Record 43-40
W: N. Blackburn (6-1, 1.54); L: E. DuBose (2-1, 3.81)
HR: ROC: K. Harvey (1).
E: Heintz (2, fielding).
From RedWingsBaseball.com: The Red Wings' offense came alive and snapped Buffalo's five-game winning streak with a 10-3 victory in front of a sellout crowd of 18,025 at Dunn Tire Park. Six of Rochester's runs were unearned, including all four that came across on Ken Harvey's grand slam.
Former Bison outfielder Darnell McDonald got his new team started with a sac fly in the first inning. The Red Wings then batted around with a five-run second. Denard Span singled home a pair and Tommy Watkins plated a run with one of his three hits in the game.
Ahead 6-1, the Red Wings put the game away with two outs in the seventh. With McDonald on at first with a walk, reliever Matt Miller fanned Garrett Jones for his fourth K of the game. But the ball got past catcher Mike Rose and Jones reached base to continue the inning. After another walk, Harvey hit a grand slam into the protective netting in left.
The offensive outburst was more than enough for Wings' starter Nick Blackburn. The Triple-A rookie entered Tuesday's game having not allowed an earned run in 41 consecutive innings. The Bisons snapped the streak when Ryan Mulhern singled home Luis Rivas in the third inning, but that was all the Herd could muster. Blackburn allowed just five hits in seven innings for his sixth consecutive victory.
The Bisons scored a pair of runs in the bottom of the ninth inning on a pair of RBI-ground outs against Bobby Korecky; Carmen Cali had tossed a scoreless eighth inning. Buffalo Starter Eric DuBose (2-1) was saddled with the loss, his first with the Herd. The southpaw allowed six runs (four earned) in six innings of work.
NOTES: RHP Jeremy Cummings has been scratched from his scheduled start Wednesday...Infielder Matt Tolbert has been named to the United States team for the MLB Futures Game Sunday July 8, in San Francisco, CA. The MLB Futures Game is part of the Major League’s All-Star celebration...INF Brian Buscher is the Twins Minor League Player of the month for June...Buscher, who was promoted to Rochester on June 21st, batted a combined .342 (38-for-111) with four doubles, seven home runs and 20 rbi for New Britain and Rochester...his slugging percentage was .568 in 32 games...Buscher was drafted in the Rule 5 minor league draft, December 15, 2006...he was originally drafted by the Giants in the third round of the 2003 First-Year Player draft...Blackburn is the Twins Minor League Pitcher of the month for June...in five starts, Blackburn, 25, went 5-0 with a 0.00 ERA (39.0 ip, 0 er) with two complete game shutouts...he walked just one batter while striking out 21 and holding opposing hitters to a .197 batting average...Blackburn was drafted in the 29th round of the 2001 First-Year Player draft....The Eastern League announced the roster for the 2007 Double-A All-Star team...New Britain pitchers Tim Lahey and Jose Mijares and infielder Luke Hughes will play for the Northern Division team...the 2007 Eastern League All-Star Game will be played in Norwich on Wednesday, July 11...
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New Britain 8 at Reading 2
Record: 38-42
W: A. Swarzak (2-2, 5.50); L: Z. Segovia (2-1, 3.32)
HR: NBR: M. Moses (2).
E: Molina, F (18, fielding).
From readingphillies.com: You could see this one coming. You just knew, after scoring a whopping 21 runs Monday, the Phillies' bats would have the consistency of a Pringles can Tuesday night against the New Britain Rock Cats.
You just knew the Baseball Gods, in their infinite wisdom, would endeavor to even things up.
And they did, the Cats romping to an 8-2 victory and a split of the four-game series.
Never mind that the Cats were pitching a struggling youngster by the name of Anthony Swarzak. And that the Phillies were going with Zack Segovia, who began the season in the big leagues.
Segovia (2-1) didn't have it Tuesday night. The Rock Cats (38-42) got a three-run home run from Matt Moses in the first -- which was preceded by a hit batsman and a walk, both following 1-2 counts. A two-run triple by Brock Peterson highlighted a three-run second.
After that, Segovia, who had a 1.38 ERA and two victories since coming down from Triple-A, settled down in his third start for the Phillies. He blanked the Cats over the next four innings, a pair of nifty double plays aiding his effort. He allowed five earned runs over six innings, with two walks and a strikeout.
On Monday the Phillies (41-43) were 12-for-19 with runners in scoring position. Tuesday night they were 2-for-11 and stranded 11 runners.
Swarzak (2-2) got the win with seven solid innings in which he allowed a run and seven hits.
PHILLERS: At gametime Jesus Merchan was the Eastern League leader in batting (.357) and on-base percentage (.423). . . . The 13 runs the Phillies scored in the fifth inning Monday is believed to be a franchise record for most runs scored in an inning. . . . With a fourth-inning single, Jason Hill extended his hitting streak to 15 games. . . . Greg Jacobs was 2-for-2 with a pair of walks and finished 7-for-12 in the four-game series. . . . Merchan was 10-for-18 with five runs scored and six RBIs. . . . Peeter Ramos finished 8-for-13 with five runs (two HRs) and five RBIs. . . . The Phillies scored 40 runs in the four games, but wound up 2-2 and slipped to 22-22 at home.
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Lakeland 4 at Fort Myers 2
Record 6 - 7
W: R. Steik (2-6, 4.13); L: J. Manship (1-1, 2.70); SV: F. Dolsi (14)
HR: None.
E: Tolleson (15, throw), White (7, fielding).
I asked Gene if he would give me $20 if Toby Gardenhire went 5-for-5 tonight. He claims the bet was invalidated when Toby got on base in 6th on a fielding error by shortstop Shawn Roof.
Before you ask, Shawn is Phil Roof's son.
It wouldn't have mattered anyway as Gardehire ground into a double play to end the game, but...he really was the story in tonight's game, going 2-for-5 with a double and an RBI. Plus a great tag on Ovandy Suero who got caught in between 2nd and 3rd and ran back and forth something like 12 times before Gardenhire took him down.
Lakeland got on the board first, in the second inning with two outs. Starter Jeff Manship walked Max Leon. Roof hit a single to Steve Tolleson who then threw the ball into the stands. It made the people in the stands really happy, but it put Roof on second and Leon on 3rd. Rafael Mendez singled, which brought in the pair, before Joel Roa ground out.
The Miracle came back though, with Gardenhire plating Edward Ovalle, who had gotten on base on balls.
Lakeland tagged on another run in the fourth, this time Dwayne White mishandled the ball on a Leon double. Roof knocked Leon home on a ground out.
Fort Myers answered back with Jeff Christy, Gardenhire and Brian Dinkelman singling, and White drawing a walk that would score Christy.
Manship would be charged with only 1 run, on five hits and 4 walks while striking out 6. Kyle Aselton came on in relief and advanced Joel Roa on a wild pitch. Roa would score on Suero's line drive.
Adam Hawes pitched the last 2 innings, allowing 2 hits. Tolleson, Ovalle and Christy were all 2-for-4, the last two each had a run and Ovalle had the above referenced walk as well.
Rondell White was taken out of the game early in favor of Dwayne White, it's possible that he re-injured himself, trying to outrun the force out in the first inning. It's also possible he was removed as a precaution so he didn't rehurt himself trying to outrun force outs. Rondell is scheduled to be actived to the major league team Wednesday.
It's the same day the Miracle will take the road, heading out to Dunedin to take on the Blue Jays for three. This will likely be a bullpen start as Yohan Pino pitched only 4 days ago due to the rain out on Friday.
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Beloit 9 at Burlington 3
Record 7-5
W: M. Fox (5-0, 0.92); L: H. Mozingo (7-7, 4.41)
HR: BEL: J. Benson (4).
E: Cates (2, fielding).
From MiLB.com: Matthew Fox hurled six shutout innings as Beloit topped host Burlington, 9-3, on Tuesday for its fifth straight win.
Fox (5-0), a 24-year-old right hander, scattered three hits, striking out three and walking one to lower his ERA to 0.92 and pick up the win for the Snappers (8-5).
Danny Vais tossed two perfect frames, Matthew Williams surrendered three runs -- two earned -- on three hits in one-third of an inning, and Aaron Craig got the game's final two outs.
Joe Benson smacked his fourth homer to lead off the fifth inning. Benson, Matthew Betsill, Chris Cates and Yancarlos Ortiz rapped out two hits apiece for Beloit.
Kurt Mertins and Brady Everett both went 2-for-4 for the Bees (7-6).
Harold Mozingo (7-7) yielded three runs on five hits, striking out five and walking two over five innings to take the loss.
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Johnson City 3 at Elizabethton 5
Record 13 - 1
W: C. Leavitt (1-0, 4.05); L: M. Diapoules (0-1, 5.00); SV: A. Slama (4)
HR: None.
E: Lawman 2 (4, fielding, throw), De Los Santos 4 (6, throw, throw, throw, fielding).
From MiLB.com: Matthew Lawman drove in three runs, two with a tying single in the seventh inning, as host Elizabethton rallied past Johnson City, 5-3
With the Twins trailing, 3-1, Lawman singled home Mark Dolenc and Rodolfo Palacios to forge the deadlock. Estarlin De Los Santos followed with an RBI triple to center and came home on Wesley Connor's sacrifice fly. Lawman also hit a sacrifice fly to put Elizabethton (13-1) on the board in the fifth.
Reliever Curtis Leavitt (1-0) earned his first career win with 2 2/3 shutout innings, allowing three hits and striking out two. Closer Anthony Slama retired all four batters he faced, fanning three, to pick up his Appalachian League-leading fourth save.
Joseph Hage, who went 3-for-5, and Dognnt Bolivar each drove in a run for the Cardinals (5-7).
Johnson City reliever Mark Diapoules (0-1) worked a scoreless sixth but did not record an out in the seventh. He was charged with four runs on five hits while fanning one.
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GCL Orioles 11 at GCL Twins 0
Current Record: 8 - 4
W: A. Odom (1-2, 1.20); L: T. Wright (0-2, 11.25); SV: J. Moore (1)
HR: ORI: T. Kolodny (2).
As one of the regulars put it on the way out of the park Tuesday: "The only good thing was that we beat the rain". Even that was getting questionable toward the end of the game. Thom Wright got off to a bad start, walking Calvin Lester before giving up a single to Rodolfo Cardona. Arthur Bonevacia was walked before a misplayed ball by 1st baseman Juan Richardson put Elvin Polanco on base and allowed Lester and Cardona to score. Wright then hit Tyler Kolodny with a pitch. That pretty much ended his outing, with Charles Nolte coming in to relieve him. Yet Nolte struggled to find the 3rd out as well, giving up a triple to Levi Carolus in process and falling victim to a misplayed ball by 2nd baseman Jeanfred Brito.
Nolte settled down for the second and third innings, but the Twins were down 7-0 against the Orioles at that point, and could find little offensive power in their bats. Richardson a had the only multi-hit outing going 2-for-4. Angel Morales, the Twins 3rd round pick in the 2007 draft, struck out 3 times in the game. Catcher Alexander Soto struck out twice.
Rodney Gessman pitched two solid innings in the fourth and fifth, allowing no hits, but striking out only one. Jacob Toufar came on in six, but struggled in the 7th. At this point it seemed that the game was out of reach so he was allowed to work through his difficulties, giving up 4 additional runs on 5 hits and 1 walk in the process and raising his era to 10.29. He pitched a solid 8th inning though.
Closer Danny Rondon finished off the game, but even he seemed to be struggling a bit, giving up 2 walks.
Aaron Odom pitched six innings for the Orioles, allowing 5 hits and striking out 7. Justin Moore finished the game, striking out 4 batters in 3 innings.
The 11-0 shut out was the GCL Twins first time to be blanked this season, and the back-to-back losses were also the first time the Twins have been on a losing streak.
The Twins take the 4th off and will have a chance to regroup, before facing the Pirates in Bradenton on Thursday.
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DSL Blue Jays I 2 at DSL TWins 4
W: M. Munoz (2-1, 2.83); L: R. Zarate (0-2, 2.67); SV: R. De La Rosa (6)
HR: None.
E: Munoz (2, fielding), Doran (3, throw), Caro (9, throw).
Miguel Munoz allowed only 2 hits and struck out 9 in 7 innings worth of work.
Right fielder Eliel Sierra was 3-for-4 with 1 run, 2 doubles, and 1 RBI.
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VSL Devil Rays/Reds 8 at VSL Cubs/Twins 4
W: W. Rodriguez (2-0, 0.98); L: E. Figueroa (0-1, 3.06)
HR: None.
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