Buffalo 6 Worcester 3
Reading 2 New Hampshire 1 - 10 innings
Hillsboro 7 Vancouver 5
Palm Beach 2 Dunedin 3 - game one
Palm Beach 4 Dunedin 0 - game two
Three Stars
Third Star - Juanmi Vasquez
Second Star - Arjun Nimmala
First Star - Riley Tirotta
NOTES
Buffalo jumped on the Red Sox for six runs in the first inning. Riley Tirotta hit a grand slam, then Orelvis Martinez added a two run bomb. Andres Gimenez presumably finished his rehab with a couple of hits. Jon Clase, Yohendrick Pinango and Tirotta had two hits each.
Lazaro Estrada was the beneficiary of all those early run. He went five innings, five K's, three runs allowed.
New Hampshire were no hit until the ninth inning. A Charles McAdoo double in the ninth drove in a run and that was their only hit. Reading had a double off Devereaux Harrison in the tenth inning for the win. Grant Rogers started and had his usual start. Six dependable innings, one run allowed, two K's. He got eleven ground balls versus two fly balls.
Arjun Nimmala hit a three run home run in the third inning to give Vancouver the lead. With Chris McElvain five shutout innings, things were looking good. Colby Holcombe came on in the sixth and things fell apart. He gave up a three run home run and put two more on before he was yanked. Johan Simon came on and a hit and a balk let two more runs score and the game was gone. Later Nimmala added a sac fly to give him four RBI in the game.
The first Dunedin game was a continuation of yesterdays game started by Johnny King. Juanmi Vasquez took the mound on resumption and he struck out seven in four shutout innings. Since July 1, he has 27 K's in 18 innings.
There was some strange managing by the Palm Beach manager. The Jays came into the last inning trailing 2-0. A hit batter and two walks loaded the bases. A ground out scored one then a double by Matt Scannell scored a second. Palm Beach could then pitch to Austin Smith with runners on second and third and one out, or walk Smith to pitch to rehabbing Josh Kasevich to try and turn the double play. They elected to pitch to Kasevich who drilled one to the wall for the walk off RBI. He was credited with one RBI and a single but it could have been three RBI and a double but they only counted a single.
The D Jays just had three hits in game two. Silvano Hechavarria started and was wild, he needed 69 pitches to get through 2.2 innings. He did strike out six.
