2018 Minor League Baseball Thread

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Game 60
Akron Rubber Ducks(Cleveland)33-26 @New Hampshire Fisher Cats(Toronto) 35-23

Akron jumps out to a 7-1 lead and then hangs on to post a 7-4 win.
Andrew Calica hit his 3rd homer of the season for the Ducks and Sam Haggerty blasted his 2nd bomb of the season.
Calica, Haggerty and Tyler Krieger all had two hits each for the Ducks.
Calica and Joe Sever both had 2RBI.

For the Cats,Harold Ramirez hit his 2nd bomb of the season.
Bo Bichette(.274)Ramirez(.301) and Connor Panas(.224) all had 1RBI.

WP-Triston McKenzie (W, 1-0)0.00 ERA(First double A start of the season)
LP-Jordan Romano (L, 8-1) 2.81 ERA
SV-Mitch Brown (S, 4) 1.07 ERA

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Game 61

Potomac Nationals(Washington) 30-26 @ Lynchburg Hillcats(Indians)26-30
Hillcats have dropped five straight.

The Nationals get two in the fourth to take a 2-1 lead.
Ian Sagdal singles,then he goes to 2nd on a balk by Zach Plesac.
Rhett Wiseman walks. David Masters gets a RBI on a sac bunt(1-1)
Blake Perkins makes it 2-1 with a hard single.

Bottom of the fifth the Hillcats get two, two run doubles and now lead 5-2.
Luke Wakamatsu doubles (9) to plate two(3-2) and then Logan Ice doubles (4)to make it(5-2)
This is game one of a seven inning double header.

Rhett Wiseman triples (2)to start the sixth inning for the Nationals and then he comes home on a double play and we have a (5-3 game)

5-3 Hillcats win.

WP-Zach Plesac (W, 4-2) 4.41 ERA
LP-Joan Baez (L, 2-5) 5.08 ERA
SV-James Karinchak (S, 5)0.00 ERA

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Game 62

Schaumburg Boomers (Independent) 11-13 @ Lake Erie Crusher(Independent) 15-10
I was going to this one but the local weather report for Avon, Ohio called for thunderstorms, which never came. It rained a little for ten minutes. I ended up watching online.
The boomers used eleven hits to post the win in this one along with six crushers base on balls. Leading the winners offense was,Ty Moore(2 Hits 2RBI). Zack Weigel added two hits and one RBI.Collin Ferguson drove in a run.

For Lake Erie,Bryan DeLaRosa drove in two on the day and he had a hit.
Kewby Meyer and Dane Hutcheon had one RBI apiece.

WP-Darrell Thompson 1-0 3.00 ERA
LP-Ethan Westphal 0-2 1.93 ERA

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Game 63
Buffalo Bisons (Toronto) 9 Columbus Clippers (Cleveland) 1
Game one of a double header.
I took in both games.

Buffalo used two, three run bombs to spank Columbus in game one.
Lourdes Gurriel Jr.(4) and Danny Jansen hit the bombs.
Reese McGuire and Roemon Fields each had three hits. In all Buffalo had 15 hits, in the seven inning game.Gurriel totaled 4 RBI, Jansen had 3.

The Clippers, who have one of the worse offenses in all of triple A, managed just three hits. They struck out nine times in this one, which is sadly par for the course for them.

WP-Sean Reid-Foley (W, 1-1) 6.75 ERA
LP-Myles Jaye (L, 3-5) 5.43 ERA

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Game 64
Buffalo Bisons 2 Columbus Clippers 1 (8 Innings)
This was game two of the double header.

Buffalo used a solo blast from Darnell Sweeney(4) and a RBI from Anthony Alford in the top of the eighth to sweep the Clippers. Buffalo had just five hits in this one, with three of them being singles.

For the lifeless Clippers, they managed sic hits, with all of them being singles.
Columbus only struck out five times in this one. Light hitting Adam Rosales led the way with two hits.

WP-Justin Shafer (W, 2-1) 1.80 ERA
LP-Cole Sulser (L, 2-2) 4.13 ERA
SV-Al Alburquerque (S, 4) 3.00 ERA(Only hit 95 MPH once today)


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Game 64

Columbus Clippers (Indians) 29-31 @ Louisville Bats(Reds) 22-36

So far in 2 2/3 innings the Bats have had 5 bad, really bad throws, with two being counted as errors. Homer Bailey,who is making a rehab start for the Bats has to asking himself what level the Reds have sent him to. Little league players can throw the ball better.

Scoreless through two innings, the Clippers have started to show some form of life, with the bats. Eric Stamets singled to lead things off.Drew Maggi doubles (1) to make it 1-0.Brandon Barnes singles to make it 2-0.Mike Papi doubled (8) and all of a sudden, this was a 4-0 game.Eric Haase, who is on a two month slump tripled (3)
to make it 5-0 Columbus.

The Bats come back with a four spot in their part of the third.
Blake Trahan singled with two outs.
Nick Senzel doubles (9) to make it a 5-1 game.
Hernan Iribarren walked to put two on, with two outs.
Dilson Herrera homered(4) over the left field wall and this was a one run game.(5-4 Columbus)

Yu Chang doubles (17) to get the Clippers started in the fifth.
A wild pitch by Jackson Stephens advances Chang to third.
A could be good inning ended with the just one being scored, on a Nellie Rodriguez sac fly(6-4 Clippers)

Brandon Barnes walks to start the seventh inning for the Clippers.
A wild pitch by Evan Mitchell moves Barnes to 2nd base.
Eric Haase doubles (8) to make it a 7-4 Clippers lead. The ball was hit way up in the air and nobody could find it, making this a very easy double for Haase.

Final Score
Columbus 7-4

Shao-Ching Chiang (W, 1-0) 6.74 ERA
Homer Bailey (L, 0-1) 15.00 ERA
George Kontos (S, 1)0.00 ERA

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Game 65
New Hampshire Fisher Cats(Toronto) 37-25 @ Akron Rubber Ducks (Cleveland) 36-27

Jon Harris went six no hit innings before being pulled do to pitch count.
By that time this game was all but over, with the Fisher Cats leading 6-0.
In the final three innings,Akron managed 1 hit and 1 run as they fell 6-1.

Bo Bichette hit his fifth home run and totaled three RBI, for the winners.
Jon Berti, recently let go by the Indians organization had one hit, three RBI and scored two runs.

For Akron,Joe Sever had a double.

Jon Harris (W, 4-3) 5.43 ERA
Triston McKenzie (L, 1-1) 2.89 ERA

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Game 66
Columbus Clippers (Indians)31-31 @ Louisville Bats(Reds) 22-38

The Bats got all they would need, when the plated two in the 2nd, to take a 2-1 lead.
Louisville put up single runs in the fifth and seventh and then added a three sport in the in the eighth, to ice this one.

The Bats total three homer runs in this one.
Gabriel Guerrero(1), he added another hit to his total before the night was over and one RBI.
D.J. Peterson(5), he totaled two hits and two RBI.
Mason Williams(3) he had two hits and
Nick Senzel had two hits and 2 RBI for the Bats.
Steve Selsky had three hits.

For Columbus it was another bad night with the sticks.
Eleven strikeouts as a team.
4 total hits.
Todd Hankins had his first triple A homer of the season.

WP-Robert Stephenson (W, 5-5) 3.80 ERA
LP-Mitch Talbot (L, 0-2) 3.57 ERA

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Game 67

Windy City Thunder Bolts (Independent) 10-16 at Florence Freedom (Independent)13-16

1,673 fans watched the freedom put up 15 runs in the first four innings of play and then add two more before all was said and done. The win gave the Freedom the three game sweep and a three game win streak.
Xavier Turner(3),Jordan Brower(2) Connor Crane(3),Keivan Berges & Craig Lepre(10) all blasted homers for the Freedom.
Jacob Wark(.370) had three more hits as he has settled into the Freedom family, nicely.
Austin Wobrock(.289) hitting ninth also had three hits.
Brower had 4RBI to lead the way.
In all Florence had 17 hits.

For Windy City, they have been struggling all season and have just change 1/4 of their 24 man roster and now have to hope the six new players can provide some fire works before the season is over.
Axel Johnson had three hits, including his first two bombs of the season.

WP-Chuck Weaver 1-1 3.78 ERA
LP-Jake Welch 3-1 5.68 ERA

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Game 68

River City Rascals(Independent) 18-13 @ Lake Erie Crushers(Independent)19-13

This was game three of this series and the first game, that the losing team was able to score. The Crushers used a two run fourth, to take this contest 3-2. All of the runs in this one was scored in the first four innings. Lake Erie got one in the first as did River City. In the fourth River City plated one, while Lake Erie put up two.

Mike Jurgella got the games first RBI in the top of the first.
Kewby Meyer had a RBI in the first, for Lake Erie.

In the fourth,Paul Kronenfeld blasted a solo homer run. His third of the season. He had three hits on the day, raising his average up to .300.

Lake Erie counter with two runs in the fifth.
Douglas Trimble(1) hit his first bomb of the season.
Kevin Lachance knocked in what turned out to be the game winning run, with a single. Lachance also had three hits on the day and raised his average up to .274.

WP-Sean Renzi (5-1 2.62 ERA)
LP-Hunter Spencer (0-1 5.60 ERA)
SV- Justin Sinibaldi(8) 2.40 ERA

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Game 69

West Virginia Black Bears(Pirates) 0-2 @ Mahoning Valley Scrappers (Indians) 2-0

What a game.
The Scrappers get the 10-9 win,after the Black Bears brought in 2nd baseman,Melvin Jimenez to throw the bottom of the ninth, with the game dead locked at nine.
Clark Scolamiero was walked by Jimenez to start the ninth. He then swiped 2nd(1)
Mitch Reeves then plated the game winning run, with a base hit.

Jimenez, went 3/4 with the stick for the Black Bears.
Felix Vinicio, went 2/5 with his first homer and three RBI.
Edison Lantigua and Brett Kinneman each had 2 RBI.

For the Scrappers,Mitch Reeves went 4/4,including his 2nd bomb of the season.
Henry Pujols hit his first homer as did Simeon Lucas. Both had just 1 RBI each.
Tyler Freeman had 2 RBI and Gabriel Mejia had 1 RBI.

WP-Luis Santos (BS, 1)(W, 2-0) 6.75 ERA
LP-Melvin Jimenez (L, 0-1) 27.00 ERA

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Game 70
Somerset Patriots(27-19)Independent @ Lancaster Barnstormers(30-15)Independent

My first Atlantic League game and I watched it off of the Barnstormers youtube feed.
The battle between the leaders of each division was not much of a contest, when all was said and done,with Lancaster posting a 13-6 win.

Somerset used a four run fifth to take a 5-3 lead after five. From the Lancaster outscored the road team 10-1 to post the rout.

For Lancaster,Trayvon Robinson(A former Seattle Mariners players) went 4-4, with 4 runs scored and 1 RBI on his 2nd bomb of the season.
Blake Gailen(UNLV)went 4-5, including his 10th homer run of the season and he drove in r runs.
Nate Coronado hit his first two bombs of the season and he had 4 RBI.

For Somerset,Endy Chavez (13 MLB Season) hit his 2nd bomb of the season and he drove in four.
Aaron Dudley(Toledo, Ohio) hit his 2nd bomb of the season and totaled one RBI.

WP-Nate Reed 6-1 3.73 ERA
LP-Vince Molesky 1-1 3.64 ERA

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Game 71
Evansville Otters (Independent)17-15 @ Florence Freedom(Independent) 16-17

This is a big series for Florence because they trail the Otters by a game in the Western Division.

In the 2nd inning Xavier Turner doubled and then came around to score, on a two run bomb by Jordan Brower(4)

In the bottom of the fourth the Freedom was able to plate a single run, to take a 3-0 lead. Brower would single and then come around to score later in the inning on a single by Jacob Wark. Wark now has 20 RBI while playing in just 16 games for the Freedom.

Mike Rizzitello, hitting just .156 entering the game blasted his first homer of the season in the top of the fifth, to make this a 3-1 game.
Logan Taylor doubled then he scored on a double by David Cronin and this was a 3-2 game.Ryan Long doubled in Croin to tie this one at three.Travis Harrison hit a grounder to Avery, at third the ball took a funny bounce and this was a 4-3 Otters lead.

Brower, since coming off of the DL has been red hot and this has continued in this game. He just blasted his 2nd homer of the night(5) to lock this one up at four apiece.

Skylar Ewing, playing his first game of the season for the Freedom goes yard(1) to make this a 5-4 Freedom lead.Ewing(Rice) can play,First Baseman, Catcher and Relief Pitcher.He was drafted by the Giants back in 2014.

Ricky Ramirez Jr makes a diving catch to end this one as he preserves the Freedom 5-4 win.

WP-Jordan Kraus 3-2- 4.3- ERA
LP-Garrett Harris 1-1 4.43ERA
SV-Johnathon Tripp 1.20 ERA

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Game 72
Hudson Valley Renegades (Tampa Bay)2-3 At Brooklyn Cyclones(Mets) 4-1

I listened to this one just to see how former Florence Freedom player,Jose Brizuela did. He went 1-5 with his 2nb bomb in two nights. He was robbed of a double by a great catch by Bryce Brown.

The games itself was a offensive slugfest, with Hudson Valley winning 8-7 in ten innings. Valley had 14 hits,while Brooklyn had 13.

Leading the way for H-Valley was,Chris Betts 3-5(HR1) with 3RBI.
Michael Smith 4-5,Jake Stone(0.77) had a hit and 2RBI.Justin Bridgman had 3 hits and scored a run.

For Brooklyn,Dionis Paulino had 3 hits,Ross Adolph 2 hits 2RBI,Angel Manzanarez 1hit 2RBI.Kevin Hall had 2 doubles and 1RBI.

WP-B.J. Myers (W, 1-0)0.00 ERA
LP-Ronald Sanchez (BS, 1)(L, 0-1)4.91

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Game 73

Akron(Cleveland) 3 Hartford(Colorado)2

The Ribber Ducks scored in the bottom of the eighth to take a 3-2 lead and then put up a zero in the ninth to post the win.

Bobby Bradley(.1950 had three hits including his 12th bomb of the season to lead the offense.Willi Castro(.259) had three hits.Connor Marabell(.271) hit his 7th bomb of the season. The Rubber Ducks had a total of 10 hits.

The Yard Goats had seven hits.
Roberto Ramos(.500) hit his first two homers of the double A season and drove in both of his teams runs.

WP-David Speer (W, 1-2)2.21 ERA
LP-Logan Cozart (L, 4-2) 2.70 ERA
SV-Henry Martinez (S, 6) 2.95 ERA

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Game 74.

I have made more of a attempt to listen to at least a few games from more leagues this season. With that in mind, I listened to another game from the Florida State League yesterday, before driving to Akron to watch the Rubber Ducks game.

Daytona Tortugas(38-30) Reds @ Florida Fire Frogs(30-38) Braves

Dayton was able to use 10 hits, with 4 of them being for extra bases to score 5 runs and post a win over the Fire Frogs, by the score of 5-4.

Randy Ventura led the winners with 3 hits and 1 RBI.
Bruce Yari had 2 hits.
Morgan Lofstrom only had 1 hit, but totaled 2 RBI to aid in the win.
Lead off hitter,Taylor Trammell had 1 hit and 1 RBI.
Daniel Sweet drove in 1 run and added a hit on the day.

For the Fire Frogs,they too totaled ten hits on the day.
Brett Cumberland blasted a solo home run(8)
Light hitting Ray-Patrick Didder, had 3 hits to raise his average up to(.204). He also drove in a run.
Jordan Rodgers a lighter hitter than Didder, had 2 hits(.199) and he too drove in a run.

WP-Scott Moss (W, 7-2) 4.20
LP-Jeremy Walker (L, 2-7) 3.89 ERA
SV-Joel Kuhnel (S, 10) 2.83 ERA

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Game 75

Took this one in, in person.

Harrisburg Senators(Washington)38-34 @ Akron Rubber Ducks (Cleveland)42-31

This was a good game for all of two innings. Then the Senators plated four runs in the third and this one was all but over. Harrisburg added four more in the seventh and to add insult to injury, they plated two in the eighth and ninth,to make the final score 12-2.

For Harrisburg,Dan Gamache had 3 hits and 3 RBI to lead the way.
Taylor Gushue had a hit and 4 RBI.
Drew Ward had 2 hits and 2 RBI.
Carter Kieboom totaled 3 hits.
Austin Davidson had 2 hits and 1 RBI.
Jake Noll had 2 hits and a RBI.
Adam Brett Walker had 1 RBI.
In all Harrisburg had 16 hits and add 7 more base runners by Akron pitchers walking them.

For Akron there was not much to write home about. In all the Rubber Ducks did have 7 hits, with 3 of them being for extra bases. When the pitching staff walks seven, a team really has little chance to post a win.
Connor Marabell had 2 hits a drove in a run.
Mark Mathias had 2 hits and drove in a run.

WP-Tyler Mapes (W, 1-0) 1.50
LP-Triston McKenzie (L, 1-2) 4.26 ERA

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Game 76
I watched this one online, from the Barnstormers youtube feed

Long Island Ducks 27-25(Independent) @ Lancaster Barnstormers 33-18(Independent)

This game belong to the pitchers as the 1-0 final would tell.
Lancaster used five pitchers to post the shutout, with Kevin Munson (3-1, 1.62 ERA) getting the win in relief. He threw one inning of hitless ball. Overall the Barnstormers
pitchers gave up three hits. Starter Nate Reed gave up all three in his five innings of work. His big problem was five base on balls.

The Ducks staff gave up just three hits too.Former major league player,Jair Jurrjens left the game because of as now a unknown injury. He threw 1 2/3 of an inning, giving up zero hits.

Lancaster got their only RBI from Tyler Bortnick(Mentor,Ohio), who had one of the three hits for his team.

WP-Kevin Munson (3-1, 1.62 ERA)
LP- Colton Murray(0-1 245 ERA)
SV- Matt Reynolds(14) 2.45 ERA

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Game 77
Williamsport Crosscutters (Phillies)6-3 @ Mahoning Valley Scrappers(Indians) 7-2

Its very cool for me as a Indians fan to see the young guys doing so well,even if it is early in the short season.
The Scrappers had ten hits, with just two being for extra bases.
Leading the offense in this one was,Jason Rodriguez(.214) with two hits, including his first bomb of the season. His bomb was a solo shot and it also brought in his only RBI of the game.Jose Fermin also had two hits and he drove in two. Former Ohio State Buckeye,Tre Gantt had a hit, a RBI and scored two runs.

The Crosscutters had nine hits in this one.
Jonathan Guzman had three hits, including his first dinger of the season and he drove in a run.Lenin Rodriguez had two hits and a RBI.

WP-Zack Draper (W, 1-0) 4.00 ERA
LP-Zack Draper (W, 1-0) 2.70 ERA

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Game 78
Louisville Bats(Reds) 29-43 @ Columbus Clippers(Indians) 37-38

Te Bats won the first game of the series by the count of 11-2. Columbus was seeking revenge in this one and after another horrible start, they were able to overcome a 3-0 lead and post a 5-3 win.

Leading the Bats with the bat was,Steve Selsky with 2 hits and 2RBI.
Dilson Herrera drove in a run and had one hit.
Overall the Bats had seven hits, with three doubles.

For Columbus there two all stars led the way.
Brandon Barnes and Francisco Mejia each had two hits, with Barnes driving in a pair.
Greg Allen, Yandy Diaz and Drew Maggie all had a hit and a RBI.
Columbus had nine its and only struck out five teams, which is low for them.

WP-Mitch Talbot (W, 2-2) 2.75
LP-Justin Nicolino (L, 3-5) 4.89ERA
SV-Jeff Beliveau (S, 2)4.57 ERA