Las Vegas came to town and brought their lumber with them, humiliating the crew from Colorado. The Fisher Cats put up just a meow against the Rock Cats. Dunedin did their thing besting Brevard and Lansing’s Lugnuts lost to West Michigan. All in all, the Blue Jay farm boys out hit opponents 43 to 33.
Las Vegas 14 (yes 14) Colorado Springs 0 (yes 0)
The 51s sit in 3rd place in the PCL Pacific South division with a record of 3-6 and a one game win streak. Some win it was Friday. Following 6 hit 10 strike out shut out pitching, Las Vegas brought out the bats with 18 hits and 14 runs. Highlights on the mound included winning pitcher Joel Carreno (1-0) who struck out 8 and allowed only one hit in 5.0 IP. Andrew Carpenter and Clint Everts came on in relief and kept Colorado scoreless, allowing only 5 hits in the final four innings.
But the big blast came at the dish as the 51s put on a show for the shell-shocked Sky Sox home fans. Everyone hit for Las Vegas except David Cooper who went 0-4, but earned an RBI. The big gun for the evening was Travis Snyder (4-5, 3R, 2B, 3B, HR, 5RBIs) with the first Slam of the year in the 4 run 3rd inning. Then was the devasting 4th inning which looked like this: Moises Sierra singles, Ricardo Nanita Singles Sierra to 3rd, Yan Gomes K, Ruben Gotay singles Sierra home, Anthony Gose doubles in Nanita. Adieny Hechavarria singles in Gose, Snider singles, Travis d’Arnaud walks, Cooper walks in Hechavarria, Sierra K, Nanita doubles in Snider and d’Arnaud, Gomes lines out to 3rd. Las Vegas added insult to injury with a run each in the 6th, 7th and 8th innings. Sierra had a lead-off HR in the 8th. All told, the 51s line up ended up with just 3 batters under .333 average and 4 above .333 average with 2 batters above .400. Pretty awesome, even by PCL standards.
At 3-5 on the year so far and sitting at 4th place in the Eastern League Eastern division, New Hampshire suffered their third loss in a row. Deck McGuire (0-2) took the loss in 5 IP, allowing 3 earned runs on 7 hits with 5 K’s. Matt Wright and Danny Farquhar and came on in relief, allowing a run each and a combined 3 hits. A.J. Jimenez and Brad Glen added an error each.
The Fisher Cats had eight hits, but spaced them out so they only put a single run on the board in the 7th inning when Jonathan Diaz plated Justin Jackson on an infield single. Ryan Goins went 2 for 4 with New Hampshire’s only multi-hit performance. The Fisher Cats could not muster any extra base hits, but Brad McElroy and Brad Glen pinched a base each. It was a long night for 3,015 home fans in Manchester.
The D-Jays stayed atop the Florida State League North standings with a 7-1 overall and a 5 game winning streak. They travels across the Florida to Brevard and took the W with 5 hit 1 run pitching led by starter Asher Wojciechowski who struck out 4 in 6.0 IP. Scott Gracey took the W (2-1) with 1.0 IP when Dunedin put up 4 runs in the 8th. Boomer Potts came on in relief and Danny Barnes got the save, his fourth of the 2012 campaign.
On offence, the RBI producer was the pride of St. Michaels Col. School, Canadian born Marcus Knecht (1-3, 1R, 1H, 1BB, 2RBIs, 1K). Kevin Nolan (2 for 4, 1R, 2B, RBI) added the other RBI in the 4 run 8th. Nolan recorded the only extra base hit for Dunedin, a double in the 7th. Jake Marisnick (1 for 5, 1R, 1K) stole his second base of the year in the 8th.
Lansing is the other Toronto farm club team atop of their league standings. Suffering their first loss of the season on a cool, cloudy evening in West Michigan. Luggies pitching gave up 12 hits and 5 earned runs on the night. Starter Marcus Walden went 4.2 innings and struck out 3 while allowing 3 BB and 8 hits, including a pair of HRs. Tyler Ybarra (0-1) took the loss with 2.2 IP allowing a pair of runs on 4 hits (including an HR) and 2 Ks. Shortstop Andrew Burns (0-3, BB) booted one for his first error of the year.
K.C. Hobson (1 for 4, 2B, 2 RBIs) batted in a pair with a double in the 1st and a ground out in the 5th. Triples came from Marcus Brisker (1 for 4, 3B), Chris Hawkins (2 for 4, 1R, 3B) and Carlos Perez (3 for 5, 2R, 2B, 3B, K). Kevin Pillar (3 for 5, 1R, 2B, RBI,2Ks) added a double and an RBI. Pillar inked his 5th SB, but had a CS and was picked off first base.
Stars:
Third Star: Kevin Pillar (3 for 5, 1R, 2B, RBI, 2ks)
Second Star: Joel Correno (1-0) (5.0 IP, 0R, 1H, 8Ks)
First Star: Travis Snider (4 for 5, 3R, 2B, 3B, Slam HR, 5 RBIs) Just a single short of the Cycle
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