Only two affiliates in action tonight as two affiliates suffered weather malfunctions. The DSL affiliate played today, but of course we don’t know what happens until a day later. It’s draft night so wild prediction; Richard Urena hit for the cycle and Dean Bell went 1-5, striking out his first four at-bats then hitting the game winning homerun in the bottom of the ninth. His dad was proud. In the real world Deck McGuire had a somewhat typical start for our AA affiliate—cruising through five innings before the wheels came off in the sixth. In fairness he was up to a hundred pitches by that point. The Fisher Cats lost 7-2. The other team playing tonight probably wished they too had been weathered out. Lansing fell to the visiting San Diego affiliate. They committed four errors in this one and if not for a light-hearted comeback attempt in the eighth, there wouldn’t be much here to take home.

New Hampshire 2 Akron 7

Deck McGuire pitched well through five innings, striking out eight in the process. The sixth was somewhat typical of his season and career to date. He allowed a double and single in that inning before turning the ball over to Evan Crawford. Crawford promptly allowed a single, a double, and two straight singles, before retiring the third out of the inning. Five runs were scored and the game was lost. While McGuire wasn’t responsible for the majority of the damage done in that inning, I don’t find it much of an accident that he was front and center during the mess in this game. Kevin Pillar was hitless, Kevin Nolan went deep, and the Fisher Cats got two hits each from Ryan Schimpf and Brad Glenn.

Fort Wayne 5 Lansing 3

It was ugly for a little while tonight in Lansing. Five hits and four errors over the first seven innings saw the Lugnuts playing more like the big club. A two run eighth saw the Lugnuts cut the Fort Wayne lead to two, but that was as close as it got. Gus Pierre had his nineteenth multi-hit game of the season. Starter Alonzo Gonzalez gave up five runs, two of which were earned. Dalton Pompey had two hits and Griffin Murphy pitched two scoreless innings. The Lugnuts are playing fairly meaningless games at the moment and will target a playoff spot in the second half of the season.

Three Stars

3. Deck McGuire

2. Gustavo Pierre

1. Brad Glenn

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