A home run barrage in Rochester! An excellent outing for Jose Berrios! Two more walks for Ivory Thomas!
ROCHESTER 6, COLUMBUS 0 IN ROCHESTER (6 INNINGS--RAIN)
Batting stars: Eric Farris was 2-for-4 with a home run, scoring twice. Oswaldo Arcia was 1-for-3 with a two-run homer. Deibinson Romero was 2-for-3 with a home run.
Pitching star: Trevor May struck out six in six innings, giving up three hits and two walks.
Opposition stars: Audy Ciriaco was 1-for-1 with a double and a walk. Elliot Johnson was 1-for-1 with a walk.
The game: A single, a walk, a hit batsman, and another walk put Rochester on the board in the first. That's where it stayed until the fifth. In that inning, Farris led off with a home run, James Beresford singled, and Arcia, Romero, and Chris Herrmann hit back-to-back-to-back home runs to give the Red Wings a 6-0 lead. Columbus twice got a man to second with none out: in the third they started the inning with an error and a walk, and in the sixth Ciriaco hit a leadoff double. In neither case did the Clippers advance a man as far as third. The game was washed out with two out in the bottom of the sixth.
Of note: Herrmann was 1-forr-2 with a home rrunn. Wilkin Ramirez was 1-for-2 with an RBI. Pedro Florimon was 0-for-2 with a walk and is now 0-for-10 since being sent down.
NEW BRITAIN 4, PORTLAND 2 IN NEW BRITAIN
Batting stars: Kennys Vargas was 2-for-4 with a double and two runs. Reynaldo Rodriguez was 2-for-4 with two runs.
Pitching stars: Taylor Rogers struck out seven in six innings, giving up two runs (one earned) on six hits and three walks. Lester Oliveros struck out two in a scoreless inning, giving up no runs on no hits. Cole Johnson struck out three in a scoreless inning, giving up one run on one hit.
Opposition stars: Blake Swihart was 2-for-3 with a walk and a home run, his third. Mookie Betts was 2-for-4 with a double and a walk, driving in one.
The game: Swihart homered and Betts had an RBI single in the second to give Portland a 2-0 lead. Vargas doubled and scored in the bottom of the second to cut the lead to 2-1. Brandon Waring delivered a two-out, two-run double in the fourth to put New Britain up 3-2. Ortiz added an RBI double in the sixth. The SeaDogs threatened several times, but could not score, going 1-for-12 with runners in scoring position.
Of note: Corey Wimberly was 0-for-4. Nate Hanson was 0-for-4.
FORT MYERS 6, BREVARD COUNTY 0 IN BREVARD COUNTY
Batting stars: Jorge Polanco was 1-for-3 with a walk, scoring twice and driving in two. Travis Harrison was 2-for-3 with two doubles and a walk, driving in one. John Murphy was 2-for-3 with a double and a walk, scoring twice.
Pitching stars: Jose Berrios struck out eight in 6.1 innings, giving up three hits and two walks. Madison Boer pitched 1.2 innings, giving up one hit. Brandon Peterson pitched one inning, giving up a hit and a walk.
Opposition stars: None.
The game: Fort Myers got single runs in the second, third, and sixth and put the game away with three in the seventh. Berrios did not allow a hit in the fifth. That was the inning in which Brevard County came closest to scoring, when a leadoff single was followed by a two-out single and a walk to load the bases. The Manatees also threatened in the seventh, when an error and a single led to men on second and third with two out.
Of note: Aderlin Mejia was 2-for-4 with a double and a walk, scoring once. Mike Gonzales was 0-for-3 with a walk and a run. Adam Brett Walker II was 0-for-3 with a walk.
PEORIA 4, CEDAR RAPIDS 3 IN CEDAR RAPIDS (GAME 1--7 INNINGS)<?h4>
Batting star: Jason Kanzler was 1-for-1 with a double and a walk, scoring once and driving in two.
Pitching star: Alex Muren pitched two shutout innings, giving up one hit with one strikeout. Starter Ethan Mildren pitched five innings, giving up four runs on ten hits and a walk with two strikeouts.
Opposition stars: Juan Herrera was 3-for-4 with a double and two runs. Carson Kelly was 3-for-4 with a double, scoring once and driving in one. Cesar Valera was 2-for-3 with a double and a triple, driving in one.
The game: A pair of singles and a ground out put Peoria on the board in the first. Cedar Rapids did not get a hit until there were two out in the fourth. They got a walk and a single, followed by a Kanzler two-run double. Kanzler then stole third and scored on a throwing error, giving the Kernels a 3-1 lead on only two hits. Unfortunately, the Chiefs came right back in the fifth, getting two doubles, a single, and another double to take a 4-3 lead. Cedar Rapids did not get another hit the rest of the game.
Of note: Tanner Vavra was 0-for-2. J. D. Williams was 0-for-3. Chad Christensen was 0-for-2 with a walk and a run. Ivory Thomas was 0-for-2 with a walk, giving him 21 walks in 54 plate appearances.
PEORIA 6, CEDAR RAPIDS 4 IN CEDAR RAPIDS
Batting stars: Bryan Haar was 3-for-3 with a walk and a two-run homer (his sixth), scoring twice. Bo Altobelli was 3-for-4 with an RBI. J. D. Williams was 1-for-3 with a walk and a run.
Pitching star: Hudson Boyd pitched a scoreless inning, giving up one hit.
Opposition stars: Juan Herrera was 1-for-4 with a triple, scoring once and driving in three. Michael Schulze was 1-for-3 with a double, scoring once and driving in one. Cesar Valera was 2-for-2 with a run.
The game: Haar hit a two-run homer in the first, giving Cedar Rapids a 2-0 lead. Peoria seized the lead with five runs in the third. Schulze doubled in one, but the key blow was a bases-loaded triple by Herrera, who later scored on a ground out. The Kernels came back in the fifth, putting together a two-out rally on a single, a hit batsman, a single, and an error to cut the lead to 5-4, but an error led to a Chiefs run in the sixth. Cedar Rapids threatened in the seventh, getting a pair of singles to put men on first and second with one out, but could do no more.
Of note: Chad Christensen was 0-for-4. Mitch Garver was 0-for-3 with a walk. Ivory Thomas was 0-for-2 with a walk, giving him 22 walks in 57 plate appearances. His line is .176/.491/.265. Starter Josue Montanez pitched five innings, giving up five runs on four hits and three walks with two strikeouts.
TODAY'S TILTS
9:35 Fort Myers (David Hurlbut, 2-1, 1.69) at Brevard County (Jed Bradley, 4-1, 2.77)
5:05 Peoria (Chase Brookshire, 1-3, 8.57) at Cedar Rapids (Kohl Stewart, 1-1, 2.35)
Game 2 Peoria (Jimmy Reed, 1-1, 5.34) at Cedar Rapids (Felix Jorge, 2-3, 8.89)
5:35 Portland (Henry Owens, 4-2, 3.61) at New Britain (Tyler Duffey, 0-0, 3.46)
6:05 Columbus (T. J. House, 1-2, 1.77) at Rochester (Scott Diamond, 2-4, 7.53)