Record 40-36
(3rd in the North Division, 1.5 games behind Buffalo)
W: S. McClung (1-3, 1.69); L: J. DePaula (4-4, 3.41); SV: C. Orvella (9)
HR: DUR: J. Ruggiano (11).
E: Casilla (7, throw), Korecky (2, pickoff).
From RedWingsBaseball.com: Ben Zobrist laced a go-ahead three-run double with two outs in the eighth inning as Durham edged visiting Rochester 7-5 on Tuesday. Tommy Watkins ripped a two-run double in the second, while Garrett Jones, Glenn Williams and Brian Buscher each knocked in a run for the Red Wings. Rochester fell to third place in the International League North Division, a half-game out of second and a game and a half behind first place Buffalo.
Chris Richard and Joel Guzman singled to start the rally. Bobby Korecky relieved Julio DePaula, and made an errant pickoff attempt to advance the runners. Jason Pridie was intentionally walked, but Zobrist foiled the strategy with his seventh double of the season.
Zobrist, who had three hits, has a .437 on-base percentage this month.
Justin Ruggiano smacked a go-ahead three-run homer, his 11th, in the fifth for the Bulls (41-38), who have won three straight against the Red Wings (40-36). Pridie added an RBI double in the second, while Elliot Johnson, Richard and Jorge Velandia chipped in two hits apiece.
Seth McClung (1-3) notched the win after yielding a hit and two walks in a scoreless eighth. Chad Orvella struck out two in a perfect ninth for his ninth save. Bulls starter Mitch Talbot surrendered five runs -- four earned -- on seven hits and a walk while fanning four in seven frames.
DePaula (4-4) gave up two runs on two hits while striking out two in two innings for the loss. Starter Matt Garza allowed four runs on 10 hits while striking out six without a walk in five frames.
Darnell McDonald, just acquired from Columbus, started in right field and batted third for Rochester. McDonald doubled, walked and scored a run. Matt Tolbert went 2-for-4; Tolbert is batting .349, second in the league.
NOTES: Durham now leads the season series 3-2. A season ago, Rochester won the season series 6-2. The Red Wings were 4-0 at Frontier Field and 2-2 at Durham Bulls Athletic Park...Wings RHP Nick Blackburn is listed at number three on Baseball America's Prospect Hot Sheet for the week, with Garza listed at number 14 on the weekly list of the 20 hottest prospects in Minor League Baseball... Twins OF Rondell White will be sent out on a minor league rehabilitation assignment Wednesday and will report to the Gulf Coast League Twins...White has been out since April 5 with a strained right calf muscle...Several Twins players are in the running for the 2007 All-Star game in San Francisco on July 10 ...Justin Morneau is currently in second place among first baseman, Joe Mauer is currently in third place among catchers, Luis Castillo is currently in fourth place among second baseman and Torii Hunter is in fifth place among outfielders...Juan Portes provided the offense, Jay Rainville brought the pitching as the Twins' Class A Fort Myers Miracle club won 5-3 over the Palm Beach Cardinals on Tuesday night. Portes went 4-for-5 finishing a triple shy of the cycle, while Rainville went 7.1 innings, allowing three runs on eight hits in the win.
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New Britain Rock Cats
Record: 34-38
No Games Scheduled
The Rock cats stay on the road, traveling to Manchester for a 3 game set against the Fisher Cats and then are off to Reading to face The Phillies, before returning home on July 4th.
New Britain is in 4th place in Northern Division, 11.5 games behind the leading Trenton Thunder.
Juan Portes
Fort Myers 5 at Palm Beach 3
Record 3 - 3
W: J. Rainville (4-7, 3.52); L: R. Ransom (0-1, 4.20); SV: A. Garcia (4)
HR: FTM: J. Portes (4).
E: Ugueto (13, fielding), Woodard (1, throw).
PB: Sanchez, J (4).
From miraclebaseball.com: Juan Portes provided the offense, Jay Rainville brought the pitching as the Fort Myers Miracle grabbed the series-finale 5-3 over the Palm Beach Cardinals on Tuesday night. Portes went 4-for-5 finishing a triple shy of the cycle, while Rainville went 7.1 innings, allowing three runs on eight hits in the win.
Edward Ovalle, who went 2-for-4 on the night, brought home the first Miracle run with his single to center in the second, scoring Danny Valencia, who also 2-for-4 on the night. Ovalle's RBI-double in the fourth plated Luis Ugueto for a 2-0 lead.
After three straight singles from Caleb Moore, Brian Dinkelman and Portes sent the Miracle to a three-run advantage, Valencia would soon follow with a sacrifice-fly to center, bringing in Dinkelman, putting the Miracle up 4-0.
Palm Beach wouldn't go away quietly as the Cardinals cut it to a one-run ball game heading into the ninth. After a sac-fly from Isaias Garcia and RBI-single from James Rapoport cut the lead in half at 4-2 in the fifth, Allen Craig's single to right in the eighth brought home Garcia with the third Palm Beach run of the night.
After Craig's single, the Cardinals would have runners at the corners with one down before Miracle reliever Angel Garcia entered the game to strike out Brandon Buckman and Ian Church stranding the tying run at third.
With one out in the top of the ninth, Portes would belt a solo home run to left for his fourth hit of the night, before Garcia closed the door on Palm Beach in the bottom of the ninth. Garcia went 1.2 innings with three strikeouts to garner his fourth save of the season.
The Miracle now head back to Hammond Stadium to kick off a seven-game homestand on Wednesday night. The St. Lucie Mets will enter for a four-game series followed by the Lakeland Flying Tigers for three. The first tilt against the Mets, with "Ratatouille Night," taking place will see RHP Oswaldo Sosa (2-4, 2.55) gets the start for the Miracle.
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Beloit 4 at Cedar Rapids 8
Record 2-4
W: B. Browning (5-2, 3.35); L: T. Robertson (2-2, 2.67)
HR: CED: M. Sweeney (10), P. Phillips (6).
E: Olson (13, fielding).
From snappersbaseball.com: After rallying to take a 4-3 lead, the Snappers surrendered the lead for the second consecutive day. Tyler Robertson pitched five and one thirds innings of seven hit, five run baseball to pick up his second loss of the season.
The Kernels jumped out to an early 3-0 lead after five innings and looked to be well on their way to another victory. The Snappers quickly fired back, however, to take a 4-3 lead themselves.
A two-run double from Snappers' leadoff hitter, Yancarlos Ortiz, in the top of the sixth drew Beloit to within one. Matt Betsill followed with a single, moving Ortiz to third. Ortiz was driven home one batter later off the bat of Eli Tintor. Tintor singled home Yancarlos and moved Betsill on to third, tying the game at 3-3. One out later, Betsill scored from third on a wild pitch, and gave the Snappers a 4-3 lead after five and a half.
The Kernels then rallied for the second straight day and took a 5-4 lead after six. Reliever, Aaron Craig, came in with runners on second and third and gave up the go ahead two-run single to Cedar Rapids' second baseman, Will Ortiz.
The Kernels would add three more runs in the bottom of the eighth to give them an 8-4 lead and blow the game open. Beloit was unable to score in the top of the ninth and dropped their third consecutive game.
Upcoming Schedule: The Snappers play game three of four with the Cedar Rapids Kernels on Wednesday at 7:00 pm. Beloit's Alex Burnett goes against Cedar Rapids' Jeremy Haynes.
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Elizabethton 14 at Princeton 3
Record 6 - 0
W: L. Van Mil (2-0, 0.00); L: T. Hayes (0-1, 10.80)
HR: ELI: R. Leveret (3), O. Lewis (1).
E: Lawman (1, fielding), Lewis (1, fielding).
From MiLB.com: Rene Leveret is so hot at the plate that collecting two hits causes his average to go down.
Leveret belted a grand slam and drove in six runs as Elizabethton pounded host Princeton for the second straight game, 14-3, on Tuesday.
After starting the season 10-for-20, Leveret collected two hits in five at-bats, ripping his third home run and first career slam in the third inning.
Rene Tosoni went 2-for-6 and drove in two runs and Mark Dolenc contributed two hits and an RBI for the undefeated Twins (6-0).
Elizabeth reliever Ludovicus Van Mil (2-0) walked two and struck out one over two hitless innings to pick up the win.
Princeton starter Tyree Hayes (0-1) was hit hard, yielding seven runs on six hits with two walks and five strikeouts in 4 2/3 frames. Kevin Chavez offered little relief, allowing seven runs and six hits while walking two in just 1 2/3 innings.
Jeffrey Carroll and Michael Ross drove in a run apiece for the Devil Rays (2-4).
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Those were the days
* Through Monday, the Elizabethton Twins were off to perhaps the hottest offensive start in team history.
At that point, the team had begun the Appalachian League season with five straight wins and 57 runs in those contests -- an impressive average of 11.4 runs-per-game.
* Former Fresno State standout Ozzie Lewis had his first breakout game of the year in his second outing, batting 5-for-7 with four RBI's in Elizabethton's 20-6 win over Princeton on Monday.
* Saint Maartin's Rene Leveret continues his hot streak at the plate, batting 3-for-6 with a two-run shot and three runs scored. Through Monday, Leveret, last year's Dominican Summer League MVP is batting .500 on the season with ten hits, including two doubles and two home runs, with nine runs scored and batted in in five games.
* As impressive as Leveret's numbers are, they still trail League batting leader Greg Yersich. The catcher is hitting .636 through three appearances with seven hits and six runs scored.
* David Bromberg showed what he's made of Monday evening. After a rough start in the second game of a doubleheader at Kingsport last Wednesday, Bromberg made things miserable for Princeton. The Los Angeles-native pitched five innings of scoreless ball with two hits and 10 strikeouts to lower his season ERA to 4.70 from 13.50 at the top of the season. E-Star
GCL Reds 0 at GCL Twins 1
Current Record: 5 - 1
W: L. Hendriks (1-0, 1.08); L: J. Rafael (0-1, 0.00); SV: D. Rondon (1)
HR: None.
Liam Hendriks came out on the winning end of a pitchers' duel at the Lee County Sportsplex Tuesday afternoon, as the GCL Twins shut out the GCL Reds, 1-0. Henriks allowed only 4 hits in five innings but struck out only 1.
Juan Rafael kept the Twins bats mostly quite except for the first inning. Jeanfred Brito drew a walk to get on base and moved to second on Rafael's throwing error during a pick off attempt. He scampered over to 3rd on a Wang-Wei Lin fly out, and came home when Ken Harvey doubled out to center. Juan Richardson drew a walk, but Rafael got Yangervis Solarte out swinging to end the inning.
Andrew Schmiesing was the only player with multi-hits in the game going 2-for-3 while Ben Revere, Harvey and Richardson each had 1 hit a piece.
Jarrad Eacott took over for Hendriks in the sixth inning, allowing 2 hits and striking out 1 over 3 innings worth of work. Ace closer Danny Rondon struck out 2 to finish off the game.
The Twins remain at home Wednesday against the GCL Red Sox. Thomas Wright will take the make the start for the Twins.
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