Stephen Vogt had three hits, but the Bulls were swept by Columbus in the best-of-five series, 5-2 on Friday. Columbus, the defending Triple-A National champions, never trailed in the series after recording a league-best 88-56 mark in the regular season.<\/p>\n
Columbus took a 2-0 lead in the second inning against Alex Torres (0-1), a leadoff walk to Chad Huffman (who homered the first two games of the series) was followed two batters later by a Nick Johnson RBI double. Back-to-back singles followed before Torres settled in.<\/p>\n
Durham got on the board when Tim Beckham hit a two-out double to right center in the third off Joe Martinez (1-0), scoring Robinson Chirinos, who started the frame with a double to right.<\/p>\n
Columbus answered right back on a two-out single by Johnson. Matt Carson threw out a second runner trying to score.<\/p>\n
Durham had second and third with none out in the fifth but only got one run on a John Matulia groundout. The Bulls came close to tying it in the eighth when Vogt collected his third hit, a two-out double to left-center, but Dan Johnson lined to left to end the inning.<\/p>\n
Columbus then got two two-out runs in the eighth. Carson almost threw out the first run, but Chirinos couldn’t handle his one-hop throw, and a second run scored on an error.<\/p>\n
For the series, Durham was held to just five runs and went 4-for-26 with runners in scoring position, including 1-for-9 in the final game.<\/p>\n
The Bulls enter the off-season having won five straight South Division titles, and collected 80 wins or more for a third straight season, only the second time that’s happened in history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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