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| Mitch Talbot (Photo: IPI) |
With Mitch Talbot's dominant pitching outing, all it took was a pair sacrifices to give the Clippers a 2-1 vicory over Indianapolis.
Talbot (2-2) went seven innings, giving up four hits and striking out eight. He escaped a bases loaded no-out jam in the fifth without allowing a run.
Jared Goedert's sac fly in the first and Luis Valbuena's sac fly in the fifth were the only Clippers runs of the game.
Zach Putnam allowed one run in his one inning of relief. Josh Judy was brought on in the ninth and faced Gorkys Hernandez with the winning run on second base and two outs. He forced Hernandez to pop out and earned his 22nd save of the season.
After taking the first game at Victory Field, the West Division champions play one more in Indianapolis before coming back to Huntington Park for a four-game homestand.
Aeros fall to Baysox in rubber match
Left-handed pitcher Matt Packer allowed six runs over the first three innings as the Akron Aeros fell to the Bowie Baysox 7-3 in the rubber match of a three-game series Wednesday at Prince George’s Stadium.
Packer suffered the loss for Akron pitching six innings, giving up nine hits, walking three and striking out two.
With the loss, the Aeros (66-64) have fallen five and a half games back of Bowie for the Western Divison Wild Card spot and seven games back of first place Harrisburg with 12 games to play.
Right-handed pitcher Zach Clark earned the win for Bowie lasting five innings, allowing three earned runs on five hits, walking four and striking out two.
In the bottom of the first inning, Joe Mahoney rapped a two-RBI double to left field to give the Baysox (71-58) a 2-0 lead. Brandon Waring followed with a two-run home run to make it 4-0.
Ronnie Welty hit a solo home run in the bottom of the second inning to increase the lead to 5-0.
In the bottom of the third inning, the Baysox took a 6-0 lead on a Waring RBI double.
The Aeros rallied in the top of the fifth inning. Michel Hernandez led off with a solo home run to cut the deficit to 6-1. Kyle Bellows singled and advanced to third on a Raul Padron double. Donnie Webb followed with an RBI single scoring Bellows and cutting the Baysox lead to 6-2. Padron scored when Cristo Arnal grounded into a double play to make it 6-3.
That was as close as Akron would get as Bowie tacked on a run in the bottom of the seventh inning and went on to the win.
The Aeros begin an eight-game homestand on Thursday with the first of a four-game series against the Richmond Flying Squirrels. Akron will give the ball to right-handed pitcher Brett Brach, who is 1-0 with a 3.27 ERA in 2011. He will face left-handed pitcher and former Aero Chuck Lofgren, who is 2-1 with a 3.60 ERA this season. First pitch is at 7:05 p.m.
Kinston downed 6-2
The Kinston Indians fell 6-2 to the Frederick Keys Wednesday night at Harry Grove Stadium in Frederick, MD.
Kinston plated a run to put the K-Tribe on top in the fourth. Casey Frawley doubled to left field off Keys starter Ryohei Tanaka. Frawley was pushed to third on Anthony Gallas’ grounder and with two outs came home on Justin Toole’s rbi single. Toole finished four for four offensively with a double, rbi and one run.
The Keys took the lead for good one inning later. Two had struck out and two had reached on singles in the fifth for Frederick. With two outs, Miguel Abreu blasted his fifth home run of the season. The jack gave Frederick a two run advantage it would take in to the seventh.
Giovanni Soto worked the seventh in his first appearance since the fifth of June. He gave up three runs on two hits, one home run, and walked one. Soto settled in for the eighth his second. In total the Kinston lefty gave up three runs on three hits over two innings. Soto walked one.
T.J. House picked up the tough luck loss, allowing three runs on eight hits over five innings. House worked ahead all night as evidenced by his seven strikeouts and one walk.
The Indians added one in the ninth prompting a pitching change from Keys manager Orlando Gomez. Chris Petrini struck out Adam Abraham with the bases loaded to close the game.
The Indians were unable to take advantage of bases loaded situations in the seventh and ninth innings.
The roadtrip closes Thursday night at Harry Grove Stadium as Frederick hosts Kinston. First pitch is set for 7:00 pm.
WhiteCaps outlast Captains in 13, 2-1
James McCann’s sacrifice fly scoring Steven Moya, in the bottom of the 13th inning, lifted West Michigan past Lake County 2-1 on Wednesday night. The Captains appealed the play but were denied and fall for the third straight night.
Lake County took a 1-0 lead in the ninth inning, following Nick Bartolone’s RBI single to score LeVon Washington. Bartolone extended his hit streak to eight straight games.
The WhiteCaps’ Steven Moya drove in Hernan Perez in the bottom of ninth inning to tie the game at one.
Lake County and West Michigan continue their series at Fifth Third Ballpark at 7:00pm on Thursday night. On the mound for the Captains will be RHP Felix Sterling (2-3) against LHP Alex Burgos (6-4) for the WhiteCaps.
Scrappers fall to Doubledays in 10
The Scrappers led 5-1 early but couldn’t hold on and lost to the Auburn Doubledays, 6-5, in 10 innings.
Auburn’s Hendry Jimenez singled in the go-ahead run in the top of the tenth inning off reliever Will Krasne, his fourth run batted in of the game. That ended a five-run comeback by the Doubledays, who moved to four games ahead of the Scrappers in the Pinckney Division.
Mahoning Valley fell behind 1-0 in the top of the second inning after Russell Moldenhauer led off the inning with a solo home run. The Scrappers scored the next five runs off Auburn starter Wirkin Estevez.
Todd Hankins hit a two-run home run in the bottom of the second inning to make it 2-1. It was the Scrappers first home run in nearly three weeks. Alex Lavisky followed with a solo home run on the second pitch of his at-bat to make it 3-1. The Scrappers scored two runs in the third on a wild pitch and a single by Lavisky. He finished the game 3-for-4 with a single, a double and a home run.
Auburn scored three in the top of the sixth on a three-run home run by Jimenez and tied the game on an Aaron Siliga error in the seventh.The game remained tied until the tenth inning, when Auburn scored the eventual winning run. Jimenez finished with two hits and was one of four Doubledays batters with a multi-hit game.
Krasne picked up the loss to fall to 2-4. Auburn reliever Colin Bates picked up the win to improve to 4-1. Aaron Barrett earned his eighth save of the season. The Scrappers remain 1.5 games behind the Williamsport Crosscutters in the Wild Card standings after Williamsport lost to Batavia. The Scrappers and Doubledays conclude their three-game series on Thursday night at 7:05 pm.
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2 comments:
Tony,
I noticed from the Mahoning Valley box score that Bryson Myles had 1 hit in 1 plate appearance and then was pinch hit for by Aaron Siliga. Given Myles need for ABs, I don't know why he would be replaced in the lineup unless he was injured. Do you know whether he went down with another injury?
Yeah, noticed that myself. No idea if he got hurt, but would think something happened. Conveniently, I will be in Mahoning Valley tomorrow so will find out.
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