Saturday night on the farm, seven games, three losses and a triple play. Sorry about the late submission, but your humble correspondent attended the Dunedin game, stayed up late to catch the late Las Vegas game, then fell asleep and woke up just a bit ago.
Las Vegas 2 Salt Lake City 6 (game 1)
Five earned runs and 8 hits in just 4.1 innings of work resulted in the loss for starter Sean Henn (2-2) in the first game of a double header at Cashman Field. A throwing error by Jarrett Hoffpauir , his 11th of the season, resulted in an unearned run in the third inning.
The 51s manged 8 hits, but they were spread out, scoring only 2 runs in the 7 inning game. Hoffpauir had a three-hit game, all singles which did not produce any RBIs. The runs were produced on a Brian Dopirak double in the 3rd and a ground out by Manny Mayorson, scoring Dopirak in the 2nd. Adam Calderone and Brad Emaus belted doubles and Mayorson, and JP Arencibia added singles.
Las Vegas 8 Salt Lake City 7 (game 2)
The result was better in the “nightcap” or should we say really late nightcap of the double header in Las Vegas. Buzzy Buzachero (1-0), recently promoted from New Hampshire, faced only four hitters and tossed 12 pitches to get the win. Starter Lance Broadway was peppered with 9 hits and 5 earned runs in his starting role which lasted 4 innings. Jeremy Accardo came on for his 14th save , allowing 1 earned run in the Salt Lake 7th. Brian Dopirak committed his 4th error on the year and Broadway added his first, a throwing error.
The 51s came to the plate and got 9 hits, but fortunately, the team effort produced 8 runs, 7 attributable to the long ball . Jarrett Hoffpauir and JP Arencibia had multiple hits including Hoffpauir’s 2 out 2 run HR blast in the 2nd and Arencibia’s 24th and 25th HR, solos in the 1st and 2nd innings . Dopirak hit his 11th round tripper in the 1st and Brad Emaus added his 4th, a solo round tripper in the 3rd inning. Adam Calderone and Mike McCoy each had a double and Brett Wallace slammed an RBI triple to round out the 51s scoring effort.
Vince Bongiovani (5-3) faced only 12 batters, but gave up 3 hits and 4 runs to get tagged with the loss. Starter Zach Stewart threw 6 innings of 7 hit 1 run ball, before Binghampton put up 4 runs in the 7th inning. A bright spot was the Fisher Cat triple play in the 6th inning, only the second in franchise history. The TP was started by SS Adeiny Hechavaria who gloved a line drive and tossed to 2nd baseman Jonathan Diaz who applied a tag on a runner and threw to 1st baseman David Cooper who tagged out his runner.
The Fisher Cats could only muster a single run on 8 hits for the evening. The sole RBI came on a wild pitch scoring BC native Adam Loewem who had reached base on a walk. Adam had two hits on the night, including a double. A-Hech had two hits, including a double too. Cooper added two singles as well. Daren Mastroianni and pride of BC Shawn Bowman each came up with a single to round out the NH lackluster offensive effort.
After a rough start (4.2 IP, 7 hits, 4 runs) by Chad Beck, Daniel DeLucia (3-1) got the win after facing just 8 batters. Closer Matt Daly faced just three batters in the Lakeland 9th, shut them down and got the save.
Dunedin one the slugfest at Dunedin Stadium by outhitting the Flying Tigers 14 to 11. Everyone on the Blue Jays was a hitter. Mike McDade was one triple short of hitting the cycle, slamming three hits, including a solo home run for an RBI. John Talley thrilled his mother who was sitting in the stands with a three hit game, including a double. Brian Van Kirk had two hits, two RBIs and a solo dinger. Recently promoted 3B Mark Sobolewski batted a double. Tyler Pastornicky, Brad McElroy, John Tollisano, and Wellinton Ramirez all hit singles.
The Lugnuts were slammed with12 Bowling Green hits, including 7 hits and 7 runs given up by starter Dave Sever (2-6) who was charged with the loss. Ryan Schimpf committed a throwing error in the Bowling Green 2 run 1st inning.
RF Brad Glenn led Lansing at the plate with a double and a 2 run dinger, batting in three on the evening. Sean Ochinko doubled with one RBI. Kenny Wilson, Chris Hopkins, Ryan Goins, and Kevin Nolan all added singles in the loosing Lansing effort.
Auburn prevailed with starter Andrew Hutchison (1-1) allowing just 5 hits and 3 runs in a game where Auburn’s bats bested Hudson Valley in a slugfest. Zach Anderson came on in the 9th for the save.
Seven of the 10 Auburn runs came as RBIs by Yeico Aponte(4RBIs) and Marcus Knecht(3RBIs) and a total of 6 hits from the pair. Aponte had three singles and Knecht hit a solo HR, a single, and a triple. Carlos Perez added a single and an RBI. Joseph Bowen, Lance Durham and Jonathan Fernandez added singles.
The babiest of Blue Jays spaced out 5 Yankee hits highlighted by 5 innings with 1 hit and 1 run and a win by Nicholas Purdy (1-1). Purdy struck out 5 and closer Bryan Longpre turned in two innings with no runs, no hits an two strike outs. Rounding out the 11 strike out performance by the Blue Jays pitching crew was Daniel Barnes with 2K’s in a run free effort in 2 innings pitched. Defensively, the Blue Jays GCL duo of center fielder Jacob Marisnick and first baseman K.C. Hobson turned a liner to the outfield into a double play.
K.C. Hobson, Bryson Namba, and Garett Maines turned in 2 hit games, with Maines and Melvin Garcia adding 2B hits. Carlos Ramierez, Jacob Marisnick, and Melvin Garcia each managed singles. Namba and Garcia each had an RBI.
Three Stars
3rd Star- Brad Glenn (2B, HR, 2RBIs)
2nd Star- Jarrett Hoffpauir (5 hits, HR, 2RBIs)
1st Star- JP Arencibia (2HR, 3RBI’s)
