The affiliates went 4-1 yesterday evening with only Auburn’s one-run loss to Williamsport spoiling the night. There was impressive pitching by Blue Jays farmhands in both Triple-A and the Gulf Coast League, while Lansing had one of its best offensive nights of the year, despite a lack of production from its most feared hitter.

Charlotte 2 @ Syracuse 5 - Boxscore

Every Chiefs starter had a hit last night but John Ford-Griffin and Jeff Duncan, while the latter pitched in with a walk. Chad Mottola hit his ninth homer of the year off Charlotte’s starter Charlie Haeger. Haeger pitched well at times, despite all five runs scoring when he was on the mound. He registered 10 strikeouts and Mottola’s home run was the only earned run scored off Haeger. The other runs were scored with walks and the help of five Charlotte errors, including three by 3B Paul Snyder

New Britain 4 @ New Hampshire 9 - Boxscore

Every Fisher Cat had a hit and every Fisher Cat but one scored a run. Robinzon Diaz, Chip Cannon and Dustin Majewski all had two hits, while the rest of the lineup had one. Majewski had two doubles while Cannon hit his thirteenth homer of the year, which was the game’s only long ball. Cannon and Rob Cosby both had 3 RBIs and Diaz had 2. Hot-hitting Aaron Mathews only went 1-5

Dayton @ Dunedin

Postponed.

Lansing 15 @ Great Lakes 7 - Boxscore

Heading into the bottom of nine it was 15-1 Lansing. Zach Dials was in line for the win with 5 strong innings. He gave up four hits, a walk and one run and struck out five. Benjamin Harrison had completed three innings of shut out relief and Ted Serro was in to finish off the game. Unfortunately, this was an outing to forget for Serro. Two walks were followed by three singles and then a Thomas Giles triple cleared the bases to make it 15-6. Serro departed without recording an out and Julio Pinto retired the next three Great Lakes batters.

I don’t think we’ll get to say this very often, but on a night when his team scored 15 runs Travis Snider was held hitless. He walked and scored a run, but was 0-5 on the night and was retired by a position player subbing in a pitcher. Yuber Rodriguez also struggled with an 0-4 line that included three strikeouts. He also walked and scored. Raul Barron was 0-4 with a walk, as well. The Lugnuts only had four extra-base hits on the night. One was a homer by Matt Liuzza, who went 3-4 with 3 runs, 2 RBIs and a walk. Evidently, Liuzza wants Bauxites to reconsider their midseason hitter prospect poll votes. First baseman Kevin Nelson had three hits, including a double, and added three runs and three RBIs. The Jonathans (Jaspe and Diaz) each had two hits, two RBIs and a walk, although Diaz did it in one less at-bat.

Auburn 5 @ Williamsport 6 - Boxscore

The cluster of runs in the fourth and the inability to hit outside that inning means that Auburn’s stat line is mostly full of players with 1-4 afternoons. This comes although only two Auburn players recorded a hit during that inning and most of the offence was helped by two walks and three hit by pitches. Adam Calderone is the only Doubleday to reach base twice (on a hit and a walk) and was the second most notable offensive player on the team behind Arencibia. Every pitcher for the Doubledays was thoroughly mediocre,  including starter Kyle Walter who gave up 3 in 4.2 innings on two hits and four walks.

GCL Blue Jays 3 @ GCL Tigers 2 - Boxscore

Brian Letko started for the GCL Blue Jays in his third appearance and second start for the team. He got the win with five strong innings of two-hit ball. He didn’t allow a walk and struck out five. Letko has now pitched 10.2 innings of shutout baseball, although two unearned runs have scored. He has not walked a batter yet and has nine strikeouts. Nathan Melek came on in relief and gave up two runs, one earned, before John Zinnicker finished the game and picked up a save.

3 star selection

3rd star – Kevin Nelson, 3-5, 3 R, 2B, 3 RBI, 4 TB

2nd star – Josh Banks, 8 IP, 7 H, 2 ER, 0 BB, 9 K

1st star – Matt Liuzza, 3-4, 3 R, HR, 3 RBI, BB, 6 TB