Control was the story on Saturday. Aaron Sanchez didn't have much, Daniel Norris had a little more. Combined they pitched seven innings. Sean Nolin was excellent, Claudio Vargas was not. Dustin McGowan made his first AAA appearance of the season, Danny Barnes made his first appearance for Dunedin. Both went well.
Kevin Patterson had 6 RBI's for Lansing. Lansing won, as did New Hampshire. The other two teams did not do that well.
Charlotte 11 Buffalo 6
John Danks started against Claudio Vargas, Vargas gave up seven runs and he was followed by Bobby Korecky who gave up 3. Dustin McGowan pitched a clean inning as did Michael Schwimer.
The Bisons had just seven hits. Andy LaRoche had two, Anthony Gose had one. Moises Sierra and Jim Negrych had none.
New Hampshire 5 New Britain 0
Sean Nolin was pretty good, he went six shutout innings, throwing 97 pitches, 63 strikes. He gave up 4 hits and two walks with 5 K's. With all the movement in pitchers this week Scott Gracey was promoted to New Hampshire. He pitched two shutout innings.
Offensively John Tolisano hit a two run home run and had 3 RBI's. Kevin Pillar and Sean Ochinko had two hits.
Brevard County 6 Dunedin 2
Aaron Sanchez battled control problems. Sanchez has an 80 pitch limit but still he was done after three innings. Sanchez gave up a two run home run in the first inning, one of two hits he allowed. He also had two walks and two K's. He was followed by Tyler Ybarra who gave up two runs and took the loss. Danny Barnes pitched the ninth, 2 K's.
Dunedin had just 7 hits, four off prospect Jed Bradley and three off good-named pitcher Tommy Toledo in the ninth. Derrick Chung was the only hitter with two hits.
Great Lakes 2 Lansing 9
Daniel Norris pitched four innings and recorded 7 strikeouts, pretty good. He also gave up 3 hits and 3 walks and he threw 72 pitches, a little high for four innings. Per Lugnut fan and his trusty ipad scoring app, Norris threw 43 of his 72 pitches for strikes. Slavko Bekovic, one of the Lansing broadcasters, tweeted that Norris was hitting 97-98 on the radar gun. Lugnut fan was at the game, he may add his comments. But you can see from the velocity and the strikeouts that Norris has a lot of potential.
Lansing took a 5-0 lead after two innings and never looked back. Kevin Patterson had a double and a home run and 6 RBI's. Dwight Smith had 3 hits, including a home run. Christian Lopes and Emilio Guerrero had two each.
3 Stars
#3 - Dwight Smith
#2 - Kevin Patterson
#1 - Sean Nolin
