Syracuse 3 Buffalo 9
Reading 1 New Hampshire 6
Vancouver 1 Hillsboro 2
Fort Myers 6 Dunedin 3
Three Stars
Third Star - Arjun Nimmala
Second Star - CJ Van Eyk
First Star - Cade Doughty
NOTES
Buffalo scored nine runs with eight hits, helped by eight walks. Will Robertson and Luis De Los Santos homered. It was Robertson's 15th but his BA is just .226. Phil Clarke and Alan Roden had two hits each. Roden's four hits in his last three games has brought his average above the Mendoza line, to exactly .220.
Aaron Sanchez had an unusual line, just one hit allowed and one strikeout in five innings. But he walked seven! Eric Pardinho pitched the ninth with one hit, one walk and one K.
New Hampshire bounced back from a two hitter to score six runs. Cade Doughty has had a rough 2024 but he homered and doubled and drove in four tuns. Alex De Jesus and Gabriel Martinez each had two hits. Martinez is hitting .278 in July, by far his best month of the season.
CJ Van Eyk had his best start of the season, 6.1 innings, one run on six hits. He just had two K's but he had nine ground balls versus one fly ball.
Carson Pierce had his best start of the season, five hitless and shutout innings. He struck out five. Pierce has a 1.13 ERA in 16 July innings. Unfortunately the bullpen let Hillsboro tie the game in the seventh and go ahead in the eighth. The tying run and the winning run both reached through a walk. Hillsboro had two hits in the game, one in the seventh and one in the eighth. The winning run scored on a hit by pitch.
Six hits for the C's, Jace Bohrofen had two.
In contrast to the three higher teams, Gage Stanifer had a start to forget. Five runs allowed in 2.1 innings, too much to overcome.
Arjun Nimmala hit his ninth home run and added a single. Victor Arias and Edward Duran also had two hits each.
