No wins for the Dodgers’ minor league affiliates; outscored 21-10. The Drillers saw their matchup with the Naturals postponed and will instead play a doubleheader today.
Player of the day
The job of a leadoff hitter is to set the table, and Zach Ehrhard did that as well as anyone could’ve hoped for in a 5-3 Comets loss. While the four hitters right behind him all went hitless, Ehrhard reached base safely four times and had one of the Comets’ three RBI.
It’s been an outstanding month of May for Ehrhard, who has reached
base safely in every single one of his games, including recording a hit in nine of the last 10.
Triple-A Oklahoma City
Colton Gordon came into last night’s game having allowed 16 runs in just three starts this month, but for six innings against the Comets, he was phenomenal. The left-handed starter for the Space Cowboys completely shut down an offense that had just gotten into the double digits the day prior.
Trailing 2-0 at the top of the seventh, the Comets looked to Chuckie Robison to even the score with a two-run bomb against the first reliever out of the Space Cowboys’ bullpen. But Chayce McDermott ran into plenty of issues in the eighth, allowing three runs, making OKC’s comeback effort an unsuccessful one.
Although Robinson had the big hit, one ought to look at leadoff hitter Ehrhard as the Comets’ most productive batter. The center fielder finished the game with nearly half of the Comets’ nine hits, continuously stranded by the heart of the order, unable to score a single run.
Double-A Tulsa
The game was postponed
High-A Great Lakes
Although they led from the top of the second inning all the way through the start of the bottom of the ninth, the Loons came out on the losing end of a 3-2 score despite outhitting their opponent 8-3. One day after a slugfest, this offense let down a terrific effort from its pitching staff, one that saw them induce 18 strikeouts, nine of them by starter Zach Root.
Neither team managed more than a single hit with runners in scoring position, but the Dragons did enough for a rally against Nicolas Cruz in the ninth, an inning that saw the Comets commit an error and a balk and allow multiple hitters to reach base without a hit, including a walk and a hit-by-pitch.
Outfielder Kole Myers had the best performance among Loons hitters, reaching base in all four of his plate appearances with a pair of knocks and a couple of walks as well.
Single-A Ontario
There isn’t a whole lot a manager or even an offense can do when every pitcher that this team keeps sending out there simply fails to record outs consistently. This was the challenge faced by the Tower Buzzers in what ended up a 13-5 defeat at home, allowing nine of those 13 runs unanswered through the game’s first three innings. Starter Hyuk-Seok Jang couldn’t get out of the first, and the first three relievers who came in for him all allowed multiple earned runs.
Offensively, the Tower Buzzers didn’t make it close, as that’d be unreasonable to ask, but they put up enough of a fight by scoring all five of those runs in the back half of this game. Center fielder Jaron Elkins had a four-hit day, just a home run short of the cycle. Speaking of homers, Ontario’s only one came from third baseman Chase Harlan in the eighth, his sixth of the season.
Transactions
The Great Lakes Loons placed catcher Gio Cueta on the injured list and activated righty Josellyn Gonzalez. The Comets activated catcher Zeby Savala and left-handed pitcher Jackson Ferris as Alex Freeland was recalled to the big league club. Meanwhile, the Tower Buzzers activated outfielder Jaron Elkins.
Wednesday’s scores
- Sugar Land 5, Oklahoma City 3
- Double-A game postponed
- Dayton 3, Great Lakes 2
- Ontario 5, Visalia 13
Thursday’s schedule
- 2:30 p.m. PT: Tulsa (Adam Serwinowski) vs. NW Arkansas (Hunter Patteson)
- Game 2: Tulsa (Payton Martin) vs. NW Arkansas (TBD)
- 4:05 p.m. PT: Great Lakes (Jakob Wright) at Dayton (Jose Montero)
- 5:05 p.m. PT: Oklahoma City (River Ryan) at Sugar Land (Ethan Pecko)
- 6:35 p.m. PT: Ontario (TBD) vs. Visalia (Jesus Escobar)
