Three wins for the affiliates and all of them in extra innings. Auburn won in 10 innings even though they had only four hits, Syracuse won in 12 innings and Lansing were outhit 20-16 but won in 13 innings.
Dunedin's season finished yesterday, for good. Syracuse, Dunedin and the GCL Jays are out of the playoffs. Lansing and Auburn are in the playoffs. New Hampshire are tied with Portland for the last playoff spot in the Eastern league. Both teams are at 70-71, uninspiring records, and both are on losing streaks, Portland's is at four games, New Hampshire's at two games. On Monday, in the final game of the regular season Ricky Romero will face Tyler Clippard of Trenton to see if he can pitch New Hampshire into the playoffs.
Syracuse 8 Ottawa 6 - 12 innings
Ottawa led 6-2 heading to the ninth inning. After Kevin Barker struck out, John Hattig doubled, Mike Vento singled, David Corrente doubled in a run, Al Quintana singled in a run, wayne Lydon had an RBI groundout, to make it a run run game with two outs. Ryan Roberts then doubled scoring Lydon from first base to tie. Ottawa had the winning run on third with two outs in both the ninth and tenth innings but couldn't score. In the twelth singles by Griffin and Mottola, with an error, put runners on second and third with one out. John Hattig singled in both runs. Lee Gronkiewicz pitched two shutout innings for the win. Michael MacDonald started and gave up four runs on seven hits in six innings. Al Quintana led the hitters with three hits. Roberts, Griffin, Mottola and Hattig had two hits each.
Once again the hitters came up short as New Hampshire push for the playoffs. the Fisher Cats had only five hits, two from Ryan Patterson. The New Hampshire hitters also struck out 16 times. Kurt Isenberg started and allowed four runs in 5.2 innings.
The first meaningless game for the Jays this season, and the last game of the season. Five pitchers allowed the 17 runs on 21 hits. The hitters did well, recording 13 hits, Jesus Gonzalez led the team with three.
West Michigan 11 Lansing 12 - 13 innings
Both of these teams are heading for the playoffs. Lansing had a 9-6 lead after six innings but West Michigan scored three times in the eighth. Michigan then scored a pair in the eleventh but Kevin Nelson hit a two run homerun in the bottom of the inning. It was Nelson's second home run of the game and he finished with six RBI's. Brian Pettway hit a walk-off home run to lead off the thirteenth inning. West Michigan outhit Lansing 20-16. Nelson, Wesley Stone and Matt Lane had three hits each.
Jamestown 1 Auburn 2 - 10 innings
Auburn were hitless through five innings. Steve Condotta and CJ Ebarb singled to lead off the sixth but it took a pair of two out walks to score a run. Jamestown had scored a run in the fourth, here is the gameday description "Bryan Petersen strikes out swinging. Bryan Petersen scores. Missed catch error by first baseman Manuel O. Rodriguez". It looks like the ball was thrown down the line and Peterson had the wheels to score all the way on the strikeout. Mark Rzepczynski started and pitched four innings giving up one hit and the unearned run. Auburn won in the tenth when CJ Ebarb walked, was bunted to second and scored on a single by Baron Frost. Manager Dennis Holmberg used 14 hitters and between them they recorded 4 hits.
3 star selection
3rd star - Brian Pettway
2nd star - John Hattig
1st star - Kevin Nelson
Team Records
Syracuse 63-80, 5th place, 20.5 games behind
New Hampshire 70-71, tied in 2nd place, 12 games behind
Dunedin 41-29, 3rd place, 3 games behind, finished the season with five straight losses
Lansing 42-27, 2nd place, 3 games behind
Auburn 45-26, 1st place, 7 games ahead
Gulf Coast Jays 36-24, 2nd place, 6.5 games behind
