Aaron Sanchez made his highly anticipated AAA debut on Saturday. On paper it was not a good start, he gave up five runs in four plus innings. But there were some mitigating factors that made his start not as bad as it seems from the stat line. New Hampshire were shutout and lost 1-0. Lansing and Vancouver won. Several Dunedin players did well at the FSL all-start game.
Buffalo 2 Toledo 7
Aaron Sanchez AAA debut did not go according to plan. The first three innings were decent, they were scoreless with two hits and two walks. In the fourth a pair of two out hits generated two runs for Toledo, although according to game reports the second run scored when Colby Rasmus lost a ball in the sun. Sanchez left with no outs in the fifth having walked a couple more and given up an infield hit. John Stilson replaced Sanchez he let all the runners score plus a couple of his own. Sanchez final line was 4 6 5 4 4 2. He threw 86 pitches, 47 strikes.
Kevin Pillar went 3-4 with two of the hits doubles. Ryan Goins had two hits. Colby Rasmus was 1-4 with 2 K's.
New Hampshire 0 Richmond 1
The only run came in the first inning, a triple and a sac fly was the difference in this game. Radhames Liz went five innings and took the loss.
The Fisher Cats had just five hits, Mike Crouse had two of them.
Dunedin - All Star Break
The all-star game was held Saturday and the D-Jays all contributed. Dwight Smith, Dalton Pompey, KC Hobson and Derrick Chung each had a hit. Pompey's hit was a triple.
Taylor Cole started the game and had an unusual three up and three down inning. The second and third hitters singled and both were thrown out at second.
Lansing 3 Great Lakes 0
Frank Viola put on ten baserunners in 6.2 innings but the defense turned five double plays behind him. Phil Kish and Griffin Murphy finished up.
Lansing scored a couple in the third, Matt Dean singled in one run and the second scored on a sac fly from LB (tiny) Dantzler. DJ Davis supplied a sac fly to drive in the fifth run. Jason Leblebijian went 3-4, Dean and Dantzler had two hits each.
Vancouver 3 Salem-Keizer 1
Jairo Labourt had some control problems in Lansing. His control was not a problem for his first three innings, he didn't walk anyone. But in the fourth he walked the bases full but escaped without allowing a run. He pitched four scoreless. Four relievers pitched the last five innings.
Vancouver scored two in the third. Two singles and a hit batter loaded the bases. The runs scored on a ground out and an error. In the eighth Franklin Barreto doubled in Roemon Fields who had walked. The Canadians had six hits, six hitters had one hit each.
3 Stars
3rd star: Matt Dean
2nd star: Kevin Pillar
1st star: Frank Viola
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