New Hampshire lost big and ugly. The pitching was bad, the hitting was bad and the only pitcher with a clean slate was outfielder Matt Newman. The Bisons loss wasn't that bad but there was little good about it.
The two lower teams saved the day, Dunedin swept a doubleheader while Lansing won in extras.
Buffalo 0 Louisville 6
Chad Jenkins started, pitched five innings, and was charged with four runs, three earned. Ryan Rowland-Smith gave up the other two runs.
The Bisons could only muster five hits, Darin Mastroianni had two.
Portland 18 New Hampshire 0
This performance was bad from top to bottom. Aaron Sanchez couldn't throw a strike and was gone in the first inning having surrendered six runs. John Anderson and Tony Davis were almost as bad. Matt Newman showed them how with a 1-2-3 ninth.
The offense had four hits.
Lakeland 6 Dunedin 8 - game 1
Lakeland scored 4 runs in the top of the fourth to take a 6-2 lead. That was the end of the game for starter Ben White. But Dunedin came back in the bottom of the inning to score six and held on from there to win. Dunedin's bullpen, as in three relievers, pitched the last 3.1 innings without allowing a hit.
The Jays had four doubles in that six run inning, from Kellen Sweeney, KC Hobson, Marcus Knecht and Dwight Smith. Knecht and Jorge Flores had two hits each.
Lakeland Dunedin - game 2
Dunedin took a 2-0 lead by the fourth. In the second Hobson singled, Patterson doubled and Emilio Guerrero singled in a run. In the fourth Dalton Pompey singled in Derrick Chung.
Efrain Nieves made the spot start and went four strong. He left after a lead off double in the fifth. Chad Girodo got three ground balls but the run scored. Girodo went on to pitch three shutout innings for the win.
Lansing 4 Fort Wayne 3 - 10 innings
The Lugnuts rotation has been hurt by injuries so they added a free agent, Brad Allen, a 25 year old who had been with South Bend. Allen went five innings and just conceded one run. The lead in this game went back and forth and ultimately the game went to extra innings.
Leading off the tenth Dawel Lugo tripled but the next two hitters struck out. Then Jason Leblebijian added an RBI triple for the winning run. Lugo went 4-5, apart from his triple two of his singles moved runners into scoring position from where they scored.
3 Stars
3rd star: Chad Girodo
2nd star: Jason Leblebijian
1st star: Dawel Lugo
