Ryan Schimpf hit a three run home run to deliver a one run win to New Hampshire. Four teams suffered walk-off losses, Buffalo in the ninth, Dunedin in the 11th, Vancouver in the 10th and Bluefield in the 13th. Lansing lost a walk-fest.
Brett Lawrie was hitless. Among prospects Pillar and Gose were also without a hit, AJ Jimenez had a couple including a big fly, Burns had one, Nessy also hit one out, Michael Crouse had three hits, Matt Dean had two. Deck McGuire gave up five runs in five innings.
Buffalo 2 Scranton 3
Scranton won with a walk off sac fly in the bottom of the ninth. Joel Carreno hit the lead-off hitter in the ninth, then baled him to second. A passed ball moved him to third and a sac fly scored the run. Buffalo had taken a 2-0 lead in the first inning, Kevin Pillar and Ryan Goins were hit by pitches and Jim Negrych doubled both home.
Justin Germano started and pitched well, both runs scored with two outs in the seventh. In his seventh inning Germano gave up five hits and struck out seven. Pillar was 0-3, Gose 0-2. The Bisons had 3 hits in the game.
Binghamton 5 New Hampshire 6
This was a back and forth contest, the Mets took a 3-1 lead, New Hampshire tied it at 3, the Mets went ahead 5-3 and the Fisher Cats scored 3 in the sixth to make it 6-5. New Hampshire took a 1-0 lead in the first inning on AJ Jimenez first AA home run of the year. Deck McGuire was charged with all five runs, three earned. He pitched just five inning plus two hitters. He was charged with 8 hits and two walks in those 5 innings.
The Fisher Cats were outhit 10-6 but the Fisher cats had the biggest hit, a 3 run home run by Ryan Schimpf in the sixth to put the Cats ahead to stay. Alan Farina had a two inning save. AJ Jimenez was 2-4, Andy Burns 1-3 with a walk.
Dunedin 1 Clearwater 2 - 11 innings
Sergio Santos pitched a perfect first inning. Austin Bibens-Dirkx followed with six innings. He was charged with one unearned run. The Jays headed to the ninth trailing 1-0, Gustavo Pierre was thrown out at the plate in the eighth inning. In the ninth Jon Berti worked a lead-off walk, was sacrificed to second and scored when Michael Crouse singled.
The game headed to extra-innings. The Jays had another lead-off runner in the tenth, this time on a single my Marcus Knecht. But the Jays could not bring him home. In the bottom of the eleventh a pair of two out hits allowed Clearwater to win. Michael Crouse led the hitters with three hits.
Lake County 7 Lansing 3
There were 19 walks in this game, the umpires must have been getting paid by the hour. Alonzo Gonzlaez walked six in three innings and was charged with two runs. Griffin Murphy gave up 4 runs in 4 innings.
Brett Lawrie was 0-3 with two walks but he did score in the 2 run 7th inning. Three walks, a passed ball and a sac fly accounted for the runs. Santiago Nessy hit a home run in the ninth. Chris Hawkins was 2-4.
Vancouver 5 Hillsboro 6 - 10 innings
Chuck Ghysels came on to protect a one run lead in the ninth but he has taken downtown for a solo home run that tied the game. Jordan Leyland doubled to lead-off the tenth and even though Vancouver added a single and a walk they could not score That hurt them in the tenth when a lead-off walk came around to score the winning run.
Vancouver had 13 hits. Leyland and Michael Reeves had three each. Leyland is hitting just under 400, Reeves just over 400. They are leading the offense daily. Scott Silverstein made his first star for Vancouver and went fur innings, allowing one run. Matt Dermody gave up 2 runs.
Elizabethton 5 Bluefield 2 - 13 innings
The Jays were outhit 16-9 but hung on until the 13th inning. In that inning Adaric Kelly gave up four hits including a double and a triple and took the loss. Adonys Cardona started and dodged trouble by putting on 8 baserunners in 3 innings but he didn't let any score. Mark Biggs followed and was charged with two runs in 4 innings.
Derrick Loveless was involved in both runs. He walked and scored on a Dawel Lugo single for the first run, while he singled to drive in the second run. Matt Dean was the only Jay with two hits.
GCL Jays 0 GCL Astros 1
They only played into the bottom of the first inning before the game was suspended due to rain.
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Three Stars
#3 - Michael Crouse
#2 - AJ Jimenez
#1 - Ryan Schimpf
