This hasn't been a good start to the season for the Jays minor league system. But one bright light has been Adam Kloffenstein. Kloff delivered another excellent start on Friday, six shutout innings with eight strikeouts. That was enough for a New Hampshire win. Nicolas Deschamps hit an eleventh inning, two run home run, to give Dunedin a win. Vancouver won a low scoring game, Trenton Wallace with five shutout innings. Buffalo were blown out.
Worcester 2 Buffalo 14
Harrisburg 0 New Hampshire 3
Vancouver 2 Hillsboro 1
Dunedin 7 Fort Myers 6 - 11 innings
Three Stars
Third Star - Trenton Wallace
Second Star - Nicolas Deschamps
First Star - Adam Kloffenstein
NOTES
Buffalo scored two in the top of the first inning and it was all downhill from there. It was as if there was something in the water. Drew Hutchison di pitch four innings but gave up nine hits and five walks. Julian Fernandez followed and the first three hitters went homer, triple, homer. Ouch. Matt Peacock came on for the sixth, the first two hitters went walk, homer. He went on to concede two more runs. Jackson Rees came off the IL to shut Worcester down in the seventh and, to save the bullpen, LJ Talley had a 1-2-3 eighth.
New Hampshire were outhit 8-3 but won 3-0. Will Robertson hit a two run home run. Zach Britton was 2-3 with a walk. Adam Kloffensten went six shutout innings. Also promising was that Adrian Hernandez went two shutout innings, one hit, three K's.
Jommer Hernandez hit his second home run, a solo shot, in the second inning. That would prove to be the winning run in a 2-1 Vancouver win. Trenton Wallace went five shutout innings with seven K's. He allowed three hits. TJ Brock struck out five in two relief innings.
Ryan Jennings struck out eight in 4.2 innings. But he walked four and gave up three hits, including a home run, all leading to four runs. Lazaro Estrada came on in the seventh and looked like he would pick up the win. Through 2.2 innings he hadn't conceded a hit. But a triple allowed a walk to score with the game tying run. It was still a good appearance for Estrada, three innings, one run, four K's.
The game went to extra innings, and to the eleventh where Quebec's Nicolas Deschamps hit a two run home run. It was his second hit of the night.
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