I have never been to Las Vegas but I hear people walk the strip to see the sights. On Saturday there was a lot of walking off the strip, Las Vegas hitters walked ten times. They walked three times in the first, and scored three runs, and they won the game in the tenth with the always exciting four walk inning. The other three affiliates took the "L". Mark Rzepczynski pitched OK but not good enough. BJ Ryan took the loss in Dunedin and Tim Collins gave up some runs. Lansing were never in it although Kenny Wilson stayed hot.
Sacramento 7 Las Vegas 8 - 10 innings
Las Vegas started off well with three runs in the first. Gio Gonzalez loaded the bases on walks, a Brett Harper single scored one and an Aaron Mathews double scored two more. Wade Miller gave up four runs, all unearned in the second. Five singles, four of them ground balls, a walk and an error contrinuted to the four runs. The teams traded runs and the lead changed seven times in this game. Las Vegas won the game in the tenth with an always exciting four walk inning. In the game the 51's had eight hits and ten walks. Brett Harper and Jason Lane had two hits each. Bryan Bullington got the win with a shutout inning.
New Hampshire were up 2-0 after two innings. Brad Emaus homered in the first inning and Sean Shoffit singled in Adam Calderone in the second. Marc Rzepczynski gave up four runs and took the loss but errors did not help him. In the third inning a two out error allowed a run to score. In the fourth a lead-off error was followed by a single and a double to score two. A hit batter and a single added a run to make it 4-2 and there was no scoring after the fourth. Rzepczynski pitched 5.1 innings and gave up seven hits and a walk, four runs, two earned, with five K's. Bubbie Buzachero pitched 3.1 shutout innings in relief.
Emaus was 3-4 to bump his average to .330, Al Quintana stayed hot with two more hits.
This game was tied at 4's after six innings but the Jays bullpen coughed up four runs including one off BJ Ryan, two off Tim Collins and one off Danny Farquhar. Ryan's run was conceded on a walk, a double and a sac fly. Collins was not his normal self, he was hit for a couple of doubles leading to the two runs. Farquhar's run was unearned.
Moises Sierra and Eric Thames led the Jays offense with three hits each
Beloit jumped out to an 8-0 lead and the lead was never really threatened. Josh Wells pitched four innings and gave up seven runs on twelve hits.
Lansing had six hits in the game, Kenny Wilson had two hits and was hit by a pitch and had a sac fly. He has bumped his average to .261 and is hitting .368 for May.
3 star selection
3rd star - Moises Sierra and Eric Thames
2nd star - Brad Emaus
1st star - Brett Harper - 3 rbi's
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