Kyle Drabek has his best start of the season leading New Hampshire to the win. Brad Mills made one mistake and that was enough to lose 2-1. Lansing won in extra innings while Dunedin were easily beaten.
Brad Mills pitched well but made one mistake in the fourth inning. With a runner on A's prospect Chris Carter hit a two run home run. Mills went seven innings and allowed four hits and two walks with eight K's. Josh Roenicke pitched two perfect innings to finish up.
Las Vegas's only run came in the second inning. Chris Lubanski doubled in Jeremy Reed who had singled. The 51's outhit the Cats 7-4 but never had more than one baserunner in an inning after the third.
Jarrett Hoffpauir was the only Vegas hitter with two hits. Wallace had a double and a walk. Dopirak and Arencibia had o-fers.
Mills has now made four starts. He has a 2.19 ERA; he has allowed 26 baserunners in 24.2 innings; and he has 32 K's in those 24.2 innings.
Pitching was the name of the game for the Fisher Cats. Kyle Drabek had his best start of the season, he pitched 5.2 shutout innings, 2 hits, 3 walks and seven strikeouts. Three of those five baserunners came in his last inning. Through five innings Drabek had only allowed one hit and one walk. Adrian Martin pitched 1.1 shutout innings but Vincent Bongiovanni, in his first appearance of the season, gave up a run in the ninth.
Darin Mastroianni set the table in the first inning, he singled, moved up on a wild pitch and a ground out, and scored on a sac fly from Eric Thames.
In the sixth New Hampshire added three more, again Mastroianni started it with a walk. Callix Crabbe singled and David Cooper walked to load the bases. Thames singled in a run, a ground-out by Adam Calderone scored a second, and an error scored the third to make it a 4-0 game.
New Hampshire made it 5-0 in the eighth when Thames, Calderone and Loewen singled back to back to back.
The Fisher Cats had ten hits, Thames, Crabbe, Loewen and Brian Jeroloman had two hits each. Jeroloman is now hitting .372 with a 1052 OPS.
Andrew Liebel gave up three runs, two earned, over five innings. Ryan Page came on for his first relief appearance of the season and he was pounded for six runs, five earned, in three innings.
Dunedin had only three hits but managed to score twice. In the sixth Sean Shoffit walked and stole second, in the ninth Jon Del Campo doubled. Both scored on two ground outs. Tyler Pastornicky had the night off
Dayton 8 Lansing 9 - 10 innings
This game featured several lead changes and when Lansing scored three in the bottom of the eighth to lead 8-6 it looked like they were in line for a win in regulation. They took the lead in the eighth with a 2 rbi double by Oliver Dominguez and a sac fly from AJ Jimenez. In the ninth Brian Slover made an error to allow the first hitter to reach. A single, a sac fly and a triple tied the game. The next hitter grounded to third but the Lugnuts cut down the go-ahead run at the plate.
In the tenth Kenny Wilson singled with one out. Dominguez followed with a game winning rbi double.
Lansing had 18 hits, Dominguez had three hits including two doubles and three rbi's; Sean Ochinko had three hits with a double and a home run; Ryan Goins also had three hits. Jimenez and Ryan Schimpf had two hits each.
Evan Crawford made his first start of the season, he went 3.2 innings and was charged with four runs but only one earned. Matt Wright came off the DL to pitch 2.1 innings. Nestor Molina gave up two runs and Slover gave up two but got the win.
Three Stars
3rd star - Eric Thames
2nd star - Kyle Drabek
1st star - Oliver Dominguez
