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Spencer Horwitz could be in line for player of the week. He picked up four hits on Saturday but it wasn't enough as the bullpen blew the lead in the ninth. New Hampshire came out on the other end of that by scoring four in the ninth to take the win. Vancouver scored four runs in the first inning and that was enough for their win. Dunedin won a 1-0 contest.

Buffalo 7 Syracuse 8

New Hampshire 6 Portland 7 - completion of Fridays game

New Hampshire 6 Portland 4

Vancouver 4 Spokane 2

Lakeland 0 Dunedin 1

FCL Blue Jays 6 FCL Tigers 7


Three Stars

Third Star - Glenn Santiago

Second Star - Cade Doughty

First Star - Spencer Horwitz


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NOTES


Spencer Horwitz was 4-5 with five RBI. His hits included his seventh home run and two doubles. He has 13 hits in the five games played this week. And he had three hits last Sunday. Sixteen hits in a week is amazing. Horwitz wasn't the only hitter with a big game, Ernie Clement had three hits, Nathan Lukes and Orelvis Martinez had two each.


Buffalo took a three run lead to the bottom of the ninth. Junior Fernandez gave up four runs to take the loss including a two run walk off home run by Ronnie Mauricio.


The suspended NH game from Friday didn't take long to finish. Mason Fluharty came in to pitch the bottom of the ninth and was taken deep for a walk off on his second pitch. NH looked like they were going to lose both games as they were trailing 4-2 headed to the ninth. With a run in and Steward Berroa on third, Portland elected to walk Alan Roden to set up the double play. But Roden stole second and then both runners scored on a Trevor Schwecke single. Schwecke, Roden and Leo Jimenez had two hits each. Jimenez hit his seventh home run.


Cade Doughty hit a three run home run in the first inning and that was enough for Michael Dominguez. Dominguez went five innings with eight K's and just one hit allowed. Doughty and Alex De Jesus each had two hits.


Chad Green started for Dunedin, and went one inning. Pat Gallagher threw four innings after Green. He had eight K's, 13 swings and misses, nine on his change up.


This was a low offense contest, eight hits between the teams. A Glenn Santiago home run was the difference. Joey Murray went the last two innings for the save.


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bpoz - Sunday, July 23 2023 @ 10:03 AM EDT (#432346) #
I basically like our farm team. I know it is ranked in the bottom half and likely bottom third in the league because we have much fewer elite prospects than most other teams. What we have is quantity. Kirk and Moreno surprised everyone by becoming good. I expect our farm to fill out our pen for 2024 and going forward 3-5 years.
Mike Green - Sunday, July 23 2023 @ 03:50 PM EDT (#432365) #
The Fisher Cats were no-hit today, but still scored 2 runs even though Portland did not commit an error.  How often does that happen?  So, I did a Stathead search for a game where a team allowed no hits and committed no errors but still allowed 2 runs to be scored.  Apparently it has never been done in major league history.  Similarly when I edited the search to no hit, no error game with 2 or more runs allowed, I got no results at all. 
greenfrog - Sunday, July 23 2023 @ 08:20 PM EDT (#432395) #
After his 2/5 (1 triple) performance today, Horwitz is hitting .319/.432/.465 overall and .347/.477/.537 against RHP.

That is…very impressive. He is getting on base almost 50% of the time against RHP, and he’s showing some power against them as well. He needs some MLB plate appearances, with the Jays or some other team, over a season or two to see what he can do.
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