The affiliates won five of eight games with one game suspended due to rain. It was a good night for the top three farm clubs but not so much for Lansing to say the least and the other lower affiliates, save for the G-Jays.


Buffalo 3 Rochester 0

Buffalo, NY - The Bisons won their 62nd game to match their 62 losses with a win over the Twins affiliate. They opened the scoring in the third when Andy Burns singled, got himself into scoring position with a stolen base and ran the other 180 feet on a A.J. Jimenez base hit. Dalton Pompey scored the second run in the sixth by drawing a leadoff walk and racing home on a two-out double by Jesus Montero. Matt Dominguez mashed a solo homer in the eighth. Jimenez, Dominguez and Montero all had two hits. Chris Colabello walked twice, once intentionally. Ryan Goins and Melky Mesa picked up singles.

Chris Leroux (8-9, 3.40) had a Game WHIP of less than one with just three hits and two walks over 6-2/3 shutout innings. He struck out four and had eight groundball outs but left two runners for Aaron Loup, who stranded them with a groundout to end the seventh. Bo Schultz offset two hits with two K's over the final two innings for his second save.


New Hampshire 4 Binghamton 3 (Game 1 - 7 Innings)

Manchester, NH - Four runs in the first was just enough to hold off the Mets. Dwight Smith Jr.  smacked a three-run homer, his 10th of the season, before Jason Leblebijian brought home a Ryan Lavarnway double with a base hit. Leblebijian was the only Fisher Cat with two hits. Richard Urena and Jon Berti added one to the hit total with Berti stealing a base along with Christian Lopes. Rowdy Tellez was 0-for-2 with a walk.

John Straka (1-0, 4.50) earned a quality start in his organizational debut . A 32nd round pick of Texas in 2013, the 26 year-old righty surrendered single runs in the third, fourth and fifth - including a homer - on five hits and a walk but struck out three and walked one over six frames. Eight of his 12 outs in play were on the ground. Chris Smith matched Straka's K total by striking out the side for his 13th save.


New Hampshire 5 Binghamton 4 (Game 2 - 8 Innings)

Manchester, NH - The Fisher Cats rallied from a 4-0 deficit to walk this one courtesy of a Jon Berti home run. Jorge Saez started the comeback with a solo home run in the fifth. Rowdy Tellez singled home a Jon Berti triple in the sixth. Tellez was pulled for Ian Parmley on the basepaths and Parmley would score on an Emilio Guerrero three-bagger. Saez would go deep again to tie it in the seventh. Berti had a 3-for-4 night and stole his 25th base of the season. Christian Lopes and Dwight Smith Jr. walked. Roemon Fields was 0-for-4 and Richard Urena was 0-for-1 pinch-hitting.

John Anderson gave up the first three runs on six hits, including a homer,  in 2-2/3 innings, walking two and striking out four. Brady Dragmire stranded two runners but was dinged for a run on two hits and a walk while whiffing one over 2-1/3 innings. Alonzo Gonzalez (1-0) gave up just a hit and a walk while ringing up two over three shutout frames.


Dunedin 10 Daytona 1

Dunedin, FL - Dunedin scored in six different innings to easily outdistance the Reds affiliate. They scored a pair of two-out runs in the first two innings.  Ryan McBroom doubled home the first run of the game by bringing home a J.D. Davis walk and Josh Almonte doubled in a free pass by Michael De La Cruz. Matt Dean cashed in a McBroom single with a sacrifice fly in the third before singling home a Davis walk in the fifth. McBroom tripled home another Davis free pass and scored on a Danny Jansen sac fly in the seventh. The Jays finished up with a four-run eighth on a Dickie Joe Thon single that scored two, a McBroom RBI base hit and a Jansen double play grounder. McBroom had a four-hit night but Anthony Alford was 2-for-2 with three walks to win on-base honours. Alford's only blemish was a caught stealing. Davis was 0-for-1 officially but scored three runs with four walks and two stolen bases. De La Cruz and Almonte had two-hit games with De La Cruz drawing a walk and swiping a bag. Jorge Flores was hitless in four at-bats.

Conor Fisk (8-3, 3.16) was very stingy with the baserunners. He set down the first six hitters in a row and faced the minimum through three  before a leadoff hit in the fourth. Fisk then put away nine in a row before overcoming a double and single to complete seven shutout innings. Fisk had a K/BB total of 1-1 and a GO/FO of 8-9 for a Game Score of 74. Adonys Cardona and Francisco Rios finished up with scoreless frames in which they struck out a batter apiece. Cardona gave up one hit and Rios surrendered two.


Great Lakes 12 Lansing 0

Lansing, MI - The Dodgers affiliate lambasted the Lugnuts with a three-run first before scoring in their last five at-bats. Ryan Borucki (8-4, 2.68) was ripped for four runs over five innings on six hits (including a home run), three walks and a plunk. His K and GO totals were six apiece. Tayler Saucedo was slammed for six more runs over 2-1/3 innings and eight hits, including a dinger, and a walk. Starlyn Suriel had three inherited runners score on his watch before surrendering two runs (one earned) on four hits and two walks while whiffing two.

Andrew Guillotte, John La Prise and J.C Cardenas had the lone Lugnut hits. Lane Thomas walked twice while Juan Kelly and Ryan Hissey heard ball four once.


Hillsboro 6 Vancouver 5


Geno Encina supplied 4-1/3 stellar innings of shutout relief Tuesday.

Hillsboro, OR - The C's lost a walk-off to the Diamondbacks affiliate as Jackson McClelland (1-3) served up a home run to the only hitter he faced in the ninth. Dalton Rodriguez, and not T.J. Zeuch, got the start and did not have a good time of it. He began the game with a hit by pitch, a walk and a wild pitch and it was all dowhill from there. He was rocked for five runs over 3-2/3 innings on nine hits, two walks and the aforementioned plunk. Rodriguez struck out two with all seven of his outs in play on the artificial turf. Geno Encina was the man on the mound in this one with just one hit and one walk allowed in 4-1/3 shutout innings while punching out four and recording six groundball outs.


Cavan Biggio got on base three different ways against the Hops.

Josh Reavis got Vancouver on the board with a sacrifice fly in foul territory to the second baseman in the second inning to score a Cavan Biggio walk. D.J. McKnight tripled home a Rodrigo Orozco base hit in the third before coming home on a Joshua Palacios groundout. The C's rallied to tie the game in the seventh when a Biggio triple scored a McKnight single and a Palacios double. McKnight and Palacios had two hits but Biggio reached three times by taking one for the team and he stole a base. Orozco was also on base thrice by drawing two walks. Deiferson Barreto added a double while Reavis and Christian Williams singled. Jacob Anderson had a walk.


Bluefield 1 Princeton 0 (Suspended due to rain)

Princeton, WV - This game was stopped after the top of the third inning. The Jays got to the Rays for an early run in the first when Nick Sinay singled, scampered to third on a Reggie Pruitt base hit before coming home on a double-play grounder by Vladimir Guerrero Jr.

Jose Espada retired the first five hitters in a row before walking a batter. He struck out a pair to go along with two groundouts and two flyouts.


GCL Blue Jays 2 GCL Phillies 1

Clearwater, FL - The Jays scored the winning run in the top of the ninth to down the Phillies. Chavez Young doubled with nobody out before Norberto Obeso brought him home with a base hit. The Jays had evened things up at 1-1 in the second when Jesus Navarro delivered a run-scoring single to score Alfredo Bohorquez, who singled, stole second and went to third on an errant pickoff throw. Yorman Rodriguez was 3-for-5 while Bohorquez, Obeso and Young finished with two hits apiece. Navarro also had a walk. D.J. Daniels, Ryan Gold and Sterling Guzman worked the count to ball four. Mitch Nay was 0-for-3 with a strikeout.

Wilfri Aleton steadied himself after a first-inning run to put up four shutout innings in which he gave up four hits and a walk. He struck out four and divided his six outs in play evenly on the ground and in the air. William Ouelette worked around two hits and two walks over 2-2/3 innings with three strikeouts. Jared Carkuff (3-0) stranded a runner for Ouelette and pitched 1-1/3 innings of one-hit ball, striking out three.


DSL Diamondbacks 1 DSL Blue Jays 0

Boca Chica, DR - A leadoff single, a Jose Theran error at second, a steal of third and a wild pitch to score the only run of the game for the D-Backs in the first inning. Claudio Galva (0-1, 5.73) pitched five frames of four-hit ball with one walk and three whiffs. Adams Cuevas finished up with three shutout innings with only two hits on his ledger. He struck out three and walked nobody.

Theran had two hits and a walk and Jonelvy Molina had the other two Blue Jay hits, including a double. McGregory Contreras walked and was hit by a pitch. Aldo Ovando walked.


Tuesday's Linescores


*** 3 Stars!!! ***


3. Anthony Alford, Dunedin


2. Ryan McBroom, Dunedin


1. Jon Berti, New Hampshire


Wednesday's Schedule/Probable Starters

DSL Blue Jays @ DSL Padres, 10:30 am ET - TBA
GCL Blue Jays @ GCL Tigers East, 12:00 pm ET - TBA
Rochester @ Buffalo, 1:05 pm ET - Mike Bolsinger (0-2, 6.75)
Daytona @ Dunedin, 6:30 pm ET - Justin Shafer (4-5, 5.40)
Binghamton @ New Hampshire, 7:05 pm ET - Conner Greene (4-4, 4.40)
Great Lakes @ Lansing, 7:05 pm ET - TBA
Spokane @ Vancouver, 10:05 pm ET - T.J. Zeuch (0-1, 3.50)


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