Clippers earn series split with win
The Clippers garnered a split in the series at Pawtucket, winning 4-3 Monday afternoon.
Lefty Kris Johnson (3-11) shut out the Clippers for five innings and fellow southpaw Zach Jackson (4-7) allowed just two runs on five hits. Though both pitched well, neither factored in the decision.
Pawtucket broke a scoreless tie in the fifth inning. After a two-out triple by Freddy Guzman, Ivan Ochoa laid down a squeeze bunt for a 1-0 lead. A bases-loaded walk to Chris Duncan later made it a 2-0 Red Sox. Torey Lovullo and Scott Radinsky were both ejected by plate umpire Al Porter for arguing about the strike zone.
In the sixth inning, Jordan Brown hit a solo homer off Jose Vaquedano, who relieved Johnson. The Clippers came to bat in the seventh and took control. With Javier Lopez on the mound, the Clippers put two runners on base with one out and Trevor Crowe drove them in with a double for a 3-2 advantage. Crowe scored when Lopez tried to pick him off second, but threw the ball into center field for a two base error.
Pawtucket scraped across a run in their half of the seventh on a Chris Carter RBI single, but that's all the Red Sox would muster. Rich Rundles and Greg Aquino combined to close out the win. Aquino earned his ninth save of the year.
Edell dominant, Santana historic in Aeros win Erie starter Jon Kibler retired the first six hitters he faced, but the Aeros broke loose in the third as Carlos Rivero and Jerad Head started the inning with singles. Mickey Hall followed with an RBI knock to make it 1-0, and Jesus Merchan added a sacrifice fly to double the advantage. Beau Mills lined a solo homer into the right field bleachers in the fourth to make it 3-0, and the outpour continued in the fifth as Nick Weglarz looped an RBI single to right and Merchan scored on a wild pitch. Akron got on the board for the fourth inning a row in the sixth, as Mills socked his second homer of the game and third in his last five at-bats. Matt McBride followed with a double and Rivero collected his second single to put runners on the corners, and McBride made it 7-0 when he slid in underneath the tag from Erie catcher Alex Avila on an RBI fielder’s choice by Head. Futures Game participants Weglarz and Santana would put an exclamation point on the affair in the seventh, as Weglarz drove a solo homer to left-center to start the inning and Santana followed with a solo shot of his own on the very next pitch. The native of Santo Domingo, DR became just the second player in franchise history to homer in four straight games, joining Kevin Kouzmanoff who turned the trick from July 16th-19th, 2006. In his longest start of the season, Edell improved to 3-1 in permitting just four hits and two walks while striking out seven in his seven innings of work. He struck out the side on two occasions, victimizing the leadoff trio of Deik Scram, Danny Worth and Brennan Boesch in both the first and sixth innings. Kibler (6-6) took the loss allowing seven runs and 10 hits in six innings, while Aeros reliever Neil Wagner struck out three and surrendered just one hit over the final two innings. Mills finished 2-4 with his second two-homer game of the season against Erie, following his performance May 29th at Jerry Uht Park. Santana’s 19th home run moved him into a tie for second place in the Eastern League, while every Aero got at least one hit and Arnal and Head each finished 1-4 to extend their season-long hitting streaks to six games apiece. One run woes continue as K-Tribe fall Kinston trailed from the start as Jimmy Gallagher hit a solo home run off Indians starter Paolo Espino in the bottom of the first. The Dash would add two more in the bottom of the second on a John Curtis two-RBI double. Espino (3-6) settled down after that though, retiring the final 11 batters he would face. He ended up tossing seven strong innings, allowing three runs on five hits and had four strikeouts. He walked none and hit two batters. The Indians would get on the board in the top of the third as Adam Davis led off the inning with a single and then Richard Martinez replaced him at first with a fielder’s choice groundout. Lucas Montero would then reach on a C.J. Lang error at shortstop. After a Tim Fedroff walk to load the bases, Lonnie Chisenhall hit a sacrifice fly to center field to drive in Martinez. It was Chisenhall’s (0-for-3) first sacrifice fly on the season and his 70th RBI of the year, second most in the league. Captains lose on a bunt in the ninth
Ryan Edell tossed seven shutout innings and Carlos Santana tied a franchise record with a home run for the fourth straight game as Akron systematically dismantled Erie 9-0 before 2,579 fans at Canal Park Monday night. The Aeros (62-41) won for just the fourth time in 16 games against the SeaWolves (57-44), and pushed their lead back to four games over Erie in the Southern Division. It was also Akron’s biggest win since a 12-0 whitewash of New Hampshire June 10th.
It is the K-Tribe’s third straight one-run defeat and its league-leading 26th one run loss of the season. At 10-26 in one-run contests, the only team with more one-run losses in all of minor league or major league baseball is Double-A Arkansas of the Texas League with 27 one-run losses. To put the one-run woes into perspective, Salem had the most one-run losses in the Carolina League last season with 26 all year.
Robi Estrada bunted home the winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Bowling Green Hot Rods a 3-2 win over the Lake County Captains on Monday. The loss snapped the Captains four game winning streak.
The Hot Rods put up a run in the bottom of the second inning when Jason Tweedy grounded into a double that scored Mike Sheridan from third base and the Rods led 1-0. The Captains tied it up at 1-1 in the top of the fifth inning when Adam Abraham doubled and scored on a RBI single by Delvi Cid.
The Hot Rods took a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the seventh inning when Sheridan scored from third on a throwing error by Captains pitcher Travis Turek who had fielded a bunt and tried to get Sheridan at the plate. The Captains came right back in the top of the eighth inning tying up the game on Nate Recknagel's team leading 11th home run off of Rods reliever Josh Satow.
Captains' starter T.J. McFarland did not get a decision going five innings and allowing one run on five hits, walking one and striking out three. Turek pitched 2.2 scoreless relief innings and Kaimi Mead (2-3) gave up the run in the ninth inning to take the loss. Hot Rods RHP Joe Cruz did not get a decision either pitching five innings allowing one run on four hits, walking one and striking out four. Satow (4-0) pitched the final two innings and picked up the win.
Scrappers shut out
Following a two game sweep of the Williamsport Crosscutters, the Mahoning Valley Scrappers started a four game road trip in Batavia, New York against the Muckdogs on Monday night.
Scrapper's starter Clayton Cook worked the first six innings in his first start since his nineteenth birthday on Thursday. Cook, limited one of the top offenses in the league to just two base hits, while walking one and striking out six.
The only scoring of the game came in the bottom of the 7th off of Scrapper's reliever Jeremy Johnson. Muckdog Luis De La Cruz delivered a two RBI single into centerfield to seal the victory. Batavia's pitching kept the Scrapper's bats in check, limiting them to just six base hits in the shut out.
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