A trio of pitching prospects took the hill today. Aaron Sanchez was excellent, Daniel Norris was OK while Deck McGuire was disappointing. Miguel Batista, definitely not a prospect, pitched very well for Buffalo. Buffalo kept on winning, Dunedin won too, but New Hampshire and Lansing lost.
Buffalo 4 Lehigh Valley 1
Buffalo had great pitching in this game. Miguel Batista gave up one hit and one unearned run through six innings. Brad Lincoln pitched two perfect innings and Neil Wagner gave up one hit as he finished off. Combined it was a two hitter.
Buffalo scored all their runs in the sixth with five singles and a walk. Anthony Gose, Luis Jimenez, Andy LaRoche, Lance Zawadski and Ryan Goins were the singlers. The Bisons only had two hits in the other eight innings. LaRoche had two hits.
Binghamton 15 New Hampshire 2
Deck McGuire couldn't find the plate today, he walked six in 4.1 innings and had no strikeouts. He was charged with eight runs. McGuire had two of the walks in the first inning when he loaded the bases with no outs. A couple of ground balls led to two runs. In the second a lead-off double led to a third run. Then in the fifth another lead-off hit was followed by two more walks. Two singles made it 5-0. Chorye Spoone came on in relief with the bases loaded and he walked in all three runners. In total the pitchers for the Fisher Cats walked 11 hitters.
Ricardo Nanita scored both runs. He had a solo home run in the fourth and in the eighth he singled and scored on a single from Sean Ochinko. Ochinko, Nolan and Nanita had two hits to lead the offense.
Daytona 1 Dunedin 9
Aaron Sanchez gave up some runs last time out but on Sunday he had the longest start of his career, 6.2 innings. Sanchez is on a 75 pitch limit so this shows there were many quick at-bats. Sanchez gave up two hits while getting five K's. The one run came via an infield hit, a hit batter and a wild pitch. To put it another way the two hits anchez allowed were an infield single and a line drive by prospect Jorge Soler.
Matt Newman hit a solo home run in the first. Dunedin added three in the second on three singles and a couple of walks. KC Hobson homered in the third and the Jays added 4 runs in the fifth. Kevin Patterson's double was the big blow. Every Dunedin hitter had a hit, Patterson, Newman, Gabe Jacobo and Derrick Chung had two each.
Lansing 5 Fort Wayne 7
Daniel Norris started and gave up five runs in four plus innings. He gave up six hits and three walks, not good numbers. But he competed which is an improvement. In the first inning he gave up a lead-off double and followed that with a wild pitch. But he was able to escape that inning with one run allowed. Fort Wayne scored again in the second on two hits and a walk. Norris had a three up, three down third and just gave up a walk in the fourth. But in the fifth the first three hitters singled and that was the end of Norris' day. All three hitters scored to make it five runs conceded by Norris. Through four innings Norris had conceded two runs on three hits and three walks. The fifth inning turned it from a decent start to a not so good one.
Lansing trailed 5-0 into the sixth. In that inning the Lugnuts loaded the bases on walks. Then Christian Lopes, Carlos Ramirez and Chris Hawkins singled and add in an error to make it five runs scored and a tie game. But in the bottom of the sixth Ben white gave up a lead off home run followed by another run and the Lugnuts were in a hole they couldn't get out of.
Dalton Pompey was the only hitter with two hits, he also had a walk.
Three Stars
#3 - Dalton Pompey
#2 - Miguel Batista
#1 - Aaron Sanchez
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