Notes From the Minors 6/26

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Terry Doyle turned in another quality outing for the Baysox tonight. He worked 7 strong innings with just a run allowed while fanning nine batters. He's the Hangout Milb Player of the Night.

Tides [AAA] Won 5 to 4

Steve Clevenger went 3-for-4 with a double.

Christian Walker and Henry Urrutia both doubled and went 2-for-4.

Baysox [AA] Won 4 to 1

Brandon Snyder homered.

Garabez Rosa had three hits.

Keys [A+] Lost 11 to 1

Chance Sisco went 2-for-3 with a triple.

Shorebirds [A] Won 5 to 2

Matt Grimes picked up a win (6 IP, 5 H, ER, 2 BB, 5 K).

IronBirds [sS] Lost 7 to 2

Francisco Jimenez made the start (5.2 IP, 8 H, 6 ER, BB, 5 K).

Austin Pfeiffer went 2-for-4.

GCL Orioles [R] Lost 2 to 1

Ryan Mountcastle went 2-for-4 in his professional debut.

Daniel Fajardo went 2-for-3 and walked.

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Ian Locke

Jun 26 at 11:00 PM

Norfolk plated two runs in the bottom of the tenth inning to rally past the Toledo Mud Hens 5-4 Friday night at Harbor Park. The win was Norfolk’s fifth straight and improved the Tides (42-32) to a season-high 10 games over the .500 mark.

The Mud Hens took a one-run lead in the top of the tenth inning, but Norfolk rallied in the bottom half for its fifth walk-off win of the season. Rey Navarro ignited the game-winning rally with an infield single off of Jose Valdez (2-4), and Christian Walker followed with an RBI double to left-center field to tie the score. One out and two walks later, Michael Almanzar came to the plate with the bases loaded and hit a sharp ground ball to shortstop Dixon Machado. Machado dove to his right to field the grounder but had no play at the plate, allowing Walker to scamper home on the game-ending fielder’s choice.

Steve Clevenger paced Norfolk’s offense with three hits and an intentional walk in five plate appearances, including a game-tying RBI single with two outs in the eighth inning. Clevenger, who has now hit safely in 12 of his last 14 games, has hit .343 in 42 games with the Tides this season.

Making a spot start in place of regularly scheduled starter Kevin Gausman, Michael Bowden pitched into the sixth inning but did not factor in the decision. Bowden allowed three runs on six hits, walking two and striking out four. He’s now qualified among the IL leaders, where his 2.43 ERA ranks fourth in the league. Bowden is one of four Tides players – along with Chris Jones, Tyler Wilson and Zach Davies – ranked in the top 11 in the league in ERA.

Pedro Beato (4-3) earned the win, as Norfolk’s bullpen combined to allow one run on three hits over five innings of work.

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Geoff Arnold

June 26, 2015

THREE BIG INNINGS LEAD SOX TO SERIES WIN

KEYS PITCHING WALKS 10

Salem, Va. –The Salem Red Sox scored 10 times in the middle three innings, while Frederick Keys pitching walked 10 as Salem earned an 11-1 victory on Friday night at LewisGale Field. With the win the Red Sox claim the three-game set. Frederick has now lost four straight and eight of their last nine games.

A pitcher’s duel through three innings, the Red Sox plated three in the bottom of the fourth against Chris Lee. With one out, Forrest Allday reached on an error by first baseman Wynston Sawyer, while back-to-back singles loaded the bases. Lee (2-3) managed to strike out Kevin Heller, but a four-pitch walked to Mauricio Dubon forced in the first Red Sox run. One batter later, Jordan Procyshen singled home a pair to make it 3-0.

In the fifth, the Keys got on the board via a single, a passed ball and an RBI base hit by Sawyer, but the Red Sox stretched their lead to six in the home-half of the frame. In the inning, Salem scored four times, sending 10 men to bat. Singles by Jose Vinicio, Derek Miller and Allday opened the inning, prompting a pitching change. Taking Lee’s place Dylan Rheault surrendered a two-run double to Wendell Rijo, while a wild pitch brought in Allday from third. Later in the frame, a second wild pitch scored Yoilan Cerse.

Lee worked four-plus innings giving up six runs (three earned) on six hits. He walked three and struck out a pair.

The Red Sox reached double digits in the sixth, after walks to three of the first four batters loaded the bases with one out. Heller provided the big blow in the frame with a two-run double, before Dubon followed with his second RBI of the night. In the game eight of the nine Salem starters recorded at least one hit and four (Heller, Rijo, Dubon, Procyshen) posted multi-RBI games.

Red Sox starter Ty Buttrey (6-1) pitched very well, turning in six innings of one-run baseball. He walked one, struck out five and scattered four hits. It was Buttrey’s second win against Frederick this season and his sixth victory in nine starts with Salem.

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Matt Wilson

Friday, June 26

Snyder Blast Sends Baysox to Victory

Bowie, Md. – The Baysox wrapped up their longest home stand of the season with a 4-1 win against the New Britain Rock Cats on Friday night. The win also gave them the series win and put them up a season-high 11 games over .500 as they went 7-1 during the homestand against the top two teams in the Eastern League’s Eastern Division.

In his seventh MLB Rehab game with the Baysox, Jonathan Schoop went 0-for-3 with a strikeout while batting lead-off and playing six innings at second base. Schoop finished the homestand with three home runs and six RBI for the Baysox.

Ozzie Martinez got things going for the Baysox offensively in the bottom of the fourth with a lead-off line drive to center field to reach first, followed by a walk to Brandon Snyder. With Mike Yastrzemski batting, New Britain starter Brett Marshall (0-3, 6.51) threw a wild pitch, which allowed the runners to advance to second and third and Yastrzemski then hit a long sacrifice fly to right-center field to plate Martinez and give the Baysox a 1-0 lead.

The Rock Cats tied the ball game at 1-1 in the fifth inning against Baysox starter Terry Doyle after Juan Ciriaco hit a single and was brought home on a double from Pat Valaika.

The Baysox jumped out in front in the sixth inning after another Martinez single and Brandon Snyder’s team leading sixth home run. The two run shot put Bowie up 3-1.

Back-to-back singles from Drew Dosch and Garabez Rosa set up another run for the Baysox in the bottom of the seventh inning. Quincy Latimore hit a sacrifice bunt to move the runners up a base and Corban Joseph hit a sacrifice fly to score Dosch and record his first RBI with the Bowie and give the Baysox a 4-1 lead.

Reliever Mychal Givens (3-1, 1.52) came on for Doyle in the eighth inning. It was Givens’ first appearance back with the Baysox after making his major league debut with the Orioles against the Red Sox on Wednesday. Givens threw two scoreless innings against New Britain, giving up just one hit, and picking up his 13th save of the year for Bowie. This was also Doyle’s fifth win in six appearances and team leading seventh with overall. His final line was seven innings, four hits, one run, one walk, and a season high nine strikeouts to lower his ERA to a team-best 2.37..

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Douglas Newton

6/27/2015

Shorebirds Stay Hot With 5-2 Win

Delmarva holds on after five-run first inning

SALISBURY, Md. -- The Delmarva Shorebirds got off to a great start on Friday night with a five-run first inning on their way to a 5-2 victory over the Hagerstown Suns. Delmarva (2-0, 35-35) evened their overall record with their second straight win to begin the second half.

A two-out rally in the first inning was all the offense Delmarva needed on Friday evening. A single and two walks loaded the bases against Suns’ starter Matt Purke. Derek Peterson smoked a line drive up the middle to score two runs, extending his hitting streak to a season-high ten games. Elier Leyva ripped a two-run single through the hole at short, and then Yermin Mercedes delivered an RBI double for a 5-0 lead.

Matthew Grimes pitched well for his team-high sixth victory of the season. Grimes took a shutout into the sixth inning, before allowing an unearned run. The Shorebirds’ right-hander spun a quality start with five hits, two walks and just the one unearned run surrendered.

Hagerstown tightened the score with a run in the eighth inning, but Garrett Cortright extinguished the Suns’ comeback hopes. Raudy Read lifted a sacrifice fly off Nick Cunningham to cut the lead down to 5-2. Cortright came on to face Jose Marmolejos, representing the tying run. Cortright struck out Marmolejos to end the eighth, and he wrapped up a quiet ninth for his fifth save.

Delmarva only added two hits after the decisive rally in the first inning. Hagerstown’s bullpen of Connor Bach, Kevin Perez and Jake Walsh impressed, though it was too late to erase the damage from the five-run rally. The Suns actually outhit the Shorebirds by three, nine to six, but Delmarva grabbed their second win to begin the second half.

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Ironbirds Communications

Summary

Lowell scored five runs after the fifth inning to defeat the Aberdeen IronBirds, 7-2 on Friday night. The IronBirds scored both of their runs on wild pitches and struggled with runners in scoring position for most of the night.

More First Inning Struggles

After stranding a run in scoring position in the top of the first, the IronBirds allowed a run in the bottom half and trailed 1-0 after the frame.

Luis Alexander Basabe hit a one-out triple and scored on an RBI single from Tucker Tubbs.

Wild Second

Aberdeen took a one-run lead in the second when they scored twice on wild pitches from Spinners' starter Jake Cosart.

Cosart threw three pitches the backstop in the inning, two of them allowed Steve Laurino and Austin Pfeiffer to score. Laurino reached on a walk and Pfeiffer singled right after.

Spinners Draw Even

The Spinners tied the game at two in the fourth. With two-out, Victor Acosta singled, then moved to second on a wild pitch. Chad de la Guerra notched a double to bring him in, the game was tied after four.

Pulling Away Late

Lowell scored five runs from the sixth inning on, including three in the eighth to earn a 7-2 win.

Josh Ockimey drove home the go-ahead run in the sixth with a sacrifice fly, scoring Tucker Tubbs and Jhon Nunez doubled the lead in the with a RBI single in the seventh to make it 4-2.

The big blows came in the eighth when the spinners scored three times to break the game open. The third double of the evening from Chad de la Guerra brought home one run before two scored on a single from Brandon Magee to make it 7-2.

Bird Watching

Steve Laurino extended his hitting streak to six with a single in the sixth…There were nine wild pitches in the game: five for the Spinners, four for the IronBirds… The IronBirds were 0-12 with runners in scoring position… They had runners in scoring position in six different innings on Saturday night.

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Brandon Snyder is only 28 as I found to my surprise when I looked him up after his latest HR. .313 BA /1.001 OPS. Any chance he gets into next year's first base talk with Parmalee/Walker/Mancini?

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