Games of June 12

Felix Jorge has another good game.  Only one hit for the Kernels, wasting a good performance by Tyler Wells and two relievers.  Four pitchers combine on a shutout for the DSL Twins, as Estamy Urena continues to hit.

ROCHESTER RED WINGS

No game scheduled.

CHATTANOOGA 6, MONTGOMERY 0 IN MONTGOMERY

There was no score until the fifth, when Edgar Corcino's RBI single put the Lookouts on the board.  A walk, a passed ball, and two wild pitches made it 2-0 in the seventh.  Chattanooga then put the game out of reach with four in the ninth, aided by an error, two more wild pitches, and a hit batsman.

Felix Jorge had his fifth consecutive good game, and this may have been the best of them all.  He pitched seven shutout innings, giving up three hits and two walks with five strikeouts.  Mason Melotakis struck out five in two shutout innings to make his ERA 2.42.  He has a WHIP of 0.92 with 31 strikeouts in 26 innings.  T. J. White was 2-for-4 with a double and a walk and is batting .322.  Corcino and Jonathan Rodriguez were each 2-for-4 with a walk.  Andy Wilkins made his Twins organization debut and went 2-for-5 with two doubles.  Nick Gordon was 2-for-5 with a double and is batting .313.

CHARLOTTE AT FORT MYERS

Rained out.

BURLINGTON 1, CEDAR RAPIDS 0 IN CEDAR RAPIDS

The game's lone run scored in the second on Juan Moreno's sacrficie fly.  The Kernels loaded the bases in the fifth on three walks but did not get a hit until the eighth, when Travis Blankenhorn singled to center.  It was the only hit for Cedar Rapids.

Tyler Wells struck out eight in five innings, giving up one run on four hits and two walks.  His ERA is now 2.02.  Ryan Mason pitched two shutout innings to drop his ERA to 1.59.  Alex Robinson struck out two in two shutout innings.  Jermaine Palacios was 0-for-4 and is batting .322.

DSL TWINS 10, DSL PHILLIES RED 0 AT PHILLIES RED

Wander Valdez doubled home a run in the first, the Twins scored two more in the second, and Davinson Pimentel hit a two-run homer in the third to give the Twins a 5-0 lead.  The Twins added three more in the sixth and two in the eighth.  The Phillies Red loaded the bases in the first and had a man in scoring position in six of the nine innings.  They were 0-for-10 with men in scoring position.

Junior Navas pitched two shutout innings, keeping his ERA at zero through four innings.  Robert Gutierrez pitched three shutout innings.  Yeremi Garcia and Frandy Torres each pitched two shutout innings and each kept their ERA at zero through four and three innings, respectively.  Estamy Urena was 3-for-4 with a walk and is batting .524.  Valdez was 2-for-5 with two doubles.  Samuel Vasquez was 2-for-6 and is batting .350.  Alberoni Nunez was 1-for-3 with two walks and is batting .375.  Yeltsin Encarnacion was 1-for-2 with two walks and is batting .385.  Pimentel was 1-for-3 with a walk and a home run in his first game of the season.  Ruben Santana was 1-for-5 and is batting .333.

TODAY'S TILTS

9:35  DSL Rockies at DSL Twins
4:30  Charlotte (Travis Ott, 1-0, 4.40) at Fort Myers (Lewis Thorpe, 0-2, 1.38)
Game 2  Charlotte (Roel Ramirez, 2-0, 4.03) at Fort Myers (Brady Anderson, 2-2, 3.86)
5:35  Rochester at Scranton/Wilkes-Barre
6:35  Cedar Rapids (Sean Poppen, 4-1, 2.63) at Quad Cities
7:05  Chattanooga at Montgomery (Hunter Wood, 4-4, 4.64)

Games of June 11

Rochester and Chattanooga get good leads early and hold on.  Ryan Pressly continues to impress in Rochester.  Randy LeBlanc has some success in AA.  The Kernels go silent after the first inning.

ROCHESTER 6, SYRACUSE 5 IN ROCHESTER

J. B. Shuck hit a two-run triple and later scored to put the Red Wings up 3-0 in the second.  It was 5-0 after three, but the Chiefs got a solo homer from Joey Butler and a two-run shot by Jhonatan Solano to cut it to 5-3 in the fourth.  Zack Granite doubled and scored in the bottom of the fourth to make it 6-3 and Rochester needed the run, as Syracuse scored twice in the sixth to make it 6-5.  The Chiefs had the tying run on second in the sixth and seventh and got him to third in the eighth, but never got him the rest of the way.

Matt Tracy, who was making his AAA debut because Nik Turley was making his major league debut, pitched well other than the fourth, going five innings and giving up three runs on six hits and two walks with four strikeouts.  Alan Busenitz pitched a scoreless inning to make his ERA 1.98.  Ryan Pressly struck out the side in a perfect inning, giving him seven strikeouts in four shutout innings.  Shuck was 2-for-4 with a triple and a double, driving in three.  ByungHo Park was 2-for-4 with a double.  Engelb Vielma was 2-for-4.  Zack Granite was 1-for-4 with a walk and is batting .312.

CHATTANOOGA 5, MONTGOMERY 4 IN MONTGOMERY

With two out and the bases loaded in the second, Ryan Walker delivered a two-run double followed by Nick Gordon's two-run triple to put the Lookouts ahead 4-0.  T. J. White singled in a run to make it 5-0 in the third.  That was all the runs Chattanooga needed, but just barely.  The Biscuits scored one in the seventh, leaving the bases loaded, and scored one in the eighth, leaving the bases loaded.  In the ninth, Montgomery scored twice and had the tying run on third base before a line out to center ended the game.

Randy LeBlanc had his first success in AA.  He only pitched four innings (79 pitches), but he struck out five while giving up no runs on five hits and a walk.  Raul Fernandez pitched two shutout innings.  White was 3-for-4 with a double and is batting .314.  Ryan Strausborger was 2-for-3 with a walk.  Jonathan Rodriguez was 2-for-4 with a walk.  Nick Gordon was 2-for-5 with a triple and is batting .311.

FORT MYERS MIRACLE

No game scheduled.

BURLINGTON 4, CEDAR RAPIDS 1 IN CEDAR RAPIDS

Back-to-back doubles by Mitchell Kranson and Jaylin Davis put the Kernels on the board in the first, but it was the only run they would get.  In fact, they did not get another hit until the sixth and only had two more for the game.  Meanwhile, the Bees scored three times in the fifth, getting an RBI double by Jordan Zimmerman and a two-run single by Julian Leon.  Zimmerman homered in the seventh for an insurance run.

Max Cordy, normally a reliever, started and pitched four shutout innings, giving up three hits and two walks with four strikeouts.  Colton Davis pitched two shutout innings to drop his ERA to 1.55.  Kranson was 2-for-4 with a double.  Travis Blankenhorn was 2-for-4.

DSL TWINS

No game scheduled.

TODAY'S TILTS

9:30  DSL Twins at DSL Phillies Red
12:05  Burlington (Erik Manoah, 1-4, 4.31) at Cedar Rapids (Tyler Wells, 3-0, 2.05)
6:05  Charlotte at Fort Myers (Lewis Thorpe, 0-2, 1.38)
7:05  Chattanooga (Felix Jorge, 6-1, 3.32) at Montgomery (Jose Mujica, 5-3, 3.08)

Games of June 10

A home run barrage sinks the Red Wings.  Early runs carry the Lookouts.  An early grand slam leads the Miracle.  A big inning puts the Kernels on top.  A big comeback drops the DSL Twins.

SYRACUSE 8, ROCHESTER 6 IN ROCHESTER

Home runs by Clint Robinson, Joey Butler, and Irving Falu led to a five-run second that put the Chiefs up 5-1.  Brandon Snyder hit a three-run homer in the fifth to make it 8-1.  The Red Wings came back with five in the bottom of the fifth to get back into the game.  There was no one big hit in the inning, as they got a double, four singles, a walk, and a hit batsman.  They left the tying run on base, however, and they would never get him there again.

It was a rough night for Yohan Pino, who lasted only 1.2 innings and gave up five runs on eight hits and no walks with no strikeouts.  The pitching star was Kam Mickolio, who pitched four perfect innings of relief with one strikeout.  Matt Hague was 3-for-5 to lead the offense.  Mitch Garver hit a home run, his fifth.  Zack Granite was 1-for-2 with three walks, breaking his string of eight consecutive multi-hit games but raising his average to .313.

CHATTANOOGA 6, MONTGOMERY 3 IN MONTGOMERY

The Lookouts scored single runs in the first and second and Ryan Strausborger hit a two-run homer in the third to give them a 4-0 lead.  Riley Unroe hit a two-run double in the fourth and Grant Kay homered in the fifth to cut the lead to 4-3.  It stayed there until the ninth, when Chattanooga got a couple of insurance runs on T. J. White's two-run single.

Stephen Gonsalves struck out six in five innings but gave up three runs on five hits and two walks.  Nick Anderson struck out two in two perfect innings of relief.  John Curtiss pitched two shutout innings of relief with three strikeouts, keeping his ERA at zero through 22 innings (19 appearances) with 32 strikeouts, 11 hits, and 10 walks (0.95 WHIP).  White was 2-for-4 with a double and three RBIs.  Strausborger was 2-for-5 with a home run.  Nick Gordon was 1-for-3 with two walks to make his average .309.  Edgar Corcino was 1-for-3 with a double and a walk and is batting .300.

FORT MYERS 5, TAMPA 1 IN FORT MYERS

Nelson Molina hit a grand slam in the first inning and that was all the Miracle needed.  The scored another anyway, in the second, on an Alex Perez double.  The lone Yankee run came in the seventh when Trey Amburgey homered.

Lachlan Wells had his first good start in almost four weeks, striking out six in 6.2 innings while giving up one run on five hits and no walks.  Jonny Drozd pitched 2.1 scoreless innings.  Perez was 2-for-4 with a double.  Molina's home run was his third.

CEDAR RAPIDS 5, BURLINGTON 3 IN CEDAR RAPIDS

The Bees scored two in the first to take an early 2-0 lead.  Jaylin Davis doubled home a run in the fourth to cut it to 2-1 and a four-run sixth put the Kernels in the lead to stay.  Caleb Hamilton and Davis both homered in the inning.  Burlington got one run back in the seventh and put the tying run on base in the eighth.

Eduardo Del Rosario, who has been up and down all year, was up in this one, going six innings and giving up two runs on six hits and a walk with four strikeouts.  Alex Robinson and Hector Lujan each pitched a scoreless inning, with Lujan dropping his ERA to 2.22.

DSL PHILLIES RED 11, DSL TWINS 8 AT TWINS

Felix Reyes had a two-run double in a four-run first.  The Twins built an 8-0 lead after three.  From then on, though, it was all Phillies Red.  They scored three in the fifth and two in the sixth, helped by two walks and two hit batsmen in the latter inning, to cut the lead to 8-5.  They then scored six in the eighth to take the lead.  The Twins did not get the tying run up to bat.

Luis Gil pitched three shutout innings, keeping his ERA at zero through six innings.  Luis Bellorin struck out five in two shutout innings, giving him a zero ERA with ten strikeouts and one walk in five innings.  Fredderi Soto pitched 1.1 scoreless innings to lower his ERA to 1.23 in 7.1 innings.  Francisco Martinez was 2-for-3 with a double and a walk.  Jesus Feliz was 2-for-4 with a double.  Alberoni Nunez was 2-for-5 and is batting .400 through 20 at-bats.  Juan Martinez was 0-for-3 with a walk and is batting .429.  Victor Heredia hit a home run.

TODAY'S TILTS

12:35  Syracuse (Dustin Antolin,2-1, 4.97) at Rochester
2:05  Burlington (Joe Gatto, 2-5, 4.02) at Cedar Rapids (Max Cordy, 0-2, 4.32)
5:35  Chattanooga (Matt Tracy, 3-4, 3.88) at Montgomery (Mike Franco, 5-0, 2.39)

Games of June 9

John Ryan Murphy gets some key hits for the Red Wings.  A big inning carries the Lookouts.  The Miracle still don't have much offense.  The Kernels more than made up for it, led by Jermaine Palacios.

ROCHESTER 9, SYRACUSE 3 IN ROCHESTER

The Red Wings scored three in the first, but the Chiefs answered with three in the second.  It stayed 3-3 until the sixth, when John Ryan Murphy singled home a run to give Rochester a 4-3 lead.  The Red Wings then put the game out of reach with five in the eighth, as Murphy struck again with a two-run double and Syracuse made two errors.  Ex-Twin Neal Cotts appeared int he game for the Chiefs, retiring the only batter he faced.

Adam Wilk pitched well other than in the second inning, going sxi innings and giving up three runs on five hits and a walk.  Alan Busenitz pitched two shutout innings to drop his ERA to 2.05 and Drew Rucinski pitched a scoreless inning to make his ERA 2.31.  Tommy Field was 3-for-4 with two doubles.  ByungHo Park was 2-for-3 with a walk.  Murphy was 2-for-4 with a double and three RBIs.  Zack Granite had his eighth consecutive multi-hit game, going 2-for-5 to make his average .311.

CHATTANOOGA 7, MONTGOMERY 4 IN MONTGOMERY

Granden Goetzman hit a two-run double in the first to put the Biscuits in the lead.  They still led 2-1 through five, but the Lookouts scored five in the sixth to take control of the game.  Ryan Walker hit a three-run triple in the inning.  Montgomery got two in the ninth and brought the tying run up to bat with two out, but a strikeout ended the game.

Fernando Romero struck out six and walked five in 5.2 innings, giving up two runs on three hits.  Luke Bard struck out four in 2.1 scoreless innings, making his ERA 2.73.  He has 48 strikeouts and 9 walks in 29.2 innings.  T. J. White was 3-for-5 with a double.  Dan Rohlfing was 3-for-5.  Jonathan Rodriguez was 2-for-3 with two walks.  Nick Gordon was 2-for-5 with a double and is batting .309.  Edgar Corcino was 1-for-5 and is batting .300.

TAMPA 2, FORT MYERS 1 IN FORT MYERS

The Yankees scored single runs in the second and sixth.  The Miracle did not get on the board until the ninth.  They opened the inning with consecutive singles and a one-out error loaded the bases, but they did not score until a wild pitch with two out.  The tying and winning runs were in scoring position, but a fly out ended the game.

David Fischer pitched 4.2 innings, giving up one run on two hits and five walks with two strikeouts.  Andrew Vasquez struck out two in 1.1 scoreless innings, keeping his ERA at zero in four innings since being promoted to Fort Myers.  Sam  Clay and Alex Muren each pitched a scoreless inning, giving them ERAs of 2.32 and 1.88, respectively.  The Miracle had just five hits, with no batter getting more than one.

CEDAR RAPIDS 15, BURLINGTON 5 IN CEDAR RAPIDS

The Kernels scored five in the first and cruised to an easy win.  Their first five batters got hits, getting two doubles and three singles.  They got eight hits in the first inning and twenty-two for the game.

Clark Beeker apparently pitched to the score, as he pitched six innings and gave up four runs on five hits and a walk while striking out five.  Colton Davis pitched a scoreless inning to make his ERA 1.67.  Jermaine Palacios was 5-for-6 with two home runs (his ninth and tenth) and two doubles, scoring five times and driving in three.  He is now batting .327.  Ben Rortvedt was 3-for-4 with a walk.  Mitchell Kranson was 3-for-5 with three runs.  Travis Blankenhorn was 3-for-6 with a home run, his seventh.  Lewin Diaz was 3-for-6.  Brandon Lopez was 2-for-3 with a triple and a walk, driving in three.  Aaron Whitefield was 2-for-5.

DSL TWINS AT DSL NATIONALS--SUSPENDED GAME

The Twins sent two men up to bat in the first inning, both of whom were retired, then the game was rained out.  No word on when it will be made up, but the Twins will play the Nationals again on the 24th and 26th of June, so one suspects one of those may be the date.

TODAY'S TILTS

9:30  DSL Phillies Red at DSL Twins
5:05  Tampa (Ian Clarkin, 3-2, 1.56) at Fort Myers (Lachlan Wells, 2-8, 4.42)
6:05  Syracuse (Austin Voth, 1-7, 6.00) at Rochester (Yohan Pino, 0-2, 4.91)
6:35  Burlington at Cedar Rapids (Eduardo Del Rosario, 5-3, 5.30)
6:35  Chattanooga (Stephen Gonsalves, 1-2, 2.45) at Montgomery (Greg Harris, 3-4, 4.47)

Games of June 8

SYRACUSE 3, ROCHESTER 2 IN ROCHESTER

All the runs were scored in the sixth inning.  In the top of the inning, Pedro Severino hit a two-run double and scored on an Irving Falu single.  The Red Wings got two of them back on a pair of singles, a sacrifice fly, and two wild pitches.  That was as close as they came, though.  They got men to second and third with one out in the eighth, but could not score.

Aaron Slegers pitched 6.2 innings, giving up three runs on eight hits and three walks with four strikeouts.  Michael Tonkin pitched 1.1 scoreless innings to lower his ERA to 2.45.  Ryan Pressly struck out three in a scoreless inning.  Zack Granite was 3-for-4 with a double, his seventh consecutive multi-hit game, raising his average to .307.  Engelb Vielma was 3-for-3.  Mitch Garver was 2-for-4.

JACKSON 3, CHATTANOOGA 2 IN CHATTANOOGA

The Lookouts led 2-0 after five, but the Generals scored three in the sixth to get the win.  Kevin Cron's two-run single brought home the tying and go-ahead runs.  Chattanooga had the tying run on third with two out in the ninth, but a ground out ended the game.

Ryan Eades pitched five shutout innings, giving up one hit and no walks with three strikeouts.  Todd Van Steensel struck out two in a scoreless inning to lower his ERA to 1.96.  Jake Reed pitched two shutout innings of relief.  Jonathan Rodriguez was 2-for-3 with a double and two walks.  Ryan Walker was 2-for-3 with a walk.  Ryan Strausborger was 2-for-4 with a double.  Nick Gordon was 2-for-5 with his fifth home run to raise his average to .307.  Edgar Corcino was 1-for-5 and is batting .303.

TAMPA 2, FORT MYERS 1 IN FORT MYERS (GAME 1--7 INNINGS)

Max Murphy led off the bottom of the first with a home run, but it was the only run the Miracle got.  Francisco Diaz hit a two-run homer in the third and that was it for the scoring.  Fort Myers got a man in scoring position in five of the other six innings, but went 0-for-9 with men in scoring position.

Brady Anderson pitched six innings, giving up two runs on four hits and two walks with four strikeouts.  Williams Ramirez pitched a scoreless inning to make his ERA 2.15.  Max Murphy was 2-for-4 with a double and a walk in addition to the home run, his fourth.

FORT MYERS 2, TAMPA 1 IN FORT MYERS (GAME 2--7 INNINGS)

This time it was the Yankees who scored on in the first, and the Miracle came back with two in the fourth.  Max Murphy tripled and scored on an Alex Perez single.  Two walks followed, and a double play brought home what would turn out to be the winning run.  Tampa only had one hit after the first inning.

Dereck Rodriguez struck out ten in a complete game, giving up one run on four hits and a walk.  The Miracle had three hits in the game.

DSL TWINS 17, DSL NATIONALS 3 AT TWINS

The Twins led 3-0 after three.  They then scored three in the fifth, five in the sixth, and five in the seventh to blow out the Nationals.  The Nationals scored all three of their runs in the eighth inning.

Michael Montero pitched five shutout innings, giving up two hits and no walks with four strikeouts.  In nine innings so far he has an ERA of zero and has given up three hits and one walk with nine strikeouts.  Cristian Castro struck out two in two shutout innings.  Robert Gutierrez struck out two in a scoreless inning.  Juan Martinez was 4-for-5 with a walk.  Yeison Perez was 3-for-4 with five RBIs.  Alberoni Nunez was 3-for-5 with two triples and five RBIs.  Estamy Urena was 3-for-6 with a triple.  Wander Valdez was 2-for-4 with a triple and two walks.  Ruben Santana was 2-for-5.

TODAY'S TILTS

9:30  DSL Twins at DSL Nationals
6:05  Syracuse (Sean O'Sullivan, 0-0, 0.00) at Rochester (Adam Wilk, 0-0, 4.26)
6:05  Tampa (Zack Littell, 7-1, 1.94) at Fort Myers
6:35  Burlington at Cedar Rapids (Clark Beeker, 5-2, 2.51)
7:05  Chattanooga (Fernando Romero, 4-5, 3.51) at Montgomery

Games of June 7

Lots of strikeouts by Red Wings and Lookouts pitchers.  The Kernels lose a see-saw game.  Triples lead the DSL Twins to victory.

SCRANTON/WILKES-BARRE 5, ROCHESTER 1 IN ROCHESTER

The Red Wings scored in the sixth to tie it 1-1, but Gleyber Torres delivered a two-run double in the seventh to take the lead to stay.  The RailRiders added two more in the ninth.

David Hurlbut struck out eleven in 6.2 innings, giving up three runs on eight hits and a walk.  Zack Granite had his sixth straight multi-hit game, going 2-for-4 with a triple.

CHATTANOOGA 7, JACKSON 2 IN CHATTANOOGA

Dan Gamache hit a three-run triple in the third and the Lookouts added another run in the fourth to go up 4-0.  The Generals scored single runs in the fifth and sixth to close to 4-2, but Chattanooga got three more in the seventh to put the game out of reach.

Felix Jorge struck out nine in 6.2 innings, giving up two runs on seven hits and a walk.  Raul Fernandez struck out four in 2.1 scoreless innings.  T. J. White was 2-for-4 with a home run.  Gamache was 2-for-3 with a triple and a walk.  Edgar Corcino was 2-for-4 with a double and a walk and is batting .305.  Levi Michael was 2-for-5.

TAMPA AT FORT MYERS

Rained out.

CLINTON 9, CEDAR RAPIDS 6 IN CLINTON

Mitchell Kranson hit a two-run double in a three-run Kernel first.  The LumberKings came back with two in the second and three in the fourth to go ahead 5-3.  Jaylin Davis hit a two-run double in the fifth to tie it 5-5.  In the sixth, however, back-to-back two-run doubles by Jhombeyker Morales and Bryson Brigman gave Clinton the lead to stay.  Cedar Rapids got a run in the ninth but did not bring the tying run up to bat.

Sean Poppen, who has pitched very well this year, did not do so in this game, going 4.2 innings and allowing five runs on six hits and two walks with three strikeouts.  Ryan Mason struck out five in two shutout innings to make his ERA 2.16.  He has 8 strikeouts and 1 walk in 8.2 innings.  The Kernels had only four hits, all of them doubles.  I wonder what the record is for most hits in a game where all your hits were for extra bases.  Jermaine Palacios was 0-for-5 and is batting .319.

DSL TWINS 5, DSL METS1 4 AT TWINS

The Mets1 scored one in each of the first two innings.  Jesus Feliz had an RBI triple and scored in the fourth to tie it 2-2.  In the fifth, Yeltsin Encarnacion hit a two-run triple and later scored to give the Twins a 5-2 lead.  The Mets cut the lead to 5-4 in the eighth and had the tying run thrown out at the plate trying to score from second on a single.  They put two on with one out in the ninth, but did not get the ball out of the infield after that.

Starter Andriu Marin pitched three innings, giving up two runs on five hits and two walks with one strikeout.  Fredderi Soto pitched three shutout innings.  Frandy Torres pitched a scoreless inning.  Encarnacion was 2-for-3 with a triple.  Estamy Urena was 2-for-3 with a double.

TODAY'S TILTS

9:30  DSL Nationals at DSL Twins
4:30  Tampa (Brody Koerner, 0-1, 3.60) at Fort Myers (Brady Anderson, 2-1, 4.01)
Game 2  Tampa at Fort Myers
6:05  Syracuse (Kyle McGowin, 1-5, 5.98) at Rochester (Aaron Slegers, 4-3, 4.25)
6:15  Jackson (Josh Taylor, 4-4, 4.26) at Chattanooga (Randy LeBlanc, 2-1, 5.76)
6:30  Cedar Rapids (Domenick Carlini, 3-3, 4.85) at Clinton (Robert Dugger, 1-1, 2.73)

Games of June 6

Nik Turley was dominant.  Tyler Wells was not quite as dominant but possibly more effective.  The Lookouts lose in extra innings.  DSL Twins pitchers are off to an excellent start.

ROCHESTER 8, SCRANTON/WILKES-BARRE 1 IN ROCHESTER

It was scoreless until the sixth, when Mitch Garver hit a three-run homer to put the Red Wings in front.  Rochester scored three more in the seventh on one hit, getting help from two walks and three errors.  The lone RailRider run came in the ninth.  Ex-Twin J. R. Graham pitched the last 1.1 innings and allowed two runs on four hits and a walk with two strikeouts.

Nik Turley was dominant, striking out fifteen in just six shutout innings while giving up four hits and two walks.  Drew Rucinski pitched two shutout innings to drop his ERA to 2.42.  Zack Granite was 3-for-5 with a double, his fifth consecutive game with two or more hits.  Garver's home run was his fourth.

JACKSON 4, CHATTANOOGA 2 IN CHATTANOOGA (14 INNINGS)

Nick Gordon had an RBI single in the third, Kevin Cron hit a two-run homer in the fourth, and Gordon had another RBI single in the fifth, adding up to a 2-2 tie.  It stayed tied until the fourteenth.  In the top of the inning, a single, a walk, and a passed ball put men on second and third for the Generals.  A sacrifice fly scored one run and Kelly Dugan singled home another to put Jackson up 4-2.  The Lookouts put their first two men on base in the bottom of the inning, but a double play and a ground out ended the game.

Matt Tracy pitched six innings, giving up two runs on five hits and two walks with five strikeouts.  Todd Van Steensel, Luke Bard, and Mason Melotakis each pitched two scoreless innings, making their ERAs 2.05, 2.96, and 2.35, respectively.  Gordon was 4-for-6 with a walk and is batting .305.  Edgar Corcino was 3-for-7 and is batting .301.  Ryan Walker was 2-for-5 with a double and a walk.

FORT MYERS AT PALM BEACH (DOUBLEHEADER)

Rained out.

CEDAR RAPIDS 7, CLINTON 2 IN CLINTON

The Kernels scored in four of the first five innings, building a 5-0 lead.  The LumberKings had only two hits through the first six innings, both singles.  Clinton's catcher, Yojhan Quevedo, was injured in a play at the plate in the first inning.  Their other catcher, Nick Thurman, had been in the lineup as the DH but had to come in and catch, meaning the pitchers batted the entire game.  They went 0-for-2 and were pinch-hit for once.

Tyler Wells had an excellent game, striking out seven in six shutout innings while giving up two hits and no walks.  His ERA is now 2.05 and he has 62 strikeouts in 44 innings.  It may be time to move him up.  Colton Davis pitched a scoreless inning to make his ERA 1.73.  Jermaine Palacios was 3-for-5 with a home run (his eighth) and a triple, raising his average to .327.  Jaylin Davis was 2-for-3 with a walk.

DSL TWINS 6, DSL METS1 2 AT METS1

The Twins scored once in each of the first three innings, then got a two-run double by Agustin Marte in the fifth to take a 5-0 lead.  The Mets1 didn't score until the ninth, when Jean Carlos Soto hit a two-out two-run single.

Starter Junior Navas pitched two shutout innings.  Luis Bellorin followed with five strikeouts in three shutout innings.  Yeremi Garcia pitched two shutout innings and Luciano De La Cruz pitched a scoreless innings.  DSL Twins pitchers have allowed just three runs in three games.  Samuel Vasquez was 3-for-5.  Estamy Urena was 2-for-4 with a double and a walk.  Juan Martinez was 2-for-4 with a walk.  Ruben Santana was 2-for-5.  Francisco Martinez hit a home run, the team's first of the season.

TODAY'S TILTS

9:30  DSL Mets1 at DSL Twins
10:15  Jackson (Taylor Clarke, 5-2, 2.57) at Chattanooga (Felix Jorge, 5-1, 3.39)
11:35  Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (Caleb Smith, 3-0, 2.94) at Rochester (David Hurlbut, 3-3, 3.35)
6:05  Tampa (Brody Koerner, 0-1, 3.60) at Fort Myers (Brady Anderson, 2-1, 4.01)
6:30  Cedar Rapids (Sean Poppen. 4-1, 2.12) at Clinton (Danny Garcia, 5-4, 5.08)