Two wins in five games for the affiliates. New Hampshire stayed hot behind Randy Boone, with homers from Brian Jeroloman and Adam Calderone. Dunedin had three hits from Adeiny Hechavarria, and a home run from Mike McDade, as they came from behind to win. Las Vegas had twenty hits and lost, as Rey Gonzalez was bombed. Brian Dopirak hit two home runs. Lansing lost both ends of a doubleheader in two very similar games.
Yours truly was in Lansing for the doubleheader and lugnut fan, Chad Hillman, stopped by to say hello, as we exchanged notes about the players. I talked with manager Sal Fasano, look for that on the site next week.
Las Vegas had 20 hits, and lost. Albuquerque had 16 hits, 13 of them off starter Reidier Gonzalez. Gonzalez gave up ten runs in 5.1 innings and his ERA is up to 8.81. Jesse Carlson gave up the eleventh run, it was unearned because Jarrett Hoffpauir made his eighth error.
Hoffpauir, Luis Figueroa, Brian Dopirak and Aaron Mathews had three hits each. Two of Dopirak's three hits were home runs. Mathews and Jorge Padilla also homered.
New Hampshire got on the scoreboard in the first. Callix Crabbe walked and scored on a double by Shawn Bowman. Randy Boone was on the bump for the Fisher Cats and he gave up four straight two out singles in the second inning and Bowie had a 2-1 lead.
In the fourth inning Brian Jeroloman hit a two run home run to put New Hampshire back in front. In that same inning Darin Mastroianni walked and later scored on an error to make it a 2 run lead. In the sixth Adam Calderone hit a two run home run to make it 6-2.
Boone went seven innings, gave up seven hits and had no walks. Four of his seven hits were in that second inning. Trystan Magnuson pitched two shutout innings and encouragingly he had three K's.
Andrew Liebel put the first three hitters he faced on base, and they all scored. Liebel settled down after that and pitched six innings. Russ Buckwalter, Boomer Potts and Alan Farina pitched three shutout innings of relief between them. Farina's last ten appearances now show 11 IP; 3 hits; 1 walk and 16 strikeouts.
Sean Shoffit scored Dunedin's first two runs, the first one on a home run and the second when he walked and scored on an error. Dunedin scored four in the fifth to take the lead. In that inning Wellinton Ramirez walked, Adeiny Hechavarria singled, Tyler Pastornicky doubled and Mike McDade hit a two run home run. Ramirez and Hechavarria doubled back to back in the ninth to score the final run.
Hechavarria had three hits in the game and his average is back up to .289.
Great Lakes 2 Lansing 0 - game 1
Ryan Shopshire struggled with his control early and gave up a run in each of the first two innings. Then Shopshire settled down, his control improved and he set down 12 out of 13 at one point. He had to fight out of trouble in the last two innings but he held Great Lakes to two runs as he threw a complete game, of the 7 inning variety. The Lugnuts could only get four hits and only Ryan Schimpf's triple was hit hard. Lansing couldn't figure out the pitcher who threw from different arm angles and had them off balance all night.
Great Lakes 2 Lansing 0 - game 2
Game two was a lot like game one, Great Lakes scored early and Lansing had only four hits. Because of the doubleheader Nestor Molina came out of the bullpen to start and he gave up both runs in the first inning thanks to three hits. After that Molina pitched to contact and he gave up some hits but stayed out of trouble.
Lansing had only one hit through four innings but in the fifth a Bradley Glenn double and two walks loaded the bases with no-one out but Great Lakes escaped without damage. The Lugnuts had a man on, and the tying run at the plate, in both the sixth and seventh but they were unable to score against the heat (96 mph) of the Loons Rubby De La Rosa.
Brad Glenn had two hits for the Lugnuts.
Three Stars
3rd star - Brian Dopirak
2nd star - Mike McDade
1st star - Adeiny Hechavarria
