A win by the parent club dulls the pain of recapping this mess as the affiliates won just one of six games Monday. Buffalo and New Hampshire had the night off. The Gulf Coast Jays were washed out.
Daytona 9 Dunedin 7
Daytona Beach, FL - The Tortugas matched a five-run Dunedin fourth with five of their own in their half of the fourth to beat the Jays. Luis Santos (2-1, 5.68) was slammed for eight runs on a solo homer and three doubles among the nine hits allowed. He walked two and had strikeout and groundout totals of four in 3-1/3 innings. Jose Fernandez stranded an inherited runner but gave up a run on two hits and a walk while whiffing two. Brad Allen tossed three shutout frames with one hit and one walk while picking up 4 K's.
Sloppy defence by the Reds affiliate opened the door to that five-run Dunedin outburst in the fourth. Jorge Flores and Gunnar Heidt reached on back-to-back errors and J.D. Davis was hit by a pitch to load the bases. L.B. Dantzler scored Flores and Heidt with a two-run single before Danny Jansen put a jolt into one in left-center field for a three-run homer. Ryan McBroom also belted one out to left-center to plate a Heidt single to bring Dunedin within one. Dickie Joe Thon had the only two-hit game. Dantzler had two walks to go with his RBI single. D.J. Davis singled and walked. Heidt stole two bases.
Lansing 7 Fort Wayne 4
Lansing, MI - A four-run seventh allowed Lansing to put this one in the win column against the Padres affiliate. Andrew Guillotte knocked home the first run of the seventh with a single to bring in a Jake Thomas walk. Guillotte got into scoring position by stealing second but he was thrown out at home on a John La Prise single. La Prise would score on a Lane Thomas double and Juan Kelly would drive in Thomas with a base hit. Guillotte would give Lansing an insurance run in the eighth with a bases-loaded walk to score a Justin Atkinson single. The Lugnuts scored first when Ryan Hissey singled and came home on a Connor Panas triple to start the third. Hissey scored again in the fifth when he singled, stole second, went to third on a wild pitch and came home on a single by Atkinson. Guillotte, La Prise, Hissey and Atkinson all had two hits with only Atkinson not drawing a walk. La Prise had a stolen base. Ryan Metzler doubled and walked and Jake Thomas walked twice.
Jordan Romano put up zeros over the first five innings, retiring 12 hitters in a row before hitting the wall in the sixth. A double, a single, a sacrifice fly and a two-run home run led to his exit. That led to a final pitching line of three runs on four hits, a walk and a hit by pitch. He struck out four over 5-1/3 innings. Starlyn Suriel (5-2) surrendered two hits and a walk but kept the Wizards off the board over 1-2/3 innings. Kirby Snead's hit, walk, strikeout and HBP totals were one over his two-inning outing in earning his first save.
Eugene 4 Vancouver 3
Grayson Huffman was the only Vancouver pitcher not scored upon Monday.
Eugene, OR - The C's are glad to see the last of the Cubs affiliate for the 2016 season. The Emeralds, who won nine of 10 against Vancouver, walked this off against Nick Hartman (2-2) with a two-out rally in the ninth on the strength of a single and a double. Luis Sanchez somehow managed to surrender only two runs despite six hits and five walks over four frames. He struck out one and recorded six outs on the ground. Geno Encina stranded two runners for Sanchez but gave up a run on three hits and a walk to go along with two punchouts over two frames. Grayson Huffman worked around two hits, a walk and two wild pitches to put up two scoreless frames that saw him ring up three batters.
Cavan Biggio had two hits in a losing cause.
Cavan Biggio brought in the first run of the game with a single that scored a D.J. McKnight walk in the third. Before McKnight's free pass, Rodrigo Orozco had reached base on a missed catch at first on a grounder to third but pushed his look by trying to get to second and he was thrown out. Orozco's rough night continued when he hit into an inning-ending double play in the fourth with runners at the corners. The C's got a break when Biggio and Nash Knight singled and came around to score on a throwing error by the pitcher on a tapper to the mound from Bryan Lizardo but Lizardo eventually was thrown out at third to cut short the rally. Vancouver went down in order in the second, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth innings. Joshua Palacios started the game with a walk and a stolen base but the C's did nothing with it. Knight drew a walk to reach base twice. Yeltsin Gudino had a hit in four at-bats.
Princeton 6 Bluefield (Game 1 - 7 Innings)
Stuart Holmes recorded his second straight scoreless outing since being sent to Bluefield.
Princeton, WV - Two runs in the first inning and four more in the third off Yennsy Diaz (3-4, 5.35) gave the Rays the victory. Diaz was dinged for a two-run homer and two doubles among eight hits, leading to six runs (five earned) over four innings of work. He walked a pair and only struck out one. Stuart Holmes matched the two hits he gave up with two strikeouts over two scoreless frames.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. singled home the first run in the third to cash in Ridge Smith, who was hit by a pitch, to make it a 2-1 game. Kalik May mashed a two-run homer to bring in a Javier Monzon base hit in the sixth. Guerrero was 2-for-3 and nabbed his 14th stolen base of the year. Bradley Jones had the other hit for Bluefield. Nick Sinay walked twice and Cam O'Brien walked once. Reggie Pruitt was 0-for-4.
Princeton 11 Bluefield 2 (Game 2)
Princeton, WV - The Bluef-Jays scored the first two runs before the Rays scored the next 11 to sweep the doubleheader. Andrew Deramo (0-2, 7.94) was dummied for two long balls and eight runs in total on 11 hits and a walk over two-plus innings with one strikeout. Brayden Bouchey was bombed for three more runs after allowing both of his inherited runs to score. He soaked up three innings, giving up four hits and two walks but striking out six. Angel Alicea allowed nothing, striking out one in the sixth.
Lance Jones had a single and two stolen bases for Bluefield.
The Bluef-Jays started quickly when Reggie Pruitt got aboard on a two-base error at third and was cashed in by a Lance Jones base hit. Jones went on to steal second and third before trotting home on a Cam O'Brien single. Bradley Jones had a couple of hits. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was 0-for-3.
DSL Orioles1 5 DSL Blue Jays 0
Boca Chica, DR - The O's came home to roost against Felix Cornelius (0-1) and company with a five-run fifth to beat the Jays. An error at first by Antonio Concepion started the trouble and that was followed by a walk, a single and a bases-loaded walk for the first run of the game. That led to the exit of Cornelius and Meliton Reyes poured more gasoline on the fire with a single and a double before an error by Yeison Estevez led to the final Orioles run. Luis Mendoza started this one and managed to put together three shutout frames despite two hits and four walks. He struck out a pair and got four outs on the ground. Cornelius got through the fourth before he got tuned up for four runs (three earned) on three hits and two walks. Reyes did not strand any of the three runners and was nicked for an unearned run on three hits with a 1-1 K/BB total over the final 3-2/3 innings.
Luis De Los Santos had two of the Jays' five hits. Estevez, Jose Theran and McGregory Contreras had the others with Estevez drawing a walk. Concepion walked twice. Yhordegny Kelly had the golden sombrero and Andres Guerra had the hat trick.
Monday's Linescores
*** 3 Stars!!! ***
3. John La Prise, Lansing
2. Ryan Hissey, Lansing
1. Andrew Guillotte, Lansing
Extra Innings
Daytona 9 Dunedin 7
Daytona Beach, FL - The Tortugas matched a five-run Dunedin fourth with five of their own in their half of the fourth to beat the Jays. Luis Santos (2-1, 5.68) was slammed for eight runs on a solo homer and three doubles among the nine hits allowed. He walked two and had strikeout and groundout totals of four in 3-1/3 innings. Jose Fernandez stranded an inherited runner but gave up a run on two hits and a walk while whiffing two. Brad Allen tossed three shutout frames with one hit and one walk while picking up 4 K's.
Sloppy defence by the Reds affiliate opened the door to that five-run Dunedin outburst in the fourth. Jorge Flores and Gunnar Heidt reached on back-to-back errors and J.D. Davis was hit by a pitch to load the bases. L.B. Dantzler scored Flores and Heidt with a two-run single before Danny Jansen put a jolt into one in left-center field for a three-run homer. Ryan McBroom also belted one out to left-center to plate a Heidt single to bring Dunedin within one. Dickie Joe Thon had the only two-hit game. Dantzler had two walks to go with his RBI single. D.J. Davis singled and walked. Heidt stole two bases.
Lansing 7 Fort Wayne 4
Lansing, MI - A four-run seventh allowed Lansing to put this one in the win column against the Padres affiliate. Andrew Guillotte knocked home the first run of the seventh with a single to bring in a Jake Thomas walk. Guillotte got into scoring position by stealing second but he was thrown out at home on a John La Prise single. La Prise would score on a Lane Thomas double and Juan Kelly would drive in Thomas with a base hit. Guillotte would give Lansing an insurance run in the eighth with a bases-loaded walk to score a Justin Atkinson single. The Lugnuts scored first when Ryan Hissey singled and came home on a Connor Panas triple to start the third. Hissey scored again in the fifth when he singled, stole second, went to third on a wild pitch and came home on a single by Atkinson. Guillotte, La Prise, Hissey and Atkinson all had two hits with only Atkinson not drawing a walk. La Prise had a stolen base. Ryan Metzler doubled and walked and Jake Thomas walked twice.Jordan Romano put up zeros over the first five innings, retiring 12 hitters in a row before hitting the wall in the sixth. A double, a single, a sacrifice fly and a two-run home run led to his exit. That led to a final pitching line of three runs on four hits, a walk and a hit by pitch. He struck out four over 5-1/3 innings. Starlyn Suriel (5-2) surrendered two hits and a walk but kept the Wizards off the board over 1-2/3 innings. Kirby Snead's hit, walk, strikeout and HBP totals were one over his two-inning outing in earning his first save.
Eugene 4 Vancouver 3
Grayson Huffman was the only Vancouver pitcher not scored upon Monday.
Eugene, OR - The C's are glad to see the last of the Cubs affiliate for the 2016 season. The Emeralds, who won nine of 10 against Vancouver, walked this off against Nick Hartman (2-2) with a two-out rally in the ninth on the strength of a single and a double. Luis Sanchez somehow managed to surrender only two runs despite six hits and five walks over four frames. He struck out one and recorded six outs on the ground. Geno Encina stranded two runners for Sanchez but gave up a run on three hits and a walk to go along with two punchouts over two frames. Grayson Huffman worked around two hits, a walk and two wild pitches to put up two scoreless frames that saw him ring up three batters.
Cavan Biggio had two hits in a losing cause.
Cavan Biggio brought in the first run of the game with a single that scored a D.J. McKnight walk in the third. Before McKnight's free pass, Rodrigo Orozco had reached base on a missed catch at first on a grounder to third but pushed his look by trying to get to second and he was thrown out. Orozco's rough night continued when he hit into an inning-ending double play in the fourth with runners at the corners. The C's got a break when Biggio and Nash Knight singled and came around to score on a throwing error by the pitcher on a tapper to the mound from Bryan Lizardo but Lizardo eventually was thrown out at third to cut short the rally. Vancouver went down in order in the second, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth innings. Joshua Palacios started the game with a walk and a stolen base but the C's did nothing with it. Knight drew a walk to reach base twice. Yeltsin Gudino had a hit in four at-bats.
Princeton 6 Bluefield (Game 1 - 7 Innings)
Stuart Holmes recorded his second straight scoreless outing since being sent to Bluefield.
Princeton, WV - Two runs in the first inning and four more in the third off Yennsy Diaz (3-4, 5.35) gave the Rays the victory. Diaz was dinged for a two-run homer and two doubles among eight hits, leading to six runs (five earned) over four innings of work. He walked a pair and only struck out one. Stuart Holmes matched the two hits he gave up with two strikeouts over two scoreless frames.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. singled home the first run in the third to cash in Ridge Smith, who was hit by a pitch, to make it a 2-1 game. Kalik May mashed a two-run homer to bring in a Javier Monzon base hit in the sixth. Guerrero was 2-for-3 and nabbed his 14th stolen base of the year. Bradley Jones had the other hit for Bluefield. Nick Sinay walked twice and Cam O'Brien walked once. Reggie Pruitt was 0-for-4.
Princeton 11 Bluefield 2 (Game 2)
Princeton, WV - The Bluef-Jays scored the first two runs before the Rays scored the next 11 to sweep the doubleheader. Andrew Deramo (0-2, 7.94) was dummied for two long balls and eight runs in total on 11 hits and a walk over two-plus innings with one strikeout. Brayden Bouchey was bombed for three more runs after allowing both of his inherited runs to score. He soaked up three innings, giving up four hits and two walks but striking out six. Angel Alicea allowed nothing, striking out one in the sixth.
Lance Jones had a single and two stolen bases for Bluefield.
The Bluef-Jays started quickly when Reggie Pruitt got aboard on a two-base error at third and was cashed in by a Lance Jones base hit. Jones went on to steal second and third before trotting home on a Cam O'Brien single. Bradley Jones had a couple of hits. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was 0-for-3.
DSL Orioles1 5 DSL Blue Jays 0
Boca Chica, DR - The O's came home to roost against Felix Cornelius (0-1) and company with a five-run fifth to beat the Jays. An error at first by Antonio Concepion started the trouble and that was followed by a walk, a single and a bases-loaded walk for the first run of the game. That led to the exit of Cornelius and Meliton Reyes poured more gasoline on the fire with a single and a double before an error by Yeison Estevez led to the final Orioles run. Luis Mendoza started this one and managed to put together three shutout frames despite two hits and four walks. He struck out a pair and got four outs on the ground. Cornelius got through the fourth before he got tuned up for four runs (three earned) on three hits and two walks. Reyes did not strand any of the three runners and was nicked for an unearned run on three hits with a 1-1 K/BB total over the final 3-2/3 innings.
Luis De Los Santos had two of the Jays' five hits. Estevez, Jose Theran and McGregory Contreras had the others with Estevez drawing a walk. Concepion walked twice. Yhordegny Kelly had the golden sombrero and Andres Guerra had the hat trick.
Monday's Linescores
*** 3 Stars!!! ***
3. John La Prise, Lansing
2. Ryan Hissey, Lansing
1. Andrew Guillotte, Lansing
Extra Innings
- ArtVoice.com sounds off on the Bisons struggles.
- Rowdy Tellez has earned MiLB.com Prospect Team of the Week honours.
- The New Hampshire Union Leader has a story on Richard Urena, another on the duo of Harold Ramirez and Reese McGuire and a game story with quotes on the Fisher Cats Sunday victory over Erie.
- Roy Halladay is a Hall of Famer.
- Bluefield hurler Luke Gillingham is heading back to the Navy.
- The Bluefield Daily Telegraph has a story with quotes on Osman Gutierrez's recent start and another on Jesus Severino's performance Saturday.
- The Bonner County Daily Bee out of Iowa has a feature on Vancouver reliever Griffin Glaude.
And finally...
Your random blast from the past Blue Jays minor leaguer of the day.
