The American affiliates won their games and the Dominicans won theirs too. The Canadian affiliate didn't hold up their end of the bargain in what was a 5-1 Tuesday on the farm. Dunedin's game in Daytona Beach was washed out and the Gulf Coast Blue Jays were also rained out again as they were to play a home and home doubleheader against the GCL Yankees East.


Buffalo 9 Indianapolis 3

Buffalo, NY - The Bisons used a 14-hit attack against Indy to draw to within a game of .500. A.J. Jimenez jacked one out of the yard to tie things up at 1-1 for the Bisons in the third before Andy Burns put them ahead with a three-run bomb in the fourth. Junior Lake splashed a single to right to score two more runs in the seventh. Matt Dominguez, Jesus Montero and Lake all contributed RBI singles in the eighth. Montero was 4-for-5 while Lake had two hits and two walks to reach base four times. Dalton Pompey had two hits, a walk and a stolen base while Jimenez also had two in the 'H' column. Chris Colabello singled and was hit by a pitch. Ryan Goins heard ball four twice and Domonic Brown had a single.

Scott Copeland (1-1, 2.29) cobbled together 5-1/3 innings of one-run ball which came on a homer that was among three hits and two walks. His strikeout and groundout totals were six apiece. Aaron Loup was thrown for a run on two hits and a walk in the seventh and Bo Schultz surrendered a run on three hits but struck out one in the eighth. Chad Girodo wicked away the Pirates affiliate in the ninth despite a hit and a walk.


New Hampshire 6 Bowie 2

Bowie, MD - The Fisher Cats also reached double digits in the hit column by using 12 of them to thwart the Orioles affiliate. New Hampshire put up three runs in the fourth when Christian Lopes singled in a base knock by Jason Leblebijian. Lopes would steal second and the throwing error by the catcher allowed Derrick Loveless, who reached on an error, to score from third. Richard Urena then lined a double to right to plate Lopes. The Cats tacked on another run in the seventh when Rowdy Tellez doubled home a Jon Berti walk and stolen base. Berti would bring home two more on a single to score walks by Leblebijian and Loveless in the eighth. Lopes had a three-hit game and stole a base but Tellez won the on-base competition with two hits and two walks, one intentionally. Reese McGuire went 2-for-5. Berti singled, walked and stole a couple of bags.  Leblebijian, Richard Urena and Ryan Lavarnway had a single and a base on balls each. Roemon Fields was 1-for-3.

Shane Dawson kept the Orioles off the scoreboard for the first four innings but could not get any of the three batters he faced in the fifth as he began the frame by issuing the last three of his six walks. He was charged with two runs on three hits and only struck out one. Brady Dragmire (3-5) could only strand one of Dawson's three runners but put up two scoreless frames on two hits and a walk. Colton Turner gave up a hit, a walk and struck out one in two-thirds of an inning. He needed Wil Browning to strand his two runners and Browning went on to whiff three men in his 1-1/3 perfect frames. Murphy Smith walked one and whiffed one in a scoreless ninth.


Lansing 4 Fort Wayne 3 (13 Innings)

Fort Wayne, IN - The Lugnuts wasted a 3-0 lead before walking off the Padres affiliate with a run in the 13th inning. Juan Kelly hit a one-out double and made it to third on a groundout by Justin Atkinson that also pushed a Ryan Hissey intentional walk to second. After Connor Panas was walked on purpose to load the bases, Carl Wise came through by lining a single up the middle to score Kelly with the winning run. Wise scored the first run of the game when his second-inning single was cashed in by a J.C. Cardenas double. Andrew Guillotte would single home Cardenas and got to third on an error in center before scoring on a John La Prise sacrifice fly to put Lansing ahead 3-0. Wise went 4-for-6 with a walk while Guillotte had the only other multi-hit game with two along with his 17th stolen base. Hissey singled and walked twice intentionally. La Prise doubled and took one for the team while Panas also had a HBP to go with his BB. Kelly and Cardenas both added walks to reach base twice. Atkinson walked twice and Lane Thomas had a pinch-hit walk batting for Jake Thomas, who was 1-for-5.

Angel Perdomo supplied six shutout innings by scattering five hits, two walks and a hit by pitch. He struck out five to earn a Game Score of 67. Tom Robson was roughed up for a solo homer, another hit and a walk over 1-2/3 innings. Daniel Young struck out the only batter he faced to end the eighth. Andrew Case coughed up the lead in the ninth by allowing two runs (one earned on a Wise error at third) on two hits and two walks but he struck out a pair. Jackson Lowery had a strikeout to match each of his three shutout innings before Tayler Saucedo (8-9) kept the shutout string going with a punchout in a scoreless frame.


Everett 1 Vancouver 0


Patrick Murphy was hosed after permitting just four baserunners over seven innings Tuesday.

Vancouver, BC - Patrick Murphy (2-4, 2.59) did not deserve to take the loss. A leadoff single and a two-out double in the fourth by the Mariners affiliate produced the only run of the ballgame. That outburst represented two of the three hits Murphy allowed over seven innings. He plunked a hitter but did not walk anyone and struck out four. He set down nine hitters in a row and 10 of the last 11 to finish with a Game Score of 77. Eight of his 14 outs in play stayed on the diamond. Zach Jackson gave up a hit and a walk but struck out two in 1-2/3 innings. Griffin Glaude gave up a bloop single but struck out the final hitter of the ninth to strand a runner for Jackson.

The C's best chances to score came in the fourth and eighth innings. Cavan Biggio and J.B. Woodman started the fourth with base hits but they did not go anywhere. Vancouver would load the bases with two outs when Biggio extended the inning with a walk to join Andres Sotillo and Rodrigo Orozco, who had both singled, on the basepaths. However, Woodman was caught looking on a 3-2 pitch. Deiferson Barreto had a two-out double in the second that was not cashed in. Biggio and Sotillo both had two hits and Sotillo threw out a runner at second. Orozco singled and walked but he was picked off at first to end the fifth. D.J. McKnight, Jacob Anderson, Christian Williams and Yeltsin Gudino went a combined 0-for-15. McKnight was inserted into the leadoff spot instead of Joshua Palacios, who was in the original lineup.


Bluefield 9 Princeton 1

Princeton, WV - The Bluef-Jays were looking to bounce back after a doubleheader sweep against the Rays and they got to work quickly in the first when Reggie Pruitt singled, moved to third on a Vladimir Guerrero Jr. base hit and scored on a Javier Monzon single. Monzon would drive in the next four runs with a grand slam to score a Guerrero single and walks by Pruitt and Cam O'Brien. Guerrero went deep in the fifth for a two-run shot to plate a Pruitt hit by pitch and Monzon would mash his second homer of the game to cap off the three-run rally. Jesus Severino drew a walk and eventually scored on an error in the sixth. Monzon and Guerrero both had three hits with Monzon drawing a walk. Pruitt singled, walked, took one for the team and stole a base. Severino had a base hit to go along with his walk. Bradley Jones doubled, Nick Sinay and Kalik May singled and Cam O'Brien walked. Matt Morgan was 0-for-4.

One unearned run was all the Rays got against Osman Gutierrez (3-2, 3.56), who gave up eight hits and three walks in six innings. He struck out seven and had the infielders take care of five of his eight outs in play. Connor Eller came in for the final three innings for his fifth save, giving up just one hit and striking out two.


DSL Blue Jays 7 DSL Orioles1 5

Boca Chica, DR - The Jays wasted a 5-1 lead but a sacrifice bunt by Sam Buelens brought home the winning run in the eighth before an insurance run followed on a passed ball. McGregory Contreras and Jonelvy Molina drove in two runs apiece with first-inning singles to lift the Jays to a 4-1 advantage. Yhordegny Kelly knocked home a Ronald Concepion double with a single in the second. Contreras had two hits, a walk and a stolen base. Ronald Concepion was 2-for-4 and Kelly got aboard twice by drawing a walk. Antonio Concepion had a double.

Anderson Nunez gave up a triple to the first hitter he faced as well as two doubles to account for half of the six hits he allowed. He lasted 4-1/3 innings, giving up three runs (two earned) to go along with a 2-1 K/BB total. Jose Dominguez was dinged for a pair of runs on four hits and two walks with just one K over 2-2/3 innings. Five of his six outs in play were on the grass. Oscar Brito (2-2) ostracized the O's with three K's and three groundouts over two scoreless frames of one-hit ball.


Tuesday's Linescores


*** 3 Stars!!! ***


3. Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Bluefield


2. Javier Monzon, Bluefield (Image from Bluefield Daily Telegraph)


1. Carl Wise, Lansing


Extra Innings

• MiLB.com features Richard Urena in its Eastern League Notes column.
• The Vancouver Canadians are not the only baseball team in B.C. that's drawing well at the gate.

And finally, your random blast from the past Blue Jays minor leaguer of the day.