After four bad losses on Wednesday, the affiliates rebounded for five wins on Thursday. Buffalo scored fifteen runs. New Hampshire only scored two but Gage Stanifer dominated so that was enough. Dunedin also had a big offensive game scoring 12 runs.
Buffalo 15 Iowa 1
Somerset 1 New Hampshire 2
Vancouver 7 Hillsboro 2 - 7 innings
Tampa 6 Dunedin 12
FCL Blue Jays 2 FCL Tigers o
Three Stars
Third Star - Jevon Ward
Second Star - Dariel Ramon
First Star - Gage Stanifer
NOTES
Buffalo scored 15 runs on Thursday. They did have 14 hits but also walked 12 times. The two hitters with an OPS over 1.000 hit home runs. Sean Keys hit his seventh in AAA, Jay Harry hit his third and also walked three times. Charles McAdoo hit his ninth and added a single. Jevon Ward had three hits and drove in four runs. Everybody hit!
Chad Dallas started and did not allow a run in 4.1 innings.
Gage Stanifer walked 33 hitters over his first 12 starts, totaling 52 innings. Too many walks were his big issue and it also prevented him from going deeper than five innings in a game. That has changed over his last two starts. In his last start he didn't issue a walk while striking out eight in 4.2 innings. He did better on Thursday, nine strikeouts, one walk and six innings pitched. If he does this for a few more starts he could be ready for a new challenge.
In addition to Stanifer's nine K's, Mason Olson and Javen Coleman struck out six in three innings for a total strikeout tally of fifteen.
Both NH runs came in the second inning with a double from Jackson Hornung.
Vancouver scored seven runs with nine hits and no home runs. JR Freethy, Maddox Latta and Alex Stone had two hits each.
Dylan Watts had a strange start. The Hops scored two runs off him in the first inning but then he settled down to go five innings without allowing another run. He did walk five but he had zero strikeouts. The game was shortened to seven innings.
Dunedin scored 12 runs with 15 hits and, like Vancouver, no home runs. Dariel Ramon had a big game, two doubles and two singles. Jake Cook had two hits and walked three times. Giaconino Lasaracina had three hits as he gets settled into A ball. Blaine Bullard had two hits, Jojo Parker walked four times.
Silvano Hechavarria did go 5.2 innings and Tampa scored five runs off him but only two were earned.
The FCL Jays shutout the Tigers over seven innings. Four pitchers combined on the shutout. Miguel Pantoja started and just went 1.2 innings. Victor Espiritu, 21 years old, was just promoted from the DSL. He threw 2.2 innings. Alex Arias had two hits and drove in the first run.
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