It is tough to win both ends of a doubleheader. On Saturday both Buffalo and Dunedin did just that. Vancouver won with a little league home run and the FCL Jays also won. New Hampshire were the only losers, six wins and just one loss.
Scranton 2 Buffalo 5 - game one
Scranton 1 Buffalo 3 - game two
Portland 8 New Hampshire 3
Everett 6 Vancouver 7
Lakeland 3 Dunedin 7 - game one, resumption of suspended game
Lakeland 5 Dunedin 6 - game two, eight innings
FCL Tigers 4 FCL Blue Jays 7
Three Stars
Third Star - Blaine Bullard
Second Star - Juan Sanchez
First Star - Alex Arias
NOTES
In the first Buffalo game Charles McAdoo and Davis Schneider hit home runs. Willie MacIver doubled and tripled, Josh Kasevich had two singles.
Simeon Woods Richardson went five innings. The Yankees got to him for two solo home runs but that was all the runs he allowed. He had two K's.
Jake Bloss started game two and just allowed one unearned run in four innings. The Yankees had four hits and Bloss struck out two. He was pulled after 63 pitches. Lazaro Estrada followed and he shut down the Yankees for two innings.
Three hitters accounted for the six Bison hits. Yohendrick Pinango homered off ex-teammate Adam Kloffenstein and added a double. Davis Schneider and Kasevich had two hits also.
Hedbert Perez homered for NH, a two run shot. He and Eddie Micheletti had two hits each.
Chris McElvain had another rough start. Portland scored five runs off him in 3.2 innings. McElvain's ERA is 6.82.
In Vancouver Johnny King again had first inning troubles. He walked the first hitter who stole second and scored on a single. King's first inning ERA is 6.06. Everett had two doubles off King in the fourth inning to score another run. King struck out seven in five innings but walked three. The came back out for the sixth but walked a hitter after getting one out. Reece Wissinger came on and let that walk score with three more and the C's were down 6-3.
Trailing 6-4 in the bottom of the eighth the C's took the lead in the strangest way. First Peyton Williams doubled in two runs to tie the game. Manuel Beltre hit a bloop to centre field. The centre fielder came in to make a sliding catch but the ball popped out of his glove. Williams took off for third but was tagged out. Beltre took off for second on the play and the third baseman threw to second to try and get Beltre out. But the ball sailed into centre field where the CF had already run in trying to make the sliding catch. Beltre then was able to score on what was a little league home run. Essentially he singled and scored on the same play.
Wissinger got the win, retiring 11 of the last 12 hitters he faced after coming into the game and giving up three runs. Mathieu Vallee had three hits, Casey and Jacob Sharp had two each.
In Dunedin's first game, which was the resumption of a suspended game, Juan Sanchez had one hit but it was a grand slam. It was his fifth home run. Brock Tibbets had three hits, Jake Cook and Will Cresswell two each.
In game two Blaine Bullard had a three run double in the second inning. It was part of a 4 run inning and the Jays had a nice lead. The starter was Denis Samudio who struck out nine in 5.1 innings. He had only given up one run until the sixth where a home run made it 4-2. A single that followed had him removed from the game but Lluveres Severino let that run score. Another run off Severino tied the game in the top of the seventh.
The Jays walked it off in the eighth with a Cook single. They were helped by a passed ball, two walks and an error.
In the FCL Alex Arias singled, doubled and tripled and drove in three runs. Colby Holcombe continued his rehab with two innings pitched.
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