Monday night saw the affiliates win four of the seven games that were completed. Vancouver is within a game of first place as the first half of the Northwest League season enters its final week.

Today the farm went 4-2, with two rainouts for Dunedin.  Ricky Romero had a fantastic start for Buffalo versus a veteran Scranton W/B lineup.  Marcus Stroman had another quality start by the books for NH in an game that went into extra innings.  DJ Davis lead the Bluefield attack in which they scored 9 runs.

Buffalo played a doubleheader and Kevin Pillar was hitless in both games. In total he was 0-5. The Bisons lost both ends. Joining them in the losers club were Lansing, thanks to six errors, Vancouver, who also had a key error, and the GCL Jays. JA Happ started for the GCL Jays and he made his own error leading to unearned runs against him. New Hampshire won as Deck McGuire had a decent start. Bluefield had just four hits but scored six runs and won. Adonys Cardona pitched well. Dunedin were rained out again.

Rain kept Buffalo, New Hampshire and Bluefield off the field. Elsewhere the affiliates were 2-2. Dwight Smith hit a two run go-ahead home run in the seventh to pace Lansing to a 4-3 win. Jordan Leyland had 4 RBI's in Vancouver's 8-4 win. Dunedin were shutout despite Melky Cabrera being in the lineup. The GCL Jays were also shut out despite having one hitter with four hits and another with three.

The affiliates were 4-1 tonight. While rain thwarted a Drew Hutchison and Kyle Drabek tandem pitching performance down in Dunedin, it stayed away from Buffalo, New Hampshire, Vancouver, Lansing, and our DSL affiliate. Only Lansing wished it too had swamped them out. Brett Lawrie played second and struck out four times. Gabe Jacobo marked his first game this season up with New Hampshire with a homerun and a double. Some solid starting pitching across the board, but as has become common in these parts—the lack of prospects has meant a lack of big time performances and tonight was one of those nights.

The farm was 4-1 today, with two rain outs.  The GCL Bluejays lost despite having 7 triples.  Vancouver won a game in the bottom of the ninth inning.  Avendano had his best start of the year for Lansing.  Austin Bibens-Dirkx was fantastic versus Tampa and the rehabbing Alex-Rodriguez.  Mauro Gomez hit his 25th HR helping Buffalo to the win over their neighbours Syracuse.

A 2-3 night on the farm but some signs of encouragement came in Central New York Tuesday night. New Hampshire, Lansing and Vancouver were off. No score from the DSL as of press time.

A winning Monday night for a change as the affiliates won four out of seven despite being on the wrong side of a no-hitter. New Hampshire came up with a rain dance to preserve a win. Buffalo had the night off.

New Hampshire scored 16 runs with great performances from their hitting and pitching.  Buffalo won both games in a double header versus Syracuse, and Vancouver lost a 19 inning marathon.

Noah Syndergaard beat the Fisher Cats by not allowing an earned run in seven innings. Brett Lawrie had 2 hits DH'ing in that game. Vancouver laid down a beating. The GCL Jays won both ends of a doubleheader.

Elsewhere the news was not as good. Buffalo and Dunedin had chances to tie the games in the ninth but fell short. Lansing were one hit. Bluefield had just five hits.

Ryan Schimpf hit a three run home run to deliver a one run win to New Hampshire. Four teams suffered walk-off losses, Buffalo in the ninth, Dunedin in the 11th, Vancouver in the 10th and Bluefield in the 13th. Lansing lost a walk-fest.

Brett Lawrie was hitless. Among prospects Pillar and Gose were also without a hit, AJ Jimenez had a couple including a big fly, Burns had one, Nessy also hit one out, Michael Crouse had three hits, Matt Dean had two. Deck McGuire gave up five runs in five innings.

Comebacks galore as a few clubs must have been watching Independence Day today before playing on Independence Day. Bluefield came from behind, Dunedin walked off, and New Hampshire would have too if it weren’t Kevin Ahrens. The affiliates were 4-4 on the day.

Roberto Osuna had his worst career outing, could another visit to the doctor be coming soon?  Sean Nolin had another fantastic start for New Hampshire, with offensive help from Ryan Schimpf.  Dunedin lost in extra innings, despite a strong outing from Aaron Sanchez. 

The affiliates finished with three wins in five tries Tuesday night with all starting pitching performances rating from awesome to half-decent. The GCL Blue Jays had a doubleheader rained out while Dunedin and Bluefield had the day off.

In other words, not as much detail in this one. The affiliates lost four of five, including a shutout and an extra-innings loss.