Record 50 - 42
W: B. Bass (3-2, 4.83); L: J. Sharpless (1-3, 3.20)
HR: IND: B. Eldred (9), M. Ryan (7).
From redwingsbaseball.com: Trent Oeltjen and Denard Span had key hits in an exciting 8th inning as the Wings batted around to defeat the Indianapolis Indians Saturday night at Frontier Field, before a paid crowd of 10,935 on Latino Night.
The game remained scoreless until the fifth inning when Brad Eldred lofted a deep fly ball to left field that just barely had enough hang time to deposit itself in the visitor bullpen. Left fielder Oeltjen made a leaping effort, but the ball sailed over his glove for a solo home run. The only other hit allowed by Blackburn to this point was a single to the leadoff hitter in the first who was quickly erased on a double-play.
On the offensive side of the diamond, the Wings were retired in order until there were two outs in the bottom of the fifth when Brian Buscher slapped a soft line drive on a 2-2 pitch in the hole between the shortstop and third baseman. Jose Morales followed with a single of his own and aggressive base running by Buscher allowed him to advance to third while Morales moved up to second on the throw by the center fielder. With two runners in scoring position and two out, Oeltjen could not cash in and grounded out to the second baseman.
In the sixth, the Indians attempted a squeeze on a 1-2 pitch from Blackburn, the ball rolled slowly out toward the mound and Blackburn flipped the ball toward catcher Chris Heintz who could not hold on to the ball allowing the run to score. Former Red Wing Michael Ryan hit a two-run homer over the bullpen in right field to make the score 4-0.
Span responded the next inning with a triple to centerfield on a 1-0 pitch. Alexi Casilla hit a solid ground ball single through the right side of the infield to put the Red Wings on the board. After hits by Matt Tolbert and Darnell McDonald loaded the bases with none out, the Indians replaced McLeary with Juan Perez. The left-hander Perez walked the left-hitting Doug Deeds to force in a run and make it a 4-2 game. Glenn Williams got credit for an RBI fielder's choice when Luis Ordaz couldn't handle Williams' line drive cleanly, getting only a force at second for the first out with the score now 4-3. Buscher worked Perez for a walk to re-load the bases for Morales, 2-for-5 (.400) in previous bases-full at-bats this season. But Perez fanned Morales, and got a hard-hit ground ball out from Oeltjen to escape the sixth with the 4-3 Indy lead.
After a leadoff walk to Eldred in the seventh, Blackburn went to a 1-2 count before calling for Wings trainer Tony Leo. Stan Cliburn followed and Blackburn exited the game, with Brian Bass coming into the game. Medical examination showed that Blackburn strained his right forearm and is expected to miss his next start.
McDonald led off the 8th inning with a hard ground ball to third that the fielder could not handle allowing him to reach first. On the very next pitch, McDonald stole second base to put himself in scoring position with no one out. After Deeds struck out, a wild pitch advanced McDonald to third. A walk by Williams brought the hot-hitting Brian Buscher to the plate with runners on the corners. With Franquels Osoria on in relief and Tommy Watkins running at first for Williams, Buscher drilled a 1-0 pitch to right to plate McDonald and tie the score at 4-4. With Watkins at third, Oeltjen hit a go-ahead double and put two runners in scoring position for Span. Span delivered with another hit and cashed in two two-out RBI to keep the rally going. After two walks, McDonald returned to the plate for the second time in the inning and walked to force in another run.
Bass returned to the mound for the 9th inning and retired the Indians to close out the game and got the win with three shutout innings of relief.
NOTES: Saturday's game started after a 30-minute rain delay...LHP Errol Simonitsch, who has been out all season with a shoulder injury, began his comeback effort Friday night with two scoreless innings for the GCL Twins.... LHP Glen Perkins had a setback while pitching for Class A Ft. Myers Saturday night, and will not pitch for the Wings this week as originally planned... Former Wings pitcher Mike Smith was MiLB.com's Pacific Coast League Pitcher of the Week last week, after winning two games including a six inning, seven strikeout performance. Smith is a starter for St. Louis' Memphis Triple-A club......
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New Britain 1 at Portland 3
Record: 42 - 47
W: J. Masterson (2-0, 0.00); L: A. Swarzak (2-3, 4.30); SV: M. James (16)
HR: None.
E: Moses (3, fielding).
From portlandseadogs.com: Justin Masterson (2-0) fired six scoreless innings in his Hadlock Field debut, leading the Sea Dogs to a 3-1 victory over the New Britain Rock Cats on Saturday night at Hadlock Field. Portland improved their winning streak to five games and look for their third, 4-game series sweep on Sunday afternoon.
Masterson scattered three hits, issued one walk and fanned seven, throwing 91 pitches over six frames. The Rock Cats were 0-for-7 with runners-in-scoring position off the young righty and wasted two lead-off doubles.
Anthony Swarzak (2-3) suffered the loss for New Britain, despite six innings of work on one run and two hits. Bubba Bell tripled with one-out in the third inning and scored on Swarzak’s wild pitch for the game’s first run.
Hunter Jones hurled two scoreless innings, retired six of seven batters and fanning four to earn his first Double-A hold. Mike James allowed a run in the ninth inning but struck out Felix Molina and Luke Hughes to secure his 16th save of the season.
New Britain’s bullpen continued their struggles in the series and has allowed seven runs in the first three games. In the seventh inning, Frank Mata relieved Swarzak and allowed a double to Chad Spann and walked Jeff Natale to start the inning. Cory Keylor advanced the runners with a sacrifice-bunt, his first in 251 career games in Double-A. Bryan Pritz delivered with an RBI single and John Otness produced a sacrifice fly.
The Rock Cats scored their lone run on Brock Peterson’s Maine Monster single, scoring Matt Moses, who doubled with one-out off James in the ninth.
Masterson and Jones combined to retire 21 of 23 batters faced after Felix Molina led off the second inning with a double. Chad Spann went 2-for-4 and scored a run, making his second career start at first base.
The Sea Dogs look for a four-game sweep of the Rock Cats on Sunday afternoon at Hadlock Field. Lefty Daniel Haigwood (3-4, 5.04) goes opposite Jesse Floyd (4-7, 4.67).
Allied Home Mortgage Big Dog of the Game – Justin Masterson
Notes...Bubba Bell picked up his first triple and stolen base...Hunter Jones has at least one strikeout in all seven appearances with Portland...Mike James has converted 10 straight save opportunities.
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Jupiter 8 at Fort Myers 11
Record 10 - 13
W: Y. Pino (4-3, 1.73); L: J. Iehl (0-2, 4.74); SV: A. Gabino (3)
HR: JUP: C. Ross (2).
If this had been a hockey game, I would have called it a barn burner. Some people like those kinds of things. Lots of hits, lots of scoring. Myself, I like good pitching and I don't like watching the first baseman duck when a ball is thrown his way. But that's just what Gaby Sanchez did in the second inning. And they called it a throwing error?
Glen Perkins got off to a bad start, allowing a home run to Cody Ross. He lasted one inning, giving up 3 runs on three hits. Aaron Thompson, who is also coming off rehab lasted 2 innings although after spending over 15 minutes on the mound in the first inning, I don't know what they were trying to prove by letting him back out there. He gave up 4 runs on 3 hits, 4 walks and struck out Luis Ugueto.
Then there was the fifth inning. Someone was just asking how you get a in the park home run. Well, you hit a line drive out to left field, then you throw it in and try to make a play at the plate. Then Trent D'Antonio fires the ball to Jonathan Fulton who misses it, and it goes all the way down the 3 base line, way out to the yellow fowl pole. That's how you do it.
I'm amazed that only two errors were called, as the Miracle had their moments as well.
Brian Dinkleman was 3-for-4 with 4 runs, 2 walks, 2 RBIs. Steve Tolleson and EriK Lis were both 2-for-5 with 1 run. Jeff Christy went 3-for-5 with a run and an RBI. And Juan Portes' hitting streak came to and end, as he was 0-for-2 and walked 3 times.
Yohan Pino pitched 4 innings for the Miracle, giving up 2 runs on 4 hits while striking out 5. David Shinskie came in for two. Adam Hawes pitched to four batters before Kevin Boles brought Armando Gabino in. This created some groans in the stands but...
"Your other choices are Rob Delaney, who's a soft pitch, or Kyle Aselton."
"Never mind. Common Gabino!"
We are running out of pitchers.
So, an interesting game with a combined 25 hits. It looks like Perkins has some work in front of him and I wouldn't be surprised to see him hang out with the Miracle for a while. The team heads out on the road now for 4 against Vero Beach, another team with some sloppy fielding work.
Milt has promised reprecusions for my wearing of Marlins garb for this series. Jay, Penny and Ozzie are all talking to me, as is Toby Gardenhire, who did not play again, it didn't seem to bother any of them.
However, it did leads up to our trivia question of the night, which is "How many boxes of saran wrap do you need to wrap a car?" I'm afraid I don't know the answer to this one. Yet.
I'm off to Bradenton and I thought I'd swing by Charlotte on the way home and see Cecil Fielder's Red Fish play. So don't look for me online Sunday.
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Beloit 1 at West Michigan 2 (11 Innings)
Record 11-10
W: C. Fien (4-0, 3.95); L: J. Carnevales (3-3, 3.86)
HR: None.
E: Ortiz (20, throw), Betsill (3, missed catch), Lugo (4, missed catch).
From oursportscentral.com: West Michigan and Beloit did not disappoint in game three of their series as Whitecaps DH Scott Sizemore scored on a dropped ball by the pitcher during a rundown to give the ‘Caps a 2-1 victory in 11 innings.
The Whitecaps were shutout all game until the bottom of the ninth inning when pinch hitter James Skelton singled to center field that scored Sizemore from second to tie the game at one apiece.
The next run didn't come until the bottom of the 11th when Sizemore led off with a single into right field. Two batters later, Santo De Leon singled to right field, sending Sizemore to third base. After a pitching change for Beloit, Jose Lugo faced Deik Scram with one out and runners at the corners. The Whitecaps went for a squeeze play, the Snappers pitched out and caught Sizemore in a rundown. Lugo came over on the rundown and dropped the ball allowing Sizemore to score to give the Caps the win.
Casey Fien (4-0) received the win for a scoreless inning of work while Jesus Carnevales (3-3) suffered the loss for putting Sizemore on base in the 11th.
Beloit starter Tyler Robertson mowed down the ‘Caps for 7.2 scoreless innings for the no-decision while Whitecaps starter Lauren Gagnier limited the Snappers to one run in 7.0 innings on just three hits.
This was the third straight night that Beloit and West Michigan went into extra innings. The last time the Whitecaps went to extra frames three straight games was on July 26-28, 2000.
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Elizabethton 4 at Burlington 8
Record 19 - 4
W: H. Arias (2-0, 4.56); L: M. Tarsi (2-1, 3.18)
HR: ELI: R. Leveret (6), M. Dolenc (2). BUR: J. Santos (4).
E: De Los Santos (10, throw).
From MiLB.com: Jose Santos' first career grand slam powered host Burlington over Elizabethton, 8-4, on Saturday.
The Royals (15-8) had a 2-1 lead in the fifth inning when Santos crushed his fourth homer. He also walked and scored on Kyle Martin's single in the seventh.
Starter Henry Arias (2-0) got the win after yielding a run on three hits and two walks with five strikeouts in five frames
Twins starter Michael Tarsi (2-1) gave up five runs on seven hits with two walks and three strikeouts in four innings.
Rene Leveret and Mark Dolenc hit solo homers for Elizabethton (19-4), which has lost two in a row for the first time this season.
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GCL Twins
Current Record: 14 - 6
No Game Scheduled
Evidently, Nelson just found out I have a website for the team. He reportedly found it "nice" that someone is covering the guys.
DSL TWins 5 at DSL Rockies 1
Current Record: 16 - 19
W: A. Caceres (3-1, 1.30); L: C. Suarez (2-1, 3.28)
HR: DSL TWI: M. Soliman (3), Y. Franco (1).
E: Pinto (5, pickoff).
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VSL Tigers 3 at Cubs/Twins 1
Current Record 25 - 25
W: V. Larez (3-0, 2.50); L: J. Agudo (1-1, 3.21); SV: L. Oliveros (14)
HR: VSL DET: L. Salas (1).
E: Requena (7, fielding).
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