A good game for Alex Meyer. Solo home runs beat New Britain. Elizabethton wastes a fine start by Sam Gibbons.
ROCHESTER 2, PAWTUCKET 1 IN PAWTUCKET
Batting stars: Pedro Florimon was 2-for-4 with two doubles and a run. Chris Rahl was 1-for-4 with a home run, his fifth.
Pitching stars: Alex Meyer struck out seven in six innings, giving up one run on three hits and four walks. Ryan Pressly struck out three in three innings, giving up one hit.
Opposition stars: Allen Webster struck out six in 5.1 innings, allowing one run on two hits and three walks. John Ely struck out two in two perfect innings. Christian Vazquez was 1-for-3 with a double and a walk, scoring once.
The game: Garin Cecchini singled in Vazquez in the second to give Pawtucket a 1-0 lead. Rahl led off the fifth with a home run to tie it a one. Doubles by Florimon and Dan Rohlfing gave the Twins a 2-1 lead. The Red Sox got runners to second and third with two out in the third but did not get a man past first after that.
Of note: Eric Farris was 0-for-4. Deibinson Romero was 0-for-2 with two walks. Wilkin Ramirez was 0-for-1 with a walk. The first six spots in the Red Wings batting order went 0-for-20.
BINGHAMTON 6, NEW BRITAIN 4 IN NEW BRITAIN (GAME 1--9 INNINGS--SCHEDULED 7 INNINGS)
Batting stars: Aaron Hicks was 2-for-4 with a home run (his second) and a double, scoring twice. Reynaldo Rodriguez was 1-for-3 with a walk and two runs. Mike Kvasnicka was 2-for-4 with an RBI.
Pitching star: Daniel Turpen struck out two in 1.1 scoreless innings, giving up one hit.
Opposition stars: Kyle Johnson was 2-for-4 with two home runs (his third and fourth) and a walk. Brian Burgamy was 4-for-5 with a triple and a home run (his fourteenth), scoring twice.
The game: Binghamton opened the game with back-to-back home runs by Johnson and Dilson Herrera. Two walks and an error made it 3-0 after the top of the second. New Britain came back, scoring twice in the bottom of the second and getting a two-run homer by Hicks in the third to go ahead 4-3. Burgamy homered in the fifth to tie it at four. It stayed tied until the ninth, when Johnson homered again to make it 5-4 and Burgamy tripled and scored for an insurance run. The Rock Cats managed only a two-out single in the bottom of the ninth.
Of note: Stephen Wickens was 1-for-4. Eddie Rosario was 1-for-4. Kennys Vargas was 0-for-4. Tyler Duffey pitched six innings, giving up four runs on seven hits and three walks with four strikeouts.
BINGHAMTON AT NEW BRITAIN (GAME 2)
Rained out.
FORT MYERS 7, BRADENTON 6 IN BRADENTON
Batting stars: Niko Goodrum was 2-for-4 with a double, scoring once and driving in two. Dalton Hicks was 1-for-3 with a double and a walk, scoring once and driving in two.
Pitching star: Tyler Jones struck out three and walked one in a scoreless inning.
Opposition stars: Adam Frazier was 2-for-4 with a double, scoring once and driving in one. Max Moroff was 2-for-4 with a walk and a run. Walker Gourley was 2-for-4 with a double and a run.
The game: Gourley doubled and scored to give Bradenton a 1-0 lead in the third. Adam Brett Walker II hit a two-run homer in the fifth to give Fort Myers the lead and an RBI double by Goodrum and a Max Kepler run-scoring single made it 4-1. Hicks had a two-run double in a three-run sixth to put the Miracle up 7-1. The Marauders came back with a two-out rally in the bottom of the sixth, getting three singles, a double, and two more singles, all with two down, to cut the lead to 7-5. Adam Frazier's RBI double in the seventh made it 7-6 and put the tying run on second with one out. Bradenton put men on first and third in the eighth and first and second in the ninth, but the Fort Myers lead held.
Of note: Jorge Polanco was 2-for-5. Kepler was 2-for-5 with an RBI. Lance Ray was 0-for-4. Mike Gonzales was 1-for-2 with a walk and a hit-by-pitch, scoring twice. Starter Matt Tomshaw pitched well for five innings, but his totals are 5.2 innings and five runs on ten hits and no walks with two strikeouts.
WISCONSIN 5, CEDAR RAPIDS 3 IN WISCONSIN
Batting stars: Ryan Walker was 3-for-4 with a run and an RBI. J. D. Williams was 1-for-3 with a double, scoring once and driving in one. Jon Murphy was 1-for-2 with two walks.
Pitching stars: Nick Burdi struck out three in a scoreless inning, giving up a hit and a walk. Brandon Bixler pitched a perfect inning with one strikeout. Todd Van Steensel struck out two in a scoreless inning, giving up a walk.
Opposition stars: Taylor Brennan was 2-for-4 with a home run (his ninth) and two runs. Rafael Neda was 2-for-4 with two doubles and a run. Taylor Williams struck out six in four innings, allowing one run on four hits and a walk.
The game: An error put Cedar Rapids on the board in the top of the second, but Wisconsin came back with four in the bottom of the second to take control early. Angel Ortega had a two-run double in the inning. Each team scored once in the fifth. Williams doubled and scored in the sixth, but the Kernels managed only one hit over the last three innings.
Of note: Zack Granite was 2-for-5. Chad Christensen was 0-for-4 with an RBI. Bryan Haar was 0-for-4. Starter Ryan Eades struck out five in five innings, but gave up five runs on seven hits and three walks.
BLUEFIELD 2, ELIZABETHTON 0 IN ELIZABETHTON
Batting stars: Trey Vavra was 2-for-3 with a walk. Nick Gordon was 1-for-3 with a walk.
Pitching stars: Sam Gibbons struck out eleven in six innings, giving up two runs on five hits and no walks. Derrick Penilla struck out four in two shutout innings, giving up two hits. Dereck Rodriguez pitched a scoreless inning, giving up a hit and a walk with one strikeout.
Opposition stars: Miguel Burgos struck out six in five innings, allowing three hits and a walk. Josh Almonte was 3-for-4 with a two-run homer. Oscar Cabrera struck out three in 2.2 scoreless innings, allowing two hits.
The game: The only runs of the game came in the sixth. Austin Davis led off with a single, was bunted to second, was bunted to third, and scored on Almonte's two-run homer. The bunts were clearly the key to the inning. Elizabethton came closest to scoring in the ninth, when a walk and two singles loaded the bases with none out. A line drive double play and a strikeout ended the game.
Of note: Tanner English was 1-for-4. Max Murphy was 1-for-4. Austin Diemer was 0-for-3 with a hit-by-pitch. Jorge Fernandez was 1-for-2 with a double.
GCL RAYS 2, GCL TWINS 1 AT TWINS
Batting stars: Rainis Silva was 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI. Rafael P. Valera was 1-for-3 with a double and a walk, scoring once.
Pitching stars: Brandon Easton struck out five in five innings, giving up an unearned run on five hits and a walk. Zach Tillery pitched two shutout innings, giving up one hit.
Opposition stars: Henry Centero pitched five innings, allowing an unearned run on three hits and two walks with two strikeouts. Jose Rojas was 2-for-3 with a double and a walk. Nick Sawyer struck out three in two perfect innings.
The game: A single, a walk, and an error put the Rays on the board in the third. An error, a wild pitch, and a Silva double tied it at one in the fourth. There was no more scoring until the ninth. Cade Gotta led off the inning with a double. Christian Knott hit a one-out double, but Gotta only got as far as third (someone surely yelled "You Gotta score on that!). An intentional walk loaded the bases and a wild pitch brought home the winning run.
Of note: Dubal Baez was 0-for-2 with a walk and a hit-by-pitch. Amaurys Minier was 1-for-3 with a walk.
DSL TWINS 10, DSL DIAMONDBACKS 4 AT TWINS
Batting stars: Jorge Parra was 3-for-4 with a triple and a walk, scoring three times and driving in one. Junior Amarante was 3-for-4 with a double and two RBIs. Jorge Andrade was 1-for-3 with a triple and a walk, scoring twice and driving in one.
Pitching stars: Jose Martinez pitched four innings, giving up two runs (one earned) on three hits and a walk with no strikeouts. Daulin Ramirez pitched a perfect inning with one strikeout.
Opposition star: Oswaldo Garcia was 1-for-3 with a walk, scoring once and driving in one.
The game: The Diamondbacks scored two in the top of the second but the Twins came back with three in the bottom, loading the bases on two singles and a walk and bringing them all home on an Amarante single-plus-error. In the fourth, triples by Parra and Andrade led to another three-run inning to make the score 6-2. The Diamondbacks cut the lead to 6-4 in the top of the fifth, but the Twins got two in the bottom of the fifth and two more in the seventh to put the game out of reach.
Of note: Jermaine Palacios was 0-for-5. Lewin Diaz was 1-for-3 with two doubles and a run.
TODAY'S TILTS
9:00 GCL Twins at GCL Red Sox
9:30 DSL Twins at DSL Diamondbacks
11:35 Charlotte (Blake Snell, 1-4, 6.20) at Fort Myers (Jose Berrios, 8-3, 2.09)
5:00 New Britain (Virgil Vasquez, 4-4, 3.87) at Portland (Mike McCarthy, 7-3, 4.75)
5:05 Beloit (Kyle Finnegan, 6-5, 3.18) at Cedar Rapids (Ethan Mildren, 2-5, 4.46)
6:00 Bluefield (Matthew Smoral, 0-0, 6.75) at Elizabethton (Chih-Wei Hu, 0-0, 2.70)
6:15 Lehigh Valley (Barry Enright, 3-8, 5.28) at Rochester (Logan Darnell, 4-4, 3.12)