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Tommy Watkins, left, tosses to first base after putting out Buffalo's Jonathan Van Every to start a double play.
Buffalo 4 at Rochester 1
Record 42-38
W: A. Laffey (6-3, 3.10); L: D. Gassner (2-9, 5.00); SV: M. Koplove (8)
HR: BUF: R. Mulhern (12).
E: Watkins (10, throw), Heintz (1, fielding), Span (5, fielding).
From RedWingsBaseball.com: The Red Wings lost to Buffalo Saturday night at Frontier Field 4-1. The loss brings Rochester three games behind the division leader, Buffalo, tying with Scranton for second place. Garrent Jones' RBI single in the first inning gave the Wings their only run and Carmen Cali struck out four in three relief innings.
The Red Wings started the game strong with a lead off hit by Alexi Casilla. He advanced to second on a walk and then to third, barely missing the tag, on a double play by Buffalo. Casilla scored the first run off Jones' RBI single to give the Wings a 1-0 lead.
The Wings defense had an exciting second inning. The inning started when starting pitcher Dave Gassner walked Andy Marte. Marte advanced to second on an error by Tommy Watkins. After Trent Durrington's pop-up foul was dropped by Chris Heintz, Glenn Williams dove to catch another bunt foul for the first out. The second out followed quickly when Marte was caught stealing, and Gassner ended the inning by striking out the final batter.
Buffalo tied the score in the fourth inning. Lead off batter Ryan Mulhern slammed a ball to left field just shy of the foul line for a solo home run. Mulhern now leads Buffalo with 12 home runs. The Wings were able to quickly end the inning, keeping the score 1-1.
Buffalo took the lead in the sixth. Lead off batter Luis Rivas reached base on a single and advanced to second on a sacrifice play. Gassner then walked the next two batters loading the bases with only one out. This is the first time Gassner has walked four hitters all season. Marte came up to bat next and hit a RBI single to bring home Rivas. Mulhern scored the second run of the inning off a sacrifice play making the score 3-1.
The Wings offense could not keep up as Buffalo increased its lead in the seventh. After Gassner allowed two hits and a walk, Cali relieved Gassner with the bases loaded again. Casilla and Heintz were able to stop the runner on third by getting him out at home, but could not stop the next run on a sacrifice play. The Wings ended the inning holding Buffalo to only one run, which increased their lead to 4-1.
Buffalo starter Aaron Laffey worked into trouble while trying to close out the game in the ninth, when he walked Williams with one out. Heintz followed with a single through the hole at short, prompting Buffalo manager Torey Lovullo to bring in closer Mike Koplov to face Doug Deeds. Deeds grounded out to move the runners to second and third, but pinch-hitter Brian Buscher grounded out to end the game. Laffey took the win making this six consecutive wins for him this season.
Gassner took the loss pitching six-plus innings, allowing three runs, walking five, and striking out three.
NOTES: The Red Wings now have a 13-7 record against North division rivals so far this season. Since the International League went to three divisions in 1998, Rochester has had only two winning divisional records (43-37 in 2003 and 41-38 in 2006)....Infielder Ken Harvey was activated from the disabled list Saturday. Harvey, who was placed on the disabled list May 11 with a sore right knee, has appeared in one game for Rochester this year (May 8 pinch-hitter). Harvey started the season on the disabled list recovering from arthroscopic surgery on his right knee. To make room for Harvey the Red Wings optioned catcher Korey Feiner to Double-A New Britain. Feiner batted .105 with one home run and one RBI in 15 games...Class A Fort Myers Miracle pitcher Yohan Pino pitched a seven inning no-hitter in the first game of a double-header Saturday. This is the second no-hitter in Miracle history, and the first at Hammond Stadium.
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New Britain 5 at Reading 8
Record: 36-41
W: M. Maloney (7-6, 4.04); L: R. Mullins (0-2, 3.60); SV: J. De La Cruz (5)
HR: NBR: B. Peterson (10). REA: J. Hammond (1).
E: Molina, F (17, throw), Plouffe (19, fielding).
From readingphillies.com: Phillies lefty Matt Maloney had his work cut out for him Saturday night against the New Britain Rock Cats, a team that was leading the league in hitting, and one that was hitting .294 against left-handers.
Maloney hung in there for seven innings and managed to earn his third straight win, an 8-5 decision before 8,281.
The Rock Cats (36-41) totaled eight hits off Maloney -- three of them infield hits and another a blooper to left. Maloney struck out a season-best 10, and most importantly, did not issue a walk in pushing his record to 7-6.
The Phillies (40-41) tied the game with a two-run fourth inning on Jason Hill's two-run double, which extended his hitting streak to 12 games. The Rock Cats went up in the fifth on Brock Peterson's solo home run to left, his 10th.
The Phillies sent 11 batters to the plate in a six-run fifth, featuring a two-run homer to right by Joey Hammond, his first, and a two-run triple by Michael Spidale. Javon Moran and Juan Tejeda also doubled in the seven-hit inning.
Julio De La Cruz pitched two scoreless innings for his sixth save.
PHILLERS: The last time the Phillies began a homestand on a Saturday was June 30, 2001, exactly six years ago. . . . Rock Cats starter Ryan Mullins had retired 10 straight to start the game. After that, 11 of the next 13 batters he faced reached base. . . . The Phillies need to draw 13,671 fans to exceed 10 million in attendance at the stadium. . . . Mike Costanzo, Juan Tejeda and Jesus Merchan, three guys who have been struggling offensively lately, each had two hits.
Merchan being a former Twins minor league player...
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St. Lucie 0 at Fort Myers 7
Record 5 - 4
W: Y. Pino (3-3, 1.55); L: D. Guerra (1-4, 4.27)
HR: FTM: J. Portes (6), B. Dinkelman (2).
I was sitting with Iris over the dugout in the bottom of the 1st inning, Rondell White was at third base, and Dwayne White came up to bat.
"I'm sorry," I told her. "I have to do this, I just can't resist.
"Come on Dwayne! Bring your daddy Rondell home!" Rondell whips around and is pointing at me and saying something to Bolesy, but you know, I have to keep it up.
To Dwayne's credit, he did get the RBI on a double to center to bring R-White home.
"You give your son a big hug for that once he gets in the dugout, Rondell!"
"Maybe you should consider calling him his brother," Iris suggests. But he seemed to get a kick out of the whole thing.
I sent team photographer Al Larson after the two of them later to get a father-son picture.
The story of the evening though was Yohan Pino who pitched like a man possessed. The only mar on the performance where the four walks, with back-to-back walks in the 5th inning that perhaps gave the Mets some hope. But Pino took it away again, with a strike out and a ground out.
In part, Fort Myers News Press writer David Dorsey was not in attendance so no one was around to say "Oh, do you think he's going to get a shut out?" and jinx the thing.
On top of it Yohan's stellar outing, we had Brian Dinkelman hit his 2nd home run of the season in a Fort Myers uniform, and Juan Portes smack his 6th over the wall. Portes was 2-for-4 with 2 runs and 2 RBIs while D-White was 2-for-3 with 1 RBI.
Jeff Christy as 1-for-3 in his first game back, which caused some people to say that they sent him back from New Britain, which was not the case. The return of Chris Heinz to Rochester started a trickle down effect for catchers.
It was a good game to watch though for the Miracle faithful. And I got Jacob Ruckle's autograph, so I was happy.
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St. Lucie 3 at Fort Myers 1
Record 5 - 5
W: T. Stoner (1-1, 4.57); L: Z. Ward (2-11, 3.33); SV: N. Abel (5)
HR: None.
I started out the second game with Milt Cuyler. T.J. had given me some cards, so I had him sign them. He has stories for each of the cards. It's pretty fun. However, this led to the trivia question of the night which was "Who did we get Brandon Roberts for?"
It started out because Milt wanted to know why I called Zach Ward "Penny".
"Penny," I said. "It's what we got for Lohse."
"You also got that outfielder, the one that broke his foot in instructs." We didn't. That was a separate trade although for the life of me, I couldn't remember which player the Twins had gotten rid of for him. The answer, of course, is Juan Castro.
Penny was pitching a bit like Lohse, giving up 3 runs (all earned) on 7 hits while striking out only 1 in 5 innings. It was not one of his better outtings.
The Miracle jumped on the board first, in the 2nd inning, when Erik Lis doubled. Luis Ugueto's ground out moved him to 3rd, and he came home on an Edward Ovalle triple. Johnny Woodard and Calbe Moore both flew out though to end the inning, leaving us wondering why, if Woody was going to fly, we didn't take advantage of it and make it a sac-fly?
Ward blew up in the 4th, with Dan Murphy singling out to Juan Portes. Nick Evans doubled, and then Josh Peterson hit a single that plated Murphy. Ryan Coultas ground out moved the two baserunners along. Mike Nickeas singled in Evans, while Rafael Arroyo's ground out brought in Peterson. Jonathan Malo flew out to end the inning. Ward settled down for the fifth, but was replaced by Alex Smit, in an attempt to find someone the Miracle would give some run support to.
The Miracle managed only 4 hits in the game, but Ward as been victimized by lack of run support all season long.
Another victim of poor run support is Jay Rainville (4-7, 3.52), who will making the start on Sunday afternoon.
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Clinton 5 at Beloit 9
Record 4-5
W: C. Devries (6-3, 3.17); L: O. Poveda (8-3, 2.70)
HR: CLI: M. Gomez (7). BEL: E. Tintor (1).
E: Ortiz 3 (14, throw, throw, fielding), Olson (15, throw), Berg (2, throw).
From snappersbaseball.com: A combined ten errors between the two teams resulted in the Snappers coming away with a 9-5 win. Cole Devries pitched seven innings of six hit, four run (three earned) baseball to pick up his sixth win of the season.
After the Snappers scored two in the bottom of the first inning, Chris Parmelee got things going for Beloit again in the bottom of the second inning with a two-run single. Another run scored on the play off a throwing error from center fielder David Paisano. Parmelee’s single gave Beloit a 5-0 lead. One batter later, Parmelee scored from third base on a wild pitch from Omar Poveda. Poveda’s wild pitch gave the Snappers a 6-0 lead.
Runs from both teams in the third inning made it a 7-1 Beloit lead, a lead they would not let go.
Beloit scored two more runs in the bottom of the fifth and Clinton scored two in the top of the sixth to make it a 9-5 game. Danny Vais pitched two innings of no hit, one run baseball to close the door on the LumberKings.
The win helped the Snappers improve their second half record to 5-5.
Upcoming Schedule: The Snappers play game three of four with the Clinton LumberKings at Pohlman Field on Sunday afternoon at 2:00 pm. Beloit’s Tyler Robertson faces off against Clinton’s Broc Coffman.
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Burlington 2 at Elizabethton 8
Record 8 - 1
W: D. Bromberg (2-0, 3.09); L: B. Gausman (0-1, 2.57)
HR: ELI: S. De Los Santos (1).
From MiLB.com: Michael Allen, David Bromberg and Anthony Slama combined on a five-hitter as host Elizabethton stifled Burlington, 8-2, in the completion of a suspended game Saturday.
Allen, who pitched the first three innings on Friday before play was halted, gave up two hits and struck out two. Bromberg (2-0) picked up where he left off, allowing two hits and fanning three in four scoreless frames.
Slama completed the game, yielding two runs on one hit and a walk in two innings.
Estarlin De Los Santos ripped his first homer, a two-run blast in the sixth, while Rene Tosoni and Deibinson Romero each had two hits for the Twins (9-1).
Royals starter Brian Gausman (0-1) surrendered two runs on three hits and two walks while striking out five in two innings.
Kyle Martin scored on a wild pitch and Jake Lane lifted a sacrifice fly in the ninth for Burlington (6-5).
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Burlington 2 at Elizabethton 7 (7 innings)
Record 9 - 1
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GCL Pirates 1 at GCL Twins 6
Current Record: 7 - 2
W: W. Marquez (1-0, 1.86); L: R. Delossantos (0-2, 6.08)
HR: None.
E: Brito (1, fielding).
Winston Marquez and the GCL Twins defeated the GCL Pirates 6-1 Saturday afternoon at the Lee County Sportsplex. Marquez allowed the only Pirates run in the fifth inning, when he hit David Bomback with a pitch. Ronald Pena then doubled Bomback home.
The Twins got on the board in the second, when Juan Richardson smacked a single to center field. Catcher David Hernandez moved him to 3rd, again with a single out to center field. Jon Waltenbury noticing that everyone seemed to having success knocking balls to Quincy Latimore in center field, did the same thing, plating Richardson for the first run. A wild pitch by Rafael Delossantos moved both Hernandez and Waltenbury over a base. Andrew Schmiesing then ground out to first, but Hernandez was able to come home, making it 2-0 Twins.
The Pirates got one back in the fifth, but the Twins extended their lead in the six, with Wang-Wei Lin doubling out to right field and then coming hom on a Yangervis Solarte ground single. Hernandez then reached on a fielding error by Pirate shortstop Javier Guzman, which brought in Richardson, who had singled on a fly ball out to center again.
Lin singled in the 7th inning, and was brought in by James Beresford double. Beresford tried to extended it to 3, but was taken out at 3rd. Richardson walked his way on base, and then used his speed to come home on a Solarte ground ball.
Lin was 2-for-4 with 2 runs on the game, Solarte was 2-for-4 with 2 RBIs and Richardson was 2-for-3 with a walk and 3 runs.
Paul Kelly played for only the second time, his first game coming on June 20th. He experienced soreness after that and was rested again. Hopefully he'll be okay today and will be able to continue his rehab. He was replaced by Beresford in the sixth inning.
Marquez would finish up with 1 run on 4 hits and 1 walk while striking out 4 in 5 innings wroth of work. Jarrad Eacott pitched two innings in relief, allowing only 1 hit, walking none and striking out 2. Charles Nolte followed with one batter getting on base due to a error by Jeanfred Brito. Then walked a second batter with 2 outs, but got the last man to strike out. Puerto Rican acquisition Nelvin Fuentes, a 16th round pick in the 2007 draft, finished off the game.
The Twins are on the road Sunday, playing the Reds at the Ed Smith Complex in Sarasota at noon.
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