Spencer Horwitz could be in line for player of the week. He picked up four hits on Saturday but it wasn't enough as the bullpen blew the lead in the ninth. New Hampshire came out on the other end of that by scoring four in the ninth to take the win. Vancouver scored four runs in the first inning and that was enough for their win. Dunedin won a 1-0 contest.
Buffalo 7 Syracuse 8
New Hampshire 6 Portland 7 - completion of Fridays game
New Hampshire 6 Portland 4
Vancouver 4 Spokane 2
Lakeland 0 Dunedin 1
FCL Blue Jays 6 FCL Tigers 7
Three Stars
Third Star - Glenn Santiago
Second Star - Cade Doughty
First Star - Spencer Horwitz
NOTES
Spencer Horwitz was 4-5 with five RBI. His hits included his seventh home run and two doubles. He has 13 hits in the five games played this week. And he had three hits last Sunday. Sixteen hits in a week is amazing. Horwitz wasn't the only hitter with a big game, Ernie Clement had three hits, Nathan Lukes and Orelvis Martinez had two each.
Buffalo took a three run lead to the bottom of the ninth. Junior Fernandez gave up four runs to take the loss including a two run walk off home run by Ronnie Mauricio.
The suspended NH game from Friday didn't take long to finish. Mason Fluharty came in to pitch the bottom of the ninth and was taken deep for a walk off on his second pitch. NH looked like they were going to lose both games as they were trailing 4-2 headed to the ninth. With a run in and Steward Berroa on third, Portland elected to walk Alan Roden to set up the double play. But Roden stole second and then both runners scored on a Trevor Schwecke single. Schwecke, Roden and Leo Jimenez had two hits each. Jimenez hit his seventh home run.
Cade Doughty hit a three run home run in the first inning and that was enough for Michael Dominguez. Dominguez went five innings with eight K's and just one hit allowed. Doughty and Alex De Jesus each had two hits.
Chad Green started for Dunedin, and went one inning. Pat Gallagher threw four innings after Green. He had eight K's, 13 swings and misses, nine on his change up.
This was a low offense contest, eight hits between the teams. A Glenn Santiago home run was the difference. Joey Murray went the last two innings for the save.
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