Buffalo won with a big day from Moises Sierra. Anthony Gose had a good day two. Elsewhere it was bad bullpen day. New Hampshire took a bad, bad loss. They scored in the top of the twelfth in a scoreless game but saw the win slip away on a bases loaded walk and the always exciting walk-off hit by pitch. Dunedin also had a bullpen loss, Andy Burns kept hitting. Jake Marisnick played his first game of the season for Jupiter. Lansing had a tie game in the eighth but lost.
Buffalo 5 Rochester 3
Moises Sierra was in the middle of most of the action on Sunday. In the first inning he singled in Jim Negrych who had ledd off with a double. In the third Ryan Goins and Anthony Gose singled and Sierra again singled to drive in run number 2. The third run had nothing to do with Sierra, Ryan Langerhans homered. After the home run Goins reached on an error, Gose drove him in and then Sierra doubled to make it a 5-1 lead at the time. Sierra had 3 hits, Gose, Langerhans and LaRoche had 2 hits each.
Edgar Gonzalez started and went 5.1. Four relievers backed him up.
Sierra is now hitting .397 and has an OPS just over 1000. He rarely walks, just 4 in 63 at-bats, but doesn't strikeout much either. He is still a bit of a hacker. Some hackers do fine in the major leagues, if they only hack in the zone, other hackers fail in the majors
New Hampshire 1 Reading 2 - 12 innings
This one goes down as a bad loss. First the Fisher Cats scored in the top of the twelfth to take a 1-0 lead. They had to get four hits to get that one run. The teams headed to the bottom of the ninth and Tommy Hottovy was called on to nail it down. But he gave up a lead-off single, followed it with a walk, then after a sacrifice an intentional walk. Bases loaded, one out. Hottovy hit the next batter to tie the game then hit the next batter. That qualifies as a bit of a meltdown and a bad loss.
New Hampshire had to face Jesse Biddle, one of the hottest pitchers in the minors right now. He struck out 10 hitters over six innings and just allowed one hit. Tyson Brummett was just as good, he gave up two hits over six innings. Chorye Spoone and Joel Carreno pitched five perfect innings of relief. Kevin Pillar and Jack Murphy had two hits each.
Dunedin 3 Jupiter 5
Jays fall behind 3-0 early, tie it with 3 in the seventh but Jupiter score 2 in the eighth. Scott Copeland pitched four innings, gave up eight hits and three runs. In the seventh Jason Leblebjian recorded his first hit of the season, a three run home run to tie the game. Dustin Antolin came on to pitch with one out in the eighth and he was hit hard, two runs later the Jays were in a hole. In the ninth Dunedin loaded the bases with no outs but, like the parent club, they couldn't get a hit with runners in scoring position.
Once again Andy Burns had two hits, as did Nick Baligod and Derrick Chung. Jake Marisnick was in the lineup for Jupiter, he was 1-4 in his first game of the season.
Lansing 3 Cedar Rapids 4
Tie game, bottom of the eighth. Wil Browning allowed a two out walk. That was followed by two singles and there went he lead. Alonzo Gonzalez started and pitched six innings. he was charged with three runs on six hits but no strikeouts.
Dalton Pompey tripled in the first run and doubled in the third run. In between Kellen Sweeney, the hometown boy, homered. Pompey and Sweeney had two hits each.
Three Stars
#3 - Tyson Brummett
#2 - Dalton Pompey
#1 - Moises Sierra
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