2019 Minor League Baseball Season.

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Game 61

Pawtucket Red Sox (Boston) 5 Columbus Clippers (Cleveland 3)
Columbus (22-16) lead 3-1 after seven innings and then the Red Sox (14-23)
found their hitting sticks and exploded for four runs in the bottom of the eighth.
Mike Miller singled in Brock Holt, making this a 3-2 game. Cole Sturgeon drop a fly ball in front to Trayce Thompson to tie things up at three. Later in the inning Sam Travis knocked in Bryce Brentz and Sturgeon to make 5-3.
The Clippers did have a home run from Thompson (8) to highlight a seven hit attack. Mike Papi (.208) led the Clippers with two hits.

Trevor Kelley 3-2 1.47 ERA
Chih-Wei Hu 1-3 5.71 ERA(Has been demoted to the bullpen after seven starts)
Travis Lakins (Ohio State) SV 1 4.30 ERA

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Akron Rubber Ducks (Cleveland) 4 Richmond Flying Squirrels (Giants ) 2
Slowly this Akron (18-21) seems to be finding themselves. They have now won two in a row and have pulled to within three games of .500. In this game the Ducks scored three runs in the last four innings to get the win, another come from behind win, as they trailed 2-1 after five. Daniel Johnson blasted his ninth homer of the season. In all he had two hits and one RBI. For the season he is now hitting .262. Connor Marabell (.231), Tyler Krieger (,216) and Nellie Rodríguez (.273) each drove in a run.
For Richmond (12-24) Johneshwy Fargas (.232) drove in both runs. Gio Brusa (.286) had two hits to lead the club in that department.

Rob Kaminsky 1-1 5.11 ERA
Ryan Halstead (Indiana) 1-3 8.44 ERA
Nick Sandlin SV1 0.79 ERA

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Game 63
Columbus Clippers (Cleveland) 14 Syracuse Mets (Mets 3)
The Clippers (23-16) shot out to a 5-0 lead after one and never looked back, as they beat the Mets ( 23-17) by eleven.
Eric Haase (10) had two hits, including a dinger and he knocked in two. Mark Mathias led the seventeen hit attack, with three hits and two RBI. Ryan Flaherty knocked in two and had two hits. Brandon Barnes and Mike Papi each had two hits and two RBI. Greg Allen also had three hits and he knocked in one. Also with a hit and a RBI was Trayce Thompson.

For the Mets, René Rivera went yard twice and drove in two. He had four hits on the day. Grégor Blanco had two hits and one RBI.

Zach Plesac 2-0 2.08 ERA. Both of his wins and starts have been against the first place Mets.
Zach Lee 2-1 5.87 ERA

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Game 64
Carolina Mudcats (Milwaukee) 6 Fayetteville Woodpeckers (Houston) 4
The Mudcats (26-16) a former member of the Cleveland family blew a 4-0 lead, only to come back and score two in the top of the fifth and then shutout the Woodpeckers (19-23) to post the win. Catcher Payton Henry (6) blasted a three run bomb to lead the way. Mario Feliciano and Pat McInerney both drove in a run, though neither had a hit. Ryan Aguilar (Arizona) had three hits to lead the eight hit attack, for the winners.
The Woodpeckers Scott Manea, a catcher had a hit and drove in two. Colton Shaver (BYU) had a hit and drove in a run. Scott Schreiber (Nebraska) added one RBI.
Nelson Hernandez 5-1 5.21 ERA
Chad Donato 3-5 5.67 ERA
Rodrigo Benoit (SV 8) 0.57 ERA

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Game 65
Columbus Clippers (Cleveland) 8 Syracuse Mets (Mets) 2
The Clippers used a three run second inning bomb by Trayce Thompson (9) and a RBI ground out from Greg Allen, to jump out to a 4-0 lead and from there this one was all but over.
The Mets did plate two in the bottom of the third, when David Thompson (2) and Tim Tebow (1) both went yard. Tebow is hitting just .157, but that is up .19 in the last week or so.
In the top of the fourth the Clippers got long balls from Eric Haase (11) and Greg Allen (2), to go back up by four. Haase is starting to heat up, after a very, very slow start. Allen seems to be putting the demotion behind him and has again started playing good ball.
The Clippers would score single runs in the sixth and the ninth to complete the 8-2 win and pay the Mets for taking two of three in Columbus earlier this month. The run in the sixth came on a double play ball and the last run of the game came on a Ryan Flaherty single. Flaherty now has twenty four RBI on the season.
Brooks Pounders 2-1 2.55 ERA got the win. The former Colorado Rockies pitcher, has been a blessing for the Clippers, this season. Taking the loss for the Mets was Casey Coleman 0-4 4.21 ERA.

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Game 66
Amarillo Sod Poodles (San Diego) 10 Frisco Rough Riders (Texas Rangers) 5

The Sod Poodles (19-22) uses a three run first to put this one away. They never trailed in this one and after all was said and done, they had ten runs to go with fifteen hits.
Kyle Overstreet (1) blasted a three run bomb to lead the winning team in RBI. Webster Rivas (.257), Hudson Potts (.215) along with Owen Miller (Illinois State) drove in two, Edward Olivares (.272) drove in a run to go with two hits.

For Frisco (23-20) Number nine hitter Josh Altmann (.189) drove in three runs and he had two hits. Michael De Leon (.304) had two hits and drove in a run. Dude covers a lot of ground and seems to be getting much better with the glove. Tony Sanchez (Boston College) had one RBI.

Jesse Scholtens (Wright State) 2-1 6.00 ERA. He went six innings, giving up five hits and four earned runs.
Jonathan Hernández 2-3 6.19 ERA. He went five innings, gave up nine hits, four runs but only two were earned.
Kyle Lloyd (Evansville) SV 1 3.44 ERA. He went three innings.

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Game 67
San Antonio Missions (Milwaukee) 4 Memphis Redbirds (St. Louis) 0
Tuffy Gosewisch (.125) is having a bad year, even for him, but in the bottom of the 2nd he was able to get a sac fly RBI (5) to make this a 1-0 game. The scored stayed that way until, Jake Hager singled in a run (13) in the seventh. Later in the inning Tyler Saladino (Oral Roberts) blasted a two run homer (9)making this a 4-0 game. Saladino now has 30 RBI this season.
Taylor Williams (Kent State) 1-0 1.69 ERA. He went two scoreless innings.
Ryan Meisinger (Radford) 0-4 3.29 ERA. He started and lasted just three innings. He gave up four hits, one run that was unearned.

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Game 68
Quad Cities River Bandits (Houston) 4 Kane County Cougars (Arizona) 1
Cesar Salazar went 3-3 with 2 RBI to lead the winners ten hit attack, he had a double and two singles. Jonathan Lacroix had two hits a drove in a run.
Marty Costes (,264) had one RBI. Chipping in with two hits was former Toledo Rocket, Ross Adolph (.142). The River Bandits improve to 28-13.
Kane County (24-21) had just six hits, with Tra Holmes and Blaze Alexander having two each. Getting the only RBI was Eduardo Diaz. Diaz had one hit.
As a team the Cougars struck out nine times.
Brett Daniels W 1-3 ERA 2.31
Matt Tabor L 0-1 ERA 2.30
Austin Hansen SV 1 ERA 1.16

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Game 69
Lake County Captains (Indians)8 Dayton Dragons (Reds) 1

This was the completion of a game that was suspended back on April 14th.
Lake County scored seven of their eight runs by the fourth inning and then cruised to the seven run win.
Ruben Cardenas went 3-4 with a homer and two RBI. Will Benson went yard and he too had two RBI. Tyler Freeman had two hits and drove in a run. Also with one RBI each were, Mitch Reeves, Hosea Nelson and Jesse Berardi.
For the Dragons, Mariel Bautista had a hit and a RBI. Juan Martinez (.314) had two more hits as he continues to keep his average over .300.
Zach Draper 1-0 0.84 ERA
Jared Solomon 0-2 4.82 ERA
Luis Araujo SV 1 0.00 ERA

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Game 70
Indianapolis Indians (Pirates) 3 Columbus Clippers (Cleveland) 1
Neither team had any good thoughts as far as the ump behind the plate goes. Not only did he seem to miss several easy calls, his strike zone was all over the place.
Indianapolis (26-18) moved to a 1.2 game lead over the Clippers with the win.
The Indians took a 1-0 lead in the third on a double play, that allowed a run to score. The Clippers locked it up at one on a Bobby Bradley (11) solo line drive bomb.
The game stayed that way until the eighth inning, but only after Jeremy Riggs blew a easy called strike three on a Indian hitter. Kevin Kramer (14) plated two on a double. Kramer has 22 RBI on the season and is hitting .285.
Tyler Lyons 2-0 2.35 ERA. He went one inning in relief and struck out all three hitter he faced.
Josh D. Smith 5-1 1.82 ERA.
Richard Rodríguez SV 1 3.00 ERA.

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Game 71
Lakewood Blue Claws (Philadelphia) 3 Kannapolis Intimidators (White Sox) 2 10 Innings.
Lakewood (16-32) jumped out in front in the first inning, when Luke Miller singled in Luis Garcia to make it a 1-0 game. The game stayed that way until the bottom of the seventh, when Jonathan Guzman singled to score Malvin Matos to give the Blue Claws a 2-0 lead.
In the top of the eighth Ian Dawkins (2) blasted a two run bomb to even things up, at two. Neither team could do anything with the sticks in the ninth, so the game moved to the tenth.
With a runner starting on 2nd base as is the rule in minor league ball, Kannapolis (20-28) would get the runner to third on a sac bunt, but could not bring him home. Lakewood would get a walk and on the fourth ball a wild pitch moved the lead runner to 3rd. So we had two on and zero outs, when a pass ball by catcher Gunnar Troutwine allowed the winning run to score.

Ismael Cabrera 1-0 0.00 ERA
Jason Bilous 2-2 2.96 ERA

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Game 72
Columbus Clippers (Cleveland) 15 Indianapolis Indians (Pirates) 9
Columbus (27-19) found their offense in this one, one night after being held to just one run the night before. The Indians (26-19) score six runs more than they did the night before, but they still lost.
Adam Rosales (Western Michigan) has started to come out of his season long slump, that started in the Minnesota organization. He led the Clippers with 4 hits and 2 RBI. Eric Stamets (3) only had two hits, but one was a grand slam. He totaled 4 RBI and 2 Hits. Daniel Johnson, who was just called up from Akron had 2 hits and 3 RBI. I believe I had said he was going to be called up soon. Trayce Thompson (11) again and he had 2 RBI. Bobby Bradley (.281) had 2 hits and 2 RBI. With Cleveland stinking things up offensively Bradley has to be opening some more eyes up there. Ryan Flaherty got 1 RBI for the winners. Brandon Barnes, who has seemed to have lost his power stroke, still had 2 hits and 2 RBI.

For the Indians, José Osuna (2) blasted a bomb and a double to go with 6 RBI to lead the way. Kevin Kramer (5) went yard and drove in a run. Will Craig (13) went yard and he had a double to go with 1 RBI. Ke'Bryan Hayes had 2 hits and 1 RBI.

Asher Wojciechowski 4-1 3.64 ERA
Pedro Vasquez 0-1 21.60 ERA

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Game 73
Biloxi Shuckers (Brewers) 4 Mobile Bay Bears (L.A. Angles) 2
The good news for the Bay Bears (19-30) was they broke their 26 inning non-scoring streak but the bad news is they lost again.
For the Shuckers (28-22) they had to overcome blowing a 2-0 lead to win this one, with single runs in the 8th and 9th. Trent Grisham (6) got this one started in the first, with a two run bomb. After all was said and done he would have 4 hits and 3 RBI to lead the winners. Dillon Thomas (.265) had a RBI and one hit. Weston Wilson (.248) had two hits.
For the Bay Bears, Brandon Sandoval (.279) and Jahmai Jones (.186) both knocked in a run. Brendon Sanger (.217) had two of his teams six hits.

Cody Ponce (W) 1-0 ERA 2.19
Dario Beltre (L) 1-2 ERA 6.65
Luke Barker (SV 4) ERA 1.54

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Game 74 Independent League (Frontier)
Gateway Grizzlies 9 Washington Wild Things 1
Jamey Smart got 3 hits and 5 RBI to lead Gateway (8-7). Rafael Valera and Anthony Ray each had 2 hits and 1 RBI. Connor Owings posted a hit and a RBI.
For Washington (4-12) Lucas Herbert had a hit and drove in the lone run. Shaine Hughes (.355) had two hits.
Dominic Topoozian W 1-0 1.50 ERA
Carter Johnson L 0-2 7.24 ERA

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Game 75
Las Vegas Aviators (Oakland) 9 Reno Aces (Arizona) 7
This was the typical P.C.L. game, a lot of offense with spotty pitching.
The Aviators (28-24) needed a four run ninth to get the win in this one.
Stefan Crichton (1-2 4.18 ERA) gave up 4 runs and five hits in the ninth and took the loss, for the Aces (21-30). Seth Brown ( Lewis-Clark State) double the first run in. Sheldon Neuse plated the 2nd run of the inning in. Beau Taylor (3) hit a two run bomb to bring in the third and fourth run. Brown (.290) had four hits, while Neuse and Taylor each had two. Neuse led the trio with 3 RBI, while the other two had two each. Corban Joseph (5) had three hits and one RBI, on his solo bomb and Mark Payton (Texas) had two hits and one RBI. Getting the win in relief was, Brian Schlitter (4-1 4.74) He was not special, as he gave up 4 hits and 2 runs in two inning of work. Picking up the save was, Ryan Dull (3 5.21 ERA).
For the Aces, Matt Szczur had three hits, including a home run (3) and he added two RBI to his line. Tyler Heineman (.329) had a hit and two RBI. The catcher from UCLA is having a good season thus far. Cody Decker (UCLA) and Juniel Querecuto each drove in a run.

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Game 76
San Jose Giants (San Francisco) 2 Lancaster Jet Hawks (Colorado) 1
My night cap was a California League game and it turned out to be a pitching dominated game. The Giants (22-26) Jake Wong (Grand Canyon) went the first six, giving up three hits, one earned run, while striking out four and issuing just one base on balls. Wong squared his record at 1-1 and lowered his ERA to 4.50. Caleb Simpson (Hold 5 ERA 0.00) threw 1.2 innings allowing zero hits. He walked two and had three strikeouts. Picking up his fifth save was, Frank Rubio. ERA 0.34 after going 1.1 innings. Leading the Giants offense was, Kyle McPherson (James Madison) he blasted his fifth homer and drove in one run. He was 2-2 with a walk. Bryce Johnson (Sam Houston State) went 1-3 with a RBI. Also with two hits was, David Villar (.261).
For Lancaster (26-23) Ramon Marcelino (7) went deep to produce the only run they scored. Lucas Gilbreath 2-2 3.68 ERA (Minnesota) threw seven innings, allowing nine hits two earned runs. He did have some control issue (4 walks). He somewhat countered that with 5 strikeouts.

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Game 77
Columbia Fire Flies (Mets) 7 Charleston River Dogs (Yankees) 4
This one was scoreless until the fourth inning, that's when Columbia (20-32) exploded for four runs and then they backed that up with a three run seventh, to go up 7-0. Charleston would respond with two in the bottom of the seventh and then plate singles runs in the final two innings.
Wagner Lagrange (2) counted for all four runs in the seventh by hitting a grand slam.He would total two hits in this one and four RBI. Shervyen Newton (2) had a two run bomb, he would total three hits in this one. Chase Chambers (Tenn Tech) had the teams other RBI.
For Charleston, Brandon Lockridge (Troy) led the five hit attack, with two hits and one RBI. Also getting one RBI apiece were the following players. Max Burt (Northeastern), Matt Pita (VMI), Eduardo Navas.
Jose Butto (W) 1-6 4.69 ERA
Alex Mauricio 0-1 47.25 ERA
Jake Simon (SV 1) 0.00 ERA

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Game 78 (American Association) Independent League
Sioux Falls Canaries 4 Chicago Dogs 2 (7 Innings)
Adrian Nieto (.311) led the Canaries (6-5) with one hit and three RBI. Mitch Glasser, A player coach had one a hit and one RBI. The Macalester College grand and former 39th round draft pick of the Chicago White Sox plays infield and doubles as the teams hitting coach. Brett Vertigan (UC Santa Barbara) had two hits to lead the team in that department.
For the Dogs ( 6-4) the loss ended a nice little four game winning streak. Tony Rosselli (Indiana State) had one RBI giving him twelve on the year. Kelly Dugan drove in the other run. Victor Roache (Georgia Southern) had three hits to raise his average to .351. David Olmedo-Barrera checked in with two hits and raised his average up to .393.
Taylor Hill W 2-1 3.68 ERA
Austin Wright L 0-2 7.94 ERA
Ryan Flores (SV 2) 0-1 6.75 ERA

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Game 79
Lake Erie Crushers 8 Schaumburg Boomers 00 (Independent League/Frontier)
This was game one of a double header, so it was only a seven inning affair.
The Crushers (10-6) got home runs from, Emmanuel Marrero (5) and Sebastian Diaz (1). Diaz had three RBI to go with two hits. Marrero ended his day with the one hit and two RBI. James Davison Jr., Jake Vieth along with Bryan DeLaRosa all drove in a run. DeLaRosa led the trio with two hits.
The Boomers (10-6) Quincy Nieporte had two of the teams five hits.
Alex Romero W 2-0 1.80 ERA
Taylor Goshen L 1-1 3.79 ERA

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Game 80
Pawtucket Red Sox (Boston) 7 Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs (Phillies) 3 7 innings.
The Red Sox (20-29) put this one away with three unearned runs in the bottom of the sixth. Bryce Brentz hit a grand slam to give the Six a lead they would never give up. For Brentz the slam was like the one he hit last Wednesday and gives him seven homers on the season. As a team the Sox had just three hits, as their offense continues their season long struggle.

The Iron Pigs (26-22) got a two run bomb from Damek Tomscha (5). Deivy Grullon had the other RBI for the Pigs. In all the Pigs had eight hits, with Rob Brantly getting two of them.

Josh A. Smith W 2-2 5.88 ERA
Luke Leftwich L 0-1 13.97 ERA
Trevor Kelley SV (1) 1.13 ERA