Record 11-4
W: C. Cali (1-0, 2.25); L: J. Karnuth (0-2, 3.68); SV: B. Korecky (4)
HR: None.
E: Watkins (2, fielding), DePaula (2, throw), Tolbert (5, fielding).
From redwingsbaseball.com: Rochester combined five hits and two Toledo errors for a six-run ninth inning, coming back to beat the Mud Hens 9-6 Sunday afternoon after trailing 6-1 after seven innings. Jose Morales and Trent Oeltjen each had three doubles; Morales raised his season average to .413.
RHP Dennis Tankersley was on the hill for the homestanding Hens, while lefty Dave Gassner got the call for Rochester. It wouldn’t take Toledo long to get to Gassner. Kevin Hooper led the inning with a single, and a Brent Clevlen fielder’s choice preceded a one out walk by Chris Shelton. Mike Hessman then stroked an RBI single right up the middle, scoring Clevlen from second to make it 1-0 Hens.
Rochester quickly tied it in the top of the second, after a two out double by Morales and an RBI single by Chris Heintz evened the score at 1.
The Mud Hens took back the lead 2-1 in the bottom half when Hooper doubled home Dane Sardinha, who began the inning with a base hit. Shelton tacked on another run with a double off his own, in the same spot as Hooper’s, off the top of the left field wall. The score was 3-1 Mud Hens after two. It was a rare bump in the road for the Wings pitching staff, as it was the first time this season a Rochester starter gave up more than two earned runs in a start. Gassner would not surrender another run through six complete and was replaced by righty Brian Bass for the seventh. In all, Gassner allowed seven hits, striking out three and walking one.
Bass quickly got in a jam, surrendering two base hits before intentionally walking Clevlen to load the bases for Shelton. Shelton stroked a bases clearing double deep to center scoring three runs. Heading to the late innings, it was 6-1 Hens.
The Red Wings got one back in the eighth, on back to back doubles by Oeltjen and Matt Tolbert. Tolbert scored as well after a pair of groundouts to make it 6-3. After giving up a hit Tankersley was pulled in favor of lefty Ian Ostlund, who successfully closed out the inning. Tankersley pitched 7 2/3 innings, scattering seven hits to go with three earned runs. He struck out four and walked two, but was left with a tough-luck no decision in the end.
Jason Karnuth came in for Toledo in the ninth, his IL leading 12th appearance. Karnuth blew the save, giving up a double, single, and a double. It was still 6-4 at that point, but an error by Chris Maples at first base off the bat of Tolbert- a ground ball right through the legs- tied the game at 6. Just when it looked like Tommy Watkins had grounded into an inning-ending double play back to Karnuth, SS Ramon Santiago and 2B David Espinosa each tried to take the throw at second for the force play, and it banged off both of their gloves for the second Hen error of the inning-on Santiago, loading the bases. A Lew Ford ground out completed the comeback for Rochester, scoring Tolbert and giving the Red Wings a 7-6 lead. That was the end of a brief afternoon for Karnuth. The Wings, who sent all nine batters to the plate in the ninth, added some insurance with a Garrett Jones two-RBI single off Preston Larrison to take a 9-6 lead. Of the six Rochester runs in the last frame, just two were earned, both off Karnuth. Carmen Cali (1-0), who pitched the eighth for Rochester, got the win while Karnuth (0-2) took the loss. Bobby Korecky fanned two in the ninth after allowing a leadoff double, to notch save number four on the season. .
NOTES: Wings INF Glenn Williams (shoulder) will be out of action for the next few games...Twins OF Ford (DL, knee) joined the Red Wings on a minor league rehab assignment and went 1-for-5 with a single, an RBI and a strikeout Sunday, playing left field the entire game...Double-A New Britain shortstop Trevor Plouffe is the Twins Minor League Player of the Week for April 20-27...Plouffe, 20, played in five games and hit .476 (10-for-21) with two doubles, two home runs, five rbi and scored six runs...Plouffe was drafted by the Twins in the 1st round of the 2004 First-Year Player Draft out of
Crespi Carmelite High School in California.
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New Britain 3 at Connecticut 1
Record: 7-9
W: B. Duensing (2-0, 2.75); L: G. Broshuis (0-3, 3.86); SV: J. Mijares (3)
HR: NBR: F. Molina (1).
From ctdefenders.com: The Connecticut Defenders took on their cross state rivals the New Britain Rock Cats in the finale of a three game series on Sunday afternoon at Dodd Stadium. The Defenders had their number two starter going on the mound in RHP Garrett Broshuis. Opposing him on the mound for the Rock Cats would be LHP Brian Duensing making the start instead of originally scheduled pitcher Brett Smith. The switch would work in favor of the Rock Cats as Duensing was excellent in leading New Britain to a 3-1 victory.
Both pitchers would throw a scoreless first inning, but the action would get going in the second as Broshuis would run into his first and only patch of trouble in the ball game. Former Defender 3B Brian Buscher would lead it off with a double that one hopped the left field wall. On the very next batter with a 1-1 count, Broshuis would hang a breaking ball to 2B Felix Molina, a pitch that would be sent over the right field wall for a 2-run home run. It would be followed by a DH Luke Hughes double to put another runner in scoring position. After a strikeout by OF Matt Allegra, 1B Brock Peterson would deliver an RBI single to score Hughes from second base and complete the three run inning. The Rock Cats led 3-0 after two full innings.
The Defenders would get 1 run back in the bottom of the third inning. C Todd Jennings led off the inning with a double to left-center field. Two batters later, OF Pat Dobson would break a mini slump at the plate with an RBI single to score Jennings from second base. That would cut the Rock Cats lead to 2 runs, 3-1 after three innings.
There would be nothing but zeros across the board thereafter. Broshuis would settle down to retire 12 of the next 14 batters he faced. Neither runner that reached would advance beyond second base. Duensing would work impressively on the mound as well, limiting the Defenders to just three hits over the next four innings. In the seventh inning the Defenders did get runners on second and third in the form of 1B Travis Ishikawa and C Todd Jennings, both of whom singled. Duensing however, would retire pinch hitting Carlos Sosa on a fly out to right field to end the threat. The Defenders would find themselves in the midst of an even better opportunity in the bottom of the ninth inning against closer Jose Mijares. OF Brian Horwitz and DH Eddy Martinez-Esteve led it off with back-to-back singles and a batter later, 3B Simon Klink would walk to load the bases with just one out. But Mijares would prove to be too much as he’d pick up back-to-back strikeouts against Jennings and Sosa to seal the victory for the Rock Cats, 3-1.
Brian Duensing (W, 2-0) would pick up his second win on the season pitching a season high 7 innings, giving up just 1 run, scattering 5 hits and striking out 5 batters. Jose Mijares (S, 3) notched a 2 inning save in a scoreless effort while striking out 4. Garrett Broshuis (L, 0-3) would be a hard luck loser, collecting his third straight loss to start the year. He pitched 6 innings, gave up 3 runs, 6 hits, no walks, while striking out 4 batters.
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Fort Myers 0 at Clearwater 1
Record 10 - 13
W: C. Carrasco (2-1, 4.00); L: O. Sosa (0-2, 5.59); SV: A. Davis (1)
HR: None.
E: Portes (2, fielding), Aselton (1, throw).
From miraclebaseball.com: Despite 15 combined strikeouts from Oswaldo Sosa and Kyle Aselton, it was a RBI-single off the bat of Orlando Guevara that tallied the only run of the afternoon giving the Clearwater Threshers a 1-0 victory over the Fort Myers Miracle at Bright House Networks Field on Sunday afternoon.
Pitching would be the story on Sunday afternoon as all four hurlers looked impressive throughout the day. Thresher starter Carlos Carrasco tossed seven innings of shutout ball allowing just three hits picking up his second win of the season. Reliever Allen Davis tossed a perfect two innings in relief of Carrasco grabbing his first save of the year
Miracle starter Oswaldo Sosa would allow the one run on two hits in his 4.1 innings of work. Sosa would also strike out eight Threshers on the afternoon. Aselton finished the day tossing 3.2 innings allowing just two hits while fanning seven. Sosa and Aselton set the new season-high with 15 of the 24 outs being recorded on strikeouts.
Clearwater’s run in the fifth would come via small ball as Kevin Howard led off with a walk and later advanced to second on a Fidel Hernandez sacrifice bunt. Guevara would follow with his single to right scoring Howard for the lone run of the afternoon.
Twin killings hurt the Miracle on two separate occasions on Sunday afternoon. With runners at first and second, Erik Lis would ground into a 4-6-3 double play to end the third. In the Miracle fifth, it was a 4-3 double play hit into by Jeff Christy to end the threat. No Miracle base runner would reach third on the afternoon while only Juan Portes and Caleb Moore would reach second base.
Game two of the series will take place on Monday night as the Miracle send LHP Alexander Smit (0-0, 5.89) to the mound. First pitch is scheduled for 7 p.m. at Bright House Networks Field.
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Dayton 9 at Beloit 5
Record 10-9
W: R. Gonzalez (4-0, 1.54); L: A. Hawes (0-2, 3.48); SV: J. Rojas (5)
HR: BEL: D. Valencia (5), J. Woodard (1).
E: Ortiz (4, fielding), Woodard (2, fielding), de San Miguel (1, throw), Robinson (1, fielding).
Four more errors by the Snappers resulted in their second straight loss. The Dayton Dragons scored nine runs off eleven hits and won the final game of the series 9 to 5.
The Snappers got on the board first in the bottom of the fourth inning with a home run off the bat of Danny Valencia. Valencia’s homer was his fifth of the season.
Dayton struck back with six of their own in the top of the sixth inning, and took a 6-1 lead. Chris Valaika highlighted the inning with a two-run double.
Beloit scored one run in the bottom of the sixth off a Johnny Woodard homer to right-center. Woodard's home run was his first of the season.
After the Dragons plated three more in the top half of the ninth inning, the Snappers started their comeback. Mark Robinson had a two-run double and Danny Berg had an RBI groundout to make it a 9-5 game. Brian Dinkelman and Johnny Woodard followed Berg with back to back strikeouts to end the game.
Adam Hawes picked up the loss for the Snappers, going five and one third's innings, allowing six runs (four unearned) off five hits.
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Extended Spring Training
I haven't done a write up for today, in part because I found out I was failing the boys by not having some thing available and had to fix it so that they were available and in part because, as Tyler put it "You look tired."
I have added video of the German guy, Rodney Gessman today. He had a really nice first inning, striking out two and only faced three batters, and then fell apart in the second, giving up three runs on five walks, a double, a single and a home run. Ricky Barrett had to come in and get the third out. Barrett pitched 2.1 innings, his longest outting since his injury. Gessman was mid-80's through most of the outting and hit 90 once, flirting a bit with 87 and 88 through his performance.
Rodney Gessmann - Game of April 29, 2007 (Part I)
Rodney Gessmann - Game of April 29, 2007 (Part II)
I've also added Aussie lefty Matt Ryan, Dominican righty Santos Arias and RHP Thomas Wright. The look on Ryan's face, when he found out he was getting youtubed was priceless.
Ryan was the guy that Howie wanted to sign as a pitcher when he was sixteen, but then he hurt his shoulder and had to have surgery. In the mean time, he deveolped a bat, so the Angels signed him as a fielder. That hasn't worked out, so he's "turned himself back into a pitcher again" as he put it. Ryan was pitching 87-88 MPH. He gave up a single to start the inning, got the next guy to ground out, and then walked the third batter. The first runner came home on a sac-fly. They took the guy Ryan had walked out at second after the fifth batter hit to mid-infield, ending the inning. I started out shooting still photos of him, and so the whole inning is not on the video clip.
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