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Vancouver had a walk off win and that sent them to the playoffs. Steward Berroa had a big game for Buffalo as they shutout Lehigh Valley. JP Freethy hit an inside the part home run in extra innings to get the win for Dunedin. New Hampshire lost.

Lehigh Valley 0 Buffalo 8

Portland 4 New Hampshire 2

Eugene 3 Vancouver 4

Dunedin 5 Tampa 3


Three Stars

Third Star - Geison Urbaez

Second Star - JP Freethy

First Star - Steward Berroa


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NOTES


Steward Berroa led the offense for Buffalo. He singled and tripled and drove in three runs. Nick Raposo also had two hits. The priority guys, Roden, Kasevich and Clase, each had a hit and an RBI.


Five pitchers combined on a three hut shutout. Among the pitchers were newly claimed Dillon Tate and Paxton Schultz who threw three innings. Schultz is the workhorse of the bullpen. He can start or relieve, and do both well. He has appeared in 36 games and made seven starts. He has a .96 ERA and 104 K's in 84 innings.


Devereaux Harrison had a very good start for New Hampshire. In five innings he gave up one run on two hits with six K's. Trent Palmer took the loss by allowing three runs in the seventh inning.


Just five hits, all singles, for the Cats.


Jace Bohrofen homered to start the bottom of the first to get Vancouver started. Singles by Peyton Williams and Brennan Orf helped the C's add two more in that inning. That 3-0 lead held up until the fifth when Eugene hit a three run home run. The game remained tied until the ninth. An error allowed Orf to reach base. Two walks had the bases loaded with one out. Adrian Pinto hit a ground ball to short. The shortstop came home for one out and the catcher tried to get the back end of the double play at first. But the first baseman made an error, run scored and Vancouver win.


Connor O'Halloran went five innings and was charged with that three run home run. He struck out eight. Geison Urbaez went the last four innings with just one runner reaching through an error. He struck out five.



Dunedin's game was scheduled for seven innings but went nine. In the ninth JP Freethy hit an inside the park two run home run which was the winning margin. Earlier in that inning Carter Cunningham hit a sac fly. Dunedin had three hits total in the game but won 5-3.


Adam Macko made another rehab start for Dunedin. He struck out seven in four shutout innings. He looks ready to return to AA which he will have to do as Dunedin finish their season this week.

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bpoz - Friday, September 06 2024 @ 09:48 AM EDT (#452297) #
Congratulations to Vancouver!!
GabrielSyme - Friday, September 06 2024 @ 11:34 AM EDT (#452301) #
Playing the arbitrary-endpoints game, Roden now has a 184 wRC+ since July 23rd. An unsustainably high babip in that period, but with power and contact, and nearly as many walks as strikeouts.
bpoz - Friday, September 06 2024 @ 01:07 PM EDT (#452305) #
Urbaez throws V hard maybe 100 but has had injuries. He did some starting so could be a starter if health permits or a long man.
Marc Hulet - Friday, September 06 2024 @ 01:44 PM EDT (#452308) #
I've seen Statcast on Urbaez at 95 but never close to 100 mph. Two years ago he was getting regular swing and miss on three different offerings, which is what made him interesting but he struggles with command/control which has gotten worse after missing most of last year.
John Northey - Saturday, September 07 2024 @ 01:07 AM EDT (#452327) #
Well, at least one team in the system is getting playoff games.
  • Buffalo is dead last (24-36 in 2nd half, 10 out after a 500 first half, 9 games out).
  • New Hampshire is also dead last 21-39 16 1/2 out after a 30-38 last place finish in the first half 8 games out.
  • After a 5th place first half for Vancouver (30-33 7 1/2 out) they came in 2nd in the 2nd half 36-28, 3 games back of Spokane who won both halves.
  • Dunedin currently is 3rd in their division 33-29 4 1/2 out after a 3rd place 1st half 34-32 9 games out.
  • The FCL Jays are 12-44 dead last 22 1/2 out Yuck.
  • The DSL Jays are 30-24 10 1/2 out in 4th place
Not the best results. But only the FCL Jays were totally hopeless (given they are a pure training league I wouldn't put much weight on anything they do). Buffalo & NH both sucking hurts as those teams have the guys closest to the majors. Vancouver and Dunedin give hope though for the future. Adrian Pinto at 21 hit nicely in Vancouver (328/388/623) the highest level he reached this year but just 103 PA over 3 levels this year at 2B. Ugh. Has he had a lot of injury issues? 4 pro seasons and never more than 54 games in a season. Hopefully he gets a shot at full time play next year to see if there is anything there. Looking at most players there I see a lot of 23+ year old's so anything they do gets a big * from me. 21 year old Kendry Rojas was sweet on the mound (2.54 ERA 2.2 BB/9 10.0 K/9 in 49 2/3 IP) but really needs to be stretched out - given his 2 games in lower levels I suspect he was hurt (2 starts, then out for 2+ months - all I could find is 'unspecified aliment') - signed in 2020 so must be close to 40 man requirement - clearly in AA next year, but will he be shifted to the pen to help in '25 in the majors at some point or left in the rotation?
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