The Dunedin hitters had really been struggling over their first two games but on Saturday they faced Brad Lidge who was making a rehab appearance. They tagged him for four runs and went on to win the game. New Hampshire won their game too with solid pitching from Zach Stewart and the bullpen and a home run by Brad Emaus. Tim Collins recorded five outs, all by strikeout. Las Vegas didn't play well but Brett Wallace hit a home run, while the Lugnuts lost again despite three hits by Bradley Glenn.
The 51's didn't hit or pitch well in this game. Lance Broadway started and pitched five shutout innings but it took him 108 pitches to do so and he put ten runners on in his five innings. Steven Register followed and allowed three runs over two innings. David Purcey pitched the eighth and gave up a Purcey type run, the inning went like this: walk, sacrifice, wild pitch, walk, sac fly, K. Jesse Carlson pitched the ninth and gave up a hit and hit a batter.
The 51's had only five hits, two of them, and a run, came in the first inning, Jarrett Hoffpauir doubled and Brian Dopirak singled him home. In the sixth Brett Wallace hit his first Blue Jay home run.
New Hampshire rang up three runs in the top of the first, their second hot start in their two games. The first run scored without a hit, two walks and an error, but Eric Thames then doubled to score two more. Thames was later thrown out at the plate.
Zach Stewart started for the Cats and didn't have a 1-2-3 inning until the fifth. The fifth was his final inning, in his outing he gave up one run on a home run, four hits total with one walk and three K's. Bubby Buzachero followed him and gave up a run in the sixth to make it a one run game. But in the seventh Brad Emaus hit a two run home run to restore the margin to 3, 5-2. Bubby came back out for the seventh and put runners at 1st and 3rd with one out and that was enough to get Tim Collins into the game. Collins was a little shaky at first, he went walk, K, walk, K. The second walk scored a run to make it 5-3.
Collins struck out the side in the eighth and Danny Farquhar worked the ninth allowing another walk.
Emaus with 3 ribbies and Thames with two drove in the runs. Adam Calderone and Adam Loewen had two hits each.
The Dunedin hitters were off to a very slow start and as a reward they got to face JC Romero and Brad Lidge in the first two innings of this game. In inning one, pitched by Romero, Travis D'Arnaud had a single. In the second, pitched by Lidge, Mike McDade doubled, as did Yan Gomes with one out. After a two out walk Tyler Pastornicky doubled to drive in two and Daniel Perales singled to make it a 4 run inning. Dunedin added another run in the third with doubles by Brian Van Kirk and Gomes.
Chuck Huggins was on the mound for the Jays and pitched well, he gave up a run in the second and a run in the fifth and left the sixth with two outs and a walk on. BJ LaMura allowed that walk to score and a run of his own and after six innings Dunedin had a 5-4 lead.
In the bottom of the seventh Raul Barron homered to give Dunedin a two run lead. That was important because Alan Farina gave up a run in the eighth. But Matt Daly nailed it down with a 1-2-3 ninth.
Gomes was the only Jay with two hits but seven of the nine starters had a hit. Pastornicky played short again, Justin Jackson had the night off.
Lansing took a brief lead in this game, in the fourth, when Bradley Glenn doubled in a run. In the bottom of the inning a walk and a two-out error were followed by a double to score both runners leading to two unearned runs. Lansing tied the game in the fifth, Oliver Dominguez doubled and scored on a single from Kevin Nolan. Lugnuts starter Dave Sever gave up single runs in the fifth and sixth and reliever Evan Crawford allowed another single in the seventh and Lansing trailed 5-2.
In the eighth Glenn singled and Ryan Goins walked. Sean Ochinko doubled in both runners to make it a one run game but the Luggies couldn't get the tying run across the plate.
Lansing had eight hits, Glenn had three of them.
Three Stars
3rd star - Chuck Huggins
2nd star - Yan Gomes
1st star - Brad Emaus
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