Fall Festival: Games of 11/9

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

TwinsMax 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.