Only one win on the farm on Wednesday. The GCL Jays season ended with a cancelled game. Dunedin delivered the only win behind good pitching from Reidier Gonzalez. Pitcher Chi-Hung Cheng was released by the Jays yesterday. Cheng had been unable to return from labrum surgery and was in his third season in Lansing.
Shaun Marcum started and pitched well, seven innings, three runs on five hits and nine K's. Marcum gave up two runs in the first inning on four hits including a triple to ex-teammate Howie Clark. The only hit he allowed after the first was an RBI double by Ryan Jorgensen.
The Chiefs tied the game in the second when Travis Snider hit a two run home run, his second at AAA. The Chiefs had a couple of opportunities after that but couldn't get a run home off Philip Humber and the bullpen.
The Chiefs outhit Rochester 9-8, Travis Snider and Russ Adams had two hits each.
It was the bad Robert Ray who showed up to pitch last night. Ray has been very inconsistent and last night he was gone in the fourth inning having given up six runs and included a hit batter and hitters reaching on wild pitches. New Hampshire's runs came on three solo home runs, by Eric Kratz, Brian Dopirak and David Smith.
The Fisher Cats had 9 hits, Kratz had two.
Excellent pitching by the Jays, Reidier Gonzalez pitched six innings of three hit ball, one run allowed, Nate Starner, back in the bulllpen, pitched two shutout innings and Celson Polanco finished out. The Jays scored twice in the first inning, David Cooper and Cory Patton singled, matt Liuzza walked and Anthony Hatch drove in two runs with a single. The game remained at 2-1 until the bottom of the eighth, Cooper Doubled, Hatch was intentionally walked, followed by a two run triple by Chris Emanuele. Emanuele scored on an error.
Dunedin had 11 hits, Hatch had 3, Cooper and Patton had two each.
Lansing's offensive woes continue, they had only four hits in this game. Jimmy Dougher started and gave up back to back jacks in the first inning to put Lansing down 3-0. Dougher settled down until the fifth when he hit Neftali Soto, who had homered in the first, an accident? The other hitter who had homered in the first, Brandon Waring made Dougher pay by launching a two run home run to deep centrefield to make it 5-0. Lansing scored two in the seventh when the Dayton pitcher walked the first two hitters, Manny Rodriguez drove in one with a double, Eric Eiland doubled in a second. Dayton made it close in the eighth by committing three errors to let lansing back in the game at 5-4. But Lansing did not get another baserunner after that.
Two Auburn call-ups, Danny Farquhar and Bobby Bell pitched well in relief.
Since the NY-P all-star game Castillo Perez has not pitched well, in this game he only lasted four innings and gave up five runs on seven hits. Auburn had six hits, one of them a home run from Bartolo Nicolas.
GCL Jays at GCL Indians
The GCL Jays finished their season with a whimper yesterday as the game was cancelled due to wet grounds.
3 star selection
3rd star - Travis Snider
2nd star - Anthony Hatch
1st star - Reidier Gonzalez
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