New Hampshire trailed 5-0 after seven innings and they had only one hit in the game. But they exploded for seven runs in the eighth and won. The win masked a rough start by Zach Stewart. The Lugnuts racked up 16 hits to support Chad Jenkins on their way to a win. Las Vegas and Dunedin were losers Friday.
Lance Broadway gave up four runs in the first two innings as he allowed seven baserunners in the first two. Broadway pitched into the fifth and gave up five runs. Jesse Carlson and Merkin Valdez also gave up a run each.
The 51's only had three hits, Chris Aguila had two of them. Aguila is batting .361.
New Hampshire had only one hit, a Darin Mastroianni single through seven innings. Trailing 5-0 David Cooper singled and Shawn Bowman walked to lead off the eighth. Binghamton's starter was pulled and the bullpen threw gas on the fire. Adam Loewen singled in run number one then three straight walks led to two more runs. Manny Mayorson doubled in two runs to tie the game, Eric Thames hit a sac fly to out the Fisher Cats ahead and a wild pitch gave New Hampshire an insurance run.
With the lead New Hampshire turned to Trystan Magnuson to pitch a perfect eighth and Danny Farquhar to pitch a perfect ninth.
Fisher Cat starter Zach Stewart had trouble with his control in this game and it cost him. In the first inning he gave up a lead off home run followed by a couple of doubles. In the second he walked two hitters and then a triple scored both and then a single allowed the third run to score. After two innings the Cats were trailing 5-0.
The Fisher Cats had five hits, four of them in that eighth inning.
Lakeland scored a run in the first off Joel Carreno. In the bottom of the first Tyler Pastornicky walked, stole second and scored on an Al Quintana double. Lakeland scored another run in the top of the third to make it 2-1 and two in the fourth and it was 4-1. Dunedin got one back in the fourth when Yan Gomes singled in Sean Shoffit. Lakeland added one more run and Dunedin were unable to mount a comeback. In total Dunedin only had four hits. Carreno gave up all five runs and took the loss.
Ryan Schimpf, who had four hits on Thursday, added two more hits on Friday. Schimpf led off the game with a double and later scored on a Mark Sobolewski sac fly. Schimpf singled again in the third to load the bases but the Lugnuts were unable to score. Lansing got four runs in the third inning. Brad Glenn, Sean Ochinko, AJ Jimenez, Balbino Fuenmayor and Chris Hopkins all had hits leading to four runs and a 5-0 lead.
Fort Wayne got two runs back off Chad Jenkins with a home run in the fourth. But Lansing got those back in the fifth, Jimenez singled, Fuenmayor doubled him home, and Hopkins singled to score Balbino. Lansing tacked on single runs in the sixth and seventh and Fort Mayne got two consolation runs in the ninth.
Jenkins pitched seven innings and gave up the two runs on four hits and three walks.
The Luggies had 16 hits. Hopkins had four, Balbino and Ochinko three each, Jimenez and Schimpf two each.
Three Stars
3rd star - Manny Mayorson
2nd star - Chad Jenkins
1st star - Chris Hopkins
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