Buffalo 5 Worcester 3
New Hampshire 7 Binghamton 3
Tri-City 6 Vancouver 5 - 10 innings
Dunedin 4 Daytona 1
Three Stars
Third Star - Will Wagner
Second Star - Jacob Sharp
First Star - Phil Clarke
NOTES
Trenton Wallace struggled in his first AA start. Six hits, three walks and a hit batter made it ten baserunners in 3.2 innings. He was charged with three runs. Beau Sulser followed and kept the Bisons in the game, and got the win, by throwing 5.1 shutout innings.
Will Wagner hit his first home run as a Jay in the sixth inning, a solo shot. Wagner was on base four times, two hits and two walks. The Bisons trailed by one headed to the ninth. Rafael Lantigua walked then Joey Votto made his first appearance as a Bison. He singled and Phil Clarke then pinch hit and hit a three run home run.
Will Wagner played primarily second base and first base in the Houston organization. While Wagner is a good hitter the knock on him is that he is not a good fielder. The Jays are gathering several players who can play second base perhaps adequately. Davis Schneider, Spencer Horwitz and now Will Wagner. Is it one too many?
Lazaro Estrada was outstanding for New Hampshire, five innings, one hit, nine strikeouts. He was overshadowed by the Binghamton starter, Brandon Sproat who struck out 13 in five innings. He struck out the last eleven hitters he faced.
NH scored four runs in the sixth. Five walks helped, Alex De Jesus doubled for the only hit in the inning. They added three more in the ninth. Andres Sosa hit his fourth home run while De Jesus and RJ Schreck had RBI doubles. NH had nine hits, Sosa, De Jesus and Schreck had two each.
Newly arrived Jacob Sharp was the star of the show. He drove in all five C's runs. He singled in a run, walked with the bases loaded and hit a three run home run. He was also hit by a pitch. He had two of the six Vancouver hits.
Kendry Rojas struck out nine in six innings. He gave up five hits, one a home run and another was a triple that scored. Two runs in sox innings. Tri-City used two ground balls to score their run in the tenth, Vancouver were unable to match that.
Fernando Perez started and was pulled after 3.1 innings. This is the second straight start where he was removed early. I would guess that the Jays are working on his innings. Perez threw 43 innings in 2022 and 49 last season. He is up to 81 now. With five weeks left he is on pace to throw roughly another 15 innings which would get him to 96, close to double last years total.
In his 3.1 innings Perez gave up a solo home run, one of the two hits off him.
Aaron Parker hit his first pro home run in the fourth inning. Braden Barry later in that inning singled in Edward Duran. Barry had two hits and Bryce Arnold had three, a single, a double and a triple. Both Barry and Arnold are hitting less than .200 even after their multi hit games.
