-for-25 (.400) when leading off an inning. Over his last four games (through Friday), Burnett is 6-for-13 (.461), with a three-hit game Friday. Also a quarterback and punter in high school, he attended his hometown university, Middle Tennessee State. As a Blue Raiders senior last year, Burnett earned all-Sun Belt Conference honors by hitting .351 with 12 homers, 46 RBI and 56 runs. A 17th round draft pick, he was assigned by the Astros to the Tri-City ValleyCats of the NYPL, where he hit .250 with six homers, 31 RBI and 39 runs over 71 games. An NYPL all-star, he also stole six bases and had 45 walks versus 56 strikeouts.
Radio: WLXG AM-1300
