The regular season ended yesterday. Home runs lift Mesa. Errors and strong pitching carry Peoria to victory.
MESA 9, GLENDALE 3 IN GLENDALE
Twins: Eddie Rosario was 1-for-3 with a walk and a run. A. J. Achter pitched one inning, giving up two runs on one hit and one walk. Trevor May pitched a perfect innin.
Mesa: C. J. Cron (Angels) was 2-for-4 with a double, scoring once and driving in one. Tyler Collins (Detroit) was 1-for-3 with a walk and a home run (his second), scoring twice and driving in four. Sammy Solis (Washington) pitched five innings, giving up one run on six hits and no walks with four strikeouts.
Glendale: Brian Cavazos-Galvez (Dodgers) was 3-for-4 with three doubles, scoring once and driving in one. Corey Seager (Dodgers) was 2-for-4 with a run. Andrew Heaney (Miami) struck out three in three innings, allowing one run on four hits and two walks with three strikeouts.
The game: Zach Borenstein (Angels) hit a two-run homer in the fourth to put Mesa up 3-0. Glendale got one in the bottom of the fourth, but Mesa scored four in the fifth, three of them on a three-run homer by Collins, to take control of the game.
SALT RIVER 3, SCOTTSDALE 2 IN SALT RIVER
Scottsdale: Mason Williams (Yankees) was 2-for-3 with a double and a run. Andrew Susac (San Francisco) was 2-for-3 with a walk. Kyle Crick (San Francisco) struck out five in three shutout innings, giving up no hits and two walks.
Salt River: Aaron Sanchez (Toronto) pitched five innings, allowing one run on six hits and two walks with three strikeouts. Dustin Garneau (Colorado) was 1-for-3 with a home run, his fourth.
The game: Salt River scored on a ground out to tie the score at one. Garneau led off the fifth with a homer to give Salt River a 2-1 lead and a Stephen Piscotty (St. Louis) RBI single later in the inning made it 3-1. Scottsdale scored once in the eighth and got the tying run into scoring position in the ninth.
PEORIA 3, SURPRISE 0 IN PEORIA
Surprise: Joe Wendle (Cleveland) was 2-for-4.
Peoria: Jonathan Meyer (Houston) was 2-for-4 with a double and a run. Delino DeShields (Houston) was 2-for-4. Matt Heidenreich (Houston) struck out six in four innings, allowing one hit and no walks.
The game: Leading 1-0, Peoria scored two in the fourth on a single, a walk, and two errors. Surprise never had two runners on base at the same time and only twice got a man as far as second base.
This concludes the regular season of the Arizona Fall League. Mesa won the East and Surprise won the West, so those two teams will play on Saturday for the championship. Our Glendale Desert Dogs finished 13-16-2, second in the West, four and a half games behind Surprise.
We'll cover the championship game and do a season-ending wrapup post next week.