Buffalo and New Hampshire had tough one run losses but Vancouver, Dunedin and the FCL Jays all won. The five affiliates scored 38 runs so there were plenty of good hitting performances. Four hitters had three hits in their games, often there are nights with no one having three hits. The pitching wasn't as good as the hitting although Dylan Watts for Dunedin and Angel Rivero in the FCL had good days.

Lehigh Valley 5 Buffalo 4 - 11 innings

New Hampshire 11 Somerset 12

Eugene 3 Vancouver 7

Dunedin 8 Clearwater 3 - 10 innings

FCL Blue Jays 8 FCL Phillies 4

Three Stars

Third Star - Dylan Watts

Second Star - Brennan Orf

First Star - Nick Goodwin

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NOTES

Just like the parent club the Bisons went with an opener on Friday. The opener was Brendon Little who had a 1-2-3 inning. The opener was used to shield Chad Dallas. Did it work? His first inning went OK but Dallas had to face the top of the order in the third and the number two hitter hit a two run home run. Dallas completed four innings.

Buffalo had just four hits, Riley Tirotta hit a two run home run and Willie McIvor doubled in the other two runs. The game went to eleven innings, Buffalo couldn't get anything going while LHV came up with the big hit for the win.

The Fisher Cats bats started early and often. Jay Harry, Jace Bohrofen and Nick Goodwin all homered in the first inning giving NH a 6-0 lead. However the Cats did not have good pitching to Somerset narrowed the lead to 9-6 in the fifth. NH led by four going to the bottom of the seventh but Somerset scored six to take the lead. Alex Amalfi started and gave up five runs in three innings. Three relievers gave up the other nine runs.

NH did have 15 hits. Goodwin homered again and was 3-4. Harry and Bohrofen were both 2-5. Sean Keys had three hits.

Vancouver's offense was working too, they scored seven runs with 13 hits. Brennan Orf singled, tripled, homered (his first) and walked. He scored three and drove in two. Jacob Sharp also had three hits and he drove in two.

Danny Thompson Jr started and Eugene had just three hits off him in five innings. But two of the hits were home runs leading to three runs for Eugene. He struck out six.

Dunedin scored five runs in the tenth inning for the win. Jojo Parker singled to drive in the go ahead run then Aldo Gaxiola followed with his seventh home run. The Jays had nine hits and nine walks. Juan Sanchez singled and doubled, Adam Hackenberg doubled twice and Jake Cook had two hits and walked three times. Both Gaxiola and Sanchez have been very good in May.

Carson Ligon started but the pitching star was Dylan Watts. He went 5.1 innings, 16 up and 16 down. He did hit a batter but he was caught stealing. Watts struck out five.

The FCL Jays are hot, so hot they easily overcame Yimi Garcia putting them in a 3-0 deficit in the first inning. Hedbert Perez, claimed last fall in the minor league portion of the rule 5 draft, homered in his first rehab start. Sam White had two hits.

In addition to Garcia and Perez, Javen Coleman joined the Jays on rehab. He pitched one inning. Angel Rivero struck out nine in his four innings. This season Rivero has 22 strikeouts in 15 innings, very good. However he has walked ten which is not so good. Here is what Fangraphs had to say about Rivero. "Rivero has good body control, can throw strikes, and has performed well over two DSL seasons. He’s up to 95 with fair secondaries that could tick up as he develops."