Some late inning heroics and a few laughers as your affiliates went 5-3.
Columbus 9 Buffalo 0
Deck McGuire has fallen back down to earth here after an impressive start to AAA. Tonight he pitched six innings and yielded three earned runs on two homeruns, six hits, and three walks. While McGuire did boast an impressive 9-0 groundball to flyball ratio, walks are creeping back into his game, as is the homerun. McGuire though did not have much help tonight from his offence. They collaborated for just four hits and one extra base hit. The Bisons are streaking at the moment so they’ll look to shake this one off and get back at it tomorrow.
New Britain 1 New Hampshire 2
A two run RBI double in the sixth by Kevin Nolan and solid pitching paced the Fisher Cats to victory tonight. Six pitchers combined to old the Twins’ affiliate to just the one run. The heavy lifters were Scott Copeland and Austin Bibens-Dirkx who both pitched three scoreless innings.
Dunedin 5 Daytona 3
This Dunedin team is pretty darn good. Tonight they scored the go ahead runs in the ninth to top a very talented Cubs High-A affiliate. Kendall Graveman was solid as usual on the mound pitching seven innings of two run baseball. Just about everyone in the lineup had two hits and hey, Gus Pierre had only one error. Pierre, in fairness, had two doubles tonight. Dwight Smith Jr. hit home the eventual winning run in the ninth and Santiago Nessy provided insurance later in the inning with a run scoring single as well.
West Michigan 6 Lansing 7
Sweet, more late inning heroics. Chaz Frank tripled the tieng run in the ninth and then hustled home on a wild pitch for the game-winning run a hitter later. Frank had also singled the Lugnuts ahead in the seventh, as well as stealing two bases. Good show. On the mound Chase De Jong yielded four earned over five innings of work.
Tri-City 4 Vancouver 6
Two hits for Franklin Barreto as he continued his hot start to the season and a Ryan McBroom homerun were enough for the Canadians to fend off the Tri-City squad. If anyone has any reports on Zak Wasilewski that would be nice. He was a pretty good-looking prep prospect when he signed. Interested to hear some reports on velocity and stuff.
Pulaski 10 Bluefield 0
Not much to see here. Bluefield committed five errors and will likely commit many more as the season progresses. A lot of very young ball players down in Bluefield.
GCL Blue Jays 0 GCL Yankees1 5
Again, not much to see here. Just the four hits by the Baby Jays.
DSL Blue Jays 5 DSL Brewers 3
Ronniel Demorizi homered and is strangely still in the Dominican. I swear that every time I do one of these write ups Jesus Severino throws the ball away at least three times (as he did tonight).
Three Stars
3. Kevin Nolan
2. Kendall Graveman
1. Chaz Frank
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