Syracuse 4 Buffalo 3
New Hampshire 9 Chesapeake 4
Vancouver 2 Tri-City 0
Dunedin 7 Fort Myers 1 - 11 innings
Three Stars
Third Star - Fernando Perez
Second Star - Brock Tibbets
First Star - Victor Arias
NOTES
The Bisons had just five hits, Micheal Stefanic had two, RJ Schreck homered. The main story was Shane Bieber's start which is discussed elsewhere on here.
Juaron Watts-Brown started for the Baysox against New Hampshire. That's a difficult task, just a few days after being traded. Victor Arias led off with a home run and went deep against in the fourth inning. He had four RBI. Charles McAdoo and Jevon Ward each had two hits and two walks.
Ryan Watson started and went 5.2 innings. He was charged with four runs, three earned. Devereaux Harrison is back from AA, he nailed down the win by pitching the ninth.
Fernando Perez has been doing OK in Vancouver but the strikeouts have been a little lacking. Through the first three months of the season he struck out 48 hitters in 62 innings. But he has turned it up recently. Yesterday he faced Tri-City for the second time this week, usually a tougher task as the hitters remember how you pitched to them. But Perez held them to one hit over six innings, no walks and struck out seven. Since the start of July Perez had thrown 24.2 innings. He has given up 16 hits and 4 walks and struck out 28. It looks like he is moving back up in the prospect rankings. Yondrei Rojas struck out four in two perfect innings and Kai Peterson struck out two.
Eddie Micheletti Jr doubled in both Vancouver runs in the third inning.
The Dunedin game was a pitchers duel until the eleventh inning where the inning started at one all. Kendry Chirinos started the inning by doubling in the go ahead run. Three walks and a sac fly made it 4-1 then Brock Tibbets doubled in two to make it 6-1. It was Tibbets fourth hit of the game.
Silvano Hechavarria went five shutout innings with six K's. Strangely Hechavarria struck out just ten in 17 innings in the complex league. Now in A ball he has 44 K's in 40.2 innings. In his last four starts Hechavarria has given up one run in 19.1 innings with 23 K's. He has taken it up a notch. On Sunday Hechavarria threw 69 pitches using five different pitches. He had nine whiffs. His FB averaged 92.9 mph.