Jose Berrios has nothing to learn in Rochester. The Lookouts needed to look out for the first inning. Twins affiliates go 2-1 in 2-1 games.
ROCHESTER 2, BUFFALO 1 IN BUFFALO (10 INNINGS)
With one out in the tenth, Ben Paulsen and Leonardo Reginatto singled and John Ryan Murphy and Bengie Gonzalez walked to force home the go-ahead run. The Bisons went down in order in the bottom of the tenth. The Red Wings had only four hits in the game and Buffalo just five.
Jose Berrios was excellent again, pitching eight innings and giving up an unearned run on four hits and no walks with six strikeouts. In fourteen innings he has yet to give up an earned run and he has a WHIP of 0.57. Alex Wimmers struck out two in two shutout innings, giving up a hit and a walk. Reginatto was 2-for-4, making his average .439, and Matt Hague hit a home run in a 1-for-4 day that made his average .379. Paulsen was 1-for-4 and is batting .429. Niko Goodrum was 0-for-4, dropping his average to .320.
JACKSONVILLE 5, CHATTANOOGA 3 IN JACKSONVILLE
The Jumbo Shrimp scored five runs in the first inning and it was all they needed. John Norwood and Brian Anderson hit back-to-back homers in the inning the put Jacksonville ahead 3-0 before anyone was retired. Four consecutive two-out singles produced two more runs. The Lookouts were down 5-1 after eight, but got back-to-back homers of their own, but Jonathan Rodriguez and Dan Rohlfing, and got two walks to put the tying run on base with none out, but that was as close as they would come.
Matt Tracy settled down after the first inning to get through four, giving up five runs (two earned) on eight hits and no walks with three strikeouts. Ryan Eades and John Curtiss each pitched two shutout innings of relief. Chattanooga had only five hits, with no batter getting more than one. Edgar Corcino was 1-for-4 and is batting .300. Five of the Lookouts' starters have averages under .200. However, their .225 average is sixth in the ten team league and their .633 OPS is also sixth.
DAYTONA 2, FORT MYERS 1 IN DAYTONA
Daniel Sweet doubled and scored in the first and an error led to a run in the third. The lone Miracle run came in the fifth, when Sean Miller hit a two-out triple and scored on a Brian Navaretto single. Fort Myers had a man on third in the sixth and loaded the bases in the eighth, but could not tie it up. The Miracle had seven hits but stranded eight men.
Cody Stashak pitched well, going six innings and giving up two runs (one earned) on four hits and no walks with three strikeouts. Jonny Drozd struck out three in two shutout innings of relief, giving up one hit. Miller and Navaretto were each 2-for-4. Alex Perez was 1-for-4 and is batting .419. Chris Paul was 0-for-3 and is batting .345. Fort Myers also had five starters with averages under .200, one of them with an average under .100. However they, too, are far from the worst in the league. Their .230 batting average is seventh in the twelve-team league and their .596 OPS is ninth.
CEDAR RAPIDS 2, WISCONSIN 1 IN WISCONSIN
The Kernels got two in the fifth and made it stand up. Caleb Hamilton homered to lead off the inning. Later, Jermaine Palacios drew a two-out walk and scored on a Travis Blankenhorn triple. The Timber Rattlers did not score until the eighth. They got the tying run to second with two out in that inning, but their last four batters went out.
Tyler Wells struck out eight in six shutout innings, giving up five hits and two walks to drop his ERA to 1.80. Max Cordy pitched a perfect inning with one strikeout. Blankenhorn was 2-for-4 and is batting .400. Palacios was 1-for-3 with a walk and is batting .357. Mitchell Kranson was 0-for-4 and is batting .333.
TODAY'S TILTS
12:35 Syracuse (Jacob Turner, 0-0, 2.45) at Rochester (Nick Tepesch, 1-0, 3.60)
6:05 Chattanooga (Fernando Romero, 0-1, 8.10) at Jacksonville (Omar Bencomo, 1-0, 0.00)
6:05 Fort Myers (David Fischer, 0-0, 0.00) at Daytona (Vladimir Gutierrez, 0-1, 5.79)
6:35 Wisconsin (Thomas Jankins, 0-0, 1.80) at Cedar Rapids (Sean Poppen, 0-0, 2.57)