After a no win Saturday it was headed to be a repeat, a no win Sunday. The only hope for a win was Vancouver but they trailed 6-5 with two outs in the bottom of the ninth. Cue Brennan Orf who delivered a two run double to turn a 4 loss into a one win Sunday. We treasure these small wins these days.
Scranton 4 Buffalo 0
New Hampshire 0 Harrisburg 3
Spokane 6 Vancouver 7
Dunedin 5 Lakeland 7
Three Stars
Third Star - Dasan Brown
Second Star - Robert Brooks
First Star - Brennan Orf
NOTES
Buffalo just haven't been hitting since the all-star break. Of course it doesn't help when your better hitters are all in Toronto. They had five hits on Sunday, all singles. Riley Tirotta had two of them. Alan Roden still hasn't been able to figure out AAA. He did have a hit on Sunday but he is hitting .179 so far.
Chad Dallas gave up three runs in five innings. He struck out three. Eric Pardinho went two shutout innings. Since his call-up to AAA he has been hit and miss. Twice he allowed four runs. But today makes it 4.2 innings since he gave up a run with just two hits and three walks in that span.
New Hampshire are another team that are not hitting, although their eight hits were the same as Harrisburg. Gabriel Martinez had two hits while Josh Kasevich had the only extra base hit, a double.
Lazaro Estrada was the hard luck loser. He went five innings with just one earned run (and one unearned) on his record. He struck out four.
Carson Pierce started for Vancouver and he did well. In four innings he was charged with one run on three hits.
Vancouver didn't have a hit until the sixth inning. After Dasan Brown has hit by a pitch, Jace Bohrofen walked. Peyton Williams had the first hit a single to score a run. Nick Goodwin followed with a double to make it 2-1 and a sac fly made it 3-1. That left Robert Brooks to hit a two run home run to make it 5-1. From no hits to five runs in the space of a half inning. That lead held until the eighth inning when Spokane racked up five runs to give themselves a 6-5 lead. On to the bottom of the ninth.
Dasan Brown walked to start the inning but two outs followed. Nick Goodwin walked to put two on. Brennan Orf doubled to score both runners and give the C's a walk off win. The C's were outhit 9-6 but that didn't matter.
The D Jays were out hit 13-7. There was no unlucky pitcher here, Gage Stanifer didn't get out of the second inning having conceded six runs.
Luis De Los Santos, on rehab, and Arjun Nimmala homered. Victor Arias was 2-3.
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