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SYRACUSE 6, ROCHESTER 5 IN SYRACUSE (11 INNINGS)

Batting stars:  Chris Parmelee was 2-for-4 with a double and a two-run homer, his second.  James Beresford was 2-for-5 with a double and two RBIs.  Chris Rahl was 2-for-4 with a run and an RBI.

Pitching stars:  Brooks Raley struck out three in 2.2 scoreless innings, giving up one hit and two walks.  Edgar Ibarra struck out two in 2.1 scoreless innings, giving up two hits and one walk.

Opposition stars:  Jhonatan Solano was 1-for-3 with a home run and three walks.  Ex-Twin Brock Peterson was 2-for-4 with a double and a walk, driving in two.  Brian Goodwin was 2-for-4 with a walk and an RBI.

The game:  Parmelee hit a two-run homer in the first to give Rochester at 2-0 lead.  Solano homered in the second to cut the lead to 2-1.  Syracuse got two in the third and two in the fourth to go up 5-2.  James Beresford doubled in a run in the fifth, a sacrifice fly cut it to 5-4 in the sixth, and with two down in the ninth, Danny Santana doubled and scored on a Beresford single to tie the score.  In the eleventh, however, Peterson got a one-out double and scored on a Goodwin single to end the game.

Of note:  Deibinson Romero was 0-for-4 with a walk and a run.  Wilkin Ramirez was 0-for-5.  Starter Alex Meyer lasted 3.2 innings, surrendering five runs on five hits and four walks with two strikeouts.

PORTLAND 6, NEW BRITAIN 4 IN NEW BRITAIN (GAME 1--7 INNINGS)

Batting stars:  Matt Koch was 2-for-3 with a double and two runs.  Mike Kvasnicka was 1-for-4 with a double, scoring once and driving in two.  Corey Wimberley was 1-for-3 with a double and a walk, driving in one.

Pitching star:  Matt Guerrier struck out three in two shutout innings, giving up three hits and one walk.

Opposition stars:  Travis Shaw was 4-for-4 with a home run, scoring twice and driving in four.  Carlos Rivero was 2-for-3 with a two-run homer.  Noe Ramirez struck out two in two shutout innings, giving up a hit and a walk.

The game:  It was scoreless through two, but a walk, two singles, and Rivero's two-run homer made it 4-0 Portland.  Wimberley doubled in a run in the bottom of the third to cut the lead to 4-1, but Portland got two more in the fifth on Shaw's two-run homer to go up 6-1.  New Britain came back in the bottom of the fifth, getting a two-run double by Kvasnicka and an RBI single by Nate Hanson to get back into the game at 6-4.  They could do no more, however, as the Rock Cats did not get more than one man on base at a time after that.

Of note:  Hanson was 1-for-4 with an RBI.  Kennys Vargas was 1-for-3.  Starter D. J. Baxendale pitched five innings but surrendered six runs on nine hits and a walk with two strikeouts.

PORTLAND 6, NEW BRITAIN 0 IN NEW BRITAIN (GAME 2)

Batting star:  Tony Thomas was 1-for-2 with a walk.

Pitching stars:  Adrian Salcedo pitched a scoreless inning, giving up one hit with one strikeout.  Lester Oliveros struck out two in a perfect inning.

Opposition stars:  Blake Swihart was 2-for-4 with a three-run homer.  Peter Hissey was 2-for-3 with a double, scoring once and driving in one.  Miguel Pena struck out eleven in 4.2 scoreless innings, allowing two hits and a walk.

The game:  Portland scored two in the second and four in the fifth, three of them coming on Swihart's homer.  New Britain had only three hits.  The closest the Rock Cats came to scoring was the fifth, when Mike Kvasnicka led off with a double, but a pair of whiffs and a fly out ended the threat.

Of note:  Nate Hanson was 1-for-3.  Kennys Vargas was 0-for-3.  Aderlin Mejia was 0-for-3.  Starter Taylor Rogers struck out five in 4.1 innings, but surrendered four runs on six hits and a walk.

ST. LUCIE 15, FORT MYERS 9 IN FORT MYERS

Batting stars:  Travis Harrison was 2-for-5 with a three-run homer.  Dalton Hicks was 2-for-5 with two runs and an RBI.  Adam Brett Walker II was 2-for-4 with a walk, scoring once and driving in one.

Pitching star:  Mason Melotakis struck out three in three shutout innings, giving up one hit and two walks.

Opposition stars:  Brandon Nimmo was 4-for-5 with a triple and a walk, scoring three times and driving in two.  T. J. Rivera was 4-for-6 with two runs and three RBIs.  Brandon Allen was 2-for-3 with a double and three walks, scoring once and driving in two.

The game:  Harrison hit a three-run homer in a four-run first for Fort Myers.  St. Lucie came back with seven in the second, getting a three-run homer from Maikis De La Cruz and a two-run double by Aderlin Rodriguez.  The Miracle came back to tie it in the bottom of the second, getting four consecutive singles in a three-run inning that left the score tied 7-7 after two.  The Mets got two in the top of the third and Fort Myers answered with one to make it 9-8 after three.  After that, though, St. Lucie kept scoring and the Miracle didn't.  Nimmo tripled in a three-run Mets fifth and St. Lucie added three more in the sixth, two on Allen's double, to put the game out of reach.

Of note:  Jorge Polanco was 1-for-5 with a run and an RBI.  Max Kepler was 1-for-2 with a walk and a hit-by-pitch, scoring once.  Starter Jose Berrios pitched only two innings, surrendering seven runs (only two earned) on eight hits and a walk.

WEST MICHIGAN 5, CEDAR RAPIDS 2 IN CEDAR RAPIDS

Batting star:  Zach Larson was 2-for-4 with a run.

Pitching stars:  Kohl Stewart pitched five innings, giving up two runs on four hits and one walk with three strikeouts.  Christian Powell struck out three in two perfect innings.

Opposition stars:  Wynton Bernard was 1-for-2 with a three-run homer and a walk.  Ben Verlander was 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI.  Buck Farmer struck out eleven in seven shutout innings, allowing two hits and a walk.

The game:  West Michigan broke a scoreless tie in the fourth with a single and a pair of doubles, taking a 2-0 lead.  Bernard's three-run homer came in the seventh, boosting the lead to 5-0.   Cedar Rapids had only one hit through six and did not get on the board until the ninth, when an error brought home two runs.

Of note:  Tanner Vavra was 0-for-3.  Bryan Haar was 1-for-4.  Mitch Garver was 0-for-3 with a walk.  Engelb Vielma was 0-for-4 with an RBI.

TODAY'S TILTS

1:00  Rochester (TBA) at Syracuse (Omar Poveda, 0-2, 14.63)

2:05  West Michigan (Austin Kubitza, 2-0, 0.84) at Cedar Rapids (Felix Jorge, 1-1, 6.00)

5:05  St. Lucie (Domingo Tapia, 1-1, 0.90) at Fort Myers (David Hurlbut, 0-0, 1.29)

5:35  Portland (Mike Aguilera, 1-1, 5.54) at New Britain (TBA)