Four games and four losses. Two of the losses came in extra innings and in Dunedin the D Jays blew a ninth inning lead. After a decent start the affiliates have hit a rough patch. Buffalo, Vancouver and Dunedin all have losing records in their last ten games. Vancouver are on a six game losing streak. New Hampshire have been doing the best but they are just 5-5 over their last ten. The losses have filtered through to the prospects, many of whom haven't got going yet.
Johnny King was the brightest star in a down day for the affiliates.
Buffalo 4 Scranton 5 - 10 innings
Binghamton 6 New Hampshire 3
Hillsboro 4 Vancouver 2 - 10 innings
Jupiter 7 Dunedin 5
Three Stars
Third Star - Blaine Bullard
Second Star - Holden Wilkerson
First Star - Johnny King
NOTES
Buffalo came into the ninth inning with just three hits and trailing by two runs. Josh Rivera doubled to score one run then William Simoneit hit a ball to deep centre. The centre fielder made a mess of it and Rivera scored. Simoneit was thrown out trying to score an inside the park home run. That sent the game to extra innings where Scranton then won it in the tenth. Rivera and Simoneit had two hits each.
Austin Voth started and didn't do great, seven hits conceded in 3.2 innings. Brendon Little walked a pair and gave up a run in his inning of work.
Gage Stanifer started for NH and it was just like his previous starts. He walked the first hitter and ended up walking six in total in just over four innings. He also struck out six which is very good but he needs to cut down on the walks. For the season he has walked 16 in 18.2 innings.
For the offense Adrian Pinto hit his first home run of the season. Jace Bohrofen singled and doubled but struck out three times. At the bottom of the order Patrick Winkel and Jay Harry had two hits each
The Vancouver game was scoreless until the eighth inning. With two outs ad runners on second and third a ground ball got by third baseman Dub Gleed and two runs scored. The C's got those two runs back in the bottom of the inning and the game went to the tenth. In the tenth a couple of walks loaded the bases, again with two outs, when a wild pitch, followed by a catcher error let two more runs score. The C's went 1-2-3 in their half of the tenth. Hillsboro scored four runs in the game, all unearned. The C's had five hits in the game, Manny Beltre had two.
The bright spot was the pitching. Johnny King started and went four shutout innings, one hit, one walk and three K's. Holden Wilkerson also went four innings and just allowed the two unearned runs in the eighth. He struck out five.
Dunedin led 4-0 after 7 innings and 4-2 after eight but gave up five runs in the ninth to take the loss. Noah Palmese was the pitcher victimised. he has made seven appearances, five have been scoreless but the other two cost the Jays eleven runs. Its boom or bust. The starter was Dane Pengelly who was effectively wild. He held the Hammerheads off the board despite walking four in 3.2 innings. Yondrei Rojas pitched in relief as his rehab starts.
The Jays had just five hits, Blaine Bullard and Dariel Ramon had two each. Bullard also stole three bases.