Our farm boys did not do us that proud on Saturday despite wins by the GCL Blue Jays and the Lugnuts. Las Vegas and Auburn were low producers and New Hampshire was a no producer in runs. To their credit, the Fisher Cats and the Doubledays have a share of the division lead in their respective league standings
Don't you think that it's odd.
- Part of the lyrics (that nobody knows) to the theme from TV's The Odd Couple
From 1970-75, U.S. broadcasting giant ABC-TV broadcast a wonderful little half-hour situation comedy called The Odd Couple, based on the popular stage play of the same name, written by Neil Simon.
The show starred the inimitable Tony Randall as neat freak Felix Unger and irascible Jack Klugman as sloppy, casual Oscar Madison, two divorced men who shared an apartment and a variety of personality and housekeeping conflicts.
So if current Seattle ace Felix Hernandez ever gets to stare down current Padre utilityman Oscar Salazar -- well, that might actually be a mismatch. But, then, was there ever more of a mismatched pair of roommates than Felix Unger and Oscar Madison? So maybe there's some serendipity to that.
Ah, whatever. Let's go to the rosters and see which squad comes out on top in the matchup between ... (sorry about this) ...
Jackson walked EIGHT and improved his season mark to 5-6, 4.63 by no-hitting the Rays. Hey, doesn't it seem like the Rays, who are really good, are either winning or getting no-hit recently? So what's up with that? Finally, speaking of Halladay, what's he been up to recently?
Over to you, Box Nation ...
It was a big night on the farm. Tyler Pastornicky, Eric Thames and Zach Stewart got the stars but many other baby Jays had big nights.
Tyler Pastornicky had six RBI's with a home run and a bases loaded double to lead Dunedin to victory. Eric Thames had four hits as New Hampshire won game one against their rival for the division lead. Henderson Alvarez and Zach Stewart pitched well in those wins. Lansing scored three runs in the eleventh to win. The GCL Jays win was a team effort but Jake Marisnick hit his first professional home run.
Auburn led going to the ninth but lost on two wild pitches. Las Vegas were bombed but JP Arencibia had three hits including his 16th home run.
It is day three of our New Hampshire video series. Today we focus on some of the Fisher Cat bullpen pitchers, Danny Farquhar; Trystan Magnuson; Boomer Potts and Tim Collins.
The Dunedin Blue Jays are the first-half champions of the Florida State League North Division.
Meanwhile, the American affiliates had a 3-3 day while two Lansing Lugnuts saw action in the Midwest League All-Star Game.