Glendale scores early and hangs on. Peoria gets down for a moment, but comes back. Mesa uses Earl Weaver baseball.
GLENDALE 3, SCOTTSDALE 2 IN GLENDALE
Twins: Max Kepler was 1-for-3.
Scottsdale: Tommy La Stella (Atlanta) was 1-for-2 with two walks and a double. Cody Satterwhite (Mets) pitched two shutout innings, giving up one hit and no walks with one strikeout.
Glendale: Danny Black (Miami) was 2-for-3 with a double and a run. Brent Keys (Miami) was 2-for-4 with a run and an RBI. Andrew Heaney (Miami) pitched five shutout innings, allowing no hits and one walk with four strikeouts.
The game: Marcus Semien (White Sox) hit an RBI double in the first and an RBI single in the fourth as Glendale built a 3-0 lead. Scottsdale did not get a hit until the seventh but scored single runs in the seventh and ninth and had the tying run in scoring position in both innings.
SALT RIVER 7, PEORIA 2 IN SALT RIVER
Peoria: Jonathan Meyer (Houston) was 2-for-2 with a double and an RBI. Delino DeShields (Houston) was 2-for-4 with a triple.
Salt River: Kenny Wilson (Toronto) was 2-for-5 with two runs and an RBI. Andy Burns (Toronto) was 2-for-5 with a run and an RBI. Nick Ahmed (Arizona) was 2-for-4 with an RBI.
The game: Peoria got two in the fourth to go ahead 2-0, but then it was all Salt River. Salt River got three in the fourth, taking the lead on a Burns RBI single, added one in the fifth, and got three more in the sixth on a three-run triple by Stephen Piscotty (St. Louis).
MESA 9, SURPRISE 4 IN SURPRISE
Mesa: Jeff Bandy (Angels) was 3-for-5 with a three-run homer and scored twice. Tyler Collins (Detroit) was 3-for-5 with a double and two runs. C. J. Cron (Angels) was 2-for-4 with a walk, a double, and a three-run homer (his fourth).
Surprise: Henry Urrutia (Baltimore) was 3-for-4 with a home run and two RBIs.
The game: Cron hit a three-run homer in the first to give Mesa a 3-0 lead. Surprise came back with two in the bottom of the first, but Bandy hit a three-run homer in the second to make it 6-2. Mesa added two more in the fourth and one in the fifth to take control of the game.