Lehigh Valley 7 Buffalo 6
New Hampshire 7 Somerset 3
Eugene 10 Vancouver 7
Dunedin 6 Clearwater 16
Three Stars
Third Star - Juan Sanchez
Second Star - Eddie Micheletti Jr
First Star - Cutter Coffey
NOTES
The Jays have signed several pitchers recently to fill gaps in their rosters. One of them is Matt Bowman who was signed earlier this week. Bowman has 240 major league innings with seven organizations. He made his Jays debut on Wednesday and he did not make a good first impression. He came in to pitch the ninth with the Bisons leading 6-4. By the time he left the Bisons were losing 7-6 and that's how it ended. CJ Van Eyk started, went six innings, three runs, six hits, three K's.
Buffalo had a pair of two run home runs from Riley Tirotta and William Simoneit. David Schneider singled, doubled and walked three times.
The Fisher Cats had 12 hits in scoring seven runs. Cutter Coffey doubled and homered and drove in three. His home run came in the second inning to give NH the lead and his double in the fourth stretched that lead. Eddie Micheletti went 3-5 and he too homered. The Cats had a third home run from Jackson Hornung.
Gage Stanifer continues to work on his command. He threw 85 pitches, 42 strikes and 43 balls. He walked four in five innings. Overall he struck out three while holding Somerset to one run on three hits. Mason Olson followed and struck out five in three innings. Another new pitcher to the org did make a good first impression. Sam Gardner had a 1-2-3 ninth.
It wasn't a good night for Vancouver pitchers. Landen Maroudis got through three innings OK with one home run allowed but Eugene scored four more off him in the fourth. Maroudis was done after that, five runs in four innings pushed his ERA up to 5.82. His ERA in April was 1.69, in May it is 9.50. Gilberto Batista followed and Eugene hit a grand slam off him in his first inning.
Edward Duran was back with the C's for his first game since April 8th, he went hitless and had two passed balls. JR Freethy and Alexis Hernandez each hit a two run home run and singled.
Silvano Hechavarria just cannot find the form he had last season. He was charged with five runs, four earned in 1.2 innings and his ERA is now 10.64. The bullpen put gas on the fire so that ended with catcher Juan Rosas pitching the eighth inning.
Dunedin did have 12 hits. Juan Sanchez continued his recent hot play with three hits including a double. Aldo Gaxiola who is also heating up, he also had three hits. Adam Hackenberg homered and drove in three runs. Sam Shaw is now with Dunedin and he had two hits. Jojo Parker doubled. While Sanchez is hitting well he made two more errors and now has 12 on the season.
