Record 18-13
W: R. Perez (3-1, 3.22); L: D. Gassner (0-2, 6.83)
HR: BUF: K. Ginter (6), L. Rivas (3), A. Marte (2), M. Rose (1).
From redwingsbaseball.com: The Red Wings lost their second straight to Buffalo Monday night at Frontier Field. Buffalo broke out with four home runs and shut down the Wings' offense to win 6-2. Matt Tolbert had two hits to raise his International League leading batting average to .396, and Alexi Casilla added two hits and an RBI for the Wings.
Buffalo starter Rafael Perez got the win after pitching seven and two-thirds innings, giving up two runs while striking out seven. Andy Marte went 4-for-4 with a home run and Mike Rose added two hits with two RBI to lead the Bisons offense.
The Wings threatened to score first in the second inning when Matt LeCroy led off with a walk, followed by a Jose Morales single to center. But Tommy Watkins hit into a double play and Matt Moses followed with a strikeout to end the threat.
The Wings struck first in the fourth inning. Casilla got things started with a leadoff single and advanced to second base because of an error by Bisons' shortstop Hector Luna. Glenn Williams followed with a single to right and LeCroy knocked in the first run with a line-drive single to left field. Watkins ended the inning after grounding into his second double play.
The lead was short-lived after Buffalo started the fifth inning with four consecutive hits. Marte tied the game with a leadoff home run that hit the video scoreboard in left field. After Luna followed with a single, Rose gave Buffalo a 3-1 lead when his homer to left field fell just out of reach of Watkins' glove. The Bisons then loaded the bases after back-to-back singles with only one out, and Shin-Soo Choo drove in their fourth run after grounding into a fielder's choice, making it 4-1. Starting pitcher Dave Gassner took the loss after allowing four runs on nine hits in five and one-third innings pitched.
Buffalo threatened again in the sixth. After Rose's single forced Gassner to leave the game, the Bisons loaded the bases when Jason Cooper hit a single off Wings' reliever Jason Miller with only one out. But Miller forced Ryan Mulhern to ground into a double play to end the inning.
After the Wings continued to struggle on offense, Buffalo added two more runs in the seventh. Luis Rivas and Keith Ginter hit solo home runs off Miller to extend the Bisons lead to 6-1.
Rochester added a run in the eighth when Casilla hit a line-drive double to left field to score Tolbert, finishing the scoring for the Wings.
The Wings hit well off of Bisons reliever Brian Sikorski in the ninth inning, loading the bases following Trent Oeltjen's single with only one out. However, Tolbert and Denard Span followed with consecutive strikeouts to end the game.
NOTES: The Wings left 22 runners on base..... INF Gil Velazquez joined the Wings from Double-A New Britain on Monday but did not play... Tolbert also leads the league in on-base percentage.
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New Britain Rock Cats
Record: 16-14
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Velazquez promoted: Rock Cats infielder Gil Velazquez was promoted to Triple A Rochester. He hit .267 with one homer and 13 RBI in 17 games at New Britain. ... Rock Cats outfielder Matt Allegra was named Eastern League player of the week. He hit .464 (13-for-28) with a homer and six RBI.
Courant
Clearwater 1 at Fort Myers 0
Record 12-25
W: J. Outman (3-3, 3.89); L: R. Mullins (1-3, 2.40); SV: C. Weatherby III (2)
HR: None.
E: Moore (1, catcher interference).
From miraclebaseball.com: Clearwater catcher Lou Marson went 2-for-3 with a double on Monday night as the Clearwater Threshers picked up a 1-0 win over the Fort Myers Miracle at Hammond Stadium. The Miracle have now lost five-straight and are now 7-9 in one-run games this season.
Marson would lead off the Thresher fifth with a bullet off the wall in left-center picking up his fifth double of the season. After a Brad Harman single to center moved him to third, Marson would later score on Matt Thayer’s groundout to second giving Clearwater their only run of the night.
Starters again looked good on Monday evening as the Threshers Josh Outman and Charles Weatherby combined on the three-hit shut out. Outman tossed five innings allowing two, first inning singles. Outman did have a few control issues walking six, but did strike out seven registering his third win of the year. Weatherby went four innings allowing just one hit while fanning five for his second save.
Miracle starter Ryan Mullins received another tough-luck loss on Monday throwing seven frames allowing just the one run on six hits, while striking out five. Reliever Yohan Pino went the final two innings allowing just one hit while he struck out two.
Best scoring opportunities for the Miracle came in the first and fifth innings with runners on first and second with one out. In the first, Steve Tolleson and Erik Lis each had singles in the inning but were left stranded as Juan Portes flew out to right and Whit Robbins grounded out to first. In the fifth, it was back-to-back walks from Luis Ugueto and Lis with one-out to start a potential threat, but a Portes strike out and Robbins ground out again ended the inning.
The Threshers and Miracle will battle in the middle game of the series on Tuesday night. The Miracle send RHP Oswaldo Sosa (0-2, 3.55) to the mound opposite RHP Carlos Carrasco (4-1, 4.05) for the Threshers. Game time is set for 7 p.m. on a TK Sports Bar “2-for-1” Tuesday sponsored by Cat Country 107.1. It is also “Shrek 3” night with Shrek visiting Hammond Stadium on Tuesday night.
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Record 21-13
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