Indianapolis 5 Buffalo 8
New Hampshire 7 Reading 1
Hilsboro 4 Vancouver 3
Dunedin 1 Daytona 7
Three Stars
Third Star - Orelvis Martinez
Second Star - Devonte Brown
First Star - Chad Dallas
NOTES
No Schneider, no Horwitz, no Clement for Buffalo, no problem, as they scored eight runs with eleven hits. Orelvis had a nice game, his seventh home run, a three run shot, a single and a triple. The triple was almost a single as the right fielder dived for the ball and missed. Rafael Lantigua went 3-5, Lukes 2-5.
Zach Thompson returned to Buffalo from rehab and gave up two runs in 2.2 innings. Jimmy Burnette followed and gave up three runs. But the bullpen held them down from there, Nate Pearson got the save.
Devonte Brown, fresh to high A, was the spark plug on Friday. He doubled in a run in the third inning. Then he added a two run home run in the fifth to make it a 3-0 game. In the eighth inning Will Robertson, Trevor Schwecke and Phil Clarke had RBI hits. Alan Roden was 3-5, Schwecke and Riley Tirotta had two hits each.
Chad Dallas continued his Jekyll and Hyde results. On Friday he was excellent, recording 11 strikeouts over seven innings. He did not allow a run or walk a hitter. Reading had three hits off him.
Vancouver were no hit through five innings. They got their first hit in the sixth which was promptly erased on a double play. They got their second hit in the seventh and that was followed by Glenn Santiago's first home run for Vancouver. Hillsboro hit their own two run homer in the next inning and that led to extra innings. Hillsboro had another two run home run in the tenth. Vancouver scored one in the bottom of the tenth but left the bases loaded.
Just five hits for the C's. Hunter Gregory threw five shutout innings, three hits, four K's.
Dunedin had just two hits through eight innings. They picked up two more hits in the ninth but their only run came from a bases loaded walk. Roque Salinas had two hits.
Lazaro Estrada started and struck out nine in 4.1 innings. He did allow two runs.
