The Norfolk Tides completed their 2025 road schedule with a flourish Sunday, scoring four runs in the ninth inning to rally for a 7-5 victory over the Durham Bulls before 7,838.
Jordan Westburg was impressive in the latest game of his rehabilitation assignment from the Baltimore Orioles. With the Tides on the brink of defeat, he vaulted Norfolk into a ninth-inning lead with a three-run homer to right-center field, completing a four-RBI day. Westburg is coming back from an August ankle sprain.
The Bulls won four of seven games in the series at Durham Bulls Athletic Park.
Homers by Reed Trimble and Westburg in the first inning put Norfolk ahead 2-0, but Tristan Peters’ two-run homer in the second tied the game. Durham moved ahead 4-2 in the fourth as Tres Barrera hit an RBI single and scored on Kameron Misner’s double.
The teams traded seventh-inning solo homers, with Enrique Bradfield Jr. connecting for his first Triple-A home run for the Tides and Dominic Keegan for the Bulls.
In the ninth, Norfolk rallied against Joe Rock (3-6). Bradfield’s infield single scored Soto from third with two out, setting up Westburg’s blast.
Anthony Nunez pitched a scoreless ninth against the Bulls (36-31 in the International League’s second half, 81-61 overall) to save the victory for Houston Roth (5-1).
The Tides (31-37, 61-80) will complete the season with six home games against Jacksonville, starting at 6:35 p.m. Tuesday at Harbor Park.
