Kyle Drabek folowed up his no-hitter with six shutout innings as New Hampshire won easily. JP Arencibia hit his 23rd home run as Vegas held on for a narrow win. Egan Smith pitched six shutout innings as Lansing shut out Great Lakes.
Dunedin and Auburn both lost in extra innings. The GCL Jays were well beaten although Jake Marisnick had three hits.
Rommie Lewis started and gave up three runs in five innings and left the game trailing 3-1. But the 51's took the lead in the bottom of the fifth with three runs, two of them coming on JP Arencibia's 23rd home run. Josh Roenicke replaced Lewis and he had a bad day, he was hit around for six hits and four runs in 1.1 innings. Roenicke left the game in the seventh with one out and with the bases loaded and Vegas hanging on to a one run lead. Jesse Carlson struck out the first hitter and retired the second on a fly ball to preserve the lead. Carlson also pitched the eighth with just one hit allowed.
Las Vegas took the lead with four runs in the sixth, Jarrett Hoffpauir had a two run triple and Brett Wallace and Brian Dopirak RBI singles. Manny Mayorson doubled and scored an insurance run in the seventh which was critical because Jeremy Accardo had to dodge trouble in the ninth. An error and two singles put Salt Lake down by one with the tying run on second and no outs. But Accardo induced a soft fly ball and a double play to get the save.
Mike McCoy, Brett Wallace and Manny Mayorson had two hits each.
Kyle Drabek lost the back-to-back no hitter bid in the first inning. Drabek did allow a double in each of the first three innings before a 1-2-3 fourth. Drabek pitched six shutout innings, five hits and one walk conceded, 5 K's. Adrian Martin replaced Drabek and promptly gave up two runs. Trystan Magnuson pitched the ninth in his final warm-up for Sunday's futures game.
The Fisher Cats scored two runs in the first, Darin Mastroianni singled and Jon Diaz walked. Mastroianni scored on an error by the catcher and Diaz scored when Shawn Bowman singled.
New Hampshire rang up seven runs in the sixth, Brian Jeroloman hit a two run home run and Bowman added a three run shot. Eric Thames tripled and scored in the eighth.
Five Cats had two hits, Mastroianni, Bowman, Cooper, Jeroloman and Sanchez. Adeiny Hechavarria did not play and is day to day with a minor injury. Travis Snider was 0-4 with a sac fly.
Dunedin 6 Brevard County 7 - 12 innings
Chad Jenkins quickly gave up three runs in the first inning and another run in the second but Jenkins managed to avoid further damage through five innings.
Dunedin fought back to tie the game. In the first inning Tyler Pastornicky singled and Travis d'Arnaud doubled him in. In the fourth inning Dunedin scored their second run when Welinton Ramirez, Brad McElroy and Justin McClanahan all singled. Dunedin tied it with two in the fifth, John Tolisano and d'Arnaud singled, moved up on a ground out and scored when Mark Sobolewski singled.
Brevard scored two in the seventh to break the tie but McClanahan hit a two run home run in the eighth to tie the game.
No-one could break the deadlock until the twelfth when Brevard scored off Evan Crawford.
Dunedin ended with thirteen hits. McElroy had three, d'Arnaud, Sobolewski, Ramirez and McClanahan had two each.
Lansing jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first when AJ Jimenez, just off the DL, singled in two runs. Sean Ochinko singled in Chris Hopkins in the fourth to make it 3-0. Lansing sealed it with three more runs in the ninth, Ochinko singled and scored on a wild pitch. Kenny Wilson singled in the last two runs.
Egan Smith started and pitched six innings, Nestor Molina pitched three perfect innings for the save.
Hopkins and Ochinko had two hits each.
Auburn 3 Hudson Valley 4 - 11 innings
Auburn got some good starting pitching, but again were let down by their bullpen. Jesse Hernandez, an undrafted free agent making his first start of the year, pitched five shutout, hitless, innings. Two relievers preserved the lead but closer Drew Permison was tagged for two runs in the bottom of the ninth. Zach Outman came on to pitch the eleventh. he struckout two hitters, gave up a single, then walked three straight hitters, ouch.
Auburn had only four hits in total, Lance Durham homered in the second inning. In the fifth Auburn made it 2-0 without a hit. Gustavo Pierre was hit by a pitch, stole second and later scored on a wild pitch. In the sixth Matt Johnson hit his fist home run of the year.
The most notable player on Hudson Valley was Burt Reynolds, an outfielder from the Dominican Republic. I doubt he is related to his more famous namesake.
This game was tied at two until Sean Shoffit came into the game to start the seventh. Shoffit got two outs while allowing a couple of singles and hitting a batter. Once he walked in a run he was pulled in favour of Drew Elliott. Elliott gave up a grand slam to Yankee prospect Gary Sanchez. Jose Vargas started for the baby Jays and pitched well for his six innings, giving up two runs.
The Jays had seven hits, distributed among three players, which made it hard to score. Chris Hawkins, who had two hits, doubled in the third. Jake Marisnick, who had three hits, singled Hawkins home and Marisnick then scored on an error. Bryson Namba also had two hits.
Three Stars
3rd star - Shawn Bowman
2nd star - Evan Smith
1st star - Kyle Drabek
