Hot Rods lose 13-5 Sunday July 4, 2021 BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Niko Hulsizer and Grant Witherspoon each homered in their third-straight games as the Bowling Green Hot Rods (34-18) lost the final game of the series 13-5 to the Greensboro Grasshoppers (31-23) on Sunday at Bowling Green Ballpark. Monday is a league-wide off day before the Hot Rods travel to Rome, Georgia on Tuesday. Greensboro scored early and often on Sunday night, plating six runs over the first three innings of play before the Hot Rods got on the board against Grasshoppers starter JC Flowers in the fourth inning. Erik Ostberg hammered a one-out homer to right-center to make it a 6-1 game. The long ball was Ostberg’s fifth of the season and became Bowling Green’s first hit of the game.