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Vancouver won to seal their place in the Northwest League playoffs. They won in style scoring 12 runs. Johnny King had a good start but New Hampshire were shutout 1-0. Dunedin were also shutout while Buffalo and Dunedin's second game were rained out.

Worcester at Buffalo - postponed

New Hampshire 0 Binghamton 1

Vancouver 12 Tri-City 6

Dunedin 0 Tampa 4 - game one

Dunedin at Tampa - game two, postponed


Three Stars

Third Star - Ryan Sprock

Second Star - David Calabrese

First Star - Johnny King


Boxes


NOTES


Johnny King seems to be figuring out AA hitters. He went five shutout innings, three hits, one walk, eight K's. King's first start in AA saw him walk five hitters. But since then in three starts he has walked five in 14 innings. His AA ERA is now 1.50. Angel Obando followed and the Mets hit a solo home run off him in the seventh to take the lead. And that was it for scoring.


The NH hitters had six hits in the game, all singles, by six different hitters.


Gage Stanifer pitched the eighth. He used 21 pitches and threw more balls than strikes (11-10). He walked one and struck out one.


Vancouver had a five run second inning to set them on their way to the playoffs. In that inning a single and two walks loaded the bases. David Calabrese and Jean Joseph both doubled to score two runs. Dameury Pena singled to score the fifth run. Calabrese, who is from Richmond Hill, was signed in mid August. He has played over 300 games in AA but he never hit over .221 at that level so he qualifies for a demotion to Vancouver's level.


Dariel Ramon doubled in a run in the third before the C's put up another five spot in the fourth. Ryan Sprock doubled in a pair before Maddox Latta and Calabrese added RBI singles. In total the C's had 14 hits and ten walks. Six of the hits were doubles. Calabrese had four hits and four RBI, Sprock had three hits, Latta and Ramon two each.


Dasan Hill started and just went three innings. He was charged with one run and struck out four. He threw 49 pitches.


In the first Dunedin game Sann Omosako started and went five innings. He gave up two hits, one of which left the park. He struck out two. Karson Ligon followed and he was charged with the other three runs. The Jays had just three hits. The game was shortened to six innings because of rain and game two was postponed.


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bpoz - Thursday, September 03 2026 @ 07:53 AM EDT (#483730) #
Really pumped about Johnny King.
uglyone - Thursday, September 03 2026 @ 11:08 AM EDT (#483733) #
King this year vs Yesavage last year - King is exactly 2yrs younger than Yesavage was:


A

King: ---
Trey: 7gms, 4.8ip/gm, 43.3k%, 6.3b%, 57era-, 52fip-, 41xfip-

A+

King: 21gms, 4.0ip/gm, 30.6k%, 13.7b%, 67era-, 82fip-, 92xfip-
Trey: 4gms, 4.3ip/gm, 47.8k%, 15.9b%, 36era-, 69fip-, 47xfip-

AA

King: 4gms, 4.5ip/gm, 31.0k%, 14.1b%, 32era-, 59fip-, 92xfip-
Trey: 8gms, 3.8ip/gm, 38.0k%, 9.1b%, 117era-, 68fip-, 75xfip-


Maybe not quite as dominant as trey last year but not too far off, while 2yrs younger.

AA isn't so far away from MLB either.
GabrielSyme - Thursday, September 03 2026 @ 05:58 PM EDT (#483768) #
Miguel Pantoja had a rough outing with Dunedin today, but how many 18-year-old starters have the Jays had in full-season ball lately? Baseball America quite likes him, at any rate.
Mike Green - Thursday, September 03 2026 @ 06:31 PM EDT (#483778) #
The big news for King was that he walked only 1 in 5 innings.  Dasan Hill in Vancouver also walked only one in his outing.  Both have control issues, and perhaps this is sign of progress.  
Gerry - Thursday, September 03 2026 @ 06:37 PM EDT (#483779) #
I am not sure if I would say Pantoja's outing was rough. The Jays were facing Tampa who are 15 games ahead of them in the standings and he only gave up one hit through 3.1 innings. His problem was walks, five, just like many other Jays pitching prospects. I would call it a "learning experience".
Glevin - Thursday, September 03 2026 @ 09:06 PM EDT (#483790) #
Dub Gleed wit a huge game. A bit crazy to me that after complaining about Sosa getting way too many ABs in the majors, the Jays are now giving him too many ABs in AAA. He isn't good. He isn't going to be good. Let someone else get those abs!
SK in NJ - Thursday, September 03 2026 @ 11:11 PM EDT (#483796) #
Was hoping Gleed would get September in AAA. He’s ready for it.
uglyone - Friday, September 04 2026 @ 10:54 AM EDT (#483801) #
Buffalo has a bunch of guys on rehab - Schreck rivera urias - as well as Cameron who might all be coming back in a few days so i don't know how much room they have.

Gleed has been solid but not exactly dominating AA for a 23yr old 1B.

Personally i'm more interested in Aaron Parker getting a look.
chris_jays - Friday, September 04 2026 @ 01:26 PM EDT (#483802) #
Curious why MiLB lists Gleed as a SS considering he's only played 3B, 1B or DH this year. 
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