Its your abbreviated holiday weekend minor league update. Dwight Smith Jr has been red hot in May. Hos OPS has gone from .391 in April to 1.010 in May. Tayler Saucedo and Wade LeBlanc pitched well and picked up the second and third stars.
Pawtucket 1 Buffalo 2
Buffalo had three of their seven hits in the bottom of the ninth for a walk off win. The winning hit was a single by Casey Kotchman. Wade LeBlanc pitched seven strong innings, the only run was unearned. Aaron Loup pitched an inning as did Ryan Tepera.
The Bisons lost on Saturday, Scott Diamond gave up five runs. Jesus Montero homered and Andy Burns had two hits.
Buffalo also had a walk off win on Friday, this time Jio Mier delivered the walk off hit. Junior Lake had three hits. Drew Hutchison pitched a two hitter over seven innings. Bo Schulz got roughed up for four runs.
Hartford 7 New Hampshire 13
Sixteen hits for the good guys. Dwight Smith had three with two home runs. His bat is red hot in May. Ian Parmley and Jon Berti also had three hits. Jeremy Gabryszwski was hit around a bit.
The Fisher Cats lost on Saturday. Dwight Smith had two more hits. Jorge Flores had two doubles.
Hartford won in ten innings on Friday. Daniel Schlereth was the loser. Rowdy Tellez had three hits including a home run.
Dunedin 2 Bradenton 8
Francisco Rios started this game and with 8 allowed, that gets an uh-oh. But Rios was OK although he did take the loss. He gave up three runs over seven innings with seven K's. Rios's "problem" was nine hits in his seven innings. Six of the hits were ground balls and one a bunt so Rios may have been a BABIP victim. Brad Allen took the loss. Richard Urena hit a home run.
Dunedin won on Saturday behind six shutout innings from new starter Chris Rowley. Adonys Cardona gave up a run. Anthony Alford had three hits, Dickie Thon homered.
On Friday the Jays lost via a walk off wild pitch, thrown by Carlos Ramirez. Conner Greene had started, went five and gave up a run. He did walk four. Ryan McBroom hit a home run.
Lansing 4 Great Lakes 3 - 10 innings
A Max Pentecost sac fly in the tenth won the game for the Lugnuts. Juan Kelly and Gunnar Heidt had two hits. Tayler Saucedo pitched six innings of one hit ball. An error and two unearned runs let Great Lakes back in the game.
Lansing lost on Saturday. Sean Reid Foley had a tough start, five runs, six hits and four walks in 4.2 innings. Starlyn Suriel followed and pitched 3.1 shutout innings. Two hits for Andrew Guillotte, Max Pentecost and Gunnar Heidt.
Lansing played a double header on Friday. Ryan Borucki took the loss in game one although three of his six runs allowed were unearned. Josh Almonte homered. In the nightcap Patrick Murphy made his first start in years. He went three innings and just gave up an unearned run. Juan Kelly had three RBI on two hits, including a triple.
3 Stars
3rd star: Wade LeBlanc
2nd star: Tayler Saucedo
1st star: Dwight Smith
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