Lehigh Valley 5 Buffalo 10
New Hampshire 7 Binghamton 9 - 10 innings
Vancouver 8 Spokane 6
Dunedin 1 Tampa 4 - game one
Tampa 7 Dunedin 16 - game two
Three Stars
Third Star - Eric Snow
Second Star - Dasan Brown
First Star - Jon Clase
NOTES
Trey Yesavage had command issues in the first inning. He walked three of the first four hitters he faced. Mix in a single and a sac fly and the Phils scored two. Yesavage walked the lead off hitter in the second before getting the next two outs. That was his last hitter. He threw 57 pitches, 32 strikes and 25 balls. He did have three K's. Buffalo used six pitchers in relief. It should have been five but Dillon Tate was hit by a batted ball and had to leave the game.
Despite being down the Bisons rallied to score 10 runs. Jon Clase hit a three run home run in the fifth and singled in another in the sixth. RJ Schreck singled and doubled and drove in two. Yohendrick Pinango hit a solo home run, his seventh.
New Hampshire took a 7-2 lead to the eighth inning. Kai Peterson, making his AA debut, gave up a run and left with a man on. Conor Larkin came on and let Peterson's runner score before getting out of the inning, now it was 7-4. On to the ninth, Larkin still pitching. Larkin let three runs in to tie the game, so off to extra innings. NH did nothing in the top and on the first pitch in the bottom of the inning the Binghamton hitter homered for the walk off win.
Dasan Brown has had a tough year but he had a game to remember on Thursday. He doubled twice, singled, walked and drove in two runs. Jackson Hornung hit his fourth home run, a solo shot.
Alex Amalfi started and he struck out six of his seven outs in the game. All good right? But he also allowed five hits and walked two, seven baserunners and seven outs? Not a good ratio. Devereaux Harrison, back from AAA, got eight outs and he struck out five of the eight.
Austin Cates made his high A debut for Vancouver. He did fine through four innings with just one run allowed. But in the fifth a double and a walk put two men on. But with two outs another double made it two more runs in, three total, and his night was over. Edinson Batista came on and he let Cates's furth run score. Soit was a mixed night for his debut.
The C's offense scored eight runs with twelve hits and without a home run. JR Freethy, Nick Goodwin, Alexis Hernandez and Jay Harry each had two hits.
The D Jays were held to just five hits in game one. Austin Smith, tenth round pick, had two. One of them was his first pro home run. Daniel Guerra gave up four runs and took the loss.
The D Jays took revenge in game two scoring 16 runs including a ten run third inning. Tampa had to get a position player to pitch to finish the game. Tucker Toman was 3-4 including a home run off the position player. Eric Snow, 6th round pick, had four hits with two doubles (one off the position player). Jake Casey had two hits. Every starting position player had at least one hit.
Dayne Pengelly, signed last month as a UDFA started and threw two shutout innings.