The affiliates finished one game from Saturday, didn't finish one that started today, and, all told, managed to win three of four.

After a miserable stretch of games for the parent club, the minor leagues provided no relief last night, as only rain prevented an 0-4 record on the day. As it was, the affiliates went 0-3 and our Double and Triple-A teams combined to score one run. The farm system hasn't won a game since Thursday. It was such a poor night that I gave two of the three stars to losing pitchers. If you’re hungry for more losses after the past four games for the Blue Jays, read on. It’s not as painful, but results are all the same.

Four losses.  Brandon League took the loss for the Chiefs in extra innings.  Vernon Wells and John McDonald had more than half of Dunedin's hits.  Lansing threw the game away and New Hampshire lost easily.

With the Jays sent to infuse the system with fresh wave of talent, thanks to the 2008 MLB Amateur Draft, two affiliates had very good nights.

John Parrish, Gus Chacin and Marc Rzepczynski delivered excellent starts and each team won.  New Hampshire were the victims of a perfect game for 7.1 innings and lost.  JP Arencibia had four RBI's.

A come-from-behind victory for New Hampshire and a fifth consecutive win for your first place Lansing Lugnuts highlight a .500 night on the farm.

After scoring 11 runs and losing by 6 on Sunday the Fishercats took no chances and scored 17 on Monday as the affiliates were a perfect 4-0 on the night.

The affiliates blanked a couple of opponents and gave up 17 to another.

After what was nearly a two hour rain delay the Portland Beavers and New Hampshire Fisher Cats resumed their game, and Portland may have wished the game was postponed, as the Fisher Cats had twenty-three men reach base. While Brett Cecil was likely understandably frustrated, I don’t think Ryan Patterson will object to any rain delays in the future. Meanwhile, Syracuse lost a close, low-scoring game and Lansing and Dunedin combined to score 14 runs and allow 14 runs, so it was only fair (and mathematically possible) that one of them won and one of them lost.

The good: John Parrish whose six shutout innings lead the Chiefs to an easy win.  JP Arencibia who stayed red-hot with three hits.  And Marc Rzepczynski and Edgar Estanga who combined on a shutout.

The bad: Gustavo Chacin who gave up six runs in 3.2 innings putting Dunedin in a hole they couldn't get out of.

The ugly: Ricky Romero, eight hits and six runs allowed in three innings, as well as Jamie Vermilyea who followed Romero by giving up eight runs in 2.2 innings, ruining a 16 hit outburst by the offense.

Four games played and the affiliates scored a total of six runs. Enough said...

Three wins!  Syracuse and Dunedin had easy wins, the Chiefs rode good pitching and lots of hitting to victory, while Dunedin used three two-run home runs and a great start by Robert Ray.  New Hampshire had to go elevn innings to win, Lansing lost as Randy Boone finally struggled.  It was another day, another shortstop for the Chiefs as Danny Sandoval joined the team and immediately contributed.

For New Hampshire - it's alright, they're doing fine as they contributed two wins to a 3-1 record for the affiliates last night.  Dunedin went deep four times as they reached double digits and Lansing is tied for first in their division and they didn't have to do a thing to earn it as they had the night off.  As for Syracuse, they got a taste of their own medicine.

Travis Snider continues to warm up to AA pitching.  The affiliates went 2-1 on the day.

The affiliates went 2-2 on Sunday but Catcher J.P. Arencibia was again the story.