Scott Diamond pitched eight strong shutout innings and left just two runners on base. A couple of home runs helped the Bisons to a 4-0 win. Frank (Francisco) Rios struggled through two innings but then settled down to lead the Dunedin Jays to a win. Tayler (hot sauce) Saucedo pitched seven shutout innings as Lansing won 6-0. New Hampshire were the only losers despite another home run from Rowdy Tellez.
Columbus 0 Buffalo 4
Scott Diamond weaved his magic over the Clippers in a school day game on Wednesday. Diamond went eight innings and allowed five hits and no walks. The defense helped out turning four double plays. Diamond had only two strikeouts but he generated eleven ground ball outs. Ben Rowen handled a 1-2-3 ninth.
Ross Detwiler was pitching well for Columbus until Jesus Montero took him deep for a solo shot in the fourth. Andy Burns led off the sixth with a double, Matt Dominguez added an RBI single. The score remained 2-0 until the bottom of the eighth when David Adams walked and Tony Sanchez clubbed a two run home run. Darrell Ceciliani had two hits from the lead off position. Dominguez had a couple as well. Dalton Pompey continues to sit out after banging his knee at the weekend.
New Hampshire 3 Harrisburg 6
Heading into the bottom of the sixth inning the Fisher cats led 3-2 and Jeremy Gabryszwski looked to get through the sixth for a quality start. Gabby got the first out but then he hit a batter. Then he walked a batter and then a single back to him loaded the bases. Matt Dean made an error on the next hitter letting two runs in and a ground out to short made it a 5-3 game. Gabby was pulled, his quality start was gone, and he took the loss. Chris Smith gave up an unearned run to complete the scoring.
New Hampshire's first run came in the first inning thanks to two errors by the Senators. Rowdy Tellez hit a two run home run to give the Fisher Cats a brief lead. Hew Hampshire had just five hits.
Dunedin 6 Daytona 1
Francisco Rios had trouble getting settled on Wednesday. In the first inning he gave up a lead off double and three walks but thanks to a double play he escaped without giving up a run. In the second inning he did give up a run on three more hits and a walk. So through two inning Rios had allowed four hits and four walks. But then something clicked, over the next four innings Rios faced the minimum umber of hitters (one hit, one DP). In the end it was a good start. Adonys Cardona pitched a shutout seventh. Colton Turner fought his way through the eighth and Brad Allen struck out the side in the ninth.
Dunedin bunched some hits from number eight through one in the order. Jorge Saez at eight was 2-4 with a home run, Dickie Thon was 3-3 with two doubles, a triple and a walk. Thon scored two and drove in two. Jonathon Davis, in the lead off position, had three hits. Jason Leblebijian also had two hits.
Lansing 6 Dayton 0
Lansing jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the top of the first and that was more than enough for Tayler Saucedo. In that first inning Gunnar Heidt led off with a double, Ryan Hissey walked and Max Pentecost singled in the first run. Juan Kelly doubled in both runners and he later scored on a DP ball. Kelly drove in the third run with a sac fly in the fifth. Lane Thomas hammered a solo home run in the eighth. The Lugnuts had ten hits, every starter had one with Carl Wise picking up two. Kelly had the three RBI.
The Lugnuts have excellent starting pitching and Saucedo is working hard to keep up with his fellow starters. Saucedo went seven innings with four K's and lowered his ERA to 4.38. Nate Abel, fresh from extended, pitched a clean eighth and Ryan Cook the ninth.
3 Stars
3rd star: Dickie Thon
2nd star: Tayler Saucedo
1st star: Scott Diamond
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