Triple-A: Gwinnett Stripers (Braves) 4, Norfolk Tides 2
Levi Wells struggled to find the strike zone in his Triple-A debut. Wells walked five batters and allowed a pair of runs in only 1.2 innings. Thaddeus Ward bailed out Wells with 3.1 innings of scoreless baseball. Chayce McDermott tossed a scoreless frame, and Elvin Rodríguez helped keep the score even at two.
Anthony Nuñez surrendered a two-run homer in the bottom of the eighth, and Norfolk went quietly in the ninth inning.
Jud Fabian manufactured the Tides’ first run with a bases loaded walk. TT Bowens
followed with a hit by pitch to even the score at two. Norfolk managed only two hits in the game— singles by Bowens and Hudson Haskin.
Double-A: Chesapeake Baysox 7, Reading Fightin Phils (Giants) 4
Austin Overn and Reed Trimble combined to go 6-for-10 with five RBIs. Overn doubled twice and smacked a two-run homer in the win. Trimble drove in Enrique Bradfield Jr. with a single in the first and plated Overn with a base hit in the seventh. Bradfield finished 1-for-4 with a walk and two runs scored, but he struck out three times.
Nestor German earned the win with 6.2 innings of two-run ball. German struck out seven and did not walk a batter.
Adam Retzbach recorded a pair of hits in five trips, and Jose Perez went 2-for-4 from the nine hole. Gerald Ogando recorded the save with a walk and a strikeout.
High-A: Jersey Shore BlueClaws (Phillies) 4, Aberdeen IronBirds 3
Aberdeen took an early lead with three runs in the second inning, but Michael Caldon allowed a pair of runs at the end of the game. Jersey Shore evened the score with a sacrifice fly in the eighth, and the BlueClaws scored the winning run on a wild pitch in the ninth. Caldon struck out seven and surrendered five hits over 5 innings of bulk relief. Starter Yeiber Cartaya allowed a pair of runs over four frames.
Anderson De Los Santos drove in the IronBirds’ first run with a base hit to left. Elis Cuevas drove in De Los Santos with a single, and Edwin Amparo capped the scoring with an RBI-triple.
Nate George finished 0-for-5 with a pair of strikeouts, and Griff O’Ferrall went 0-for-3 with a walk.
Low-A: Delmarva Shorebirds 6, Carolina Mudcats (Brewers) 2
Wehiwa Aloy has taken Delmarva by storm. The 21-year-0ld continued his dominant performance by showing off some power. Aloy capped a five-run second inning with an Earl Weaver special that cleared the high wall in left field. The blast raised his OPS to .955.
Luis Almeyda started the rally with a two-run single. Almeyda launched a solo homer two innings later to extend the lead to six. Almeyda recorded the only multi-hit day for Delmarva. Ike Irish finished 0-for-4 with 3 K.
Brandon Downer limited Carolina to two runs over 5.2 innings. Downer struck out three and walked two.
Friday’s Schedule
Norfolk: at Gwinnett, 7:05 pm. Starter: Carson Ragsdale (1-0, 1.80 ERA)
Chesapeake: at Reading, 6:45 pm. Starter: Luis De León (0-0, — ERA)
Aberdeen: vs Jersey Shore, 7:05 pm. Starter: Juan Rojas (3-7, 3.91 ERA)
Delmarva: at Carolina, 6:30 pm. Starter: Carson Dorsey (0-2, 5.12 ERA)
