After a perfect first night the Jays go 2-1 on Friday. Deck McGuire pitched well for New Hampshire and AJ Jimenez had three hits to lead the Fisher Cats to the win. Lansing got good pitching from three prospects plus good hitting from several hitters to win easily. Dunedin lost in extra innings despite excellent pitching by Taylor Cole. Buffalo were rained out.
Rochester at Buffalo - postponed
New Hampshire 7 Trenton 3
The Fisher Cats scored in four innings to build a 7-0 lead. AJ Jimenez led the offense with three hits, including two doubles, and two RBI's. Jon Berti also had two hits and two RBI. Brad Glenn also had two hits including a double.
Deck McGuire pitched well, he went 5.1 and only allowed three hits. The one run he allowed was unearned and scored after he left the game. Two new Jays, Richard Bleier and Gregory Infante, were not as good as McGuire and Infante gave up a couple of runs. John Anderson pitched the ninth.
Dunedin 1 Clearwater 2 - 10 innings
This was a pitchers duel. Taylor Cole pitched six innings and did allow one run. He only gave up one hit but it was a triple and that runner scored. Dunedin scored their run in the first inning, Dwight Smith reached on an error and scored on a sac fly from Kc Hobson.
Danny Barnes pitched the ninth and in the tenth he walked the first hitter. Michael Reeves threw the ball away on a sac bunt putting runners on second and third with no outs. A single won the game for the Phillies. Reeves let a runner reach on interference, had a passed ball and caught a runner stealing. He halso had one of the two Dunedin hits.
Lansing 8 Lake County 2
The Lugnuts scored in each of the first five innings. Among the big hits were: Mitch Nay doubled in a run in the first; DJ Davis doubled in a run in the second; Jason Leblebijian doubled in a run in the third and Carlos Ramirez tripled in a run in the fourth. The Luggies had 11 hits, Davis, Nay, Leblebijian and Jorge Saeez had two each.
The Lugnuts pitchers did well. Jairo Labourt started followed by Brady Dragmire and Alberto Tirado.
Labourt 3.1 2 1 1 4 4 Dragmire 1.2 1 0 0 0 2 Tirado 4.0 5 1 1 1 7
Three Stars
1st Star: AJ Jimenez
2nd Star: Taylor Cole
3rd Star: Deck McGuire
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