Buffalo 2 Toledo 3
Daniel Norris walked the first three hitters of the game. He escaped with just one conceded. The second inning was routine, as was the third but Norris did walk one more. The fourth started double, single, single, all ground balls. A line drive double made it three runs allowed by Norris and he was finished after the inning. In his four innings Norris threw 88 pitches, 46 strikes and 42 balls.
The Bisons two runs came in the fifth thanks to back to back triples by AJ Jimenez and Jonathan Diaz. Both Jimenez and Diaz led the Bisons with two hits each, and both had a double and a triple. Jimenez got his batting average up to .200, Diaz is just short. After a slow start Jimenez is hitting .250 in May with a 756 OPS.
Altoona 3 New Hampshire 6
As mentioned this game was tied at three in the seventh when Ronald Toreyes doubled in three runs. That was his only hit. KC Hobson homered, Dwight Smith doubled in a run and Jack Murphy singled in a run. It was a cycle of RBI's. Ian Parmley had two hits.
John Anderson started and went five. He did K 9 hitters but he also gave up seven hits and two runs. Danny Barnes pitched the last two and he had four K's.
St Lucie 3 Dunedin 1
Only three hits for the Jays. One of them was a double by Dickie Thon who moves to third and scored on two ground outs.
Jairo Labourt went 5 innings and was charged with two of the runs. He did get six K's. Alberto Tirado pitched the last two innings but he did walk three, none of whom scored.
Fort Wayne 5 Lansing 4
Lansing trailed 5-0 going to the bottom of the ninth. A walk and an error got things started and a ground out and a balk made it 5-2. Then Ryan McBroom doubled in two tuns and it was a 5-4 game with the tying run on second. A new pitcher came in to get Josh Almonte to fly out. The Lugnuts did have 11 hits. Tim Locastro had three, McBroom and Rowdy Tellez had two each.
Jesus Tinoco started and pitched well, except for a two run home run. Tinoco went 5.2 innings and gave up four hits, one walk and three K's. Two of the four hits allowed were infield hits. Jose Fernandez was responsible for the other three runs.
3 Stars
3rd star: Ryan McBroom
2nd star: John Anderson
1st star: Ronald Toreyes
