Jason Kanzler leads Fort Myers to victory.  A very bad inning sinks Elizabethton.  A last-bat victory for the DSL Twins.

ROCHESTER 4, SYRACUSE 2 IN SYRACUSE (COMPLETION OF SUSPENDED GAME)

Batting stars:  Eric Farris was 3-for-4 with two doubles and two runs.  Josmil Pinto was 4-for-5.  James Beresford was 2-for-4 with a run and an RBI.

Pitching stars:  A. J. Achter struck out three in 3.1 innings, giving up one run on two hits and a walk.  Stephen Pryor struck out three in 2.2 scoreless innings, giving up one hit and two walks.  Lester Oliveros struck out two in 1.1 scoreless innings, giving up one hit and two walks.

Opposition stars:  Emmanuel Burriss was 2-for-5 with a run and an RBI.  Jeff Kobernus was 1-for-3 with two walks and an RBI.  Aaron Laffey pitched seven innings of "relief", allowing three runs on twelve hits and no walks with two strikeouts.

The game:  Rochester got on the board with a sacrifice fly in the first, but Syracuse scored on an error in the bottom of the first.  The game was suspended with two out in the bottom of the first and completed on this date.  Burriss singled in a run in the second to give the Chiefs a 2-1 lead.  It stayed 2-1 until the sixth, when two singles, a bunt, a sacrifice fly, and a wild pitch plated two for the Red Wings and put them up 3-2.  Beresford singled in an insurance run in the eighth.  Syracuse had men on first and third with two out in the seventh and had the bases loaded with two out in the eighth.

Of note:  Aaron Hicks was 1-for-4 with an RBI.  Chris Herrmann was 3-for-5.  Chris Colabello was 1-for-4 with an RBI.  Pedro Florimon was 1-for-5 with a run.  Starter Kris Johnson pitched only two-thirds of an inning before the rain, giving up one run on two hits and a walk with one strikeout.

SYRACUSE 7, ROCHESTER 0 IN SYRACUSE (SCHEDULED GAME--7 INNINGS)

Batting stars:  Eric Farris was 2-for-2.  Chris Herrmann was 1-for-3.

Pitching stars:  None.

Opposition stars:  Taylor Hill pitched a complete game, allowing three hits and one walk with two strikeouts.  Emmanuel Burris was 2-for-4 with a three-run homer (his sixth), scoring twice.  Destin Hood was 2-for-3 with a two-run homer, his ninth.

The game:  Tyler Moore singled in a run in the first.  It stayed 1-0 until the fourth, when Syracuse scored five times to put the game out of reach.  Hood hit a two-run homer and Burris a three-run homer in the inning.  The only time Rochester got a man past first base was the sixth, when they opened the inning with a single and a walk.  A strikeout and a double play followed.

Of note:  Aaron Hicks was 0-for-2.  Josmil Pinto was 0-for-3.  Chris Colabello was 0-for-1 with a hit-by-pitch.  Starter Logan Darnell struck out five in four innings, giving up six runs on six hits and two walks.

ALTOONA 7, NEW BRITAIN 2 IN ALTOONA

Batting stars:  Reynaldo Rodriguez was 2-for-4 with a double, scoring once and driving in one.  Brandon Waring was 2-for-3 with a walk.  Jorge Polanco was 1-for-3 with a walk and an RBI.

Pitching star:  Ryan O'Rourke pitched two shutout innings, giving up two walks.

Opposition stars:  Keon Broxton was 2-for-3 with a double and a walk, scoring twice and driving in two.  Stetson Allie was 1-for-4 with a two-run homer, his nineteenth.  Willy Garcia was 1-for-3 with a double and a hit-by-pitch, scoring twice.

The game:  New Britain scored first, getting two in the first inning on an RBI double by Rodriguez and a run-scoring single by Polanco.  It was all Altoona after that.  The Curve tied it in the bottom of the first on Allie's two-run homer.  Altoona took a 4-2 lead in the second on a double, two singles, and an infield out.  It remained 4-2 until the sixth, when Broxton doubled in one and Gift Ngoepe delivered a two-out two-run single to close out the scoring.  The only Rock Cats scoring threats after the first inning came in the fourth, when three walks loaded the bases with one out, and in the eighth, when a single and a walk put two on with two out.

Of note:  Levi Michael was 0-for-5.  Eddie Rosario was 0-for-4 with a walk and a run.  Nate Hanson was 0-for-5.  Starter Adrian Salcedo struck out four in three innings, giving up four runs on five hits and a walk.

FORT MYERS 5, CHARLOTTE 2 IN CHARLOTTE

Batting stars:  Jason Kanzler was 3-for-4 with a triple and a double, scoring three times.  Aderlin Mejia was 4-for-5 with a run and an RBI.  Travis Harrison was 1-for-3 with a double and a walk, driving in two.

Pitching stars:  Matt Tomshaw pitched seven innings, giving up two runs on seven hits and no walks with five strikeouts.  Brandon Peterson stuck out two in a perfect inning.  Zack Jones struck out two in a scoreless inning, giving up one hit.

Opposition star:  Patrick Leonard was 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI.

The game:  Leonard singled in a run to give Charlotte the initial lead at 1-0 in the first.  In the third, Mejia singled in one and Harrison doubled in two to give Fort Myers a 3-1 lead.  Kanzler tripled and scored in the seventh to make it 4-1.  Thomas Coyle singled in a run in the bottom of the seventh to cut it to 4-2, but Kanzler again gave the Miracle an extra insurance run in the ninth as he doubled and scored.  The Stone Crabs could not bring the tying run up to bat in the bottom of the ninth.

Of note:  Dalton Hicks was 0-for-4.  Max Kepler was 1-for-4.

CEDAR RAPIDS 8, BURLINGTON 2 IN BURLINGTON

Batting stars:  Jonatan Hinojosa was 1-for-4 with a triple and a walk, scoring twice and driving in two.  Logan Wade was 2-for-4 with a triple and three RBIs.  Max Murphy was 2-for-3 with a double and a walk, scoring once.

Pitching stars:  Ryan Eades pitched six innings, giving up one run on five hits and no walks with two strikeouts.  Chris Mazza struck out all five batters he faced.

Opposition stars:  Mike Fish was 2-for-3 with a double and a run.  Greg Mahle pitched two perfect inning.  Ryan Dalton struck out three in two shutout innings, allowing only a walk.

The game:  In the second, J. D. Williams doubled in one, Michael Quesada singled in another, and Wade delivered a two-out two-run single to put Cedar Rapids up 4-0.  Burlington got one back in the bottom of the second when Brandon Bayardi doubled and scored, but the Kernels scored three more in the fourth to go ahead 7-1 and put the game out of reach.  Hinojosa had a two-run triple in the fourth and scored on a sacrifice fly.

Of note:  Mitch Garver was 0-for-5.  Alex Swim was 0-for-3 with a walk and a run.

PULASKI 10, ELIZABETHTON 4 IN ELIZABETHTON

Batting stars:  Jorge Fernandez was 2-for-4 with a run and an RBI.  Tyler Kuresa was 2-for-4 with a walk and a run.  Trey Vavra was 2-for-4 with a walk and an RBI.

Pitching star:  Felix Jorge struck out six in 6.2 innings, giving up three runs on six hits and no walks.

Opposition stars:  Wayne Taylor was 2-for-3 with a home run (his fifth) and a hit-by-pitch, scoring twice.  Daniel Torres was 1-for-3 with a double and a walk, scoring twice and driving in one.  Gianfranco Wawoe was 2-for-4 with three RBIs.

The game:  It was close for seven innings.  Arby Fields doubled and scored in the first to give Pulaski a 1-0 lead.  Austin Diemer tied it with an RBI single in the second, but Wawoe singled in a run in the bottom of the second to restore a one-run lead for Pulaski.  Fernandez tied it with an RBI single in the third and Elizabethton took its first lead in the fourth on an error.  Taylor homered in the bottom of the fourth to tie the score at three.  In the seventh three consecutive two-out singles, the last a run-producer by Vavra, gave the Twins a 4-3 advantage.  In the eighth, however, Elizabethton made four errors, which along with two singles, a walk, and a hit batsman led to seven Mariners runs and decided the game.

Of note:  Jeremias Pineda was 0-for-4 with a walk and an RBI.  Nick Gordon was 1-for-5.  T. J. White was 2-for-4 with a run.

GCL TWINS 4, GCL RED SOX 3 AT TWINS (GAME 1--SCHEDULED 7 INNINGS--11 INNINGS)

Batting stars:  Jarrard Poteete was 2-for-5 with a double and three RBIs.  Dubal Baez was 2-for-4 with a double and a walk, scoring once.

Pitching stars:  Jhon Silvar struck out three in 3.1 scoreless innings, giving up five hits and a walk.  Eduardo Del Rosario pitched 2.2 scoreless innings, giving up two hits and two walks with one strikeout.

Opposition stars:  Pat Goetze struck out five in four shutout innings, allowing one hit.  Michael Chavis was 3-for-6 with a triple and a run.  Jhon Nunez was 3-for-5 with a double and a run.

The game:  Poteete had a two-run double in a three-run first inning to give the Twins an early lead.  Darwin Pena had a two-run double in a three-run fourth inning to tie the score at three.  There was no more scoring until the eleventh.  The first two Twins went out, but a walk, a wild pitch, and an intentional walk put men on first and second and Poteete singled in the winning run.

Of note:  Manuel Guzman was 0-for-5 with a run.  Nelson Molina was 0-for-3 with a walk and two runs.  Joel Polanco was 0-for-4 with a walk.  Starter Miles Nordgren pitched 4.2 innings, giving up three runs on ten hits and no walks with one strikeout.

GCL TWINS AT GCL RED SOX (GAME 2)

Rained out.

DSL TWINS AT DSL ORIOLES1

Rained out.