Rochester Red Wings 6, Toledo Mud Hens 5 (F/11)(box)
The Mud Hens battled through a bullpen game only to run out of pitching in the 11th inning, losing via walkoff to the Red Wings.
Woo-Suk Go got the start and went two innings. He surrendered a pair of runs on four hits and a walk, striking out five.
The Hens turned the tables pretty quickly. In the top of the fourth, Max Anderson led off with a walk and Eduardo Valencia doubled him to third with one out. Anderson scored on a Trei Cruz ground out, and Corey Julks singled in Valencia to tie the game.
In the fifth, Jace Jung led off with his 11th homer and two batters later, Cal Stevenson followed suit for a 4-2 lead.
Unfortunately the offense ran out of steam after that, and the bullpen leaked a run in the sixth and Matt Seelinger blew the save in the bottom of the ninth.
In the 10th, with Tyler Gentry starting at second base, Cal Stevenson flew out to right field, allowing Gentry to tag and take third, where he’d score on a wild pitch. That was all they’d get, and Seelinger couldn’t prevent the run in the bottom half. The Hens failed to push across a run in the 11th, and Gentry had to pitch, allowing a walkoff single on a 37 mph slider.
Jung: 2-4, R, RBI, HR, K
Valencia: 2-4, R, 2B, BB
Go: 2.0 IP, 2 ER, 4 H, BB, 5 K
Coming Up Next: The series is tied up heading into a 6:45 p.m. ET start on Thurday.
Harrisburg Senators 11, Erie SeaWolves 6 (box)
Former Tigers prospect Josh Randall spun a solid game against the SeaWolves on Wednesday, while Lael Lockhart Jr.’s outing fell apart late and the bullpen collapsed.
The SeaWolves did strike first, as singles from Justice Bigbie, Izaac Pacheco, and Aaron Antonini produced a run in the second inning.
Meanwhile, Lockhart rolled through the first three innings without much trouble, but he allowed a solo shot in the fourth and then three more runs in the fifth. Chris Meyers answered back with his third home run in his last three games in the sixth, but Wandisson Charles allowed two runs in the bottom half for a 6-2 lead.
In the seventh, the SeaWolves made a bigger push as Antonini led off with a double and scored on a one-out triple to the wall in center from Brett Callahan. John Peck doubled in Callahan to make it a 6-4 game, but that was all they’d get.
Meyers doubled and scored in the eighth, and Peck tripled and scored on a Bigbie ground out in the top of the ninth, but Tyler Owens gave up a run in the seventh and then four runs in the eighth as the Senators pulled away.
Peck: 3-5, R, RBI, 2B, 3B, K
Meyers: 2-3, 2 R, RBI, 2B, HR, 2 BB
Callahan: 2-5, R, RBI, 3B, K
Pacheco: 1-3, 2 BB, 2 K
Lockhart (L, 1-1): 4.2 IP, 4 ER, 2 H, 3 BB, 2 K
Coming Up Next: The series is tied, with first pitch on Thursday set for 6:30 p.m. ET.
West Michigan Whitecaps vs. Lansing Lugnuts (cancelled)
They were washed out in West Michigan on Wednesday and the game cancelled. It’s a 6:45 p.m. ET start on Thurday night.
Dunedin Blue Jays 9, Lakeland Flying Tigers 5 (box)
The Flying Tigers swung the bats pretty well on Wednesday, but the pitching wasn’t there as the Blue Jays made it two in a row.
Cash Kuiper got the start, and he gave up a run in the first and two more in the third. In the bottom of the second, Anibal Salas and Jack Goodman singled and both scored on Hunter Dobbins triple. Jordan Yost was hit by a pitch, stole second, and scored on a Nick Dumesnil single in the third.
So it was all tied up at that point and stayed that way until the sixth when Salas smoked a drive over the right field wall for his fifth home run.
Unfortunately, in the seventh Antonio Florida and then Jan Carabello combined to surrender five runs as the Blue Jays seized control for good.
Beau Ankeney added a solo shot, his eighth on the year, in the eighth inning. Jatnk Diaz was wild in the ninth and gave up a run before this one ended.
Salas: 3-4, 2 R, RBI, 2B, HR, K
Kuiper: 3.1 IP, 3 R, 2 ER, 6 H, BB, 4 K
Coming Up Next: They’ll match up again at 11:00 a.m. ET on Thursday.
