Rochester Red Wings 14, Toledo Mud Hens 1 (box)
An 11-run sixth inning led to a 14-1 loss for the Toledo Mud Hens on Saturday.
Scott Effross and Carl Edwards Jr. were decent through the first four frames. They combined for nine straight outs after a leadoff single, but Christian Franklin broke the shutout with a solo shot off Edwards in the fourth. Max Anderson homered in the top of the inning, but that was Toledo’s only run of the day.
Edwards gave up another homer in the fifth, Anderson had a double
in the top of the sixth, and then the bad times began. A leadoff single and walk got the bullpen going, and Konnor Pilkington replaced Edwards on the mound after a groundout put men on the corners.
Pilkington gave up an RBI single, hit a batter and watched two more runs cross on a double up the middle. Tyler Mattison was next out of the bullpen. He immediately got tacked for a two-run double over the right fielder’s head. If the wheels weren’t already falling off, they were definitely gone after this sequence: walk, single, single, walk, single. 10-1, Rochester.
Mattison finally got the second out, striking out Yohandy Morales, and in came Woo-Suk Go. Three more runs crossed before the inning ended. Go wasn’t particularly good, walking two batters — one with the bases loaded — and allowing a two-run single. None of those baserunners were on his ledger, though.
At least Beau Brieske went 1-2-3 in the seventh, right?
Toledo went to a position player on the mound in the eighth. Morales homered for good measure, and that’s all she wrote.
Clark: 1-4, K
Anderson: 2-4, HR (6), 2B (8), RBI
Edwards (L, 2-6): 3.1 IP, 3 H, 4 R, 4 ER, BB, 5 K, 2 HR
Effross: 2.0 IP, H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 K
Coming Up Next: It’s a 1:05 p.m. ET start on Sunday. Rochester leads the series, 3-2.
Erie SeaWolves 8, Harrisburg Senators 0 (box)
Erie put together a complete win on Saturday, allowing just three hits in an 8-0 win over Harrisburg.
Kenny Serwa got the start but not the win, coming up just one out shy of the minimum required to qualify. Still, he was excellent, giving up just one hit and three walks while striking out four. The knuckleballer drew a game-high eight whiffs before turning the ball over to Tanner Kohlhepp.
Justice Bigbie started the scoring early, driving in Seth Stephenson and Peyton Graham with a double in the first. He hit a good 400 feet, but there’s a tall wall 405 feet in center field. Andrew Jenkins made it a 3-0 game later in the inning with a groundout RBI. Jenkins did the groundout thing for a run again in the third.
Brett Callahan was hit in the head before Bigbie’s double. He shook it off pretty well, but left the game as a precaution.
Kohlhepp pitched through the sixth, striking out a pair and working around one hit. Johan Simon took over for him in the seventh, but not before Izaac Pacheco launched a ball out of the park for Erie’s fifth run.
Simon went two frames, striking out two and giving up just one hit, and Yoniel Curet closed out the game in the ninth.
Before all was said and done, Toledo scored three more runs in the eighth. Stephenson doubled in Bennett Lee and scored on a Thayron Liranzo sac fly, and Jenkins drove in another — this time on a base hit.
Liranzo: 0-3, RBI, BB
Bigbie: 1-3, 2B (13), 2 RBI, 2 BB, K
Jenkins: 1-5, 3 RBI, 2 K
Pacheco: 1-4, HR (11), R, RBI, BB, 2 K
Stephenson: 2-6, 2B (12), 2 R, RBI, K, SB (33)
Serwa: 4.2 IP, H, 0 R, 3 BB, 4 K
Coming Up Next: It’s a 1 p.m. ET start on Sunday. Erie leads the series, 3-2.
West Michigan Whitecaps 7, Lansing Lugnuts 3 (box)
Despite being outhit by Lansing, West Michigan came away with a 7-5 victory on Saturday.
Jake Miller went four innings in his fourth rehab assignment start. This was his first with West Michigan, and he gave up his first run in 11 2/3 innings. Lansing got to him for six hits — four of which came in the first — but no walks and three strikeouts are encouraging.
Garrett Pennington homered in the bottom half of the first, keeping it a tie game through Miller’s outing. Neither offense really got much going after that, at least until the seventh. Carlos Lequerica went 1-2-3 in the fifth, with a pair of strikeouts, Duque Hebbert worked around a two-out single in the sixth and Luke Stofel retired the Lugnuts in order in the seventh.
With the game still knotted at one run apiece, Andrew Sojka sparked a rally with a one-out double in the seventh. Luke Shliger poked one through the left side to bring Sojka home, moved to second on a Samuel Gil single and stole third base. A throwing error brought him home and put Gil on third.
Lansing intentionally walked the bases loaded to face Bryce Rainer, and the former first-round pick made them pay with a two-run single through the right side. It wasn’t hit particularly hard, but Lansing was in double-play depth and the second baseman couldn’t get there. Pennington added another RBI to his box score with a line-drive single to center field. 6-1, West Michigan.
CJ Weins had a little trouble in the eighth, giving up two runs on four hits. He was the only Whitecaps arm to struggle today, and the offense got one of those runs back in the bottom half of the inning on a wild pitch. Jalen Evans closed things out, working around a two-out single to secure the win.
Rainer: 1-3, 2 RBI, 2 BB
Pennington: 2-5, HR (14), R, 2 RBI
Sojka: 2-4, 2B (7), 2 R, K
Gil: 3-4, R
Miller: 4.0 IP, 6 H, R, ER, 0 BB, 3 K
Coming Up Next: It’s a 2 p.m. ET start on Sunday. West Michigan goes for the five-game sweep.
Dunedin Blue Jays 8, Lakeland Flying Tigers 6 (box)
Lakeland had control of the game for seven innings on Saturday, but a late collapse led to an 8-6 loss for the Flying Tigers.
Hunter Dobbins gave Lakeland an early lead with a two-run home run in the second, his fourth of the year. Caleb Leys couldn’t hold the 2-0 lead for long, giving up a run in the top of the third and two more in the fourth. Four of the five hits he allowed went for extra bases, and a pair of one-out walks in the fifth ended his day. Not great, but he still left the game with a lead.
The Flying Tigers got to Dunedin’s first bullpen arm right away in the fourth. Zach McDonald walked and stole second base. He moved up to third on a bad throw from the catcher. Jude Warwick also walked, and Javier Osorio doubled in MacDonald. The ball was catchable, but a missed diving catch led to two bases and a run.
Jesus Pinto homered right after that, giving Lakeland a 6-3 lead.
Win Scott bailed out Leys in the bottom of the fifth, inducing a double play to end the inning. He worked through three innings, navigating his way around a hit and a walk. Scott actually came back out for the eighth, but a pair of errors led to a run and ended his night. After getting the first out, Jan Caraballo took over and immediately gave up a triple to put the tying run 90 feet from home.
Caraballo gave up a game-tying single, walked a batter and balked to put two in scoring position. Another single put Dunedin out in front before Caraballo finally got out of the inning. He came back out for the ninth and gave up another run on a leadoff single and triple.
Andrew Pogue took over after two outs, but the implosion was already complete. Lakeland’s offense didn’t do anything in the final two frames besides a two-out walk in the ninth. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory isn’t fun.
Yost: 2-5
Pinto: 3-5, HR (3), R, 3 RBI, K
Dobbins: 1-4, HR (4), R, 2 RBI, 2 K
Leys: 4.1 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 3 BB, 6 K
Coming Up Next: It’s a noon ET start on Sunday. Dunedin leads the series, 3-2.
FCL Tigers 11, FCL Phillies 5 (box)
Owen Hall got ripped for a homer and a triple in the first inning, but it only resulted in one run. Hall bounced back with two clean innings, but he gave up a two-run homer in the fourth after a leadoff walk. There’s some hard contact being made off him, but it could have gone worse.
Fortunately, the Tigers came to hit, too. Angel De Los Santos led off the first with a triple, and a wild pitch brought him home after the Phillies starter walked the bases loaded. Cristian Perez doubled in both runners on base, and a throwing error scored him.
Ronald Ramirez had a three-run homer in the second, giving Hall a six-run cushion to work with. The Phillies chipped away to make it a two-run game in the fifth. Leonardo Leon had some command issues and was replaced by Jatnk Diaz after three batters. An error from Michael Oliveto, Detroit’s supplemental round pick (34th overall) last year, threw the ball away for one of those runs.
De Los Santos hit his second triple of the game to get two runs back in the bottom of the fifth. Perez and Enderson Delgado went back-to-back for the final two runs. Diaz retired the final seven batters he faced for the save.
De Los Santos: 3-4, 2 3B (3), 2 R, 2 RBI
Ramirez: 2-4, HR (3), R, 3 RBI, K
Perez: 2-4, HR (7), 2B (7), 2 R, 3 RBI, K
Diaz (S, 1): 2.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, K
Hall: 4.0 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 2 K, 2 HR
DSL Tigers (1) 7, DSL Tigers (2) 6 (box)
There’s something weird about playing a team in your own organization because anything that’s good is bad and vice versa.
Ten of the 13 runs scored in this game came in the second inning, so it was a rough day for both starters. The bullpens were decent, though, with Omar Gonzalez delivering the best line of the day with 2.1 innings of no-hit ball. Of course, it’s the guy with a 10-plus ERA.
Despite the score, there weren’t many standout hitters. Eduardo Tusen went 2-for-3 with a pair of doubles. Thirteen combined walks contributed to the run total.
The DSL Tigers 2 almost came back in the seventh, but Tusen was stranded on second after making it a one-run game with one out left.
Tusen: 2-3, 2 2B (5), R, 2 RBI, BB
Gonzales (W, 1-0): 2.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 3 K
