Kyle Drabek pitched well, again, and Brad Emaus hit a three run home run in the first inning to lead the Fisher Cats to victory. Dunedin also won in a pitchers duel that went ten innings. Brad Mills was not at his best and Las Vegas lost. Lansing gave up eight runs in the eighth and lost also.
Colorado Springs 5 Las Vegas 1
Brad Mills was not at his best on Friday night. He gave up a solo home run in the first. In the fourth Chris Iannetta doubled and scored on a single to make it 2-1. Iannetta singled again to lead off the sixth and Mills walked the next two hitters to load the bases with no-one out. Sean Henn was called on to replace Mills and he gave up a two run single to the first hitter and Las Vegas trailed 4-1. Mills threw 97 pitched in his five plus innings and gave up four runs on seven hits and three walks with six K's.
The 51's only run came in the third on consecutive singles by Chris Aguila, Jarrett Hoffpauir and Brett Wallace. Hoffpauir and Merchan were the only 51's with two hits.
Kyle Drabek had an odd start, he did not give up a hit until the fifth but he walked a batter in each of the first four innings. Drabek gave up his first hit in the fifth, a solo home run, and he gave up another solo homer in the sixth. Drabek pitched 7 innings, he allowed 4 hits, 4 walks and seven strikeouts, and gave up two runs. Adrian Martin pitched the final two innings.
New Hampshire got three runs in the first inning, Darin Mastroianni singled, Adam Loewen walked and Brad Emaus hit a three run home run. Adam Calderone doubled to lead off the second and scored on a sac fly by Mastroianni. Eric Thames and Loewen added solo home runs.
The Fisher Cats had nine hits, eight of the nine starters had a hit, Emaus had two.
Dunedin 2 Lakeland 1 - 10 innings
Each team scored in the first inning then no-one scored until the tenth. Dunedin's run in the first came when Raul Barron doubled in Tyler Pastornicky. Andrew Liebel was on the mound for the Jays and he gave up one run over six innings. Liebel was followed by Dan DeLucia, Alan Farina, Boomer Potts and Matt Daly. Each pitched a shutout inning.
The winning run in the tenth came on a ground out by Pastornicky which scored Sean Shoffit who had led off the inning with a triple.
Dunedin had eight hits, Shoffit, Barron and Dan Perales had two each.
This game was close until the eighth when Fort Wayne scored eight. Dustin Antolin hit the first batter of the eighth then gave up three hits while getting one out. He was replaced by Brian Slover. The first five hitters he faced recorded hits until he finally got two outs. Aaron Loup got the spot start and gave up two runs in for innings. Scott Gracey pitched three shutout innings.
Lansing scored their first run in the second, Sean Ochinko singled and scored on a fielders choice. In the sixth Ryan Schimpf doubled in Brad Glenn and Ochinko and Schimpf scored on a single by Balbino Fuenmayor. Ochinko, Fuenmayor and Kenny Wilson had two hits each.
Three Stars
3rd star - Kyle Drabek
2nd star - Sean Shoffit
1st star - Brad Emaus
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