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New Hampshire lost big and ugly. The pitching was bad, the hitting was bad and the only pitcher with a clean slate was outfielder Matt Newman. The Bisons loss wasn't that bad but there was little good about it.

The two lower teams saved the day, Dunedin swept a doubleheader while Lansing won in extras.



Buffalo 0 Louisville 6

Chad Jenkins started, pitched five innings, and was charged with four runs, three earned. Ryan Rowland-Smith gave up the other two runs.

The Bisons could only muster five hits, Darin Mastroianni had two.


Portland 18 New Hampshire 0

This performance was bad from top to bottom. Aaron Sanchez couldn't throw a strike and was gone in the first inning having surrendered six runs. John Anderson and Tony Davis were almost as bad. Matt Newman showed them how with a 1-2-3 ninth.

The offense had four hits.


Lakeland 6 Dunedin 8 - game 1

Lakeland scored 4 runs in the top of the fourth to take a 6-2 lead. That was the end of the game for starter Ben White. But Dunedin came back in the bottom of the inning to score six and held on from there to win. Dunedin's bullpen, as in three relievers, pitched the last 3.1 innings without allowing a hit.

The Jays had four doubles in that six run inning, from Kellen Sweeney, KC Hobson, Marcus Knecht and Dwight Smith. Knecht and Jorge Flores had two hits each.


Lakeland Dunedin - game 2

Dunedin took a 2-0 lead by the fourth. In the second Hobson singled, Patterson doubled and Emilio Guerrero singled in a run. In the fourth Dalton Pompey singled in Derrick Chung.

Efrain Nieves made the spot start and went four strong. He left after a lead off double in the fifth. Chad Girodo got three ground balls but the run scored. Girodo went on to pitch three shutout innings for the win.


Lansing 4 Fort Wayne 3 - 10 innings

The Lugnuts rotation has been hurt by injuries so they added a free agent, Brad Allen, a 25 year old who had been with South Bend. Allen went five innings and just conceded one run. The lead in this game went back and forth and ultimately the game went to extra innings.

Leading off the tenth Dawel Lugo tripled but the next two hitters struck out. Then Jason Leblebijian added an RBI triple for the winning run. Lugo went 4-5, apart from his triple two of his singles moved runners into scoring position from where they scored.


3 Stars

3rd star: Chad Girodo

2nd star: Jason Leblebijian

1st star: Dawel Lugo


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Mike Green - Sunday, May 25 2014 @ 07:13 AM EDT (#286840) #
It's easy to forget it, but Lugo is only 18 years old.  Holding his own in the Midwest League at this age is a good sign. 
John Northey - Sunday, May 25 2014 @ 12:55 PM EDT (#286872) #
Checking B-R Lugo is 2 1/2 years younger than the average for the Midwest League.  The big issue for him is his BB-SO ratio - 6-26 this year, 19-92 lifetime in 625 PA.  As a shortstop you can live with it, but I'd like those K's to drop and walks to climb given he has just 10 HR in those PA.  His SB-CS is 8-1, a good ratio but not blazing speed by any stretch. I'd say best case right now is Alex Gonzalez #1, who at 19 was at a similar level (full season A, below Dunedin) and was 2.2 years below league average with a 38-119 BB-SO ratio and a 724 OPS.  Gonzo moved to AA the next season (790 OPS) and AAA the next (796 OPS) with a cup of coffee in Toronto and full time majors at 22 but would proceed to reach 100 for OPS+ just once in his career (over just 173 PA) with his 2 other times in the 90's being after he left Toronto.

If Lugo turns into that it'd be good, but hopefully the Jays play it a bit slower and work on that BB-SO ratio as if he gets that under control he could be a far more useful hitter.  Hopefully his fielding is high end (always hard to know with minor leaguers...Sierra had a great rep at one time for an example).
Richard S.S. - Sunday, May 25 2014 @ 02:41 PM EDT (#286877) #
...Sierra had a great rep at one time...

Until he muscled up, then he had trouble doing anything well.
dan gordon - Sunday, May 25 2014 @ 03:50 PM EDT (#286883) #
Lugo was born in 1994, he's 19 years old.
TangledUpInBlue - Monday, May 26 2014 @ 03:00 AM EDT (#286907) #
Well there are years and then there are months. Lugo was born in December, so he's 18.
TangledUpInBlue - Monday, May 26 2014 @ 03:02 AM EDT (#286908) #
Oh, and then there's bad math! You're right, of course -- he's 19.
TangledUpInBlue - Monday, May 26 2014 @ 03:10 AM EDT (#286909) #
If Lugo turns into that it'd be good, but hopefully the Jays play it a bit slower and work on that BB-SO ratio as if he gets that under control he could be a far more useful hitter.

Right, especially if he's young for his level. This is the time to tell him to get his walk rate up if he wants a promotion.
Mike Green - Monday, May 26 2014 @ 07:54 AM EDT (#286911) #
Thanks, dan. Dawel is indeed of legal drinking age in Ontario.
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