Canadian Andrew Case got to pitch for Vancouver on Canada Day at Nat Bailey Stadium.
A pretty good day on the farm and an especially good one for the lone Canadian affiliate. It all added up to five wins in eight tries.
Canadian Andrew Case got to pitch for Vancouver on Canada Day at Nat Bailey Stadium.
Buffalo 5 Syracuse 4 (10 Innings)
Syracuse, NY - A.J. Jimenez drove home the overtime winner with a double to score a Dan Johnson walk. The other Bison runs came in the fourth when Erik Kratz produced a sacrifice fly and Jonathan Diaz (of all people!) cleared the bases with a three-run double. You can say that about someone when they're hitting .158. Kratz, Jimenez and Ryan Goins were the two-hit trio with Goins stealing a base. Jimenez walked to get on base three times. The on-base leader was Johnson, who was 1-for-2 with three bases on balls. Kevin Pillar tripled and walked while Jared Goedert and Ryan Schimpf singled and walked. Kenny Wilson was 0-for-5.
Deck McGuire got his card punched for three runs, two of them the result of homers, against the Nationals affiliate. He pitched 5.1 innings and gave up seven hits and two walks with only one strikeout. Six of his 11 outs were on the ground. Rob Rasmussen allowed the other run despite just one hit and three K's over 1.1 frames. Luis Ayala allowed that Rasmussen runner to score on one hit but struck out another in his two-thirds of an inning. Mike "The Big" Zagurski (3-0) limited the Chiefs to just one hit and struck out three over 1.2 innings. Bobby Korecky survived a pair of hits to close things out for his 10th save. His earned run average is just 0.60.
New Hampshire 6 Reading 2
Reading, PA - A four-run frame also did the trick for the Fisher Cats as they produced their runs in the fifth. Jack Murphy mashed a two-run homer to score a Pierce Rankin double and Andy Burns belted his own two-run shot to plate a Jorge Flores single. Kevin Nolan also went yard in the sixth. The final run was a bases-loaded walk by Dalton Pompey. Burns, Nolan and Flores had two notches in the hit column. Murphy also walked and Pompey collected his first Double-A hit, a triple. Mike Crouse was the on-base leader with a hit and two free passes. Rankin also took one for the team to reach base twice. On the flip side, Jon Berti and Mike McDade wore 0-for-5 collars.
John Anderson was one out short of qualifying for the W. In his 4.2 innings, he surrendered two runs on four hits with one K and no walks. Dustin Antolin (3-3) pitched a one-hitter over 2.1 frames with one punchout. Randy Boone also gave up just one hit over two frames, striking out a couple of Fightin Phils for his ninth save.
Dunedin 1 Clearwater 0
Clearwater, FL - Dwight Smith Jr. knocked home the only run of the game in the eighth inning with a double to score a Christian Lopes pop-up single to second. Smith Jr. drew a walk and was the only Jay to reach base twice. Emilio Guerrero, Andy Fermin and Nick Baligod had the other base knocks. Peter Mooney and L.B. Dantzler got to hear ball four once. Santiago Nessy and Gustavo Pierre were both 0-for-4.
Kendall Graveman was deserving of a win against the Phillies affiliate after going six shutout innings with just five hits allowed and a 4-0 K/BB total. Eight of his 12 outs in play remained in the diamond. Justin Jackson (4-1) struck out a batter in a clean seventh. Efrain Nieves threw a one-hit eighth with one strikeout while Arik Sikula also had a K in a perfect ninth for save number 16.
West Michigan 12 Lansing 4
Comstock Park, MI - So much for a perfect day on the farm! The Tigers affiliate did quite a number on Chase De Jong (0-5), who could not get out of the second inning. In 1.2 innings, he was gonged for six runs on seven hits with a couple of strikeouts. Brent Powers had an organizational debut to forget. The former Oakland farmhand stranded a runner before browning out for a pair of runs on a hit and three walks over 1.1 innings. Matt Dermody lasted three frames and was cuffed around for two runs on four hits, including a home run. Scott Silverstein allowed the same number of runs and hits as Dermody but over two innings. Dermody and Silverstein both struck out two hitters but Dermody walked one.
The Lugnuts held a 1-0 lead after Anthony Alford led off the game with a single, stole second, advanced to third on a Dickie Joe Thon groundout and scored on a Mitch Nay single. The other runs came in the fourth on an error and RBI groundouts by Alford and Thon. Alford was 1-for-4 with two strikeouts in his Lansing debut. Daniel Klein had the lone extra-base hit with a double. Matt Dean, Dawel Lugo and Chaz Frank also put a one in the hit column with Frank stealing a base. Jason Leblebijian walked and was hit by a pitch. David Harris also took one for the team. Derrick Loveless was 0-for-1 after replacing Alford.
Vancouver 8 Salem-Keizer 4
YDR winning in YVR! Yeyfry Del Rosario earned his first win of the season with 2.1 innings of shutout relief.
Vancouver, BC - The parent club were not the only winners on Canadian soil. The C's broke out on top with three runs in the first two innings on RBI singles by Franklin Barreto and Chris Carlson in the first and by Roemon Fields in the second. Seth Conner highlighted a three-run third with a two-run double before scoring on a Michael De La Cruz base hit. De La Cruz doubled home another run in the fifth. An error led to the final run in the sixth. Every Vancouver hitter was represented in the hit column. De La Cruz doubled twice while Fields and Tim Locastro had two-hit afternoons with Locastro stealing a base. Carlson had three walks to go with his single. Barreto and Jonathan Davis also swiped a base. Ryan Metzler singled and walked and Ryan McBroom added a double.
Bluefield, WV - The Jays hacked up a 7-2 lead before rallying late. They pounced on the Rays with a four-run first inning. Dan Jansen singled home the first run, Trent Miller doubled home two more and Gabriel Cenas singled home another. Josh Almonte had an RBI single in the second and that was followed by a two-run fourth when Jesus Gonzalez tripled home a run before scoring on a Richard Urena sacrifice fly. Cenas hammered his first homer of the year, a three-run shot in the seventh, to give the Jays the lead for good. Miller doubled home another run as part of a three-run eighth. Cenas was 3-for-5 and was a triple short of the cycle. Almonte had the other three-hit effort for Bluefield. Jansen, Miller and Rolando Segovia had two-hit efforts. Gonzalez and Urena both had a hit and a walk apiece. Rowdy Tellez and Austin Davis were both hitless but they did earn a walk apiece.
Wednesday's Schedule & Probable Starters...
DSL Mets2 @ DSL Blue Jays, 10:30 am ET - TBA.
GCL Yankees2 @ GCL Blue Jays, 12:00 pm ET - TBA.
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre @ Buffalo (DH), 5:35 pm ET - P.J. Walters (2-0, 1.50) & Raul Valdes (3-1, 3.70).
Lansing @ West Michigan, 7:00 pm ET - Brad Allen (3-1, 4.46).
New Hampshire @ Reading, 7:05 pm ET - Radhames Liz (0-1, 1.11).
Salem-Keizer @ Vancouver, 10:05 pm ET - TBA.
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