The Norfolk Tides completed their season Sunday with a 4-1 victory over Jacksonville before 6,365 at Harbor Park, capitalizing on strong pitching and an offense that produced nine hits and nine walks.
The Tides sent nine players to their major league debuts, including sluggers Samuel Basallo and Dylan Beavers. Forty-eight men, including those on rehabilitation assignments, played for both Norfolk and Baltimore this season. They finished 2-4 in their last series, 33-41 in the season’s second half and 63-84 overall.
Starter Michael Caldon, winner Corbin Martin (3-3), Peter Van Loon, Alex Pham and Cameron Foster combined for a seven-hitter despite six walks. Foster gained his only Triple-A save of the year.
Adley Rutschman, one of the rehabbing Orioles, and Terrin Vavra had two hits apiece. Ryan Noda walked three times and scored twice.
RBI singles by Silas Ardoin and Vavra put the Tides ahead 2-0 in the first. Bennett Hostetler hit an RBI single in the fourth to pull the Jumbo Shrimp to 2-1.
Noda scored on Jud Fabian’s groundout in the sixth, and Gary Sánchez scored the final run in the eighth on a passed ball.
The first-half champion Jumbo Shrimp (42-33 in the second half, 89-61 overall), affiliated with the Miami Marlins, will head back to Florida for the best-of-three International League championship series against the second-half champion Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, starting Tuesday.
Other than the rehabbing Orioles, the Tides will head to the offseason. Their 2026 season will start March 27 at home against the Nashville Sounds.
