Fluor Field - Greenville Drive

Winston-Salem Dash (CHW) @ Greenville Drive (BOS)

June 9, 2026

Drive 8, Dash 7

W: Calvin Bickerstaff
L: Jake Curtis

HR: Alex Ungar (WS), Kaleb Freeman (WS), Isaiah Jackson (GVL), Ronny Hernandez (GVL)

Attendance: 4,648
Time of Game: 2 hours, 29 minutes

Stadium Facts

Location: Greenville, SC
Opened: 2006
Capacity: 6,700
Level: High A
League: South Atlantic

In my original plans for this trip down south, I was going to slip in a return trip to Charlotte to see the Knights play on this Tuesday night.  However, I changed my mind and decided to stay in Upstate South Carolina for an extra day.  I think this was a good decision because it gave me an opportunity to spend more time in an area in which I had very little prior history.  I've heard a ton of great things about South Carolina as a whole, but mostly about the Atlantic Coast.  I'm here to tell you that Upstate South Carolina is pretty great too.  I thoroughly enjoyed exploring downtown Greenville, which is very walkable with multiple restaurants and shops on virtually every block.  At the west end of downtown is Fluor Field, where on a Tuesday night I attended the first of two games there.

Fluor Field is basically Fenway South.  The playing field is a near replica of the Drive's big league affiliate's stadium in Boston.  There is a large Green Monster wall in left field with a matching manual scoreboard in it to boot.  Right field features a very short right field foul pole with a fence that quickly juts out to a create a spacious right field.  It is a robust 420' at its deepest point in right-centerfield.  Like Fenway, there are seats available at the top of the Green Monster.  But even above that are rooftop seats on the brick-sided office building that forms the perimeter of the stadium in left field.  These seating areas above the left field wall are the only outfield seats.  There is a plethora of seats in the main seating bowl in foul territory though, above which a spacious concourse sits.  That concourse houses a solid selection of concessions, including grab-n-go spots that up to this point I hadn't recalled seeing too often in lower level minor league parks.  There is a large picnic pavilion down the first base line and lawn seating below the kids zone on the third base side.  The second level features additional premium group areas and suites.  Perhaps I have been to a couple nicer High A ballparks than this one, but Fluor Field has just about everything you could want from a lower level minor league park.  And its convenient location with plenty of bars and restaurants in the area are tough to beat.  I'm only going to write about the first game I attended here, but I did make a return trip the following night and thoroughly enjoyed both experiences, even though the losing ways of my White Sox affiliates continued with me in attendance.  There was a very nice sized crowd on hand for this Tuesday evening tilt between the White Sox and Red Sox High A affiliates.

I wouldn't say it had any impact on this game, but one interesting thing I noticed early on is that Winston-Salem was aligning their outfielders in a manner that must have been a specific gameplan for this ballpark with a small left field and massive right field.  Their outfielders were shifted well towards right no matter who was at the plate.  The home team, on the other hand, played it pretty much straight up most of the night.  This game started off well enough for Winston-Salem as it took three batters for this Sox affiliate to exceed the hit totals from the previous two Sox affiliate games I attended.  Caleb Bonemer and Ryan Burrows singled, completed a double steal, and both scored on a single by Kaleb Freeman to give the Dash an early 2-0 lead off of Greenville southpaw Devin Futrell.  They added a couple more in the second inning when nine hole hitter Drew Unger launched one into the Monster seats for a two run homer.  Drew McDaniel got the start on the mound for Winston-Salem.  After being handed that early four run lead, he gave it all back in the bottom of the second, surrendering a pair of two run homers.  The first was a deep drive to right by Isaiah Jackson that just barely eluded the leaping robbery attempt by very tall right fielder George Wolkow.  The second was a towering fly ball into the bullpen in right-center by Ronny Hernandez, giving both teams' nine hole hitters two run homers in the second.  This had to be especially rewarding for Hernandez, who was traded from the White Sox to the Red Sox last winter.  Winston-Salem got the lead back in the top of the third on a home run by Freeman to almost the exact same spot as Hernandez's blast, except in Freeman's case it was an opposite field shot.  Hernandez would get his second of three hits for the Drive in the fourth to knock in another run and once again tie the game.  The Dash immediately retook the lead in the fifth on a RBI groundout by Freeman, his fourth run driven in on the night.  Kyle Lodise followed that with a single to knock in Wolkow, giving the Dash a 7-5 lead.  They had a chance to blow it wide open in the seventh with the bases loaded and one out, but Calvin Bickerstaff came in to pitch for the Drive and put out the fire with a pair of strikeouts.  He would go the rest of the way without allowing any runs or hits.  After failing to tack on in the top of the seventh, the Dash paid for it by giving up the lead for good in the bottom half.  The first four Greenville hitters all recorded hits.  The biggest blow was a line drive double to left by Enddy Azocar, who I saw playing for Salem about a month earlier.  That run scoring hit was followed by a two run single by Yoeilin Cespedes off the wall in left.  While well struck, I'm not sure either of those would have been hits in a ballpark with a traditional configuration and outfield alignment.  But Drive players would be well served to continue to take advantage of their home confines as Fenway plays nearly identically.  Greenville scored three in the seventh to take an 8-5 lead, which was the final score.  Bickerstaff got the well deserved win.  White Sox affiliates dropped to 0-5 with me in the house this year.  At least the Dash were able to record some runs and hits.

For the record, Winston-Salem would go on to lose the following night with me there as well, in a game they trailed most of the night.  That was the second of two games I attended that day as I drove up to Spartanburg for a Wednesday matinee game first.

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