Travis Snider accounted for Las Vegas' third run with his 9th homer of the season on Tuesday.
Reno, NV - Could this be the end of the line for 49 year-old Jamie Moyer (1-1)? The 51s gave him a 3-0 lead against the Diamondbacks affiliates but it disappeared in the fifth. He allowed all seven runs on ten hits and two walks over six frames. One of the hits was a three-run homer by Cole Gillespie. He struck out three and eight of his 14 outs in play were on the ground. Jim Hoey closed things out with two shutout frames of one-hit ball. He struck out one and got four outs on the ground.
Adeiny Hechavarria tripled home a Jonathan Diaz walk and scored on a David Cooper sacrifice fly in the third. Travis Snider ended the inning with a bang by homering to right for his 9th tater with the 51s. Eric Thames tripled and walked and Mike McCoy singled and walked. Diaz was hitless but drew a pair of bases on balls. Yan Gomes singled and stole a base. Anthony Gose doubled but was picked off at second base by Barry Enright. Moises Sierra was 0-for-3 with a walk and Cooper also finished 0-for-3. Defensively, Sierra threw out a runner at second.
New Hampshire 14 Reading 2
Reading, PA - The Fisher Cats unleashed an 18-hit attack on the Phillies and only failed to score in the fifth, sixth and ninth innings. Brad Glenn got the ball rolling with an RBI double in the first, a Brian Bocock two-run single capped off a three-run second and Kenen Bailli blasted a two-run homer in the third. Glenn smashed one over the wall for a two-run shot in the fourth and belted a solo dinger in the seventh before getting another RBI on a fielder's choice grounder in the eighth. Kevin Howard followed with a two-run single and Joel Galarraga chipped in with an RBI single. Glenn, Galarraga, Bocock and Brian Van Kirk supplied two-thirds of the team's hit total with three apiece. Glenn, Bocock, Van Kirk and Galarraga reached base four times each. Glenn was hit by a pitch while the other three walked. Bocock and Van Kirk had doubles and Bocock also squeezed in a stolen base. Bailli had the other multi-hit effort by adding a base hit to go along with his homer. Mike McDade doubled and walked and John Tolisano had a single in six at-bats to make sure every Fisher Cat was represented in the hit column.Yohan Pino (5-3) limited Reading to two runs on three hits and a walk for the win. He rung up a pair of Ks and induced nine groundball outs over his six innings. The bullpen locked it down with three perfect innings, one each from Stephen Marek, lefty Aaron Loup and Sam "Iron Mike" Dyson. Dyson's two strikeouts bettered Marek's and Loup's totals by one.
Dunedin 10 Tampa 6
Dunedin, FL - Dunedin grabbed a 6-0 lead and held on to it this time. Ryan Schimpf got it started with a solo homer in the first for his 11th of the campaign. Kevin Ahrens singled home a run in the second and Justin Jackson drove home two with a triple. A three-bagger by Oliver Dominguez made it 5-0 in the third and he doubled home two more in the fifth. A Schimpf sac fly in the seventh and a two-run homer by Jon Talley in the ninth rounded out the scoring. Dominguez led the attack with three hits on two doubles and a triple while Schimpf homered, tripled and walked. Jackson had a double to go along with his triple. Talley drew a walk in addition to his homer while Marcus Knecht and Pierce Rankin both singled and walked. Jake Marisnick was 1-for-5 but Michael Crouse was 0-for-4 with three Ks.Marcus Walden (1-1) lasted five innings and allowed a pair of runs on four hits, three walks and a hit by pitch. He rang up five strikeouts and accumulated eight outs on the ground. Dustin Antolin had a scoreless sixth inning despite a pair of hits. Lefty Boomer Potts was victimized by an inside the park homer in the seventh and allowed two more Yankee runs in 1 1/3 innings. He gave up three hits but punched out four without a walk. Evan Englebrook could not strand the two Potts runners and could not get any outs over the three batters he faced on two hits and a walk. Danny Barnes came to the rescue by stranding Englebrook's two runners and getting the final five outs for his 20th save. He yielded just one hit while collecting a pair of strikeouts.
Lansing 11 South Bend 3
South Bend, IN - Scoreless after three, the Lugnuts busted out for five runs in the fourth against the D-Backs affiliate. K.C. Hobson got the first run on the board with a sacrifice fly but the big blast came off the bat of Kevin Patterson, who connected for a three-run dinger, his ninth of 2012. The Lugnuts scored once in the fifth without a hit as Andy Burns
reached on a throwing error by the third baseman, stole second and
third (to give him 14), then trotted home on another throwing error by
the catcher. Lansing only needed one hit to score in the sixth and that
came courtesy of Gustavo Pierre, who put his second ball of the
year over the fence. Lansing put this one well out of reach with four
runs in the ninth, thanks to Kevin Pillar, who belted a three-run shot for number five on the campaign. Patterson had a 4-for-5 night at the plate. Pierre, Pillar and Jonathon Berti had a pair of hits each. Andy Burns was 0-for-3 and made two errors at short but walked twice. Hobson and Chris Hawkins each hit a double. Kenny Wilson singled and stole his 27th stolen base of the year. Aaron Munoz drew a walk.The beneficiary of all the offence was Noah Syndergaard, who improved to 5-2 with five innings of one-run, three-hit ball. He got six strikeouts, six groundouts and walked nobody. Kramer Champlin yielded two runs, including a homer, on three hits over two frames. He had a 2-0 K/BB total and a 4-0 groundball/flyball ratio. Brandon Berl survived two hits and struck out one over a scoreless eighth inning and Philip Brua closed the door with a perfect ninth.
Vancouver 4 Salem-Keizer 3
Nick Baligod delivered the tying and winning runs with a two-run double in the third inning Tuesday.
Vancouver, BC - The C's hung on to salvage the finale of this three game set against the Giants affiliate, who made five errors in this one. A Dan Klein sacrifice fly and a Matt NewmanRBI groundout resulted in the first two runs of the game in the second inning. The Volcanoes erupted for three runs a half-inning later but Vancouver got them back in the bottom of the third thanks to a two-run double by Nick Baligod. Baligod and Jordan Leyland each had doubles and two-hit games with Leyland also drawing a walk. Kellen Sweeney doubled and walked and Daniel Arcila added another two-bagger. Balbino Fuenmayor was 1-for-4 and Klein was 0-for-2 with an intentional walk. The top of the order, Ian Parmley and Jorge Flores, were a combined 0-for-9, while Newman was 0-for-4.Ben White (2-2) survived a shaky third inning and put together a quality start of three-run, six-inning ball. He gave up a two-run homer that tied the game and loaded the bases before giving up a third run on a sac fly. He settled down by retiring the next six hitters and 10 of his final 12, picking off a runner at first in the process. In total, he had eight baserunners on three hits, four walks and a hit batsman but struck out six with five groundouts. Andrew Sikula pitched a one-hit seventh, Ian Kadish worked a one-walk eight and Drew Permison stranded a two-out double by striking out the side in the ninth for save number three.
Pulaski @ Bluefield
Bluefield, WV - Postponed due to rain. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader at Bowen Field August 20 at 7:05 pm ET.
GCL Blue Jays 4 GCL Yankees 3
Dunedin, FL - The Jays were down 2-0 early but responded with a run in the third. Wuilmer Becerra was hit by a pitch and was replaced on the basepaths by Dennis Jones. He moved up to second on a passed ball, stole third and scampered home on an error by the third baseman. They scored three times to take the lead for good in the sixth as Cody Bartlett singled home a run and Jesus Gonzalez doubled home a pair. D.J. Davis was the only Jay to get on base twice with a single and a walk. He stole a base but was also caught once, making him 5-for-8. Derrick Loveless doubled and Justin Atkinson, George Carroll and Dawel Lugo added singles. Jorge Saez was 0-for-3 and Jones was 0-for-2.Lefty Jairo Labourt got the start scattered two hits and a walk over two scoreless frames to go along with two strikeouts and two groundouts. The Yankees got to southpaw Zak Wasilewski for two runs in the third but he kept the Bombers off the board in the fourth. In total, he allowed two hits and two walks but struck out three. The Yankees also got to lefty Alonzo Gonzalez for a run on three hits in one inning but he did get one K. Left-hander Francesco Gracesqui (2-0) hurled two blank innings and giving up just one hit and racking up two strikeouts to earn the victory. Chuck Ghysels, not a lefty, had an impressive two inning save by pitching one-hit ball while punching out four.
DSL Blue Jays 7 DSL Tigers 6
San Pedro de Macoris, DR - The Jays fought back from 5-3 and 6-5 deficits in the last two innings of regulation to pull it out. They struck first in the first on a two-run single by Cesar Barazarte and a wild pitch in the fourth resulted in another run. An RBI groundout by Rolando Segovia and an RBI single by Edwin Fuentes tied the game at 5-5 in the eighth. Gustavo Perinen tied it at 6-6 in the ninth with a run-scoring single before the winning run scored on a balk, of all things! Luis Martin had a 3-for-5 day at the plate while Barazarte, Fuentes and Perinen were in the two-hit club. Segovia and Andres Sotillo had a single and a walk. Juan Tejada was 0-for-4 with a walk but Juan Kelly was just 0-for-4.On the mound, Francis Eduardo endured a rough start. He allowed all five runs over 3 2/3 innings. One of the runs was unearned but he allowed seven hits and two walks. Eduardo struck out a pair and four of his six outs in play were on the grass. Lefty Oscar Cabrera plunked a pair of Tigers but delivered 3 1/3 scoreless innings by scattering three hits and striking out two with four groundouts. Miguel Castro (1-0) was nicked for an unearned run but worked his way around a hit and two walks over two frames for the win.
*** 3 Stars!!! ***
3. Ryan Schimpf, Dunedin
2. Noah Syndergaard, Lansing
1. Brad Glenn, New Hampshire