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Las Vegas won big in Colorado behind a great night at the plate by Jason Lane. New Hampshire was postponed while Andrew Liebel suffered another loss in Dunedin. Meanwhile, a former Blue Jay farmhand came back to haunt the Jays as scored the winning run in Lansing’s extra-inning loss.


Las Vegas 14 @ Colorado Springs 4 Boxscore

In a surprise to absolutely no one, it was a high-scoring affair in Colorado as Las Vegas held an 8-4 lead after three innings. Las Vegas handed Fabio Castro a nice 3-0 lead in the top of the first as the 51s strung together a two-out rally. Randy Ruiz drew a walk and then JP Arencibia doubled to left. Brett Harper also worked a base on balls and then Jason Lane cleared the bases with a double. Colorado Springs scored one in the bottom of the frame and then the teams traded runs in the second. Las Vegas scored a run on an error by the third baseman, but he atoned by coming around to score on a rally that included a single by Sal Fasano.

The 51s scored four in third on a pair of homers. Lane hit a solo homer and was later in the frame Buck Coats hit a two-out three-run homer that scored Russ Adams and Jonathan Diaz. Las Vegas tried not scoring in the fourth inning, but didn’t like how that felt, so they put up a 3-spot in the fifth. Jason Lane singled, Adams walked and then Diaz did, as well. Errors by both middle infielders led to three runs for Las Vegas and gave the 51s an 11-4 lead.

Fabio Castro left after the sixth inning. He allowed four runs on five hits with a pair of strikeouts. Castro struggled with his command at times, walking four and striking out two. It wasn’t his strongest start, although he did throw nearly 60% of his 99 pitches for strikes. TJ Beam pitched 2 innings of one-hit ball and Bryan Bullington finished it off.  For good measure the 51s put up another three runs in the eighth on another pair of homers. Ruiz hit a homer and then after a Harper walk Lane hit his second homer of the game to cap a 5-for-5 night. The rest of the 51s only had seven hits, three of which were by Russ Adams.

New Hampshire @ Akron – Postponed

Postponed.

Dunedin 2 @ Charlotte 7
Boxscore

Andrew Liebel’s rough beginning to his professional career, at least in terms of his won-loss record, continued as he fell to 1-8 on the season. Liebel went 5 innings and allowed 8 hits and 6 runs. Although Dunedin did commit three errors, all of the runs were earned. Liebel was hurt by a poor fourth inning, as Charlotte strung together four consecutive hits during a five-run frame. Celson Polanco threw 2 innings of relief and allowed one run. That run came on a walk, a pair of sacrifices flies and a wild pitch with two out. Zach Dials pitched the eighth without incident.

Moises Sierra was the only Blue Jay with a multi-hit game, as he went 2-for-3 with a double, a triple and a walk. Both runs came in the third inning, as Sierra tripled to score Scott Campbell from first and was promptly doubled home by Eric Thames. Every Dunedin hitter from one through seven had a hit, with only Justin Jackson and Sean Shoffit going hitless. Jackson drew Dunedin’s other walk and Jonathan Jaspe was the only player aside from Thames and Sierra to have an extra-base hit. Adam Loewen went 1-for-4 with three strikeouts and one of Dunedin’s three errors in the field.

Great Lakes 3 @ Lansing 2 (10 innings) – Boxscore

John Anderson started for Lansing and went 7 innings. He allowed two runs on five hits. Three of those hits came in the first inning, when Anderson allowed both of his runs, the second scoring on a balk. After that Anderson did a very good Brian Tallet, allowing two hits and no runs over the last six innings.

However, Anderson departed trailing 2-1, as Lansing struck for one in the bottom of the fifth but left the bases loaded. With two out Balbino Fuenmayor singled and then Chris Emanuele doubled him to third. Tyler Pastornicky walked and then Brian Van Kirk drew another bases on balls with the bases loaded. Johermyn Chavez couldn’t cash in the runners though and struck out swinging.

Boomer Potts had a 1-2-3 inning in the top of the eighth and turned things over to the lineup for a chance to tie the game. Chavez drew a walk and an error on a pickoff attempt advanced him to second. Justin McClanahan couldn’t advance the runner and Mark Sobolewski flew out, leaving Chavez at third with two out. Michael McDade came through in the clutch situation, singling to centre and cashing Chavez. Potts had another 1-2-3 inning and Tyler Pastornicky singled with two out in the bottom of the ninth. Pastornicky advanced to second on a balk and Great Lakes chose to walk Van Kirk to get to Chavez. Chavez couldn’t get the runner in this time, either, and flew out.

In the tenth Potts retired the first two batters he faced before former Jay farmhand Anthony Hatch drew a walk. A single to left advanced Hatch to second and drove Potts from the game. Yorman Mayora then walked both of the next two hitters to score Hatch with the winning run. Mayora struck out the next batter, but Lansing went without a fight in the bottom of the tenth.

Three Stars
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3rd Star – Moises Sierra, 2-3, R, 2B, 3B, RBI, BB, 5 TB
2nd Star – John Anderson, 7 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 0 BB, 4 K
1st Star – Jason Lane, 5-5, 3 R, 2B, 2 HR, 6 RBI, 12 TB


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Hodgie - Friday, June 12 2009 @ 10:19 AM EDT (#201264) #
Moises Sierra is hitting a tidy .444/.524/.722 with a 6:5 BB/K in his lst 10 games. To this point he has increased his walk rate to 12.6% from last year's 7% and has significantly reduced his K rate to 14% from 23.3%. Those are very good signs for a 20 year player in A+ and when combined with his other attributes seem to point to an intriguing prospect.
Mike Green - Friday, June 12 2009 @ 10:19 AM EDT (#201265) #
Pastornicky reached base 4 times in 5 tries, and again stole a base without being caught (his success rate is now 75% on the season after a rough start). 
chris_jays - Friday, June 12 2009 @ 10:33 AM EDT (#201266) #
I for one would love to see russ adams called up to take away some of the at bats for kevin millar against RHP.

Adams had another 3 hits last night and is hitting .368

Anyone think the Jays will give him a chance?

Pistol - Friday, June 12 2009 @ 10:43 AM EDT (#201267) #
Another 3 hits?  It was the first time he played in two months.

Dellucci's the LH bat the Jays will be putting on the team unless he falls on his face.

Spifficus - Friday, June 12 2009 @ 11:24 AM EDT (#201271) #
More interesting than his 3 hits was that Adams was playing SS for the first time this season. Was he just giving Sanchez a break, or is he being tested to see if he can take a job from Inglett or Macdonald?
Mike Green - Friday, June 12 2009 @ 11:56 AM EDT (#201272) #
The Las Vegas boxscore link above is for the April 9 game.  It gave me a start to see Inglett at second and Campbell at third in the box.
fozzy - Friday, June 12 2009 @ 03:38 PM EDT (#201280) #
Yes, I think this is the link you want for the AAA game.
Mike Green - Friday, June 12 2009 @ 10:47 PM EDT (#201298) #
Zep threw 7 shutout innings with 8 Ks tonight. A couple more good starts, and he will have officially passed the double A test.  Brian Burres got the start tonight for Las Vegas, and he might be hearing footsteps.
Sneeps - Friday, June 12 2009 @ 10:55 PM EDT (#201300) #
I've got high hopes for Zep.  His extreme ground ball rate to go along with a terrific strikeout rate adds up to a really nice prospect.

I think you can expect to see Zep and maybe Farquhar up in Vegas within a month, month and a half. 

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