Games of June 19

David Hurlbut has an excellent game.  Zack Granite keeps hitting.  The Miracle loses in extra innings.  The DSL Twins keep hitting, too.

ROCHESTER 7, BUFFALO 0 IN ROCHESTER

Four singles produced two Red Wings runs in the second.  In the third, four doubles, a single, and two walks brought home four runs to make it 6-0 and Rochester cruised to a win.  They really should have had more runs--they had seventeen hits and five walks but stranded fourteen runners.

The cruising was made possible by David Hurlbut, who had his best game of the season.  He struck out seven in seven shutout innings, giving up four hits and two walks.  Mason Melotakis made his Red Wings debut with a perfect inning.  Kam Mickolio also pitched a perfect inning.  Matt Hague was 3-for-4 with a double and a walk.  John Ryan Murphy was 3-for-5 with two doubles.  Zack Granite was 3-for-5 with a double and is batting .349.  J. B. Shuck was 2-for-3 with two walks.  Tommy Field was 2-for-4 with a double.  Mitch Garver and ByungHo Park were each 2-for-5 with a double.

CHATTANOOGA LOOKOUTS

No game scheduled--all-star break.

JUPITER 4, FORT MYERS 3 IN JUPITER (10 INNINGS)

The Miracle trailed 3-1 through seven.  In the eighth, a walk, a hit batsman, and two more walks made it 3-2.  In the ninth, Max Murphy singled home Tanner English with the tying run.  The go-ahead run was thrown out trying to score from second on an error, however, and in the tenth Fort Myers left men on second and third.  In the bottom of the tenth, J. J. Gould scored from first on a double by Dustin Geiger to end the game.  Steve Lombardozzi, Jr. was 0-for-2 for the Hammerheads.  Martin Prado was 2-for-4 with a double.

Brady Anderson pitched five innings, giving up three runs on eight hits and two walks with three strikeouts.  Jonny Drozd pitched two shutout innings to drop his ERA to 2.92.  Michael Theofanopoulos struck out three in two perfect innings.  English was 3-for-5 with two doubles.

CEDAR RAPIDS KERNELS

No game scheduled--all-star break.

DSL TWINS 8, DSL YANKEES 2 AT YANKEES

Leading 3-1 through six, the Twins scored five in the seventh to put the game out of reach.  Wander Valdez homered in the inning and Yeison Perez contributed a two-run single.

Jesus Toledo struck out three in 3.2 scoreless innings, giving up two hits and no walks.  He is unscored upon in 10.2 innings.  Elvis Rivas pitched a scoreless inning to make his ERA 2.35.  Valdez was 2-for-4 with a double in addition to the home run and is batting .303.  Yeltsin Encarnacion was 2-for-4 with a double and is batting .400.  Perez was 2-for-5 with a home run.  Samuel Vasquez was 1-for-5 with a triple and is batting .375.  Estamy Urena was 1-for-3 with two walks and is batting .488.  Alberoni Nunez was 0-for-3 and is batting .324.

TODAY'S TILTS

9:30  DSL Angels at DSL Twins
5:30  Fort Myers (Anthony McIver, 1-2, 1.53) at Jupiter (Scott Squier, 2-6, 4.52)
6:05  Buffalo (T. J. House, 6-5, 3.44) at Rochester (Aaron Slegers, 5-4, 4.06)

Games of June 18

Zack Granite probably deserves a call-up, but I don't know what the Twins would do with him right now.  The Lookouts win the first half South Championship.  The Kernels clinch a playoff spot with a huge first inning.

ROCHESTER 3, PAWTUCKET 2 IN PAWTUCKET (8 INNINGS--SCHEDULED 7 INNINGS)

ByungHo Park had an RBI single in the first and Zack Granite had an RBI single in the second to give the Red Wings a 2-0 lead.  Blake Swihart hit a two-run homer in the fourth to tie it 2-2.  There things stood until the eighth, when Matt Hague hit a leadoff home run.  In the bottom of the eighth, a hit batsman and an error put men on first and third with none out.  Michael Tonkin then struck out the next three batters to end the game.

Chris Heston pitched four innings, giving up two runs on seven hits and no walks with one strikeout.  He threw 68 pitches.  Drew Rucinski pitched two shutout innings to drop his ERA to 1.98.  Tonkin struck out four in two shutout innings and has 18 strikeouts in 14 innings.  Park was 2-for-4 with a double.  He is 7-for-14 in his last four games, raising his average thirty points to .219.  Zack Granite was 1-for-4, giving him a seventeen game hitting streak.  He is batting .346.

ROCHESTER 2, PAWTUCKET 1 IN PAWTUCKET (GAME 2--7 INNINGS)

Rusney Castillo singled in a run in the second, but an error tied it 1-1 in the third.  In the fifth, Tommy Field singled and scored on J. B. Shuck's single-plus-error-plus-error* to give the Red Wings a 2-1 lead. The Red Sox got the tying run to third with two out in the fifth but did not come any closer

Tim Melville, making his first Rochester start, pitched five innings, giving up one run on three hits and four walks with four strikeouts.  Trevor Hildenberger struck out three in two shutout innings.  His ERA is now 2.17 and he has 30 strikeouts and just 7 walks in 27 innings.  Shuck was 2-for-3 with a double.  Zack Granite had his hitting streak snapped at seventeen with an 0-for-2 plus a walk.  His line is .341/.397/.470.

*That must have been quite a play.  The play-by-play describes it as follows:  "J. B. Shuck singles on a line drive to center fielder Rusney Castillo. Tommy Field scores. J. Shuck to 2nd. Missed catch error by right fielder Steve Selsky. Missed catch error by center fielder Rusney Castillo."

CHATTANOOGA 10, TENNESSEE 2 IN TENNESSEE

Three doubles and two singles in the fourth inning scored four runs to give the Lookouts a 5-1 lead.  T. J. White added a three-run homer in the seventh to put the game out of reach.

Paul Clemens pitched five innings, giving up one run on five hits and one walk with one strikeout.  Todd Van Steensel pitched two shutout innings, dropping his ERA to 1.93.  Andy Wilkins was 2-for-4 with a home run (his second) and a double, driving in three.  LaMonte Wade was 2-for-4 with a walk.  Ryan Walker was 2-for-4.  Nick Gordon was 2-for-5 with two doubles and three runs and is batting .315.  Dan Gamache was 2-for-5 with a double.  The Lookouts won the South Division first half championship by five games.

FORT MYERS MIRACLE

No game scheduled.

CEDAR RAPIDS 16, CLINTON 3 IN CEDAR RAPIDS

The Kernels scored nine runs in the first and followed it with three more in the second to put this game out of reach early.  They batted thirteen men in the first inning, getting four singles, a double, a triple, a home run, two walks, and a hit batsman.

The Kernels went with a bullpen game, and of course the big first inning made that a lot easier to do.  Max Cordy started and struck out four in 3.2 innings, giving up one run on three hits and two walks.  Alex Robinson pitched 2.1 scoreless innings.  Patrick McGuff struck out two in two shutout innings.  Travis Blankenhorn was 4-for-5 with a home run (his eighth) and three RBIs.  Ben Rortvedt was 3-for-5 with a home run and three runs.  Brandon Lopez was 3-for-5 with three runs.  Aaron Whitefield was 2-for-3 with a home run (his seventh), a double, and a walk, driving in five.  Jermaine Palacios was 1-for-2 with a walk and is batting .322.  The win clinched a playoff spot for the Kernels.

DSL TWINS

No game scheduled.

TODAY'S TILTS

9:30  DSL Twins at DSL Yankees
5:30  Fort Myers at Jupiter (Scott Squier, 2-6, 4.52)
6:05  Buffalo (Brett Oberholtzer, 1-4, 3.40) at Rochester (David Hurlbut, 3-4, 3.79)

Games of June 17

Zack Granite just keeps on hitting.  The Lookouts overcome a rare bad game by Felix Jorge.  Travis Blankenhorn wins it for the Kernels with a steal of home.  Looks like it's time for Tyler Wells and Estamy Urena to move up.

PAWTUCKET 2, ROCHESTER 1 IN PAWTUCKET (GAME 1--8 INNINGS--SCHEDULED 7 INNINGS)

The Red Wings scored in the fifth to take a 1-0 lead.  The Red Sox tied it in the seventh on a Bryce Brentz RBI double and won it in the eighth when Jantzen Witte hit a two-out walkoff homer.

Yohan Pino pitched a complete game, going 7.2 innings and giving up two runs on four hits and two walks with three strikeouts.  ByungHo Park was 2-for-2.  Matt Hague was 2-for-3.  Zack Granite was 2-for-4 to raise his batting average to .342.

ROCHESTER 7, PAWTUCKET 5 IN PAWTUCKET (GAME 2--7 INNINGS)

The action all came early in this one.  The Red Wings scored two in the first, only to see Bryce Brentz hit a grand slam in the bottom of the first to put the Red Sox up 4-2.  Undaunted, Rochester came back with five in the second.  Engelb Vielma had an RBI double and J. B. Shuck and Tommy Field each hit a two-run homer to give the Red Wings a 7-4 lead.  Things settled down after that, with the only other run scoring on a Dan Butler homer in the fifth.  That was the only hit Pawtucket had after the third inning.

Matt Tracy pitched five innings, giving up five runs on five hits and two walks with two strikeouts.  D. J. Baxendale and Kam Mickolio each pitched a perfect inning.  Zack Granite was 2-for-3 with a walk.  He has a sixteen-game hitting streak and has had more than one hit in thirteen of those games.  He is batting .348.  Field was 2-for-4 with a home run, his fifth.  ByungHo Park was 2-for-4.  Shuck was 1-for-2 with a home run, his third, and two walks.

CHATTANOOGA 7, TENNESSEE 5 IN TENNESSEE

Andy Wilkins hit a three-run homer in the first to give the Lookouts a 3-0 lead.  In the second, however, Ian Rice and Carlos Panalver each homered in a four-run inning to give the Smokies a 4-3 advantage.  It was 5-3 going to the sixth.  A walk, an error, and a hit batsman loaded the bases with one out.  An error plated two to tie the game and a two-out two-run double by Levi Michael put Chattanooga in the lead to stay.  Tennessee did not get the tying run up to bat.

Felix Jorge did not have one of his better days, pitching six innings and giving up five runs on nine hits and a walk with four strikeouts.  Jake Reed struck out four in two shutout innings to make his ERA 2.45.  He has 8 strikeouts in 7.1 innings.  John Curtiss got back on track with a perfect inning, lowering his ERA to 0.72.  He has 35 strikeouts in 25 innings.  T. J. White was 1-for-3 and is batting .327.  Edgar Corcino was 1-for-4 and is batting .301.  Wilkins' home run was his first.

FORT MYERS MIRACLE

The Miracle did not play due to the FSL All-star game.  The North defeated the South 5-2.  Brian Navaretto was 0-for-1.  Dereck Rodriguez pitched one inning, giving up two runs on two hits.  Sam Clay retired both men he faced.

CEDAR RAPIDS 2, CLINTON 1 IN CEDAR RAPIDS

It was scoreless until the sixth, when each team scored once.  In the eighth, Travis Blankenhorn walked, went to second on a ground out, and took third on a fly out.  Jaylin Davis then walked and stole second, leading to an intentional walk to Mitchell Kranson.  Blankenhorn then pulled off what appears to be a straight steal of home to give the Kernels the lead.  The LumberKings went down in order in the ninth.

Tyler Wells was brilliant, striking out ten in eight innings while giving up one run on four hits and no walks.  He has an ERA of 1.89 with a WHIP of 0.91 and 80 strikeouts in 57 innings.  Sounds like it's time to move him up.  Hector Lujan pitched a perfect inning to make his ERA 2.00.  Davis was 2-for-3 with a walk.  Jermaine Palacios was 1-for-4 and is batting .320.

DSL TWINS 6, DSL YANKEES 5 AT TWINS

The Yankees scored three in the sixth to go ahead 4-0.  In the seventh, Estamy Urena hit a three-run homer to cap a four-run inning, tying the score 4-4.  The Twins took the lead in the eighth on a walk, a passed ball, a wild pitch, and another passed ball.  The Yankees tied it in the ninth on a single, an error, and a sacrifice fly.  In the bottom of the ninth, a single and a two-base error put the winning run on third with one out and a ground ball brought home the winning run.

Luis Gil pitched three innings, giving up one run on four hits and a walk with one strikeout to make his ERA 1.00.  Fredderi Soto pitched two perfect innings to make his ERA 1.59.  Luis Bellorin pitched two shutout innings to lower his ERA to 1.04.  Frandy Torres struck out two in two shutout innings, keeping his ERA at zero with six strikeouts in 6.1 innings.  Samuel Vasquez was 2-for-5 to keep his average at .400.  Ruben Santana was 2-for-5 to make his average .370.  Urena was 1-for-5 with a home run and four RBIs and is batting .500.

TODAY'S TILTS

11:35  Rochester (Chris Heston, 0-1, 15.43) at Pawtucket (Henry Owens, 4-4, 3.72)
Game 2  Rochester at Pawtucket (Edgar Olmos, 3-1, 2.48)
1:00  Chattanooga at Tennessee (Preston Morrison, 0-5, 4.88)
2:05  Clinton (Robert Duggar, 3-1, 2.45) at Cedar Rapids (Max Cordy, 0-2, 3.56)

Games of June 16

Randy LeBlanc may be figuring it out at AA.  The Kernels lose one late.  Small sample size, but Estamy Urena may be too good for the DSL.

ROCHESTER AT PAWTUCKET

Rained out.

CHATTANOOGA 5, TENNESSEE 3 IN TENNESSEE

Jason Vosler's homer, his twelfth, broke a 2-2 tie and put the Smokies up 3-2 in the sixth.  It stayed there until the ninth, when the Lookouts scored three runs on a single, a walk, a two-base error, a ground out, and a passed ball.  Twins Baseball!

Randy LeBlanc appears to be slowly finding his footing at AA, going 5.1 innings and giving up two runs on five hits and one walk with four strikeouts.  Nick Anderson struck out two in a scoreless inning to drop his ERA to 2.00.  He has struck out ten in nine AA innings.  Luke Bard pitched a perfect inning to make his ERA 2.76.  T. J. White was 3-for-4 with a double and is batting .327.  Edgar Corcino was 2-for-5 with a double and is batting .302.

FORT MYERS MIRACLE

No game scheduled.

CLINTON 5, CEDAR RAPIDS 4 IN CEDAR RAPIDS

Christian Cavaness hit a three-run triple in the first to put the Kernels ahead 3-1.  The LumberKings came back with single runs in the second, fourth, and sixth to go up 4-3.  Cedar Rapids scored on a balk in the seventh to tie it 4-4.  In the eighth, however, Dimas Ojeda delivered an RBI single to give Clinton a 5-4 advantage.  The Kernels put the tying run on second with two out in the ninth, but a strikeout ended the game.

Eduardo Del Rosario pitched six innings, giving up four runs on seven hits and three walks with three strikeouts.  Colton Davis pitched a perfect inning to make his ERA 1.45.  Cavaness was 3-for-4 with a triple and three RBIs.  Jermaine Palacios was 1-for-5 and is batting .321.

DSL CARDINALS 11, DSL TWINS 4 AT TWINS

Five singles and a double produced five Cardinal runs in the third.  They followed that with six in the fourth and the rout was on.

Michael Montero struck out five in three innings but gave up five runs on seven hits and no walks.  Osiris German made his debut by striking out two in a perfect inning.  Yeremi Garcia pitched two shutout innings and remains unscored upon in six innings.  Elvis Rivas struck out three in two shutout innings, making his ERA 2.70.  He has nine strikeouts in 6.2 innings.  Estamy Urena was 2-for-3 and is batting .552.  Agustin Marte was 2-for-5 and is batting .306.  Samuel Vasquez was 1-for-3 with two walks and is batting .370.  Alberoni Nunez was 1-for-3 with a walk and is batting .367.  Juan Martinez was 1-for-4 and is batting .364.

TODAY'S TILTS

9:30  DSL Yankees at DSL Twins
3:35  Rochester (Yohan Pino, 0-3, 7.82) at Pawtucket (Kyle Kendrick, 2-3, 6.34)
Game 2  Rochester (Chris Heston, 0-1, 15.43) at Pawtucket (Edgar Olmos, 3-1, 2.48)
6:00  Chattanooga at Tennessee (Jen-Ho Tseng, 6-1, 2.71)
6:35  Clinton (Danny Garcia, 5-4, 5.64) at Cedar Rapids (Tyler Wells, 3-1, 2.02)

Games of June 15

Zack Granite just keeps hitting.  Stephen Gonsalves settles down after giving up a first-inning homer.  A sweep for the Miracle.  Clark Beeker struggles for the Kernels.

ROCHESTER 8, SCRANTON/WILKES-BARRE 2 IN SCRANTON/WILKES-BARRE

The Red Wings put together five singles in the fourth inning to score three times and take a 4-1 lead.  It was 4-2 going to the ninth, when Leonardo Reginatto delivered a two-run single to cap a four-run inning and put the game out of reach.

Aaron Slegers got back on track, striking out five in five innings and giving up one run on six hits and two walks.  Trevor Hildenberger struck out two in two shutout innings to make his ERA 2.33.  He has 30 strikeouts and 7 walks in 27 innings.  Reginatto was 3-for-5.  Zack Granite stayed hot, going 2-for-3 with two walks to make his average .338.  Niko Goodrum was 2-for-4 with a walk.  Mitch Garver was 2-for-5 with a double.

TENNESSEE 4, CHATTANOOGA 1 IN TENNESSEE

Jason Vosler hit a two-run homer in the first inning to put the Smokies in front 2-0.  The Lookouts got one back in the fifth, but that was as close as they would come.  Tennessee got single runs in the sixth and eighth to put the game out of reach.

Stephen Gonsavles struck out ten in seven innings, giving up three runs on five hits and a walk.  Ryan Walker was 2-for-3 with a double.  Nick Gordon was 1-for-5 and is batting .315.  Edgar Corcino was 0-for-4 and is batting .300.  T. J. White was 0-for-3 and is batting .310.  Chattanooga had only four hits.

FORT MYERS 3, CHARLOTTE 2 IN FORT MYERS (GAME 1--9 INNINGS--SCHEDULED 7 INNINGS)

The Stone Crabs scored two in the third to take a 2-0 lead.  The Miracle scored once in the fourth on a wild pitch and tied it in the sixth on Sean Miller's RBI single.  It went into extra innings, and in the ninth Fort Myers opened the innings with two singles.  The next two batters went out, but an error on the Charlotte first baseman allowed the winning run to score.

David Fischer walked seven in five innings, but gave up just two runs on three hits with three strikeouts.  Anthony McIver struck out two in two shutout innings to make his ERA 2.53.  Williams Ramirez struck out three in two shutout innings to make his ERA 2.01.  He has 35 strikeouts in 31.1 innings.  Alex Perez was 2-for-4 with a double.  Miller and Brian Navarreto were each 2-for-4.

FORT MYERS 3, CHARLOTTE 1 IN FORT MYERS (GAME 2--7 INNINGS)

The Miracle scored on a double play in the first and got a two-run double from Rafael P. Valera in the fourth to take a 3-0 lead.  The Stone Crabs scored their lone run in the seventh and did not get the tying run on base.

Cody Stashak struck out five in five shutout innings, giving up three hits and a walk.  He threw 74 pitches.  Jonny Drozd pitched a scoreless inning.  Kevin Garcia was 2-for-3 and is batting .313.

QUAD CITIES 5, CEDAR RAPIDS 4 IN QUAD CITIES

The Kernels were down 4-2, but scored two in the eighth to tie it at four.  In the ninth, however, a double, a single, and an infield single put the River Bandits in front to stay.  Cedar Rapids went down in order in the bottom of the ninth.

Clark Beeker, who has pitched well most of the season, struggled for the second consecutive time, going 4.2 innings and giving up four runs (three earned) on eight hits and two walks with three strikeouts.  Max Cordy pitched 1.1 scoreless innings.  Colton Davis pitched a perfect inning to make his ERA 1.50.  Jaylin Davis was 3-for-4 with a double.  Travis Blankenhorn was 2-for-4 with a triple and a double.  Jermaine Palacios was 2-for-4 and is batting .324.

DSL TWINS AT DSL CARDINALS

Rained out.

Games of June 14

The Red Wings lose a see-saw game as Zack Granite stays hot.  Fernando Romero and Nick Gordon lead the Lookouts to a win.  Fort Myers scores nine runs twice in a doubleheader sweep.  No clutch hitting for the Kernels.

SCRANTON/WILKES-BARRE 6, ROCHESTER 5 IN SCRANTON/WILKES-BARRE

With the Red Wings leading 3-1 in the fourth, Gleyber Torres hit a two-run triple and later scored to put the RailRiders ahead 4-3.  Rochester took the lead back in the seventh on Matt Hague's two-run single.  In the eighth, however, Mason Williams delivered a two-out two-run double to put Scranton Wilkes-Barre in the lead to stay.  The Red Wings went down in order in the ninth, with ex-Twin J. R. Graham coming in to strike out Hague for the last out.  Greg Bird, on a rehab assignment, was 0-for-3 with a walk.

David Hurlbut pitched five innings, giving up four runs on seven hits and one walk with three strikeouts.  Drew Rucinski pitched two shutout innings to drop his ERA to 2.13.  Zack Granite was 3-for-5 with two doubles and is batting .331.  John Ryan Murphy, Bengie Gonzalez, and Engelb Vielma were each 2-for-4.

CHATTANOOGA 8, TENNESSEE 1 IN TENNESSEE

In the second inning, T. J. White hit a solo homer and Nick Gordon delivered a three-run shot later in the inning to put the Lookouts ahead 4-0.  The Smokies scored once in the sixth, but Chattanooga got two in the seventh and two in the ninth, the latter on a Jonathan Rodriguez two-run homer, to win easily.

Fernando Romero struck out seven in seven innings, giving up one run on seven hits and no walks.  He has made five consecutive good starts, in which time he has lowered his ERA from 4.73 to 3.27.  He has 70 strikeouts in 71.2 innings.  Todd Van Steensel pitched two shutout innings to drop his ERA to 2.08.  Edgar Corcino was 3-for-5 and is batting .305.  LaMonte Wade was also 3-for-5.  Rodriguez was 2-for-4 with three RBIs and the home run was his sixth.  Gordon was 2-for-5 with three RBIs on his sixth home run and is batting .318.  White was 2-for-5 with his second homer and is batting .320.

FORT MYERS 9, CHARLOTTE 3 IN FORT MYERS (GAME 1--7 INNINGS)

The Stone Crabs scored two runs in the second to take a 2-0 lead, but the Miracle blew them away with five in the bottom of the second and four more in the third.  Trey Vavra had a two-run single and Daniel Kihle a two-run double in the second inning.  Alex Perez had a two-run single in the third, which also featured three walks and a wild pitch.

Lewis Thorpe struck out eight in four innings, giving up two runs on four hits and one walk.  He threw 68 pitches, so one assumes he remains on a pitch count.  Andrew Vasquez pitched a scoreless inning, keeping his ERA at zero in five innings of high-A.  Sean Miller was 3-for-4.  Perez was 2-for-4 with a walk.  Brian Navaretto was 2-for-4.

FORT MYERS 9, CHARLOTTE 4 IN FORT MYERS (GAME 2--7 INNINGS)

The Stone Crabs scored three in the second to take a 3-1 lead, but the Miracle came back with four in the bottom of the second to take the lead for good.  Max Murphy had a two-run double in the inning.  It was 5-4 going to the bottom of the fifth, but Fort Myers had another four-run inning to put the game out of reach.  Murphy again had the key hit, this time delivering a three-run double.

Brady Anderson pitched five innings, giving up four runs (one earned) on eight hits and no walks with one strikeout.  Sam Clay struck out two in two shutout innings to make his ERA 2.18.  He has 36 strikeouts in 33 innings.  Kevin Garcia was 2-for-2 with a walk and is batting .300.  Murphy was 2-for-3 with two doubles and five RBIs.  Trey Vavra was 2-for-3 with a double and a walk.

QUAD CITIES 7, CEDAR RAPIDS 1 IN QUAD CITIES

The River Bandits scored in five of the first six innings to build a 7-0 lead.  The lone Kernel run came in the seventh on Travis Blankenhorn's RBI triple.  Cedar Rapids had eleven hits, but stranded ten runners.  Ten of the eleven hits were singles.

Domenick Carlini pitched five innings, giving up five runs on nine hits and four walks with two strikeouts.  Evan Sanders pitched a perfect inning.  Lewin Diaz, Mitchell Kranson, and Brandon Lopez were each 2-for-4.  Blankenhorn was 2-for-5 with a triple.  Jermaine Palacios was 2-for-5 and is batting .321.

DSL TWINS 6, DSL ROCKIES 3 AT ROCKIES

Yeltsin Encarnacion had a two-run triple to tie it in the sixth and scored later in the inning to put the Twins ahead 3-2.  The Rockies tied it in the bottom of the sixth, but Encarnacion scored in the eighth on a Juan Martinez single to give the Twins a 4-3 lead.  They added two in the ninth when Agustin Marte hit an RBI triple and scored on Estamy Urena's single.

Andriu Marin pitched three innings, giving up one run on six hits and no walks with two strikeouts.  Frandy Torres pitched 1.1 scoreless innings and has an ERA of zero in 4.1 innings.  Encarnacion was 3-for-4 with a triple and double and is batting .471.  Samuel Vasquez was 2-for-3 with two walks and is batting .407.  Urena was 2-for-4 with a walk and is batting .533.  

TODAY'S TILTS

9:30  DSL Cardinals at DSL Twins
4:30  Charlotte (Brock Burke, 0-1,7.71) at Fort Myers (Cody Stashak, 1-3, 4.50)
Game 2  Charlotte (Eduar Lopez, 5-3, 3.77) at Fort Myers (David Fischer, 5-3, 3.88)
5:35  Rochester (Aaron Slegers, 4-4, 4.23) at Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (Luis Cessa, 3-6, 4.15)
6:00  Chattanooga (Stephen Gonsalves, 2-2, 3.00) at Tennessee (Duane Underwood, Jr., 5-4, 5.11)
6:35  Cedar Rapids (Clark Beeker, 6-2, 2.80) at Quad Cities (Gabriel Valdez, 1-0, 3.60)

Games of June 13

A rough start for Chris Heston.  The Lookouts keep coming back.  Three was the key number for the Kernels.  The DSL Twins can score runs.

SCRANTON/WILKES-BARRE 9, ROCHESTER 3 IN SCRANTON/WILKES-BARRE

The RailRiders scored four runs in the first three innings to take a 4-0 lead.  Niko Goodrum homered in a two-run sixth and a three-base error led to a run in the eighth to cut the margin to 4-3.  Scranton/Wilkes-Barre came back with five in the bottom of the eighth to put the game out of reach.  Ex-Twin J. R. Graham struck out two in a scoreless inning of relief.  Greg Bird, with the RailRiders on a rehab assignment, went 0-for-3 with two walks.

Chris Heston, rumored to be a possibility to start one of the games in the Twins' Saturday doubleheader, did not inspire confidence, lasting only 2.1 innings and allowing four runs on six hits and two walks with one strikeout.  In his defense, he hasn't exactly been pitching on a regular schedule or even been allowed to stay in one spot very long lately.  Tim Melville made his Rochester debut with 4.2 innings of relief, giving up two runs on five hits and two walks with five strikeouts.  Zack Granite was 3-for-5 with a double and is batting .322.  Goodrum's home run was his sixth.

CHATTANOOGA 9, MONTGOMERY 8 IN MONTGOMERY (11 INNINGS)

The Biscuits scored two in each of the first two innings to take a 4-0 lead.  The Lookouts tied it 4-4 in the top of the fifth, but Justin O'Connor homered in the bottom of the fifth to give Montgomery a 5-4 lead.  Nick Gordon's RBI single tied it in the eighth and three Biscuit errors, all coming with two out in the ninth, plated a run that gave Chattanooga its first lead of the game at 6-5.  Riley Unroe had an RBI triple in the bottom of the ninth to tie it 6-6.  In the eleventh, Ryan Walker delivered a two-run triple and scored on a Gordon double to give the Lookouts a three-run lead.  They needed all of them.  Montgomery loaded the bases with none out in the bottom of the eleventh.  Two ground outs scored two runs, but a third ground out ended the game.

Dereck Rodriguez made his first AA start and it did not go well, as he pitched only two innings and gave up four runs on four hits and four walks with three strikeouts.  One suspects nerves may have been an issue, as he had not had control problems at Fort Myers.  Nick Anderson struck out two in two shutout innings to make his ERA 2.25.  John Curtiss pitched two innings and gave up his first two earned runs of the season in the eleventh, making his ERA 0.75.  Walker was 4-for-6 with two triples, scoring three times and driving in three.  Gordon was 3-for-7 with a double and is batting .316.  Edgar Corcino was 2-for-6 with a walk.  T. J. White was 0-for-2 with four walks and is batting .315.

CHARLOTTE AT FORT MYERS

A doubleheader was rained out.

CEDAR RAPIDS 10, QUAD CITIES 5 IN QUAD CITIES

Christian Cavaness hit a two-run triple and later scored in the second to put the Kernels up 3-0.  The River Bandits tied it 3-3 in the third, but Cedar Rapids got three more in the fourth, with Ben Rortvedt hitting a two-run double and scoring on a Travis Blankenhorn triple, to go up 6-3.  Two in the sixth made it 8-3 and the game was secure.

Sean Poppen pitched well other than the third inning, going 5.2 innings and giving up three runs on three hits and three walks with four strikeouts to make his ERA 2.80.  Hector Lujan struck out four in 1.2 scoreless innings to make his ERA 2.08.  He has 25 strikeouts and just 3 walks in 26 innings.  Brandon Lopez was 3-for-5.  Blankenhorn was 2-for-3 with two triples and a walk.  Rortvedt was 2-for-4 with a double.  Mitchell Kranson was 2-for-5 with a double.  Jermaine Palacios was 1-for-5 with a home run (his eleventh) and is batting .319.

DSL TWINS 13, DSL ROCKIES 1 AT TWINS

The Twins have now scored forty-eight runs in their last four games.  They got one in the first, four in the third (two on an error), three in the fourth (including a two-run homer by Agustin Marte), one in the sixth on Estamy Urena's triple, and four in the seventh, two on a Marte double.  The Rockies scored their lone run on a sacrifice fly in the seventh.

Jesus Toledo pitched five shutout innings, giving up four hits and a walk with four strikeouts and keeping his ERA at zero in seven innings.  Elvis Rivas struck out four in six perfect innings.  Marte was 3-for-5 with a home run and a double, driving in four.  Estamy Urena was 3-for-5 with a triple and is batting .538.  Samuel Vasquez was 3-for-4 with two walks and four runs and is batting .375.  Wander Valdez is 2-for-4 and is batting .333.  Alberoni Nunez was 1-for-4 with a double and a walk and is batting .370.  Juan Martinez was 1-for-4 with a double and is batting .389.

TODAY'S TILTS

9:30  DSL Twins at DSL Rockies
4:30  Charlotte (Travis Ott, 1-0, 4.40) at Fort Myers (Lewis Thorpe, 0-2, 1.38)
Game 2  Charlotte at Fort Myers
5:35  Rochester (David Hurlbut, 3-4, 3.44) at Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (Brady Lail, 3-2, 4.91)
6:00  Chattanooga at Tennessee
6:35  Cedar Rapids (Domenick Carlini, 3-4, 5.10) at Quad Cities (Cionel Perez, 3-3, 5.05)