The Sunday slate featured two wins and four losses, including two extra inning losses. New Hampshire tallied one win behind good pitching by Austin Bibens-Dirkx. Dunedin also won behind Jeff Hoffman who had his best professional start. Daniel Norris had a bad day as the Bisons were dominated. Vancouver also suffered a resounding loss. Lansing and Bluefield took the extra innings losses. Ryan McBroom was 6-6 in a losing cause and the Bluefield loss wasted a good start from Juliandry Higuera.
Scranton 8 Buffalo 1
It was Daniel Norris day in Buffalo, coming off his best start in a while. The first couple of innings were routine, and then Norris was unlucky to give up a couple of infield hits to start the third inning. Norris got two outs without damage but then Yankee prospect Greg Bird took him deep for a three run shot. Norris worked around a lead off double in the fourth but he was not so lucky with a lead off double in the fifth. Scranton scored two runs off Norris with three singles and then a third run scored when Chad Jenkins came into the game. Norris line was 4.2 9 6 6 2 1. Among the relievers was Blake McFarland who pitched a clean inning. McFarland has pitched in six games for the Bisons, he gave up two runs in the first, one run in the second, and now has four straight appearnces with only one hit off him. He is looking like a late season call-up could be in his cards.
Another Yankee prospect, Luis Severino, dominated the hitters, Matt Hague had the only hit off him in five innings. Buffalo had two hits in the game. The Bisons only run came in the ninth off a sac fly by Ryan Schimpf.
New Hampshire 4 New Britain 1
This game was scoreless until the fifth, in that inning Shane Opitz, Jorge Flores and Dalton Pompey all singled to score one, then Jon Berti delivered a sac fly to make it 2-0. Matt Newman added a two run home run in the eighth. Opitz and Flores had two hits each, Pompey was 1-5 and is hitting .346.
Austin Bibens-Dirkx recovered from a tough start by shutting out New Britain through five innings. Jimmy Cordero pitched two perfect innings and Danny Barnes finished up but allowed a solo shot in the ninth to lose the shutout.
Jupiter 2 Dunedin 5
Anthony Alford walked to lead off the first inning for the Jays, he stole second, went to third on a groundout and scored on a wild pitch. Alford singled and stole a base in the third but was stranded at third. In the fourth inning Christian Lopes doubled and scored on a single by Andy Fermin to make it 2-0. The Jays doubled their lead in the sixth when Mitch Nay singled in Matt Dean and JD Davis. Lopes singled in the fifth run in the eighth inning.
Jeff Hoffman gave up two singles to start the game but escaped. The first two hitters of the second inning also singled but from that point Hoffman retired 15 in a row, with one double play in there. He surrendered a home runto the lead off hitter in the seventh to break his streak but followed that with two K's. His final line was 6.2 7 1 1 0 6. A promotion to AA could come soon.
Lansing 9 Dayton 10 - 13 innings
Lansing have played a lot of long games this year but this was a tough game to lose. The Lugnuts led by one in the ninth but a two out single tied the game. They took the lead in the eleventh but a two out error by Alex Maldonado tied the game. Ryan McBroom drove in two runs in the thirteenth but Phil Kish hit a batter, walked a batter, then gave up a triple and a single to take the loss. Chase Mallard had started and was charged with 5 runs in 6 innings.
Ryab McBroom had a day, six for six including two doubles and a home run. He also walked for 12 total bases, he drove in four and scored three. DJ Davis and Dawel Lugo also had a couple of hits each.
Salem-Keizer 10 Vancouver 5
It's a tough year for Vancouver, they have an 8-17 record. Starter Jon Wandling, and relievers Stuart Holmes and Daniel Young all gave up multiple runs. Earl Burl III and James Lynch each had two hits. There was not a lot of good in this game.
Princeton 2 Bluefield 1 - 11 innings
The Jays had just two hits, one of them was a pinch hit home run from DJ McKnight to tie the game in the ninth inning.
Juliandry Higuera started and went 5.2 shutout innings. He did allow six hits and had just two K's. Higuera is a 20 year old from Venezuela and his ERA is now 0.44. Both runs for Princeton were unearned, Zach Rodgers took the loss.
3 Stars
3rd star: Christian Lopes
2nd star: Jeff Hoffman
1st star: Ryan McBroom
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