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Kevin Slowey worked six solid innings for the Red Wings and got plenty of support with 21 hits and 11 runs from his offense in Thursday night's victory.
Indianapolis 3 at Rochester 11
Record 48 - 42
W: K. Slowey (7-2, 1.79); L: R. Rodriguez (0-2, 11.12)
HR: ROC: B. Buscher 2 (5).
From redwingsbaseball.com: The Red Wings defeated the Indianapolis Indians 11-3 Thursday night at Frontier Field. The Wings offense dominated during the game with at least one hit in every inning. Brian Buscher led the offensive power play with two home runs, helping the Wings to 21 hits, the highest for the season.
Indianapolis took an early lead in the first inning. Lead off batter Don Kelly started the inning with a base hit to right field, then stole second. Kelly was brought home on an RBI single by Jose Hernandez to give the Indians the lead, 1-0.
The Red Wings tried to get on the scoreboard in the bottom of the first. Alexi Casilla started with a base hit, followed by two more hits from Matt Tolbert and Darnell McDonald. Casilla tried to make it to third off Tolbert's hit, but wasn't quick enough to beat a perfect throw from right fielder Yurendell de Caster and was tagged out. Tolbert then moved into scoring position off McDonald's hit, but was stranded there as Indianapolis was able to get the next two outs.
Buscher tied the score for the Wings in the second inning with a solo home run down the first base line, his fourth as a Red Wing. The Wings were unable to take the lead as Indianapolis starter Ricardo Rodriguez easily retired the next three batters.
After two hits and a run in the first inning, Rochester starter Kevin Slowey retired the next 10 batters he faced, with the help of diving defensive plays by Denard Span and McDonald.
Buscher did it again the next time he was up to bat, starting the fourth inning by smashing a home run off the top of the right field scoreboard, a 440-foot blast increasing the Wings lead. The Wings offense followed Buscher and ran with the lead in the rest of the fourth. Jose Morales hit a base hit after the home run and then advanced to second off a single by Span. Morales moved to third and Span was tagged out at second on a fielder's choice from Casilla. Tolbert plated Morales off a line drive, just past the glove of first baseman Brad Eldred. McDonald then slammed a ball to the wall for a two-run RBI double, bringing home Casilla and Tolbert, to increase the Wings lead to 5-1.
The Indians picked up a run off Slowey in the fifth, after Luis Ordaz knocked in de Caster with an RBI single. The Wings were able to keep the Indians from scoring another run by stopping Ordaz from reaching scoring position by great defensive plays by leftfielder Tommy Watkins and second baseman Tolbert to end the inning with a score of 5-2.
The Indians closed in on the Wings lead even further in the sixth. Michael Ryan got a base hit and moved to third off a line drive to center field by Hernandez. de Caster then hit a line drive to left field plating Ryan and placing him and Hernandez in scoring position bringing the score to 5-3. The Indians were left on base as Luis Matos grounded out to end the inning.
Gil Velazquez entered the game playing shortstop while Casilla moved to second base to start the seventh. Carmen Cali, who was recently optioned back to Rochester, entered the game relieving Slowey after Slowey allowed eight hits, six in his last two innings. Cali started the inning by allowing a double from Ordaz and walking Kelly to place the tying run on base. He got out of the inning with no runs by striking out the final two batters.
With a new Indianapolis pitcher, Brian Rogers, the Wings more than doubled their lead in the seventh. Matthew LeCroy started the inning with a base hit and was then replaced by pinch runner Trent Oeljten. Oeljten advanced to second on a base hit by Williams and both moved into scoring position off a wild pitch. Rogers then walked Buscher to load the bases. Morales came up to bat and grounded the ball to force out Oeljten at home plate. With the bases still loaded, Watkins hit a line drive to left field for an RBI single, plating Williams. Span then grounded into a force out bringing home Buscher. With three hits already, Casilla singled on a ground ball scoring Morales. After Rochester's third run of the inning, Indianapolis brought in Mark Corey to relieve Rogers and face Velazquez, who slammed a 2-run RBI double to centerfield to plate Span and Casilla doubling the Wings lead to 10-3. Velazquez was stranded on second as McDonald struck out to end the inning.
Julio DePaula relieved Cali in the eighth and started the inning by striking out the first batter. DePaula then retired the next two batters quickly ending the inning.
The Wings took their lead even further in the eighth. Corey started the inning by walking Oeljten and allowing a single by Williams. Oeljten advanced to third off a fielder's choice from Buscher, which got Williams out at second. Watkins then drove a ball down the third base line for a single RBI bringing home Oeljten to give the Wings the 11-3 lead.
Brain Bass came in to pitch for DePaula in the ninth and struck out the first two batters. The game ended with a strong defensive play by Velazquez who dropped a ground ball but was able to recover quickly to get the final out at first and secure the Wings win.
Slowey took the win for the Wings improving his record to 7-2. Rodriguez took the loss bringing his record to 0-2.
NOTES: The Wings had 21 hits in Thursday night's game, the most hits since the Wings hosted Pawtucket on August 30, 2004 where they had 25 hits ... Garrett Jones was promoted to the Minnesota Twins Thursday. Jones was batting .295 with 11 home runs and 58 RBI in 83 games for the Wings. Jones takes the roster spot of Cali who was optioned to Rochester. Cali is 3-0 with one save and a 2.93 ERA in 20 games for Rochester...Tommy Watkins and Denard Span will be guest DJ's on the Slow Flow Show Friday morning at 10 am, on 89.7 FM WITR and WITR.RIT.edu. Tommy and Denard will be dropping R&B and hip-hop with host jaythreeoh so check it.....RHP Nick Blackburn will be honored Friday at the Morgan Stanley Red Wings Player of the Month lunch... RHP Angel Garcia was promoted from Class A Ft. Myers to Double-A New Britain. Garcia was 0-2 with a 3.38 ERA and four saves at Ft. Myers before his promotion.... LHP Glen Perkins (DL, shoulder strain) tossed two innings Wednesday for the Twins' Rookie level Gulf Coast League club, allowing a hit and a walk while striking out two. Perkins will continue his rehab assignment when he starts for Class A Fort Myers Saturday, and will make at least one start for the Wings based on his current rehab schedule...LHP Alexander Smit was claimed off the Twins' 40-man roster by Cincinnati Thursday. Smit was 1-4 with a 5.86 ERA in 18 games (eight starts) at Class A Ft. Myers.
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New Britain 3 at Portland 4
Record: 42 - 45
W: H. Jones (1-0, 3.48); L: J. Martinez (2-5, 3.27); SV: M. James (15)
HR: POR: J. Natale (3).
From portlandseadogs.com: Portland rallied back from a 3-0 deficit, scoring two runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to take the series opener from the New Britain Rock Cats, 4-3 on Thursday night in front of a sellout crowd of 7,368 at Hadlock Field. With the win and a New Hampshire loss, the Sea Dogs moved two games behind the Fisher Cats for the second playoff spot in the Northern Division.
Hunter Jones earned his first Double-A win with a scoreless eighth and Mike Jones converted his 15th save (nine straight) with a perfect ninth to seal Portland’s 44th win of the season.
J.P. Martinez (2-5) walked three in the eighth inning and allowed two runs to take the loss for New Britain.
Trailing 3-2 entering the bottom of the eighth inning, Martinez walked Bryan Pritz and Jed Lowrie to start the frame. Jay Johnson reached on a sacrifice-bunt fielder’s choice to load the bases. Chad Spann, who was assigned to Portland earlier in the day, tied the game with a sacrifice fly. Tim Lahey entered the game after Jeff Natale was intentionally waked and surrendered a sacrifice fly to Andrew Pinckney for the game-winner.
New Britain knocked Portland starter Chris Smith out of the game in the fourth inning after Brandon Roberts produced a run-scoring double with two outs, giving the Rock Cats a 3-0 lead. Earlier in the inning, Matt Allegra nailed a 0-2 pitch for a two-run double, scoring Brock Peterson and David Winfree. Smith lasted three and 2/3 innings, yielding three runs, four hits, five walks and six strikeouts.
Ryan Mullins took a no-decision for New Britain in his eighth start of the season. The lefty allowed one run when Iggy Suarez lined a two-out RBI single in the fifth inning. Mullins retired 13 straight at one point, allowing only four hits, one run and five strikeouts over six innings.
Jeff Natale blasted a lead-off homer in the seventh inning off Jay Sawatski to cut the New Britain lead to 3-2. The home run for Natale was his third of the season and the first at Hadlock Field.
The Sea Dogs have won three of four and host the Rock Cats on Friday night at Hadlock Field – Game time is 7:00 PM. Knuckleballer Charlie Zink (8-3, 2.77) makes his 14th start of the season for Portland. Righty Kyle Waldrop (3-5, 5.11) gets the start for New Britain.
Allied Home Mortgage Big Dog of the Game – Mike James & Hunter Jones
Notes...Chris Smith walked five batters for only the second time of his career (last time: July 20, 2006)…Portland’s bullpen worked five and 1/3 scoreless innings on just two hits – both allowed by Jose Vaquedano...Chad Spann went 0-for-3, RBI in his return to Portland from Triple-A Pawtucket.
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Jupiter 1 at Fort Myers 4
Record 8 - 13
W: O. Sosa (4-5, 2.20); L: C. Volstad (7-8, 4.11); SV: E. Morlan (11)
HR: FTM: J. Portes (7).
The big news, upon entering the Stadium, was that Alexander Smit had been taken off the 40-man roster by the Twins, and promptly snapped up by the Cincinnati Reds. He was reassigned by the Reds to Dayton of the Midwest League.
The next big thing was mustache mania - Jay Rainville is growing one, so is David Shinskie - and also that Jay was in the stands, not pitching.
"My shoulders a little sore, so they're pushing me back a couple of days," he says. So he's a double copycat - once for the 'stache and once for copying Pino's sore shoulder. Not to mention being a Red Sox fan and thinking he's Curt Schilling.
Oswaldo Sosa is also a copycat - the was trying to duplicate Brett Sinkbeil's start from Wednesday night. It didn't quite work, but the Miracle did score some runs in support of Sosa and did pick up a 4-1 win Thursday night over the visiting Jupiter Hammerheads.
Fort Myers got on the board early when Brian Dinkleman singled out to center and then moved to 3rd on a Steve Tolleson ground ball. Tolley stole second base (and actually made it this time) and Dinkelman came home on a throwing error by Jupiter catcher John Purdomill, who Brian refers to as "the man with the rifle".
Tolley singled in the 3rd as well, but had no time to worry about stealing again, as Juan Portes kept his hit streak alive by putting a ball over the left field fence to make it 3-0 Miracle.
Dinkelman made it 4-0 in the fourth by walking, then stealing second and coming home on a Tolleson single.
Sosa pitched well through 7 innings, allowing only 3 hits and 1 walk and striking out 5. He really did not get himself into trouble in the eighth either. A fielding error by Toby Gardenhire allowed Kevin Randel on base. Sosa gave up a double to Purdomill, and Kevin Boles decided to take him off the mound. Sosa was NOT happy about it, and probably could have gone the distance.
Eduardo Morlan took over and allowed a single to Lorenzo Scott Jr., which brought Randel home. Morlan got the next two batters out on strikes and got J.T. Restko to pop up to end the inning.
Morlan finished up with 5 strike outs over 2 innings, 2 hits and 1 walk. Tolleson was 4-for-4 at the plate with 1 run and 1 RBI. Danny Valencia was only 1-for-4 and struck out twice.
Chris Volstad when the full 9 innings for the Hammerheads, allowing only 3 earned runs, 9 hits, 2 walks and striking out 5. Volstad, who turns 21 this fall - he's not even old enough to enjoy beer night yet - was ranked by Baseball America as the Marlins #1 prospect coming into the 2007 season.
I'm not sure who writes the Miracle recaps, I assume it's Sean Fox, but it was NOT Rob Delaney on the mound for the ninth. I think all the facial hair has him confused. (Delaney expected to pitch, but did not.)
Game 3 of the series is tomorrow night with the Zooperstars in town. We're not really sure who's pitching at this point but the top two guesses are Jeff Manship or Yohan Pino.
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Beloit 4 at West Michigan 5 (12 innings)
Record 10-9
W: C. Fien (3-0, 4.05); L: J. Lugo (2-5, 5.14)
HR: WMI: B. Boesch (6), D. Scram (2).
E: Kirwan (1, pickoff), de San Miguel (3, throw).
From oursportscentral.com: Whitecaps catcher James Skelton drilled a two-out pitch into the right field gap for a game-winning double as Scott Sizemore beat the throw from right field to give the ‘Caps a 5-4 victory in 12 innings.
With two outs and nobody on base in the bottom of the 12th, Scott Sizemore singled on a line drive to center to set up Skelton's double and the first run of the game since the bottom of the seventh inning.
Casey Fien (3-0) received the win after pitching 2.0 scoreless innings as the ‘Caps fourth pitcher of the evening. Jonah Nickerson started for West Michigan and went 5.0 solid innings, allowing one unearned run while striking out five batters for the no-decision.
The Whitecaps started the game with two runs in the bottom of the first as DH Deik Scram led off with a solo home run to center field. Two batters later, RF Brennan Boesch blasted Brian Kirwan's offering for a solo home run to right-center field to give the ‘Caps a 2-0 lead.
Beloit cut the lead to one run in the second inning, but the game remained 2-1 until the seventh inning when the Snappers struck with two outs off Whitecaps reliever Kelvin Cedano. Beloit 2B Steven Singleton hit a bloop shot in a driving rain to left field that dropped into left field and got away from Jeramy Laster and scored two runs to give Beloit the 3-2 lead. Wilson Ramos followed it up with an RBI double to make it 4-2. Despite the brief rain showers, the game was never stopped due to weather.
The Whitecaps came right back into the bottom of the seventh on Laster's two-RBI single to knot the score at 4-4 and remained that way until the dramatic 12th inning.
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Princeton 4 at Elizabethton 5
Record 19 - 2
W: D. Bromberg (4-0, 2.08); L: J. Hall (3-1, 2.05); SV: B. Erickson (1)
HR: PRI: K. Kang (1).
From MiLB.com: David Bromberg tossed five solid innings as Elizabethton topped visiting Princeton, 5-4, on Thursday.
Bromberg (4-0) won his fourth straight start after giving up a run on three hits and two walks with seven strikeouts. The 19-year-old right-hander leads the Appalachian League with 32 strikeouts.
Twins reliever Blair Erickson yielded an unearned run on two hits while fanning one in the ninth inning for his first save.
Rene Tosoni hit an RBI single and Rene Leveret, who tops the league with 29 RBIs, delivered a run-scoring groundout in the third for Elizabethton (19-2), which won its fourth straight. Matthew Lawman and Gregory Yersich stroked RBI base hits in the fourth and seventh respectively.
Devil Rays starter Jeremy Hall (3-1) allowed three runs on six hits with two strikeouts over five frames.
Kyeong Kang led off the fifth with his first homer, and Jeff Carroll and Mayobanex Acosta added RBI groundouts in the seventh for Princeton (11-11), which is on a five-game skid.
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Mark Hamburger & Danny Berlind
GCL Twins 7 at GCL Red Sox 1
Current Record: 14 - 5
W: D. Berlind (3-0, 0.00); L: P. Perez (0-3, 4.03)
HR: None.
It used to be the Berlind and McCardell show, now it's Brelind & Hamburger.com, but the results are still the same - excellence.
Daniel Berlind went 5 innings Thursday at the City of Palms Complex, allowing only 2 hits, walking a pair and striking out 6 to lead the GCL Twins to a 7-1 victory over the Boston Red Sox.
Ben Revere singled and stole 2nd to get the offense rolling in the 4th inning. A throwing error by Red Sox second baseman Kenneth Roque put Andrew Schmiesing on base. Juan Richardson's ground out brought Revere across the plate. Angel Morales was plunked by a pitch. The pair then orchestrated a double steal. Nick Biagini doubled to plate the pair and give the Twins a 3-0 lead.
The Twins added 2 more runs in the sixth when Alexander Soto's force out brought in Schmiesing and Juan Richardson. A Revere triple in the seventh and a sac-fly by Schmiesing finished off the Twins scoring efforts.
Mark Hamburger gave up the lone Red Sox run in the bottom of the seven when Engel Beltre singled and stole second, then came home when Victor Serrano ground into a double play.
Charles Nolte mopped up in the last two innings using six ground outs to finish up the game.
Revere finished off the game 2-for-5 with 2 runs and 1 RBI. Jeanfred Brito and Yangervis Solarte both had singles for the Twins, with Brito also having a run in the seventh.
The Twins return home to the Lee County Sportsplex to face the Orioles, who trail the first placed Twins by 2 games in the South Division standings.
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DSL Diamondbacks 2 at DSL TWins 1
Current Record: 14 - 19
W: B. Rojas (1-1, 5.95); L: F. Paulino (0-1, 3.21); SV: J. Marte (11)
HR: None.
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VSL Mariners 9 at Cubs/Twins 5
Current Record 25 - 23
W: M. Campos (1-0, 6.00); L: A. Sanchez (1-1, 2.42)
HR: VSL SEA: J. Rivero (5).
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