Scoreboard for May 18, 2007

Rochester 0 at Richmond 4

Record 19-14

W: T. Hodges (2-2, 2.06); L: N. Blackburn (0-1, 4.91)
HR: RIC: G. Koonce (4).

From redwingsbaseball.com: The Richmond Braves beat the Red Wings 4-0 Friday night, the third straight loss for the Wings. Jose Morales had three of the seven Rochester hits.

Nick Blackburn started for the Red Wings, in place of scheduled starter Scott Baker. Blackburn allowed two runs in the fourth, on an RBI single and RBI groundout. Graham Koonce hit a two-run homer off Blackburn in the sixth, pushing the R-Braves lead to 4-0.

The Wings offense couldn't get anything started against Trey Hodges (2-2), who limited Rochester to four singles over his six innings pitched.

Blackburn (0-1) tossed 7 1/3 innings, allowing the four runs on eight hits. He walked one and struck out two in his first start for the Wings since a promotion this week from Double-A New Britain. Carmen Cali retired both batters he fasced in relief.

NOTES: Class A Ft. Myers 1B Erik Lis homered off Roger Clemens Friday night, but the Tampa Yankees beat the Miracle 2-1. Clemens allowed three hits in four innings, including the first inning homer to Lis. Miracle starter Yohan Pino struck out five in five innings and Kyle Aselton added three scoreless relief innings, as the Miracle out-hit the Yankees 5-4. ..The Twins were expected to promote Baker Friday night, and send 1B/Of Garrett Jones to Rochester. Baker will start Saturday for the Twins against Milwaukee... Matt Tolbert, who entered the game leading the league in hitting, had an 0-for-3 game that dropped his average to .356.....The Wings left 16 men on base..... Rochester was shut out for the third time this season; Richmond's pitching staff now leads the league with seven shutouts.

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Connecticut 2 at New Britain 1

Record: 20-14

W: D. Sack (2-3, 5.85); L: K. Waldrop (0-1, 1.29); SV: B. Anderson (7)
HR: None.

E: PlouffE (7, missed catch), Molina, F 2 (7, fielding, fielding).

From rockcats.com: Kyle Waldrop impressed in his Double-A debut, but fell victim to errors in the field as the Rock Cats fell short of yet another comeback in a 2-1 loss to the inter-state rival Defenders.

The 21-year-old Waldrop limited the Defenders to five hits and two runs (one earned) through seven innings. He struck out two and walked none in his first start since being promoted to New Britain.

Waldrop, the Twins' first round draft pick in 2004, quickly retired the first three batters of the game on groundouts. The Defenders then took a 1-0 lead in the second inning. Carlos Sosa doubled to right field and moved to third when shortstop Trevor Plouffe mishandled the throw into the infield. Another miscue on the next play, this time a fielding error by second baseman Felix Molina, allowed Sosa to score.

In the seventh, Sosa doubled again and then scored on Stephen Holm's double to right field for a 2-0 advantage.

The Rock Cats struck back in the bottom of the inning on an RBI single by Kyle Geiger that scored Garrett Guzman to cut the lead in half. In the bottom of the ninth, the Rock Cats rallied with a broken-bat single by David Winfree, who moved to second on a throwing error by Sosa in left field. Rashad Eldridge, who led the ‘Cats with two hits, then drew a walk to put two men on base with one out. Defenders' reliever Brian Anderson retired the next two batters, though, to close out the game and pick up his seventh save.

Defenders' starter Darren Sack (2-3) allowed one run on four hits in 6 2/3 innings. For the Rock Cats, Jose Mijares fired two shutout innings with four strikeouts in relief. Waldrop (0-1) suffered the hard-luck loss.

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Erik Lis
Fort Myers 1 at Tampa 2

Record 15 - 26

W: B. Villalona (2-3, 4.18); L: Y. Pino (0-2, 2.08)
HR: FTM: E. Lis (3). TAM: R. Corona (1).

From miraclebaseball.com: The Fort Myers Miracle will always remember 7:06 p.m. on Friday night, May 18th, 2006 at Legends Field. That's when the Miracle shared the diamond with a first-ballot hall-of-famer as Roger Clemens tossed four innings of work beginning his 23rd season of major league baseball in front of a Florida State League record crowd of 10,257 fans. On a side note, the Tampa Yankees did go on to defeat the Miracle 2-1.

Everyone will remember Friday night in their own special way, but Erik Lis will have a special memory aside from anyone else. With two-outs in the first inning, Clemens delivered a fastball to Lis who quickly sent it over the right-field wall to give the Miracle a 1-0 lead. To add icing on the cake, thanks to his dad Greg, Lis now has the home run ball in his possession for the trophy case at home.

The difference in the ball game was a Reegie Corona two-run dinger to right that gave the Yankees a 2-1 lead. Tampa reliever Guillermo Villalona-Bryan went five innings in relief of Clemens allowing just two hits to pick up his first save.

The Miracle will have less than 24 hours until the face another guy on the Tampa mound with big league experience. LHP Kei Igawa, who started the season in New York, will get the start on Saturday night. The Miracle will counter with LHP Ryan Mullins (1-3, 2.40) in the rubber-game at 7 p.m.

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ECHL Hockey: The Florida Everblades season came to an end yesterday, 3-1 at Germain Arena. Dayton progresses on to the Kelly Cup finals.

Beloit 4 at Peoria 2

Record 24-14

W: D. Vais (3-1, 4.56); L: J. Renshaw (3-1, 2.97); SV: A. Craig (2)
HR: BEL: D. Valencia (7), J. Woodard (4).

E: Ortiz (7, throw).

Inning 1 2 3  4 5 6  7 8 9   R  H  E
BEL 0 0 0  3 0 0  0 1 0   4  8 1
PEO 0 0 0  0 1 0  0 1 0   2  9  1

Triples for Beloit:  None
Triples for Peoria:  None
Doubles for Beloit:  None
Doubles for Peoria:  Malone (1), Canzier (6)

Notes: The Snappers continued their recent winning ways on Friday night with a 4-2 win over the Peoria Chiefs.

Danny Vais, making his second straight start, picked up his third win of the season and improved his record to 3-1.

The Snappers got things going in the top of the fourth inning with a lead off home run by Danny Valencia. Valencia took the first pitch he saw from Chiefs’ starter, Jacob Renshaw, over the left field wall to give Beloit a 1-0 lead. RBI singles by Danny Santiesteban and Yancarlos Ortiz gave the Snappers a 3-0 lead after three and a half innings.

After Peoria got a run of their own in the bottom of the fifth inning, the Snappers regained their three run advantage in the top of the eighth off the bat of Johnny Woodard. Woodard blasted his fourth home run of the season to right, and gave the Snappers a 4-1 lead.

Peoria scored one right back in the bottom of the eighth inning to draw them to within two runs, but that would be all that they could muster. Reliever, Aaron Craig, pitched two innings of one hit, one run baseball to pick up his second save of the season and give Beloit the 4-2 victory.

With the win the Snappers improved their overall record to 24-14.

In other news: The Beloit Snappers placed left handed pitcher, Jose Lugo, on the Disabled List with left shoulder soreness.

Lugo is 1-2 with a 4.68 ERA and 28 strikeouts in seven games this season. Opponents are batting .315 against the left hander so far this season.

Brian Kirwan and Matthew Fox were added to the Beloit roster from Extended Spring Training. Pitcher Armando Gabino was transfered to the Fort Myers Miracle. Snappers

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