Game Recaps: Wednesday 8/19

Mud Hens nip Clippers
The Columbus Clippers returned home with a 7-6 loss to the Toledo Mud Hens Wednesday night.

Lou Marson hit his first home run as a Clipper and added a RBI double in the loss. Ryan Edell pitched four and a third innings for the Clippers. He allowed four earned runs on seven hits, walked three and struck out four.

Dontrelle Willis made his first rehab start with the Mud Hens, but left in the second inning due to an injury.

Marson, Josh Barfield and Tony Graffanino all had two hits and a run scored. Wes Hodges drew a walk in the second and fourth innings, and came around to score each time.

Columbus took a 6-5 lead in the seventh when Barfield and Graffanino began the inning with consecutive doubles. Marson's sac fly brought home Graffanino for the lead.

Jose Veras relieved Kenny Ray in the eighth with one on and one out. Scott Sizemore sent Veras' third pitch into the left field bleachers for the winning home run.

Burger, bullpen stymie Baysox in 3-0 win
Eric Berger earned his first win as an Aero and Bowie finished with a grand total of one infield single in Akron’s 3-0 victory before 3,534 fans at Canal Park Wednesday night. The Aeros improved to 76-47 and equaled their high-water mark of the season at 29 games over .500 while also lowering their magic number to 11 to clinch the Southern Division title. Bowie fell to 63-59.

Berger allowed just a walk over the first two innings, and Akron got him all the support he would need in the bottom of the second. Matt McBride ripped a double inside the third base bag with one away, and Lonnie Chisenhall followed two pitches later with a soaring two-run homer to right-center that just barely scraped over the fence and into the Akron bullpen.

Bowie’s Josh Bell worked his second walk of the night off Berger with two away in the fourth, and the Baysox finally broke into the hit column in the sixth. With the bases empty and two down, Daniel Figueroa rolled a groundball to the hole on the left side. Aeros shortstop Carlos Rivero ranged far to his right and got his glove on the ball but couldn’t field it cleanly, and the play was immediately and correctly ruled a base hit. That would be the last base runner Bowie would muster however, and Akron then got a clutch insurance run in the bottom of the inning on Carlos Santana’s two-out RBI single to right field.

Berger (1-1) earned the win with six shutout innings and struck out seven in the process. Erik Stiller was perfect in the seventh and eighth and Josh Judy worked a three-up, three-down ninth for his seventh save as Akron pitching retired the final 10 Baysox in order for the second straight night. The visitors also did not advance any of their three runners on the night past first base. Bowie starter Tim Bascom (2-7) turned in a quality start of his own in the defeat, holding the Aeros to three runs and five hits in 6.2 innings while also recording seven strikeouts. Chisenhall’s home run was his second at the Double-A level, and McBride finished 2-3 and was the only Aero with multiple hits.

K-Tribe shut out Myrtle Beach
Kinston pitching shut out Myrtle Beach 3-0 Wednesday night at Historic Grainger Stadium. With the victory Kinston has won 13 of their last 15 games.

Kinston starter Chris Jones, making his Carolina League debut, baffled Myrtle Beach hitters, allowing just three hits over six innings. Jones (1-0) struck out seven and walked one after just getting called up from Low A Lake County on Tuesday. Santo Frias kept the shutout going with two hitless frames, David Roberts picked up his fourth save of the season pitching a perfect ninth inning.

The Indians tallied the only run they need when Tim Fedroff drove home Roman Pena with an RBI single in the bottom of the third inning. Doug Pickens scored a run thanks to an error in the fourth inning, and then drove home the final run of the game with an RBI single in the eighth. Pickens banged out a season high three hits, going 3-for-4. Lucas Montero and Fedroff each had two hits for Kinston.

Captains win in 10 innings
Bo Greenwell drove in three runs with a bases loaded double in the top of the tenth inning to cap off a four run inning, as the Lake County Captains defeated the Delmarva Shorebirds 5-1 on Wednesday. The Captains are now 9-10 in extra inning games.

The first run of the game came in the bottom of the sixth inning when Ron Welty doubled and then scored on a single by Elvin Polanco to give the Shorebirds a 1-0 lead. The Captains tied it up in the top of the seventh inning when Karexon Sanchez hit his 10th home run of the year and it was 1-1.

Captains starter T.J. McFarland did not get a decision going 5.2 innings and allowing one run on five hits, walking one and striking out four. Travis Turek got the final out of the sixth inning and went three scoreless innings striking out three. Kaimi Mead (4-3) registered the last out of the ninth inning and ended up going the final 1.1 innings to pick up the win. Shorebirds starter Nathan Moreau did not get a decision either, working 6.1 innings and allowing one run on two hits, walking three and striking out seven. Cliff Flagello (0-2) took the loss lasting 1.2 innings and gave up the four runs in the tenth inning.

Scrappers start second half of season with win
On Wednesday night, the Mahoning Valley Scrappers started a six game road trip in Fishkill, New York with a 4-3 win over the Hudson Valley Renegades. With the Scrappers win and a Williamsport Crosscutters loss the Mahoning Valley first place lead has grown to four games in the Pinckney Division.

Scrappers starter Brett Brach pitched the first five innings and surrendered three runs, one of which was earned. Jeremy Johnson then pitched two scoreless innings, before Guido Fonseca took over the relief role in the eighth inning. Fonseca pitched the final two innings and recorded this third save in four chances.

The Scrappers scored first in the 1st when Kyle Bellows delivered an RBI single to left field, driving home his team leading 32 run of the season. In the 2nd, the Renegades responded with three runs to take a take a 3-1 lead. Then in the 3rd, the Scrappers scored three runs to take the lead for good 4-3. In the inning Ben Carlson delivered a two RBI double to right and then scored on a Renegades throwing error.

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