Emilio Guerrero Homers for the Win

Sunday, May 10 2015 @ 08:35 AM EDT

Contributed by: Gerry

Only one win on Saturday. Emilio Guerrero hit a home run in the bottom of the eighth for New Hampshire to break a 4-4 tie. HC Hobson had hit a three run home run in the first to give New Hampshire a three run lead but that had disappeared by the eighth, setting up Guerrero for the big hit. Both Buffalo and Lansing lost in extra innings, Buffalo for the second night in a row. That loss for the Bisons wasted Randy Wolf's best start of the season. Anthony Alford reached base five times in Lansing's loss. Dunedin were bombed as Justin Shafer couldn't get out of the first inning in his home debut.

Buffalo 0 Norfolk 1 - 11 innings

This was a pitching duel. Randy Wolf had his best start of the year, just four hits allowed over seven innings. Rob Rasmussen pitched two shutout innings. The bullpen was stretched because these teams played 14 innings on Friday. Bobby Korecky had pitched Friday and was called on in the tenth on Saturday. The tenth was fine but Norfolk pushed across the winning run in the eleventh. That made for two extra inning losses in consecutive days.

The Bisons had seven hits, all singles. Dalton Pompey was 0-3 but he walked twice and was caught stealing. Matt Hague and Brad Glenn had two hits each. Andy Burns was 1-4.


Trenton 4 New Hampshire 5

New Hampshire scored four runs in the first inning but they let Trenton come back to tie the game in the eighth. But in the bottom of the eighth the Fisher Cats produced the winning run. KC Hobson hit a three run home run in the first inning to make it 4-1. In the eighth Emilio Guerrero hit his first home run in AA for the win.

Taylor Cole started and again was OK, but not dominant. He went 5.1 innings and was charged with two runs on four hits with two walks and 5 K's. In the eighth Cory Burns gave up a home run to make it4-3 and then a single. Danny Barnes came out of the bullpen and gave up a couple of hits himself to allow Trenton to tie the game, setting it up for Guerrero. Guerrero, Jon Berti and Dwight Smith each had two hits.


Lakeland 15 Dunedin 1

Justin Shafer is from central Florida and went to the University of Florida. Saturday was his first home start in the FSL and it couldn't have gone much worse. Shafer got only one out while giving up six hits and hitting a batter. Alonzo Gonzalez came on and LB Dantzler made an error plus another hit and after one Dunedin were down 8-0 and in the third they were down 13-0. Jeremy Gabryszwski came out of the bullpen to pitch three innings.

Dunedin's only run came when Matt Dean singled in Dantzler. Dantzler, Derrick Loveless and Dickie Thon each had two hits.


Lansing 4 Great Lakes 5 - 10 innings

Fort Wayne squeezed in the winning run in the tenth off Chase Mallard Mallard was in his fifth inning of work, he did give up eight hits and two runs. Sean Rid-Foley started and went three innings but was charged with three runs. In his first inning he walked a pair before being taken downtown for a three run shot.

Great Lakes walked nine Lugnuts. Anthony Alford walked three times and went 2-3, reaching base five times. JD Davis, Boomer Collins and Tim Locastro also had two hits each.


3 Stars

3rd star: Randy Wolf

2nd star: KC Hobson

1st star: Emilio Guerrero


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