Game Recaps 6/25

On Wednesday the Indians signed 11th round pick right-handed pitcher Matt Langwell from Rice University and 19th round pick first baseman Nate Recknagel from the University of Michigan. As of this writing, their assignment had not been disclosed, but it is likely they could go to Mahoning Valley.

One programming note, on STO's Minor League Magazine that will air this coming Tuesday July 1st at 6pm, Buffalo GM Mike Buchkowski and Buffalo first baseman Jordan Brown will be featured.

Nettles Homer Lifts Baysox Over Aeros, 9-7

AKRON, OH – Bowie third baseman Jeff Nettles slugged a two-run homer in the seventh and the Baysox held on to win 9-7 before 4,058 fans at Canal Park Wednesday night. The Aeros, who have dropped three in a row to the Baysox, dropped to 46-31 overall while Bowie improved to 44-34. Akron leads the Southern Division by 1.5 games over Harrisburg, which won Wednesday.
The Aeros built a four-run lead in the fourth inning, tying their season-high with six hits in the frame. Trevor Crowe led off with a single and moved to third on a double to right by Josh Rodriguez. After a groundout, Wes Hodges ripped an RBI single to left that scored Crowe, but left fielder Lou Montanez fired a laser to the plate and catcher Brian Peterson applied the tag on Rodriguez for the second out. Stephen Head followed with a single to put runners on the corners however, and Nathan Panther drilled his second double of the game off the wall in right to bring both runners home to make it 3-0. Wyatt Toregas then singled to right to plate Panther for the fourth run.

The Baysox, though, tagged Akron starter Frank Herrmann for a pair of runs in the fourth and four runs in fifth to take 6-4 lead. Ryan Finan, who homered in Tuesday’s doubleheader, pounded a two-run double off the wall over Jose Constanza’s head in center in the fourth, and in the fifth, Jonathan Tucker and Mike Rodriguez had RBI singles to tie the game. An error on Wes Hodges at third allowed Rodriguez to score, and Nolan Reimold followed with a sacrifice fly to give Bowie the advantage.

The Aeros were undeterred though, as they tied the game with two runs in the bottom of the sixth. With one down, Brandon Pinckney singled, moved to second on wild pitch, and to third on Constanza’s fly out. Crowe followed with an RBI single to right and Rodriguez boomed an RBI double off the wall in left-center, scoring Crowe to tie it.

Bowie regained its two-run advantage in the seventh on the two-run rocket from Nettles over the wall in left-center off Aeros reliever Erik Stiller. The Baysox tacked on another run in the eighth on an RBI single by Tucker to make it 9-6, although in the bottom of the eighth Crowe delivered his fourth hit of the night, an RBI single to right field, to cut the lead to two. The Aeros could not recapture any of their trademark dramatics in the bottom of the ninth however, as Bowie closer Julio Manon pitched a 1-2-3 inning to end the game minutes before heavy rain began to fall.

Bowie starter Brad Bergesen (8-2) earned the win, allowing six runs on 11 hits in six innings of work. Stiller (3-2) took the loss after allowing the homer to Nettles. Aeros starter Frank Herrmann surrendered six runs (four earned) on eight hits in six innings, while striking out one. Crowe recorded his sixth multi-hit game in his last seven games going 4-5 with two runs scored and two RBI. Over the seven games, Crowe has jumped his batting average 78 points from .231 to .309. Panther was 2-4 with two doubles and a pair of RBI, and Josh Rodriguez and Pinckney both had a two hits.

The Aeros wrap-up the five-game series Thursday afternoon with a special 12:05 p.m. start. Akron left-hander Ryan Edell (3-5, 5.28 ERA) is expected to be activated prior to the game and will face off against Bowie’s David Hernandez (5-1, 2.83 ERA). The game broadcast begins at 11:50 p.m. on SportsRadio 1350 AM and online at www.akronaeros.com.

CAPTAINS SWEPT BY SHOREBIRDS

(Eastlake, OH) – The Delmarva Shorebirds offense was too much for the Lake County Captains as they beat the Captains 10-6 on Wednesday. Every player is the both starting line ups reached base with all but Pedro Florimon getting a base hit.

The Shorebirds got to Captains starter Ryan Morris in the second inning when Ryan Adams doubled and then scored on a single by Brian Valichka to make it 1-0. It went to 3-0 in the fourth inning on another RBI by Valichka and a RBI by Matt Angle.

The game was blown open in the fifth inning when the Shorebirds scored five runs upping the score to 8-0. The inning was highlighted by back to back home runs by Adams and Kieron Pope. The homers came off of Captains reliever Josh Judy who came on to face Adams with one out in the inning.

The Captains hit back to back home runs of their own in the bottom of the sixth inning off of Shorebirds starter Zach Britton. Matt Willard hit his first career home run and Lucas Montero hit an inside the park home run to cut the lead to 8-2. The Captains cut it to 8-4 on a two run home run by Karexon Sanchez off of Birds reliever Brian Parker. Sanchez leads the squad with seven home runs.

The Shorebirds collected two more runs off of reliever Gary Campfield in the eighth inning on a two run double by Joe Mahoney and it was 10-4. The Captains tacked on two more runs off of Parker in the bottom of the eighth inning on RBI’s by Jeff Hehr and Sanchez.

Morris took the loss and saw his record fall to 6-2 by going 4.1 innings giving up six runs on nine hits, walking two and did not get a strike out. Judy gave up two runs in 2.2 innings of work. Campfield pitched the one inning giving up two runs. Kyle Landis pitched a scoreless ninth inning. Britton threw six innings giving up two runs and picked up the win to go to 7-5.

The Captains host the Lakewood BlueClaws for a brief two games series starting on Thursday at 7:05 PM. The Captains will send LHP Kelvin De La Cruz (5-3, 1.60) to the mound against the BlueClaws LHP Walter Tejeda (3-3, 3.89). The Hagerstown Suns will then come to town for a two game series starting on Saturday. All Captains games can be heard on AM 1330 WELW, WELW.COM or CAPTAINSBASEBALL.COM.

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