Jo-Jo Ryes made a good first impression by throwing a one hitter over eight innings to lead the Fisher Cats to victory. Reyes had been pitching in AAA for the Braves so a step down to AA should see him pitching well. Joel Carreno had another eight K's and Chris Hopkins hit a grand slam as Dunedin won easily. Lansing came from behind for a narrow win. The Auburn bullpen held up as Carlos Perez went 3-3. The GCL Jays and the Las Vegas 51's lost.
Bobby Ray had a rough start, Fresno scored two in the first inning and three in the second and Las Vegas were down 5-1 quickly. Ray only went four innings.
Aaron Mathews singled and scored the first run on a ground out. Brett Wallace's 15th home run accounted for the second run.
Las Vegas outhit Fresno 11-8. Mike McCoy, Wallace, Manny Mayorson and Mathews had two hits each. Arencibia was 1-4.
Jo-Jo Reyes made a big first impression, he went eight innings and din't allow a hit until the eighth. His final line was 8ip; one hit; 2 walks and six K's. The Mets scored their runs off BJ LaMura in the ninth.
Darin Mastroianni got the Fisher Cats going, he led off with a triple and scored on a passed ball. Adeiny Hechavarria doubled and scored on a single by Adam Loewen. In the second inning Mastroianni singled, stole second and scored when Hechavarria singled. In the third inning a solo home run from Eric Thames made it 4-0.
Hechavarria brought in run number five with a sac fly to score David Cooper. Jon Diaz singled in run number six in the seventh.
Five Cats had two hits, Mastroianni, Hechavarria, Bowman, Cooper and Diaz. Travis Snider was 1-5 with a double and a strikeout.
Joel Carreno, in his first star after his 15 K performance, struck out 8 in 6 innings. St Lucie scored two runs off Carreno with 8 hits.
The Jays scored two in the third, Jon Del Campo singled in Brad McElroy and Travis d'Arnaud's ground rule double scored a second run. Dunedin scored five more in the fourth capped by a grand slam home run from Chris Hopkins, his first home run of the year in the FSL. Jon Talley homered in the eighth and Del Campo hit a two run shot in the ninth.
Hopkins, Del Campo, Talley and McClanahan had two hits each.
Wisconsin scored three runs in the first inning off Dave Sever but Lansing came back with four in the third. Kevin Ahrens singled; Ryan Schimpf tripled; Kenny Wilson had an RBI single; Justin Jackson walked; and Brad Glenn doubled in the two speedy runners.
Wisconsin tied it at 4 in the bottom of the third but Sean Ochinko doubled and scored on a wild pitch in the fifth to put the Lugnuts ahead. Lansing added an insurance run in the eighth.
Dave Sever pitched six innings for the win.
Wilson, Ahrens, Schimpf and Ochinko had two hits each.
Auburn finally got some good relief pitching. The bullpen pitched five innings and only gave up two runs. The starter, Daniel Webb, went four shutout innings.
Auburn scored three runs in the second inning and five runs in the third. In the second one run scored on a wild pitch and two on an RBI single by Stephen McQuail. In the third Carlos Perez singled in two runs; Lance Durham doubled in Perez; and Yudelmis Hernandez homered to make it a five run inning. Perez tripled in a run in the fourth and Durham singled in a run in the sixth.
Perez was 3-3 with a walk and is now hitting .333. Durham had two hits and two walks, McQuail had two hits. Marcus Knecht was 1-3 with two walks.
Aaron Sanchez made his professional debut and pitched 1.2 innings facing eleven hitters. Sanchez hit three batters and also gave up three hits, two of which were of the infield variety. Sanchez was charged with two runs, just one earned. Sanchez was followed by Grafton, Ontario's Nick Purdy. Purdy gave up a couple of runs in the fourth and two more in the seventh.
The Jays scored one in the third, Jake Marisnick singled with the bases loaded to drive in one run but Carlos Ramirez was thrown out at the plate. The Jays strung together five singles in the seventh to score four more runs but Purdy and Escalante gave those four runs back in the bottom of the seventh.
Matt Abraham had three hits, Marisnick had two.
Three Stars
3rd star - Chris Hopkins
2nd star - Carlos Perez
1st star - Jo-Jo Reyes (even though he moved down from AAA, he gets a first start bonus)
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