Buffalo 8 Iowa 5
Somerset 3 New Hampshire 5
Vancouver 7 Hillsboro 2
Tampa 5 Dunedin 4 - 10 innings
Three Stars
Third Star - Jojo Parker
Second Star - Cutter Coffey
First Star - Josh Kasevich
NOTES
Buffalo built an 8-0 lead in the third inning and cruised from there. Josh Kasevich singled in the first inning and scored the first run. He then hit a two run home run in the second inning. A double, an error and two walks scored a run in the third, then Jay Harry cleared the bases with a double. Buffalo had nine hits, Kasevich and Harry were the only ones with two. Every hitter reached base.
Richard Gallardo started but was unable to get the win as he was done after 4.2 innings with seven hits and four walks.
Somerset scored three runs in the first inning off Jackson Wentworth but the Fisher Cats came back to win. Wentworth stuck it out for five innings without any more damage and four relievers took it home, allowing just one hit between them.
A Cutter Coffey single, with an error tacked on, got the rally started and scored two. A walk and another error put two on in the sixth and this time it was Jackson Hornung with the two run double to put the Cats ahead 4-3. Coffey added a solo home run as insurance in the eighth. Coffey and Dub Gleed had two hits each.
The first two Vancouver hitters walked and came around to score on a ground out from Edward Duran and a single by Eric Snow. Two more walks started the second and Maddox Latta took advantage to single in the third run. Yet another walk started the fifth inning and scored on a fielders choice. In the seventh back to back doubles by Matthew Vallee and Manuel Beltre scored three more. Snow and Vallee had three hits each. Snow tends to get lost behind Parker and Nimmala but he is hitting .315 with an OPS of 898 in Vancouver.
Sometimes you cannot explain baseball. Jack Nedrow came into the game with an ERA of 11.45 and a WHIP of 2.00. He threw four hitless, shutout innings. He did only have one strikeout and he walked three but a big step forward for him. Trace Baker and Jonathan Todd extended the no hitter through seven innings. But the Hops got four hits off Carson Myers over the last two innings and scored two runs.
Jojo Parker hit a three run home run in the bottom of the eighth inning to turn a 4-1 deficit into a 4-4 tie. Unfortunately Tampa scored in the top of the tenth and although the Jays had runners at first and third with no outs in the bottom of the inning, they couldn't score. Does that remind you of a major league team perhaps? Parker and Dariel Ramon had two hits each.
Carson Messina has been up and down in Dunedin so far. On Sunday it was down, he gave up a hit and walked three in the first inning, got two outs but hit 32 pitches and was pulled. It was 14 strikes and 18 balls.
One other note. The Jays sent Ricky Tiedemann to Dunedin on Tuesday as part of his rehab. He didn't pitch at all this week. The story was he had a sore neck but six games later that's a bad sore neck.
