Both Las Vegas and New Hampshire had bat-around innings, both teams scored in double figures, both teams won. Dunedin rode good pitching from Chuck Huggins and a strong game by Yan Gomes to win. Lansing had to come from behind to get a walk off win, Sean Ochinko and Kevin Nolan led the way with the bats. Auburn lost another tough game. The GCL Jays won thanks to Canadians Nick Purdy and Michael Crouse.
Reno were outhit 17-12 and Las Vegas made 3 errors but the 51's still won. Sean Henn pitched five plus innings, gave up 13 hits, and didn't get the loss. Las Vegas used a nine run seventh inning to reverse a 6-2 deficit. JP Arencibia hit his 30th home run. Aaron Mathews had 3 hits, Danny Perales, Jason Lane and Mike McCoy had two each.
Rey Gonzalez, in his first start since being taken off the Jays 40 man roster, gave up two runs in seven innings. It wasn't as good as it sounds, he did allow 11 hits. Alan Farina, just off the DL, was a bit wild, three walks and a run in one inning.
Offensively Shawn Bowman hit a two run home run in the second and the Fisher Cats scored five in the fourth to make it 7-0. Ten hitters came to the plate in that inning, five singled and two walked. New Hampshire were outhit 14-13 despite the score, Bowman's HR was the only extra-base hit.
David Cooper was 3-4; Mastroianni, Hechavarria and Thames had two hits each.
Chuck Huggins went five and two thirds, he only surrendered two hits, one of them a home run.
Yan Gomes was involved in a lot of the scoring. He hit a solo home run in the third. He doubled in Welinton Ramirez in the fifth. and he singled and scored on a wild pitch in the seventh. Gomes and Mike McDade were each 3-3. McDade, unlike Gomes, didn't score or drive in a run.
Lansing scored in the seventh to tie and in the ninth for the walk-off win. In the seventh Sean Ochinko singled in Justin Jackson who had also singled. In the ninth Kevin Nolan and Ochinko led off with singles, moved up on a ground out, and Nolan scored the winning run when AJ Jimenez singled.
Ryan Shopshire started and gave up all five runs. Nestor Molina pitched three innings of hitless relief to get the win.
Ochinko had four hits; Nolan had three; Brad Glenn and Balbino Fuenmayor had two each.
Auburn 7 Batavia 8 - 10 innings
Another tough loss for Auburn. The Doubledays scored five runs in the first inning but Batavia fought back and tied the game in the eighth. Auburn scored a run in the top of the tenth but Batavia scored two in the tenth, the winning run coming on a wild pitch.
Auburn's tenth inning run came when Marcus Knecht doubled and scored on an error. Auburn's five run first came from two singles, two walks and two errors. In the fifth Knecht tripled and scored run number six on a ground ball. Knecht and Gustavo Pierre had two hits each.
Another nice start by Nick Purdy, he gave up one run in 5.1 innings. Purdy's ERA is down to 3.67, he has a WHIP around 1 and is striking out just over one hitter per inning. Purdy was followed by Drew Elliott, Bobby Bell and Matt Barnes who held the Tigers off the scoreboard.
The Jays first run came via the always exciting balk. The second run came on the slightly more exciting sac fly, Michael Crouse scored as part of his 3-4 day. Crouse has run his batting average up to .342. In the 8th KC Hobson reached on an error, moved up on singles by Crouse and Pierce Rankin, and scored on a Gari Pena single.
In addition to Crouse's three hits, Pena had two hits and Jake Marisnick went 1-4.
Three Stars
3rd Star: Michael Crouse
2nd Star: Sean Ochinko and Kevin Nolan
1st Star: Yan Gomes
