Not much offense for the Red Wings. David Hurlbut has his first good game at AA and Mike Gonzales provides the offense for a Lookouts victory. An extra-inning win for the Miracle. The Kernels give one away. The DSL Twins lose late.
SCRANTON/WILKES-BARRE 2, ROCHESTER 1 IN ROCHESTER
Batting stars: Doug Bernier was 2-for-4 with a run. Eric Farris was 2-for-4 with an RBI. Kennys Vargas was 1-for-3 with a walk.
Pitching stars: Tyler Duffey struck out nine in 5.1 innings, giving up two runs on seven hits and a walk. Logan Darnell pitched 1.2 scoreless innings, giving up two hits with one strikeout.
Opposition stars: Nick Noonan was 3-for-4 with an RBI. Mason Williams was 1-for-4 with a walk and a run. Kyle Davies pitched 5.1 innings, allowing one run on five hits and a walk with one strikeout.
The game: The RailRiders scored on a double play in the first inning, but the Red Wings tied it with three two-out singles in the second. Ben Gamel led off the fifth with a triple and scored on a Noonan single to put the RailRiders up 2-1. The only Red Wings threat after that came in the seventh, when they put two men on with two out.
Of note: James Beresford was 1-for-5. Oswaldo Arcia was 1-for-4. Josmil Pinto was 0-for-4.
CHATTANOOGA 4, JACKSON 1 IN JACKSON
Batting stars: Mike Gonzales was 2-for-3 with a two-run homer (his fifth), a double, and a walk, scoring twice. Adam Brett Walker II was 2-for-3 with a double, scoring once and driving in one. Byron Buxton was 2-for-4 with a run.
Pitching stars: David Hurlbut pitched seven innings, giving up one run on five hits and three walks with four strikeouts. Nick Burdi pitched a scoreless inning, giving up no hits and no walks with one strikeout. Zack Jones pitched a scoreless inning, giving up one hit with one strikeout.
Opposition stars: Tyler Smith was 1-for-3 with a walk and a run. Edwin Diaz pitched 7.2 innings, allowing two runs on seven hits and two walks with six strikeouts.
The game: Back-to-back doubles by Gonzales and Carlos Paulino in the second gave the Lookouts a 2-1 lead. It stayed 2-1 all the way until the ninth, when Gonzales hit a two-run homer. The Generals got a man to second base in the seventh, eighth, and ninth.
Of note: Jorge Polanco was 1-for-4 with a double. Miguel Sano was back in the lineup but was 0-for-4. Max Kepler was 0-for-3 with a walk.
FORT MYERS 4, BRADENTON 3 IN FORT MYERS (12 INNINGS)
Batting stars: Tanner Vavra was 2-for-4 with a walk, scoring once and driving in one. Ryan Walker was 3-for-6 with a double. Alex Swim was 3-for-6 with a run.
Pitching stars: Aaron Slegers pitched 6.2 innings, giving up three runs on seven hits and two walks with two strikeouts. Brandon Peterson pitched two shutout innings, giving up one hit. Corey Williams struck out two in two shutout innings, giving up two hits.
Opposition stars: JaCoby Jones was 1-for-4 with a two-run homer, his seventh. Erich Weiss was 1-for-5 with a home run, his second. Luis Heredia pitched 4.1 innings, allowing one run on nine hits and no walks with one strikeout.
The game: Jones hit a two-run homer in the third to put the Marauders up 2-0. An RBI single by Vavra in the fourth and by Engelb Vielma in the sixth tied it up. Weiss homered leading off the seventh, but the Miracle tied it in the eighth on a Zach Granite RBI single. From there, nobody really threatened until the twelfth, when Swim singled, went to third on a stolen base-plus-error, and scored on a Chad Christensen single.
Of note: Granite was 1-for-6 with an RBI. Marcus Knecht was 0-for-5 with a walk.
WEST MICHIGAN 8, CEDAR RAPIDS 7 IN WEST MICHIGAN
Batting stars: Alex Real was 3-for-4 with a walk and three RBIs. Max Murphy was 3-for-4 with two RBIs. Brett Doe was 1-for-3 with a walk and three RBIs.
Pitching star: Randy LeBlanc struck out five in three shutout innings, giving up a hit and a walk.
Opposition stars: Will Kengor was 2-for-3 with a double and two walks, scoring once and driving in three. Joey Pankake was 1-for-3 with two walks, scoring twice and driving in one. Gage Smith struck out five in 3.1 scoreless innings, allowing one hit.
The game: It was close all the way. Each team scored three in the third. Kengor's two-run double put the Whitecaps up 5-4 in the fifth, but the Kernels came back with three in the top of the sixth. The Kernels led 7-6 after six and that was still the score going to the bottom of the ninth. At that point, however, four consecutive one-out walks tied the score and a wild pitch brought home the winning run.
Of note: Edgar Corcino was 2-for-6 with a run. Nick Gordon was 2-for-4 with a walk and a run. Zack Larson was 1-for-5 with two runs. Jorge Fernandez was 1-for-4 with a double, scoring once and driving in one. Zach Tillery pitched three innings, giving up three runs on three hits and four walks with one strikeout.
DSL YANKEES1 6, DSL TWINS 4 AT TWINS
Batting stars: Jorge Parra was 2-for-3 with a double and a walk, scoring twice and driving in one. Emmanuel Morel was 2-for-3 with two walks. Jorge Munoz was 2-for-4 with two runs.
Pitching stars: Jose Ramirez pitched six innings, giving up three runs (two earned) on six hits and no walks with five strikeouts. Danny Feliz struck out two in a scoreless inning, giving up one hit.
Opposition stars: Leobaldo Cabrera was 3-for-4 with a double, scoring once and driving in one. Jason Lopez was 1-for-4 with a two-run homer. Bringnel Mendez pitched four shutout innings of relief, allowing one hit and one walk with two strikeouts.
The game: Antonio Tovar's two-run single-plus-error in the third put the Twins up 4-1. That held until the sixth, when Ricardo Ferreira had an RBI triple and later scored to cut the lead to 4-3. In the seventh, Lopez hit a two-run homer to give the Yankees1 their first lead of the day at 5-4. Nelson Alvarez added an insurance run with a leadoff homer in the eighth. The Twins did not get a hit from the sixth until the ninth, when Morel got a two-out single.
Of note: Tovar was 1-for-4 with an RBI. Edgar Herrera was 1-for-3 with an RBI.