Lehigh Valley 4 Buffalo 5
New Hampshire 4 Hartford 7
Vancouver 9 Everett 8
Jupiter 2 Dunedin 7
FCL Blue Jays 3 FCL Tigers 6
This is what I noted from yesterday's games.
Otto Lopez had three more hits for Buffalo. He is hitting .400 in August, in just six games. Five runs on ten hits for the Bisons, five different players had an RBI. Chavez Young homered for the only extra base hit.
Five pitchers used by Buffalo, Matt Gage got his 12th save.
Sean Mellen started and pitched well. He struck out seven in 3.2 innings. Once he left the game Gabriel Ponce and Braden Scott opened the floodgates.
NH did have ten hits. Luis De Los Santos had three, John Aiello and Trevor Schwecke had two each. Addison Barger had one, a two run home run in the ninth. Orelvis had the night off. Ryan Gold went 0-3 after his big night last night.
Chad Dallas started for Vancouver and it wasn't a great start. He pitched four innings with four hits, three walks, three runs. He did strike out six.
Glenn Santiago doubled in the first run. Rainer Nunez hit his third home run for Vancouver in the third, a two run shot. Santiago singled in another run in the fourth, one of his three hits in the game. But the big hit was a grand slam from PK Morris in the fifth, one of his four hits in the game. Despite all those runs the game was tied heading to the ninth. Andres Sosa, the catcher, walked, stole second and third before scoring on a ground out.
Geison Urbaez had his best start of the season, five innings, two hits, no walks, no runs and seven K's. This after he gave up seven runs in his last start. Urbaez has upped his strikeout numbers in the second half of the season and usually walks very few.
The bottom two hitters in the lineup, Nicolas Deschamps and Roque Salinas, went 0-5 and scored four of the seven runs. Estiven Machado and Ryan McCarty had two hits each. Michael Turconi drove in two runs each.bn
Three Stars
Third Star - Geison Urbaez
Second Star - Andres Sosa
First Star - PK Morris
