Two of three Dodgers affiliates that played on Saturday won their games.
Player of the day
Tulsa outfielder Chris Newell was designated to hit on Saturday, and that he did. He hit the game-tying home run in the ninth inning, then smashed the game-winning two-run shot in the 11th.
Triple-A Oklahoma City
Cole Irvin pitched six scoreless innings in the Comets’ third shutout win of the season, on Saturday blanking the Sacramento
River Cats (Giants). All three shutouts have been home games in Oklahoma City, including April 10 vs. Round Rock and May 21 vs. Reno.
Ryan Fitzgerald doubled, singled, and drove in three runs. Noah Miller also had two hits and, shifting over from his usual shortstop to play third base, made this fantastic diving stab and throw at the hot corner in the sixth inning.
Double-A Tulsa
Down 5-1 in the ninth inning, the Drillers rallied for four runs to force extra innings, then beat the Northwest Arkansas Naturals (Royals) in the 11th. Before Newell’s tying blast in the ninth, Jake Gelof hit a three-run shot, his team-leading 14th of the season.
Before Newell’s winning home run in the 11th, Northwest Arkansas had runners at the corners with one out in the 10th. Gelof threw home on a grounder to nail the potential winning run to keep the game going.
Adam Serwinowski struck out six in his 6 1/3 innings, and allowed three runs, one of them earned. Antonio Knowles struck out three and stranded a pair of free runners over the final two inning scoreless to earn the win.
High-A Great Lakes
The penultimate game of the series between the Loons and the Lake County Captains (Guardians) was rained out.
The game will be made up during the last week of the regular season, September 1-6, when Great Lakes travels to Lake County. That means we could see a Great Lakes home game while on the road, the opposite of what happened in the second game of a doubleheader this Wednesday, then Lake County was the home team for a game at Great Lakes.
Class-A Ontario
Allowing runs in seven of nine innings spoiled the voyage for the Tower Buzzers in a loss to the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes (Angels).
Most of the offense for Ontario came out of the 9-1-2 spots. Oswaldo Osorio had three hits batting ninth. Catcher Bryan Gonzalez Garcia and second baseman Mairo Martinus each had two hits, with a double for Gonzalez Garcia and a triple for Martinus. Those three combined to score six of Ontario’s eight runs.
Transaction
Triple-A: Right-hander Chayce McDermott was called up to the Dodgers.
Saturday scores
- Oklahoma City 6, Sacramento 0
- Tulsa 7, NW Arkansas 5 (11 innings)
- Great Lakes vs. Lake County, postponed (rain)
- Rancho Cucamonga 13, Ontario 8
Sunday schedule
- 10:05 a.m. PT: Great Lakes (Sterling Patick) vs. Lake County (Jogly Garcia)
- 12:05 p.m.: Tulsa (Payton Martin) at NW Arkansas (Hunter Patteson)
- 1:05 p.m.: Ontario (TBA) vs. Rancho Cucamonga (Derek Clark)
- 4:05 p.m.: Oklahoma City (Jackson Ferris) vs. Sacramento (Carson Seymour)
