Ugly Night Down on the Farm

Sacramento River Cats 11 – OKC Comets 0 

This was a forgettable game.  The Comets committed more errors (2) than hits (1). LHSP Cole Irvin and RHRP Jonathan Hernández were tattooed for 10 runs, 11 hits, and 5 BB, in 5.0 IP. 

RHRP Ben Casparius was making his initial rehab assignment.  He entered in the 7th and struck out the first batter he faced.  He walked the next, and then a RBI double.  After a 2nd out, he walked a batter, and RHRP Jerming Rosario was summoned to get out of the inning.  Casparius threw 24 pitches. 

The only hit by OKC was a single from 1B Kiké Hernández. 

Not much positive from this one. 

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Tulsa Drillers 5 – Arkansas Travelers (Seattle) 3 

RHSP Christian Zazueta pitched well for four innings.  He allowed a solo HR in the 4th.  In his 4.0 IP, he allowed just the run, 2 hits, 1 BB, and 7 K. 

Tulsa tied it up in the 6th.  When LF Josue De Paula tripled (2) and scored on DH Mike Sirota’s single. 

Tulsa took the lead in the 8th.  CF Kendall George singled, JDP walked, and with 2 out, the runners pulled off a double steal, and RF Kole Myers was IBB to load the bases.  3B Taylor Young walked to bring home the tie breaking run. 

Tulsa stretched the lead in the 9th.  SS Jose Izarra led off with a single.  With 1 out, he stole 2nd and continued to 3rd on the throwing error.  George singled to score Izarra.  George stole 2nd and went to 3rd on the 2nd catcher throwing error.  With 2 out, Sirota walked and stole 2nd.  Both George and Sirota scored on 1B Jake Gelof’s 2-run single.  

RHRP Antonio Knowles came in to close it out in the 9th.  He allowed 2 runs in the 9th on 3 BB, a HBP and was relieved by LHRP Christian Suarez.  Suarez struck out the first batter he faced, but the batter reached 1st on a WP.  He got the last out for the save. 

·      Kendall George – 2-5, 2 runs, 1 RBI

·      Jake Gelof – 2-5, 2 RBI

·      Triple – Josue De Paula (2) 

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Lansing Lugnuts (A’s) 8 – Great Lakes Loons 5 

RHSP Brady Smith made his Great Lakes debut.  It did not go as well as he hoped.  

CF Charles Davalan led off the game with his 15th HR. 

In the bottom of the 1st, Smith issued a BB to the leadoff hitter and struck out the next batter.  That is where it went wrong.  A single, BB, 2 run double, and SF scored 3 for the Lugnuts. 

In the top of the 2nd, DH Cameron Decker hit a 1-out single.  With 2 outs, 3 consecutive BB to C Victor Rodrigues, 1B Chase Adkison, and Davalan brought home a run. 

In the bottom of the 2nd, Smith allowed three straight singles, a BB, a SF, and a run scoring single for a 6-2 lead. 

Smith gave up a solo HR in the 4th.  His line was 4.0 IP, 7 runs (all earned), 8 hits, 3 BB, and 4K. 

In the 5th, Davalan stroked a 1-out single, and 2B Nico Perez walked.  With 2 outs, RF Jose Meza hit a RBI single.  

With Seamus Barrett on the hill in the 5th, Lansing got the run back on a single and a 2-out triple. 

In the 7th, Adkison doubled (3), and with 1-out Perez tripled (4).  Perez scored on a groundout to complete the scoring. 

·      Charles Davalan – 2-4, 1 BB, 2 runs, 2 RBI, HR (15)

·      Cameron Decker – 2-4

·      Nico Perez – 1-2, 2 BB, 1 run, 1 RBI, triple (4)

·      Chase Adkison – 1-2, 2 BB, 1 run, double (3) 

Box Score 

San Jose Giants 8 – Ontario Tower Buzzers 5 

Things were looking good when Ontario started in the 1st.  CF Jaron Elkins singled and moved to 2nd on 2B Kellon Lindsey’s sac bunt.  Elkins to 3rd on SS Aidan West single.  Elkins scored on the RBI single from 1B Easton Shelton.  

San Jose took over from there. 

RHSP Luis Carias pitched a scoreless 1st 3.0 innings, but with traffic.  In the 4th with two outs a batter reached on an error, and that was followed by a 2-run HR. 

In the 5th, Carias walked a batter with 1 out.  The runner stole 2nd and continued to 3rd on a WP.  He issued another BB and then a sac fly.  When he walked his third batter in the inning, he was relieved by RHRP Angel Cruz who got the final out. 

Ontario moved to within 1 run in the 8th.  With one out, Lindsey singled and moved to 3rd on a single by West.  Lindsey scored on a WP. 

RHRP Luis Gamez entered in the 6th.  This was his first game with Ontario since the end of the ACL season. He pitched 2.0 scoreless innings, but it was his third inning where he ran into trouble.  Gamez issued 2 BB, and with one out, gave up a bases loading single.  That was followed by a grand slam HR. He allowed a single, HBP, and RBI single before getting the final out. 

Ontario’s 1B Mairo Martinus and C Conner O’Neal led off with singles in the 9th.  Martinus moved to 3rd on a GIDP and scored when Elkins tripled (6). 

·      Jaron Elkins – 3-5, 1 run, 1 RBI, triple (6)

·      Aidan West – 2-4, sac bunt

·      Easton Shelton – 2-3, 1 BB, 1 RBI, double (23) 

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