Byron Buxton starts his rehab with a bang.  Tim Melville is pitching very well.  Gabriel Moya makes his Chattanooga debut.  No clutch hits, but the Miracle wins anyway.  Joe Cronin hits a big home run.  Shane Carrier has a couple of big hits.  Alex Robles has a big day in a losing effort.  The DSL Twins build a big lead and hold on.

ROCHESTER 5, TOLEDO 1 IN TOLEDO (10 INNINGS)

Byron Buxton led off the game with a home run.  The Red Wings then went nine innings without scoring.  It appeared for a while that it would not matter, but in the seventh two singles and a sacrifice fly tied the score.  With two on and two out in the tenth, ByungHo Park delivered a two-run double to give Rochester the lead.  Daniel Palka followed with an RBI triple and Tommy Field then hit a run-scoring single.  The Mud Hens managed only a two-out walk in the bottom of the tenth.

Tim Melville, who has pitched well in four of his last five starts, struck out eleven in seven innings, giving up one run on five hits and a walk.  His ERA is 2.44.  Mason Melotakis struck out two in two perfect innings to drop his ERA to 1.50 with a WHIP of 0.92.  D. J. Baxendale pitched a scoreless inning to lower his ERA to 2.98.  Buxton was 2-for-4 with a home run and a walk.  Tommy Field was 2-for-4 with a double.

CHATTANOOGA 7, BIRMINGHAM 2 IN CHATTANOOGA

Jonathan Rodriguez homered in the third and Levi Michael and Brian Navaretto went back-to-back in the fourth to give the Lookouts a 3-0 lead.  Jose Vinicio's RBI single put the Barons on the board in the fifth, but Ryan Walker singled in a run in the bottom of the fifth and T. J. White delivered a three-run triple in the sixth to put the game out of reach.

Fernando Romero struck out nine in five innings, giving up one run on four hits and a walk.  His ERA is 2.64 with 112 strikeouts in 105.2 innings.  Gabriel Moya made his Chattanooga debut with three strikeouts in a scoreless inning.  His Southern League stats are an ERA of 0.81, a WHIP of 0.78, and 68 strikeouts in 43.2 innings.  Nick Anderson struck out two in a perfect inning to make his ERA 0.89 with a WHIP of 0.79 and 26 strikeouts in 20.1 innings.

FORT MYERS 2, LAKELAND 0 IN LAKELAND

A run scored on an error in the third and another scored on a sacrifice fly in the eighth.  Thus, the Miracle were able to score twice despite going 0-for-9 with men in scoring position.  They were out-hit seven to five.

Brady Anderson pitched 5.2 shutout innings, giving up five hits and a walk with three strikeouts.  Andrew Vasquez struck out four in 2.1 scoreless innings to keep his ERA at zero with a WHIP of 0.85 and 38 strikeouts in 23.2 innings.  Shane Kennedy was 2-for-4 with a double.  Jaylin Davis was 2-for-4.  Jermaine Palacios was 1-for-4 and is batting .321.

CEDAR RAPIDS 6, PEORIA 3 IN PEORIA

Gorge Munoz singled in a run in the fourth to put the Kernels up 2-1.  They then took control of the game on Joe Cronin's three-run homer in the fifth.  The Chiefs scored two in the bottom of the fifth to cut the margin to 5-3, but that was as close as they would come.

Domenick Carlini pitched five innings, giving up three runs (one earned) on four hits and three walks with three strikeouts.  Ryan Mason pitched two shutout innings to drop his ERA to 2.25,  Colton Davis pitched a perfect inning to lower his ERA to 1.71.  Hector Lujan struck out two in a scoreless inning to make his ERA 1.55 with a WHIP of 0.91.  Cronin was 3-for-4 with a home run (his third) and a double.  Trey Cabbage was 3-for-5 with a double.  Caleb Hamilton was 2-for-4 with a walk.  Munoz and Christian Cavaness were each 2-for-4.

ELIZABETHTON 5, PRINCETON 1 IN PRINCETON (GAME 1--7 INNINGS)

Shane Carrier doubled home a run in the first and then had a two-run single in a three-run third that gave the Twins control of the game.  The Rays got on the board in the seventh but did not bring the tying run up to bat.

Bryan Sammons struck out six in five shutout innings, giving up three hits and no walks.  His ERA is 1.46 with a WHIP of 0.85 and 31 strikeouts in 24.2 innings.  Colton Waltner was 2-for-3 with a home run.  Carrier was 2-for-3 with a double and three RBIs and is batting .339.  Jordan Gore was 1-for-4 and is batting .381.  Andrew Bechtold was 1-for-2 with a double and a walk and is batting .339.

ELIZABETHTON AT PRINCETON (GAME 2--SUSPENDED AFTER TWO INNINGS)

The Twins led 3-0 when the rains came.  Jose Miranda and Shane Carrier hit back-to-back homers in the first and Andrew Bechtold tripled and scored in the second.  Edwar Colina struck out four in two shutout innings.

GCL RED SOX 12, GCL TWINS 7 AT TWINS

The Twins scored one in each of the first two innings, but the Red Sox got four in the third to take the lead.  Everlouis Lozada had a two-run single in the inning.  The Twins got one in the bottom of the third and took a 6-4 lead in the fifth on Alex Robles' three-run homer.  It was 7-4 going to the eighth, but the Red Sox tied it with three in the eighth and won it with five in the ninth.

Petru Balan pitched three innings, giving up four runs (three earned) on three hits and three walks with three strikeouts.  Matt Jones struck out three in three shutout innings.  Derek Molina struck out two in a scoreless inning, keeping his ERA at zero with three strikeouts in two innings.  Robles was 3-for-5 with a home run (his second) and four RBIs and is batting .337.  Kerby Camacho was 2-for-5 and is batting .320.  Royce Lewis was 2-for-4 and is batting .316.

DSL TWINS 13, DSL NATIONALS 12 AT TWINS

The Twins scored seven runs in the first inning on four hits.  The biggest blow was a two-run double by Jesus Feliz.  They also drew three walks and had a hit batsman.  The Twins led 13-1 in the fourth and one might have thought the game was over.  If one thought that, though, one had not paid much attention to the DSL.  Two walks led to three Nationals runs in the fifth, they got another run in the sixth, a five-run eighth made it 13-10, and the Nationals scored two more in the ninth.  They had the tying and go-ahead runs on base with two out, but a strikeout ended the game.

Jesus Toledo pitched four innings, giving up a run on three hits and two walks with two strikeouts.  Fernando Sanchez pitched 1.1 scoreless innings.  Samuel Vasquez was 3-for-4 with a walk and three RBIs.  Alberoni Nunez was 2-for-4 with a double and a walk and is batting .353.  Ruben Santana was 1-for-4 and is batting .358.  Yeltsin Encarnacion was 1-for-3 with a walk and is batting .352.

TODAY'S TILTS

9:00  GCL Twins at GCL Red Sox
9:30  DSL Twins at DSL Nationals
5:15  Fort Myers (Lewis Thorpe, 2-3, 3.06) at Clearwater (JoJo Romero,. 2-2, 2.95)
6:00  Elizabethton at Princeton
6:05  Rochester (Hector Santiago, 0-1, 6.75) at Toledo (Josh Turley, 1-0, 0.00)
6:15  Birmingham at Chattanooga (Felix Jorge, 8-2, 4.01)
6:35  Clinton (Nick Wells, 4-7, 6.50) at Cedar Rapids (Clark Beeker, 9-3, 2.51)