Friday brought three wins and four losses. George Kottaras hit the go-ahead home run for Buffalo among his three hits. Dalton Pompey picked up a couple of hits. Lansing's David Harris drove in the first four runs of Lansing's eight. The Lugnuts also won. The final winners were Bluefield who rode a seven run first innings to victory.
New Hampshire lost a close one. Dunedin wasted a good Matt Boyd start with a bullpen blow up. Zak Wasilewski got hit early and often and Vancouver lost. The GCL Jays lost another one.
Scranton 7 Buffalo 11
The Bisons had two 5 run innings, the second one broke up a 6-6 game in the seventh. George Kottaras homered leading off that seventh inning and that was Buffalo's only home run of the night. Kottaras was 3-4, Cole Gillespie, on a major league rehab, was 3-5. Dalton Pompey and Matt Hague each had two hits.
Raul Valdes started but was long gone by the seventh. Ryan Tepera blew the save and got the win.
Portland 4 New Hampshire 3
Casey Lawrence started and was responsible for all four runs on six hits. Randy Boone and Blake McFarland kept Portland hitless the rest of the way.
HC Hobson and Jorge Flores each had two hits and an RBI although neither of them scored.
Dunedin 2 Tampa 5
Matt Boyd was excellent, six shutout innings, two hits, eight K's. Boyd left with a 2-0 lead, but Griffin Murphy gave up a couple to allow Tampa to tie and Danny Barnes allowed three more to take the loss.
Dwight Smith scored both runs. He hit a solo home run in the fourth. In the sixth he walked, moved up on another walk, stole third and scored on a Shane Opitz single. Opitz had two of the Jays five hits.
South Bend 5 Lansing 8
David Harris had a game, he drove in the first four runs for the Lugnuts. Harris was 2-4. DJ Davis had a nice game too, he was 2-3 with 2 walks and 2 RBI's. Dan Klein had three hits with a home run, and Matt Dean had two hits. Those four hitters were the only ones with a hit.
Starlyn Suriel went five innings giving up two runs on three hits. A parade of relievers brought it home while conceding three more runs.
Boise 10 Vancouver 3
It has been a tough year for Zak Wasilewski and Friday might have been the toughest. Zak pitched into the second inning, walked five, gave up three hits and five runs. The three subsequent pitchers all allowed runs.
The Canadians actually outhit Boise 12-11, although Boise led in walks 7-1. Franklin Barreto had three at-bats, walking once, before getting a half game off. Richard Urena went 1-5. Gunnar Heidt had a solo home run.
Kingsport 4 Bluefield 8 - game 1
This game was called after five innings. A seven run first put the game into cruise control for the Jays. The Jays had 7 hits in the first inning with three of them doubles. Aaron Attaway and Lane Thomas each had two hits, one of them a double.
Evan Smith didn't make it out of the fifth and didn't get the win. He gave up a run in the first and a three run home run in the third. Joey Aquino got the win.
Kingsport at Bluefield - game 2
Game 2 was called due to rain and will be played on Saturday.
GCL Phillies 8 GCL Blue Jays 3
Unfortunately this was a typical GCL Jays game of the last month. All four pitchers were scored upon including Turner Lee who started and took the loss. The hitters only managed four hits, all singles. The first two hitters of the game for the Jays singled and after that it was two hits the rest of the way.
The Jays record is 17-36 with six games left in the season.
3 Stars
3rd star: Matt Boyd
2nd star: David Harris
1st star: George Kottaras
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