The Tribune

By Renaldo Dorsett

Tribune Sports Reporter

rdorsett@tribunemedia.net

BAHAMIAN minor league baseball players went head-to-head for the second consecutive weekend in the Double A - Southern League.

Jazz Chisholm and the Jackson Generals won four out of five games in their series against Lucius Fox and the Montgomery Biscuits.

Chisholm hit his 11th home run of the season while Fox hit .235 with three stolen bases over the course of the series.

The Generals improved to 28-20 with their fourth consecutive win and are now just 0.5 game behind the first-place Biscuits at 29-20. There are 21 games remaining in the first half of the season.

Fox finished 1-3 with one run and two stolen bases in the Biscuits’ 3-0 win over the Generals to open the series. After he came up empty in his first two appearances at the plate, Fox was walked in the bottom of the sixth and stole second to reach scoring position.

He singled in the bottom of the eighth, stole second again and was eventually plated by Rene Pinto.

Chisholm’s highlight of the series came in game three when his solo home run was the go-ahead score in a 3-2 win for the Generals. Both teams will be back in action tonight and begin a five-game series as the Generals face the Chattanooga Lookouts and the Biscuits travel to take on the Birmingham Barons.

Fox was listed as the No.11 overall prospect in the Tampa Bay Rays organisation in the preseason and the Rays were listed as the No.2 farm system in all of the MLB.

Chisholm, the No.1 overall prospect in the Diamondbacks organisation, was listed at No.55 overall in MLB Pipeline’s Top 100, one of 36 prospects on this year’s list who did not make the list just a year ago.

Just last week, Fox and the Biscuits went head-to-head with Anfernee Seymour and the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp. The Biscuits got the edge 3-2 in the five-game series but Seymour had a productive series at the plate, 4-12, with one RBI and two runs scored through three games.