Move along people nothing to see here, except for four losses. Picking the three stars was tough, Brian Van kirk was an obvious choice for #1, he reached base all five times he came to the plate. Andrew Liebel had another good start, Reidier Gonzlaez was good for 5.2 innings before giving up five runs in the fifth, channelling Scott Richmond perhaps. The four affiliates combined for 8 runs.
Brian Burres started and gave up five runs in 6.2 innings. TJ Beam gave up three more and Bill Murphy one.
Ex-Blue Jay Chris Woodward went 2-4 for Tacoma and is hitting .306. Las Vegas scored their two runs on a Kyle Philips home run and an error.
Philips had two hits and is now hitting .354. Buck Coats also had two hits and he is hitting .327.
Reidier Gonzalez went 17 up, 17 down (OK there was one double play in there), but then the wheels came off. Two ground ball singles, followed by two walks, followed by a double and another single and the score was 5-0. Gonzalez left the game after five and his ERA is now 2.74.
The offense continued to be missing, the Fisher Cats had only four hits in the game. Several hitters are really struggling in June, albeit in just six games. Brad Emaus is hitting .083 in June; David Cooper .133; and Brian Jeroloman 214.
Brian Jeroloman had two hits.
Dunedin scored in the first inning, Justin Jackson singled; Moises Sierra doubled him to third; and Manny Rodriguez hit a sac fly. But after those two hits Dunedin were held to just three hits the rest of the way. Jon Jaspe had two of those hits.
Andrew Liebel started for Dunedin and pitched seven innings giving up two runs on eight hits. Following up on Dane Johnson's comments on Liebel, Liebel has now pitched at least six innings in his last starts. In those six starts Liebel has pitching 38.1 innings and has given up 34 hits and 11 walks with 37 strikeouts.
John Anderson had a typical start, nine hits allowed in four innings leading to five runs. Anderson is just 20 years old and has the reputation of being a strike thrower. He may be but he is catching too much of the plate, he has allowed hits in innings. Dustin Antolin threw 3.1 shutout innings and he has had a nice eight day run. Since Friday of last week Antolin pitched three times, 8.1 innings total. In those innings he has allowed 4 hits, 2 walks and 5 strikeouts. Hunter Moody finished a great job by the bullpen with 1.2 perfect innings.
Offensively Lansing scored a run on a sac fly in the first, scored an unearned run on a Luis Fernandez double in the fourth, and two runs in the seventh with a Brian Van Kirk triple and a Robert Sobolewski double being the big hits. those last two runs left the Lugnuts down 5-4. Lansing had runners on second in each of the eighth and ninth but couldn't get the tying run across the plate.
Van Kirk had three hits and two walks, Pastornicky, McClanahan, Fernandez and Jimenez had two hits each.
Three Stars
3rd star - Tyler Pastornicky
2nd star - Andrew Liebel
1st star - Brian Van Kirk
Standings
Las Vegas - 21-35, last place, 13 GB
New Hampshire - 26-31, 5th place, 5.5 GB
Dunedin - 22-30, last place, 13.5 GB
Lansing - 20-33, last place, 13.5 GB
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