The Clippers greeted the Syracuse Chiefs rudely to Huntington Park Saturday night with a 13-2 drubbing in the series opener. Jordan Brown drove in a career-high 6 runs and went 2-4 with his 1st double of the season.
Jeanmar Gomez' outing may have gotten lost in the offensive explosion for Columbus, but the Venezuelan righty twirled a very effective outing, going six innings and allowing just two runs on six hits. Jeremy Sowers, Joe Smith and Saul Rivera each tossed a shutout inning of relief.
The Clippers got on the board early with an RBI single from Wes Hodges and Jordan Brown's 1st RBI of the contest from a sacrifice fly. The Chiefs got a solo home run from Chris Duncan, brother of Clipper Shelley Duncan to make it 2-1 but that is as close as the game would get. Columbus poured on four runs in both the 5th and 6th innings and scored three more times in the 7th.
The win moves the Clippers to 15-9 and gives them a 2-game lead in the West Division over Toledo. Game two of the series takes place Sunday afternoon at 1:05 with Yohan Pino on the hill for Columbus taking on The Chief's Colin Balester.
Akron Continues Losing Woes, Fall 11-5
The Akron Aeros fell to the Binghamton Mets in game two of their seven-game home stand Saturday afternoon in front of 1,963 fans at Canal Park. Aeros starting pitcher Scott Barnes started the game on fire as he set down the first nine batters before Lucas Duda connected with his fifth home run of the season. Barnes lasted 5.1 innings, which is his longest outing of the 2010 season. The Aeros losing streak has now reached four games.
The Aeros got on the board first in the bottom of the first inning when Tim Fedroff started the game off with a single and advanced to second base on a fielding error by Kirk Nieuwenhuis. Nick Weglarz singled to right-field which allowed Fedroff to score. Aeros 1B Beau Mills singled to right-field to allow Nick Weglarz to come around and cross the plate before Carlos Rivero flew out to Carlos Guzman to end the inning. The Aeros paced the Mets all game long before falling behind in the ninth inning.
Binghamton sealed the deal in the top of the ninth inning, as they were able to send five runners across the plate. Brahiam Maldonado and Carlos Guzman started the inning off with two straight singles before Kirk Nieuwenhuis sacrificed them to second and third. D.J. Wabick was brought into the game as a pinch hitter and was intentionally walked loading the bases. Lucas Duda singled to left field which allowed Maldonado to score. Zach Lutz then connects with a single up the middle allowing Guzman to score. Luis Hernandez came to the plate with bases loaded and connected with his second triple of the season allowing three more Mets to cross the plate leaving the Aeros down 11-5.
Aeros starter Scott Barnes made it through five innings on Saturday afternoon against the Mets. Edell gave up six hits and six runs while walking three and striking out four. Barnes is now 0-3 on the year with a 8.71 ERA through five starts with Akron. Barnes 20 runs in 20.2 innings of work this season.
The Aeros are back in action tomorrow afternoon where they look to put a stop to their four-game losing streak.
Salem Beats Kinston 5-1
A night after banging out 12 runs on a season high 19 hits; Salem stopped the Kinston bats in route to a 5-1 win Saturday night in Virginia. Great defense and timely pitching helped Salem limit Kinston to just two hits on the night.
Kinston starter Nick Hagadone was greeted rudely by his former teammates in the first inning. Hagadone, who was traded from the Boston Red Sox organization to Cleveland last year for Victor Martinez, walked three and gave up three singles in a three run frame. Hagadone (0-1) was taken out of the game with two outs in the bottom of the first. Hagadone gave up three earned runs, while striking out one batter. T.J. McFarland came in from the pen for the K-Tribe, settling things down with 6 1/3 innings of solid work. McFarland gave up six hits and just one earned run, on a home run by Salem’s Ryan Dent in the fifth inning. McFarland’s ERA is now just 0.92 through 19 plus innings of work this season. Travis Turek did not give up a hit, pitching the eighth inning for Kinston.
Kinston managed just two hits on the night, scoring in the third inning when Jason Kipnis drove home Adam Davis on a sacrifice fly. The K-Tribe’s only hit through the first eight innings came off the bat of Karexon Sanchez who extended his hit streak to eleven games. Doug Pickens added the only other hit, a single in the top of the ninth. The Indians had their share of base runners as Salem’s starter Brock Huntzinger (1-2) scattered five walks over five innings. Huntzinger gave up one hit and struck out two. Salem’s Michael Lee picked up the save, giving up just one hit over the final four innings. Lee walked just one batter and struck out four.
The two teams meet up for the final game of the series Sunday afternoon at 4:05 pm in Virginia. Greenville, NC native Alex White will get the start for the K-Tribe.
Captains Fall To Loons
Blake Smith cracked two home runs and drove in three runs to lead the Great Lakes Loons to an 8-6 victory over the Lake County Captains on Saturday. The Captains wiped out a four run deficit but could not hang on. The Captains are 2.5 games ahead of the second place Loons.
Once again the Captains found themselves down early as Blake Smith hit a solo home run off of Captains starter Danny Salazar with two outs in the top of the first inning to give the Loons a 1-0 lead. The Loons added a run in the top of the third inning when Rafael Ynoa doubled and moved to third on a sacrifice bunt. He scored on a wild pitch uncorked by Salazar and it was 2-0.
It became 4-0 in the top of the fourth inning when Salazar walked Austin Yount and he came around to score on a two run home run from Lenell McGee.
The Captains tied it up in the fourth inning loading the bases with no outs. Jeremie Tice and Chris Kersten knocked in runs with ground outs leaving a Casey Frawley at third base. Adam Abraham followed with a two run home run, his second homer of the year, and it was 4-4.
The Captains took the lead in the bottom of the sixth inning when with runners at second and third and two outs, Casey Frawley plated Argenis Martinez with the go ahead run with a RBI infield single and then Tice followed with a single to drive in Delvi Cid and the Captains led 6-4.
The Loons put up four runs in the top of the seventh inning off of Chris Jones highlighted by Smith’s second home run of the day, a two run shot, and the Loons regained the lead 8-6.
Captains starter Danny Salazar did not get a decision working four innings and allowing four runs on three hits, walking two and striking out one. Jones (2-2) replaced Salazar in the fifth inning and got the loss allowing four runs n five hits, walking one and striking out two. Loons starter Brett Wallach did not factor in the decision going five innings and allowing four runs on seven hits, walking one and striking out three. J.B. Paxson (1-0) came on in the sixth inning gave up the two runs but got the win. Luis Vasquez pitched a scoreless ninth inning to register his fourth save of the year.
The Captains and Loons play game three of the four game series on Sunday at 1:00PM with the Captains sending RHP Austin Adams (0-1, 2.20) to the mound against the Loons RHP Allen Webster (3-1, 2.20).
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