Vancouver won again and are headed to the playoffs on the back of two wins in a row. Dunedin also ended their season on a high, they won on Sunday for their sixth win in a row. They did not make the playoffs. Vancouver starts their playoff on Tuesday in a best of five, winner take all, series.
Buffalo had a big win with Orelvis back in the lineup. New Hampshire lost, their season cannot end soon enough.
Lehigh Valley 3 Buffalo 9
Portland 8 New Hampshire 5
Eugene 4 Vancouver 8
Dunedin 4 Tampa 2
Three Stars
Third Star - Alan Roden
Second Star - Josh Kasevich
First Star - Yohendrick Pinango
NOTES
Orelvis Martinez was back and it helped lengthen the lineup. The Bisons had twelve hits, with seven doubles. Orelvis had two hits, both doubles. Alan Roden and Will Robertson singled and doubled. Josh Kasevich had three hits.
Orelvis played third in this game. It will be interesting to see where he plays over the next two weeks. He had been playing at second before the suspension, but now there are other players ready to play second. He could be ticketed for third depending on whether the Jays think Barger is a third baseman or an eventual replacement for Springer.
Trenton Wallace started. He loaded the bases with no outs in the first inning. He had two baserunners in the second, two more in the third and just one in the fourth. But he held them off the board, so four innings, one run, six K's. The Bisons used four other pitchers including Emmanuel Ramirez who pitched a 1-2-3 seventh and Dillon Tate who hit a batter in the ninth but otherwise got three outs.
Dahian Santos started for New Hampshire and it didn't go well. He walked three of the first four hitters, then a double and a single led to four runs. That was it for Santos. NH got three of those back when Yohendrick Pinango hit his first home run as a Blue Jay. Pinango drove in the fourth and tying run with a ground out. Ryan Jennings took the loss by giving up a run in the seventh and Hunter Gregory gave up three more in the eighth.
The Cats had six hits, Devonte Brown had two.
Pat Gallagher started for Vancouver and gave up back to back jacks in the first inning. The C's scored three in the bottom of the first with two hits, a walk, a hit batter, an error and a wild pitch. The C's added three more in the fourth capped by a two run home run from Marcos De La Rosa and two in the fifth.
Pat Gallagher settled down after conceding in the first inning, he went five innings with just the two home runs on his record.
The C's had eight hits, Jace Bohrofen had a single, double and a walk.
Dunedin scored first, Arjun Nimmala doubled and later scored on an error. The Jays trailed 2-1 in the seventh. Aaron Parker doubled, Eddie Micheletti walked and Brock Tibbets hit a three run home run, his first of the season. That was it for the scoring. The Jays had just four hits. Nimmala had two of them. Nimmala's OPS for the last three months was .881, .871 and .976. He is still 18 years old.
Colby Holcombe started and went three shutout innings. Luis Torres threw the last three innings. He struck out five and has K'd 33 in 24 A level innings. However the lefty threw his changeup almost 50% of the time on Sunday. His next used pitch was his slider, combined he threw them 80% of the time.
