It was a winning night on the farm at least as the affiliates won four out of seven Tuesday. The Vancouver Canadians had seven representatives at the Northwest League All-Star Game. Let's just say the pitchers really had their say in this one.


Buffalo 6 Norfolk 2 (11 Innings)

Norfolk, VA - The Herd made it three straight over the Tide thanks to a Sean Ochinko bases-clearing double in the 11th inning. Ochinko would score on a Kevin Nolan single to complete the four-run frame. The game went into extras after a Brett Wallace home run to dead center field tied the game at 2-2 in the sixth. The Bisons got their first run on doubles by Jared Goedert and Jonathan Diaz in the fifth. Wallace had a three-hit game and was a triple short of the cycle. Nolan and Diaz had two hits apiece with Diaz drawing a walk. Goedert and Ryan Schimpf had a hit and a walk. Melky Mesa made his return from a two-month stay in sick bay with a 1-for-5 effort as his single in the 11th started the big rally. He was activated after A.J. Jimenez was placed on the disabled list. Kevin Pillar was 1-for-6 but stole his 25th base of the year.

Raul Valdes managed to stem the Tides to two runs despite 10 baserunners over six frames. One of his six hits was a home run.  He walked three but struck out four and four of his six outs in play did not make it past the infield. Sergio Santos had a clean inning with a ground out and two infield pop-ups and Ryan Tepera followed up with a shutout frame with one hit and one K. Steve Delabar (2-2) came on for the next two innings and got away with a couple of walks. He equaled his walk total with two K's to keep Norfolk off the board. Kyle Drabek completed the game with a strikeout in the 11th.


New Hampshire 7 Erie 4

Erie, PA - The Fisher Cats scored the first five runs of the game to beat the Tigers affiliate. Cory Aldridge drove in the first two runs with RBI singles in the first and third innings. The big inning was in the fourth when Jon Berti doubled in a run and Matt Newman drove in two more with a single. An error in the sixth and a Mike McDade sacrifice fly in the ninth to score an Andy Burns triple accounted for the other two runs. Aldridge, Berti and Burns all had two hits. Dalton Pompey singled, walked, stole a base and scored three runs. Newman and Jorge Flores had a base hit and a walk.

Casey Lawrence (9-5) didn't exactly fool Erie as evidenced by their 11 hits and a walk but he lasted seven frames and kept the damage to four runs, including a solo dinger. Lawrence struck out three while collecting nine outs on the ground. Dustin Antolin struck out one in a scoreless eighth and Gregory Infante walked one in a shutout ninth for his 16th save.


Dunedin 7 Lakeland 3

Lakeland, FL - A 14-hit attack was more than enough to overwhelm the Flying Tigers. Dunedin pounced on home plate first when Jorge Saez worked the count to ball four with the bases loaded in the second inning. That was followed by a Christian Lopes RBI fielder's choice. Lopes would triple in another run in the fourth to give Dunedin the lead for good. Marcus Knecht went deep in the fifth to double the Jays lead at 4-2. Peter Mooney singled in another run in the seventh. The Jays tacked on two more in the eighth including a Saez RBI double. Saez, Mooney, Gustavo Pierre, Shane Opitz and Emilio Guerrero all had two hits. Guerrero was hit by pitches twice while Mooney and Saez drew walks. Lopes and Kevin Patterson had a hit and a base on balls.

Despite a game WHIP of two, Jeremy Gabryszwski (1-0) limited Lakeland to two runs over five innings in his Florida State League debut. He gave up seven hits and three walks with four strikeouts. Tony Davis surrendered a solo home run over two innings. Chad Girodo and Arik Siklula pitched shutout ball the rest of the way with one-hit innings. Girodo struck out two and Sikula whiffed one.


Fort Wayne 7 Lansing 1

Fort Wayne, IN - Miguel Castro (0-1) had trouble keeping the ball in the yard in his first start as a Lansing Lugnut. He allowed just three hits but two of them were homers and that resulted in four of the five runs he coughed up in four innings. Castro walked a batter and hit another one but he struck out five and six of his seven outs in play were on the ground. Matt Dermody worked around four hits with three K's in two shutout innings. Jimmy Cordero survived two hits for a scoreless frame but Roberto Espinosa was rocked for a couple of runs in the ninth.

The Lugnuts laid eight straight eggs on offence against the Padres affiliate before Jason Leblebijian singled home their lone run in the ninth. Leblebijian added a double for a two-hit night. He was joined by Mitch Nay and Dawel Lugo in the two-hit club. Matt Dean had a single, a hit by pitch and a run scored. D.J. Davis also got a base hit.


Bluefield 7 Burlington 4

Burlington, NC - Lydell Moseby got Bluefield rolling with a leadoff home run in the third inning and added a two-run blast in the fifth. A Trent Miller double and an Aaron Attaway triple produced two more runs in the sixth. The last two runs came on a Rowdy Tellez bases-loaded walk in the seventh and a Richard Urena single in the eighth. Moseby had three hits while Miller and Josh Almonte had two each. Attaway added two walks to get aboard three times. Angel Rojas doubled and took one for the team.

Connor Greene (1-1) got through six innings and gave up three runs against the Royals on seven hits and two walks. He had four strikeouts and seven groundouts. Carlos Ramirez managed to get through two innings with only an unearned run despite two hits and three walks. He struck out a batter as did Oscar Cabrera, who finished up the ninth for his first save.


GCL Yankees2 2 GCL Blue Jays 0

Tampa, FL - The Jays second and third round picks were able to live up to their draft billing on this day. Sean Reid-Foley stumped the Yanks with four blank frames of two-hit ball. He walked nobody, struck out six and four of his six outs in play were ground balls. Lefty Nick Wells added three more shutout frames with just three hits on his pitching line along with one punchout. The good times ended in the eighth when Turner Lee (1-2) was lit up for a two-run homer among the three hits he gave up in the eighth.

The Jays were held to just four hits - all singles - by Deiferson Barreto, Juan Kelly, Freddy Rodriguez and Angel Gomez. Gomez and Juan Tejada were successful on their stolen base attempts. Lane Thomas was 0-for-4 and Matt Morgan was 0-for-3 - both of them struck out twice.


DSL Tigers 13 DSL Blue Jays 12

San Pedro de Macoris, DR - This was a heavyweight tilt as both teams landed lots of punches but it also resembled a soccer match with the ball being kicked around quite a bit. The Jays went up 2-0 in the first on an Enmanuel Moreta triple and he kept chugging on home after an error. Miguel Almonte and Manuel Herazo singled home runs in the third to erase a 3-2 deficit. Edward Olivares lifted a sac fly and Herazo doubled home another run in the fifth to cut the Tigers lead down to 7-6. Two Tigers clanks resulted in two Jays runs to make it a 9-8 Tiger lead in the eighth. Down 11-8 in the ninth, the Jays tied it on a Herazo RBI double and a Rodrigo Orozco two-run homer. They went ahead by a run in the 10th thanks to another Tigers error. Herazo had three hits and Orozco had two hits and two walks along with a stolen base. Moreta, Almonte, Jesus Severino and Bryan Lizardo also posted a two in the hit column while Almonte and Severino added one under the BB. Francisco Rodriguez had a hit and took one for the team.

The Tigers put the hurt on Yonardo Hernandez for two home runs and five runs overall in three frames thanks to eight hits and a walk along with two strikeouts. William Zambrano did not get an out but was charged with two runs, one of them earned. Jose Diaz was also dinged for two runs in 2.1 innings. Jairo Rosario didn't give up any runs in 1.2 innings and matched Diaz with two K's. Juan Nunez was knocked around for three runs on four hits and a walk but only one run was earned and he struck out five. Luis Dominguez (0-1) gave up the winning run on a hit and a walk over one inning. There were 11 errors in this one, six by the Tigers.


Tuesday's Linescores



Northwest League All-Star Game

North Division 0 South Division 0 (Final - 10 Innings) - Boxscore



Andrew Case struck out three of the five hitters he faced in the Northwest League All-Star Game in Eugene, Oregon Tuesday.

Eugene, OR - Canadians pitcher Jairo Labourt got the honour of starting for the North Division squad. He overcame his own throwing error to pitch a scoreless first inning of one-hit ball which included one strikeout, one groundout and one flyout. Joe Lovecchio struck out two of the three batters he faced in a perfect frame and Andrew Case pitched 1.2 perfect innings with 3 K's.

Roemon Fields, Franklin Barreto, Ryan McBroom and Tim Locastro all went 0-for-2.


*** 3 Stars!!! ***


3. Rodrigo Orozco, DSL Blue Jays - Hitting .315 with runners on base and .339 with runners in scoring position.
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2. Brett Wallace, Buffalo - Hitting .308/.400/.442 in 15 games with the Herd.
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1. Lydell Moseby, Bluefield - Five of his seven RBI this season have come in his last two games.
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Wednesday's Schedule & Probable Starters

DSL Blue Jays @ DSL Rangers2, 10:30 am ET - TBA.
GCL Blue Jays @ GCL Astros, 12:00 pm ET - TBA.
Lansing @ Fort Wayne, 12:05 pm ET - Starlyn Suriel (0-1, 3.27).
Dunedin @ Lakeland, 6:30 pm ET - Roberto Osuna (0-0, 8.10)
New Hampshire @ Erie, 7:05 pm ET - TBA.