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Rochester second baseman Alexi Casilla fields a short hopper during Thursday's 2-0 victory over Louisville at Frontier Field. Tonight's game against Louisville will be broadcast on Ch. 26.
Lousiville 0 at Rochester 2
Record 33-29
W: N. Blackburn (3-1, 2.03); L: M. Gosling (5-3, 3.00)
R: None.
From redwingsbaseball.com: Nick Blackburn pitched his second straight complete game shutout, boosting the Red Wings to a 2-0 win over the Louisville Bats Thursday night at Frontier Field, in the opener of an eight-game homestand for the Wings. Blackburn held the Bats to only six hits over nine shutout innings, striking out five without allowing a walk.
Blackburn, coming off a pair of wins in which he gave up a total of eight hits and one unearned run in 17 innings, allowed a one-out first inning single to Pedro Lopez. The next batter, Joey Votto, drilled a long fly that was headed over the fence and into the Red Wings bullpen, but Garrett Jones raced to the wall and made a leaping catch to take away a home run. Blackburn struck out the next hitter to end the inning, and continued to handle the Louisville lineup. After seven innings, Blackburn had allowed just four hits without walks while fanning four Louisville hitters.
In the second against left starter Mike Gosling, the Wings scraped together a run for an early 1-0 lead. Tommy Watkins beat out an infield hit with one out, stole second base, and moved to third base on a single by Gil Velazquez. With Denard Span batting, the Wings tried a double steal; Watkins scampered home when catcher Ryan Jorgensen threw to second to try to throw out Velazquez, who got hung up between first and second on the play. Velazquez eluded a tag and made it back to first safely.
Gosling limited the Wings to a pair of hits through seven innings, racking up seven strikeouts with just two walks. After surrendering a double to Alexi Casilla with one out, Gosling was replaced by lefty Brian Shackelford. Casilla seized on opportunity to score on a slow ground ball to third base off the bat of Glenn Williams and slid under the tag of the catcher on a close play to score the second run of the game.
Blackburn took the mound in the bottom of the ninth and pitched around a lead-off hit and a double to finish his complete game gem. Votto's double actually fell in when Watkins and Denard Span lost the ball in the lights, but Watkins alertly picked up the ball and threw a strike to third to nab Jeff Keppinger for the second out. Blackburn has won his last three starts for the Wings pitching 26 innings, striking out 15 and allowing only a single unearned run without walking a batter.
NOTES: LHP Carmen Cali was optioned to Rochester from Minnesota Thursday, after the Twins activated LHP Dennys Reyes from the DL. Cali was 0-0 with a 0.00 ERA in seven games for the Twins. Cali allowed just three hits in 5.1 innings of work. To make room for Cali the Red Wings optioned LHP Jose Mijares to Double-A New Britain. Mijares was 0-1 with a 6.23 ERA in five games for the Red Wings... With his home run in Louisville on Tuesday, Williams has now homered in all 14 International League ballparks. Jones has hit a home run in every IL Park except for Pawtucket’s McCoy Stadium...Twins OF Josh Rabe (DL, right shoulder) had successful shoulder surgery Thursday and could return before the end of the season...The Challenger Baseball World Series will be conducted this Saturday June 16 at 9 a.m. at Frontier Field, with over 200 players representing squads from Fairport, Greece, Webster, Batavia, and the Finger Lakes little league programs. Challenger Baseball brings together boys and girls ages 6-18 who are mentally and/or physically challenged. Manager Stan Cliburn, catcher Matthew LeCroy, Williams, Spikes, and members of the Red Wings front office will be on hand for the festivities, which are free and open to the public...Double-A New Britain INF Luke Hughes was named Eastern League Player of the Week on Monday, after going 13-20 (.650) with five doubles, home run 3 RBI and scored six runs. It is the second straight week that a Rock Cats player has won the award (SS Trevor Plouffe last week). The Rock Cats are the only Eastern League club undefeated in double headers (6-0) and extra innings (4-0) entering play Thursday.
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New Britain 2 at Altoona 5
Record: 32-28
W: K. Bouknight (7-2, 3.27); L: J. Martinez (0-2, 2.33); SV: M. Peterson (12)
HR: NBR: D. Winfree (4).
From Altoonacurve.com: Neil Walker tripled home the tying run and scored the eventual game-winner as part of a four-run eighth inning that lifted the Curve to a 5-2 win over the New Britain Rock Cats Thursday night at Blair County Ballpark. The victory -- Altoona's eighth straight at home -- gave the Curve a three-game series sweep of the Rock Cats to open their six-game homestand.
Trailing 2-1 entering the bottom of the eighth inning, the Curve offense, which had been held in check for most of the night by New Britain starter Jesse Floyd, erupted for four runs to seize the lead.
Reliever Frank Mata walked leadoff man Brett Roneberg, who then scored the tying run two batters later on Walker's triple, which was misplayed by right fielder Rashad Eldridge. The next batter, Adam Boeve, knocked in Walker with the go-ahead tally on a sacrifice fly to right. Altoona added two more runs in the frame on RBI's by Brian Peterson and Brandon Chaves.
The four-run eighth helped Curve right -hander Kip Bouknight earn his team-leading seventh win of the season. Bouknight (7-2) worked eight strong innings, allowing two runs on six hits, and joined Trenton's Jeff Marquez and Erie's Dallas Trahern as the only Eastern League pitchers with more than six wins so far this season.
Curve closer Matt Peterson recorded a 1-2-3 top of the ninth inning to preserve the 5-2 win and Altoona's first-ever sweep of the Rock Cats. Peterson is now 12-for-13 in save opportunities this season. J.P. Martinez (0-2), who allowed three of the Curve's four eighth-inning runs, took the loss for New Britain (31-29).
Walker's eighth-inning triple was one of his three extra-base hits in the game to add to his league-leading total in the category. The Curve third baseman and former Pirates' first round selection now has 33 extra-base hits to lead all Eastern League batters after a 3-for-4 night at the plate. Chaves also posted three extra-base hits in the contest, going 3-for-3 with a pair of doubles and a triple.
Steven Pearce, the league's hottest hitter entering Thursday's action with a .465 average and 21 RBI in his last 11 games, was held hitless by New Britain pitching in the game to bring an end to both his 11-game hitting streak and 18-game on-base streak.
The Rock Cats remain on the road, traveling up to Bowie, who has won 4 straight. RHP Rosman Garcia (1-2, 5.60) gets the start for the Baysox against New Britain's Ryan Mullins (0-0, 2.25).
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Sarasota 7 at Fort Myers 2
Record 29 - 37
W: R. Manuel (4-2, 3.79); L: A. Smit (0-3, 5.49)
HR: SAR: C. Tatum (7). FTM: E. Lis (6).
You could see the rain run right up Six Mile Cypress from Gateway and into the stadium. They pulled everyone off the field with Josh Hill pitching in the third, and got the tarp on, but first base was a mess.
Erik Lis hit a home run that just cleared the right field wall in the bottom of the first. Juan Portes, who had walked to get on base, evidently felt it was a double, got to the third base and stopped running long enough to look around. He suddenly realized it was a homerun (I imagine the flashing scoreboard helped) and took off again.
Where, I wonder, was our field manager during this? Shouldn't he have been waving Portes along?
Sloppy fielding contributed to Michael DeJesus run for the Reds in the top of the first. Hill had allowed the run on 4 hits and no walks in 2.0 innings worth of work before the rain ended his evening.
When I left they were pulling the tarp, but had AT LEAST a good hour's worth of clean up time ahead of them. I can't stay for these all-nighters. I've got work the next day AND I had to put TC Bear to bed.
The Miracle sent Alex Smit to the mound upon the game's resumption. Smit, who generally struggles in the early going of a season and turn it on toward the end, has not even been in mid-season form, allowing 5 runs on 6 hits (4 earned) and 1 walk while striking out only 1 in 3.2 innings. Southpaw Kyle Aselton allowed another run in relief on 2 hits and 2 walks, followed by Armando Gabino and Eddie Morlan.
Lis and Edward Ovalle finished up the nigh 2-for-4, Lis with 2 runs and 2 RBI as well.
The Reds remain in first in the West Division, 1.5 games over the Yankees with 3 games left to play. Fort Myers is in fourth place, 12 games behind Sara. I imagine Sarasota is going to be big Miracle fans next week, as Fort Myers finishs off the first half of the season against Tampa when play resumes after the All-star Break on Monday.
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Beloit’s Yancarlos Ortiz, right, safely steals secondas Cedar Rapids’ P.J. Phillips lays down a late tag Thursday
Cedar Rapids 6 at Beloit 2
Record 42-25
W: J. Haynes (2-3, 3.86); L: J. Carnevales (2-1, 2.42); SV: R. Cassevah (1)
HR: None.
E: Olson (12, fielding), Singleton 2 (13, fielding, throw).
From snappersbaseball.com: The Snappers lost the final game of the six game series with the Cedar Rapids Kernels, 6-2 on Thursday night. Jesus Carnevales pitched a third of an inning and allowed two runs to pick up his first loss of the season.
The Snappers struck first in the bottom of the second inning on a Wilson Ramos RBI groundout. Ramos’ RBI gave Beloit a 1-0 lead after two.
Beloit scored another run in the bottom of the fourth inning to take a 2-0 lead. Wilson Ramos had his second RBI groundout of the night to push the Snappers ahead by two.
That would be all the scoring that the Snappers would do, however. The Kernels scored in the sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth to take control of the game and eventually win, 6-2.
Beloit starter Brian Kirwan pitched six strong innings of three hit, one run baseball but picked up a no-decision.
The Snappers’ record dropped to 42-25.
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