A fairly uneventful day on the farm as the affiliates went just 1-3. Highlights included a couple of strong starting performances and some big power from the usual suspects in New Hampshire.
Las Vegas 0 Sacramento 4
This one was scoreless into the bottom of the 8th thanks to a strong start by Fabio Castro. Castro went six strong, allowing four hits and a couple of walks against a strikeout. The wheels fell off a couple of innings later, though as Bill Murphy loaded the bases with nobody out in the 8th. Bryan Bullington replaced him and allowed all three inherited runners to score and added one of his own to boot.
The offense was completely dormant in this one, managing just three hits. Two of those were off the bat of Buck Coats. Travis Snider was 0-for-4 and was called out on strikes three times. Yikes.
New Hampshire 7 Reading 4
The big bats were out for the Fisher Cats on Sunday as Brian Dopirak, Adam Calderone, and Brad Emaus all went deep. For Dopirak, it was his 11th on the year and third in two days. Calderone added a double as part of a 3-for-5 day and is up to 288/339/536 on the year. Emaus had two hits to break out of a mini 1-for-16 slump.
Randy Boone started and won going seven frames with three strikeouts against one earned run on four hits and two walks. Danny Farquhar picked up his first AA save by striking out both batters he faced in the ninth after coming in with the bases loaded. Farquhar's combined A/AA line is now a 0.42 ERA in 21.1 IP with only 13 hits and a 14:31 BB:K rate. Not bad for a 22 year-old, 10th round pick.
Jupiter 5 Dunedin 4 (12 innings)
Dunedin forced extras by scoring twice in the ninth on RBI singles from Darin Mastroianni and John Tolisano but couldn't push across the winner. Tolisano was 2-for-6 on the afternoon. Manny Rodriguez and Adam Loewen both had two doubles. Kevin Ahrens was 0-for-5 while Justin Jackson struck out in his only plate appearance in the 11th.
On the mound Ryan Page started and went 7.2 innings and allowed four runs, though just one was earned, on five hits and a walk against three strikeouts. The bullpen held down the fort until Leon Boyd allowed an unearned run in the 12th which proved to be the winner.
You may have noticed a bunch of unearned runs. That's because the Dunedin defence booted the ball all over the field, making four errors including Ahrens's 7th and Tolisano's 12th.
Quad Cities 10 Lansing 3
Ugh. This one sucked. Lansing was outhit 15-4 and were clearly never in it, down 5-0 in the 3rd thanks to a rough start from John Anderson who allowed seven runs on 11 hits in just four innings.
As for the offense, well, Luis Fernandez had two hits and Chris Emanuele homered. That's about all you need to know.
Three Stars:
3rd Star: Fabio Castro; 6 IP, 4 H, 0 ER, 2 BB, 1 K
2nd Star: Adam Calderone; 3-for-5, 3 R, 2B, HR, 2 RBI
1st Star: Ryan Page; 7.2 IP, 5 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 3 K
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