None of the affiliates were able to rise from the dead on Sunday. None of them had a lead in their games and they combined for 20 hits over four games. There was little to get excited about.
Buffalo 1 Syracuse 2
Harrisburg 3 New Hampshire 0
Eugene 8 Vancouver 3
Lakeland 4 Dunedin 1
Three Stars
Third Star - Cutter Coffey
Second Star - Riley Tirotta
First Star - Yohendrick Pinango
NOTES
For starters I wanted to praise Paxton Schultz. Not for his performance yesterday but to praise his contributions to the organization over the last four years. Schultz was a starter below the AAA level but once he got to AAA he became a jack of all trades. Was your starter calle up or injured? Paxton will start? Was your starter knocked out early? Paxton will come in and pitch 3 or 4 innings. Need just an inning? Paxton will do it. Players like him are invaluable on a team and he did it better than most, so in my opinion it was a deserved promotion.
With Easton Lucas blowing up eyes turned to Buffalo and Jake Bloss made his best start of the season. It wasn't great but was decent and it was progress. On the positive side he struck out seven and walked none in 4.2 innings. On the negative side he needed 91 pitches and couldn't get through five innings and some of the hits he gave up were hit hard.
Davis Schneider was 0-3 with a walk and two K's. He is hitting .071. Riley Tirotta has never been a top prospect but he knows how to hit in AAA. He homered on Sunday, he hit 12 home runs in two thirds of a season in AAA last season with a better second half. This season he is hitting .333 with three home runs and OPS over 1,000. He is striking out a lot and he is not really a third baseman, but he could be a emergency call up later this season.
Yohendrick Pinango singled in his first at-bat to make it five hits in a row. He had a second single later in the game.
Fernando Perez had a bad day. He started the game by walking the bases loaded and also added two wild pitches. Then he gave up a single and hit the next batter. He was pulled then without recording an out, he threw 28 pitches, 14 strikes and 14 balls. He was charged with four runs. That was a hole the C's were unable to get out of.
Colby Holcombe started for Dunedin and went five innings. He was charged with two runs. He threw mainly two pitches, fastball and cutter and had just four whiffs.
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