5/18 MiLB Gameday: A Quartet of Sunday Matinees

[Cuzittt]

Today's Games:

IL:Pawtucket (Rubby de la Rosa) vs. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (Zach Nuding) [1:05pm]
EL: Portland (Mike Augliera) vs. Trenton (Jeremy Bleich) [1:05pm]
CL:Salem (Simon Mercedes) @ Carolina (Shawn Morimando) [2:05pm]
SAL: Greenville (Ty Buttrey) @ Asheville (Konner Wade) [2:05pm]
NYPL: Lowell - Opening Day - June 13th vs. Vermont
GCL: GCL Sox - Opening Day - June 20th vs GCL Twins
DSL: DSL Sox - Opening Day - May 31st

Notes:

Mookie Betts has reached safely in 0 consecutive regular season games. He had reached in 71 consecutive games (including playoffs). New Streak starts today.

Scoreboard:

Boston Red Sox Minor League Scores

Media:

MiLB TV
MiLB Radio

Local Media:

Pawsox:

Providence Journal
Pawtucket Times

Seadogs: Portland Press Herald

Salem: Roanoke Times

Greenville: Greenville Online

Lowell: Lowell Sun

 

[Hernandez Rent-A-Car]

New streak, new position. Per Mike Antonellis on Twitter, Mookie is starting in CF today.

 

[Cuzittt]

Mookie starts a new streak with a single in his second at bat.

 

[Cuzittt]

Seadogs win 2-1.

Boxscore

Mike Augliera went 8 innings, allowing a run on 5 hits, a balk and a walk; striking out 5. Noe Ramirez pitched the final inning, striking out one.

Blake Swihart and Derrik Gibson each went 1/2 with a walk. Mookie Betts went 1/3 with a walk and a SB. Heiker Meneses went 0/2 with a walk. Henry Ramos went 0/2 with a HBP. Travis Shaw went 0/3 with a sacrifice. Stefan Welch and Peter Hissey each went 0/3. Deven Marrero went 0/4.

 

[Cuzittt]

Pawsox lose 3-2.

Boxscore

Rubby de la Rosa went 5 innings, allowing 2 runs on 9 hits and a walk; striking out 8. Dalier Hinojosa went 2 innings, walking one and striking out 3. Rich Hill went an inning, allowing a run on a hit and a HBP; striking out one. Chris Resop pitched the final inning, striking out one.

Daniel Nava and Corey Brown each went 1/3 with a walk; Brown with a double. Mike McCoy went 1/3. Ryan Roberts, Ryan Lavarnway and Garin Cecchini each went 1/4; Roberts with a double, Lavarnway with a HR. Dan Butler and Justin Henry each went 0/3. Alex Hassan went 0/4.

 

[Cuzittt]

Drive lose 3-1.

Boxscore

Ty Buttrey went 3 1/3 innings, allowing 3 runs on 6 hits; striking out one. Jonathan Aro went 4 2/3 innings, giving up a hit and a walk; striking out 6.

Carlos Asuaje went 1/2 with 2 walks. Kendrick Perkins and Jordan Weems each went 1/3; Weems with a triple. Jantzen Witte went 1/4. Jimmy Rider and Manuel Margot each went 0/3. Forrestt Allday, Tzu-Wei Lin and Jake Romanski each went 0/4.

 

[Cuzittt]

Salem loses 3-1.

Boxscore

Simon Mercedes went 3 1/3 innings, allowing 3 runs on 4 hits, 5 walks and a HBP; striking out 2. William Cuevas went 4 2/3 innings, giving up 2 hits and a HBP; striking out 8.

Jonathan Roof went 1/2 with 2 walks and was picked off. Kevin Heller and Aneury Tavarez each went 1/3 with a walk; Tavarez with a double. Reed Gragnani went 1/4. Jayson Hernandez went 0/2 with a walk. Matty Johnson went 0/3 with a walk. Mario Martinez, Carson Blair and Tim Roberson each went 0/4.

 

[Cuzittt]

STORIES

PAWSOX

Game Story

Scranton/Wilkes-Barre relievers Pat Venditte and Danny Burawa combined for 3.1 innings of scoreless and hitless relief and Jose Pirela's eighth-inning RBI groundout provided the winning run as the RailRiders defeated the Pawtucket Red Sox, 3-2, Sunday afternoon before 5,270 fans at McCoy Stadium in the second of a four-game series.

Venditte (1-0), a switch-handed pitcher who was making his 2014 RailRiders debut, entered in relief with the score tied at 2 in the sixth inning and struck out all five batters he faced. Burawa recorded the final five outs, pitching around a pair of ninth-inning walks by inducing a game-ending double play grounder from Garin Cecchini.

Pirela's RBI came against reliever Rich Hill (1-2), who hit Kyle Roller with a pitch to begin the eighth inning. Zelous Wheeler then singled to put two runners on base, and Dean Anna's fielder's choice left runners on the corners with one out and set the stage for the game-winning 6-3 ground out.

Ryan Lavarnway homered into the left field bullpen for the PawSox to tie the game in the sixth inning, his second of the season. The shot chased Scranton starter Zach Nuding from the game after 5.2 innings of work.

Rubby De La Rosa started for Pawtucket (25-20) and allowed a two-run single to catcher Jose Gil in the second inning that opened the scoring. De La Rosa issued a total of nine hits in five innings pitched, but limited the damage to only two runs thanks in large to a season-high eight punchouts.

Alex Hassan's RBI fielder's choice in the third inning put the PawSox on the scoreboard. No Pawtucket player collected more than one of the team's six hits, while Pirela, Adonis Garcia and Ramon Flores each had two of Scranton's ten.

SEADOGS

Game Story

The Portland Sea Dogs (26-14) swept away the Trenton Thunder (23-20) with a 2-1 win in the finale of their three-game series Sunday afternoon at Hadlock Field. The win marked the fourth in a row for the Sea Dogs and bumped their home record to 13-5.

Mike Augliera made just his third home start of the season and spun a beauty, completing, a career and team season-high, eight innings on the mound. He gave up a pair of hits over the first four frames before the Thunder scratched across a run in the fifth.

Tyler Austin smacked a leadoff double to left and was driven home on an RBI single by Rob Refsnyder, which cut the Portland lead to 2-1, but that was all the righty would allow. After the two hits Augliera retired the next 10 hitters in a row before a Mason Williams single broke up the streak with two down in the eighth. He finished his outing by inducing a line out to second off the bat of Ben Gamel.

Noe Ramirez took over in the ninth for the starter and picked up seamlessly where Augliera left off. The righty retired the first two hitters in a row and locked down the third save of his season with a groundout to second by Slade Heathcott.

Portland took advantage of a couple of Trenton mistakes in the field and held a 2-0 advantage after the third inning. Blake Swihart singled with one out and moved to second on a two-out walk drawn by Heiker Meneses. Derrik Gibson followed with an infield single up the middle that scored Swihart from second, which gave Portland the 1-0 lead.

The Sea Dogs doubled up in the third thanks to the wheels of Mookie Betts. The second baseman led off the inning with a single and moved to second on Travis Shaw's sacrifice bunt. Betts then swiped third base and scored when the throw down by the catcher Gary Sanchez went into left and Portland held the two-run lead.

 

[LeftyTG]

Swihart has walks in 4 of his last 5 games.  I know it has been raised as a concern that he hasn't walked much, so I thought I'd point that out.
 
Also, is Rijo hurt?  He didn't play Saturday or Sunday.

 

[Cuzittt]

STORIES

SALEM

Game Story

Salem went 0-8 with runners in scoring position, dropping the series finale to Carolina 3-1. The Sox managed just one run in the 5th inning when a Tim Roberson groundout to second got Kevin Heller home from third.



Shawn Morimando picked up his 5th win of the season, surrendering a lone run and 3 hits in 6 innings of work. Simon Mercedes dropped to 1-4 on the season after a loss in his second start since entering the rotation. Mercedes allowed 3 runs and 4 hits in 3 and 1/3 innings, walking 5 and striking out 2 Mudcats. A bright spot for the Sox was William Cuevas out of the bullpen. The righty allowed just 2 hits and struck out 8 in 4 and 2/3 innings of work.



Carolina scored all 3 of its runs in the second. Ryan Battaglia singled in Logan Vick to get the Cats on the board. Then Todd Hankins doubled in his second and third runs of the series, scoring James Roberts and Battaglia, to give Carolina all the runs they would need.



Grant Sides pitched a scoreless 8th and Elvis Araujo pitched 2 shutout innings for his 2nd save.



The Red Sox stranded 7 runners on base. In the 4 game series, the Sox left 30 men on base.

DRIVE

Game Story

In a clean, brisk, two hour and nine minute game, the Asheville Tourists (24-18) did all of their work in one inning and defeated the Greenville Drive (21-20) 3-1 on Sunday afternoon.

The Tourists put up a three-spot in the bottom of the fourth against Ty Buttrey (0-3) to take a lead they wouldn't give back. With runners on second and third and nobody out, Correlle Prime lined a two-run double to right field for the first runs of the game, and two batters later, Raimel Tapia lifted a sacrifice fly to center field to score Prime.

The star of the day for Asheville was starter Konner Wade (3-4), who fired seven shutout frames and giving up two hits and one walk while punching out five.

Jonathan Aro did yeoman's work in relief of Buttrey, finishing the game with four and two-third shutout frames while allowing only one hit and one walk with six strikeouts.

The Drive scored against Carlos Estevez in the top of the eighth when Jordan Weems smacked a one-out triple and came in on a wild pitch.

Troy Neiman threw the final inning and two-thirds for Asheville to pick up his first save of the year. Wilfredo Rodriguez led the Tourists offense with three hits.

 

[StylzCLB9]

Any first hand reports on mookie in center?

 

[Hernandez Rent-A-Car]

The ball only found Mookie twice. The first time was a base hit up the middle the runner scored from second on. Mookie never had a chance at throwing him out at home. The second time was a medium-deep fly ball to left center that he had plenty of time to run under.

 

[mwonow]

Quote

Scranton/Wilkes-Barre relievers Pat Venditte and Danny Burawa combined for 3.1 innings of scoreless and hitless relief and Jose Pirela's eighth-inning RBI groundout provided the winning run as the RailRiders defeated the Pawtucket Red Sox, 3-2, Sunday afternoon before 5,270 fans at McCoy Stadium in the second of a four-game series.

Venditte (1-0), a switch-handed pitcher who was making his 2014 RailRiders debut, entered in relief with the score tied at 2 in the sixth inning and struck out all five batters he faced. Burawa recorded the final five outs, pitching around a pair of ninth-inning walks by inducing a game-ending double play grounder from Garin Cecchini.

Pirela's RBI came against reliever Rich Hill (1-2), who hit Kyle Roller with a pitch to begin the eighth inning. Zelous Wheeler then singled to put two runners on base, and Dean Anna's fielder's choice left runners on the corners with one out and set the stage for the game-winning 6-3 ground out.

Ryan Lavarnway homered into the left field bullpen for the PawSox to tie the game in the sixth inning, his second of the season. The shot chased Scranton starter Zach Nuding from the game after 5.2 innings of work.

Rubby De La Rosa started for Pawtucket (25-20) and allowed a two-run single to catcher Jose Gil in the second inning that opened the scoring. De La Rosa issued a total of nine hits in five innings pitched, but limited the damage to only two runs thanks in large to a season-high eight punchouts.

Alex Hassan's RBI fielder's choice in the third inning put the PawSox on the scoreboard. No Pawtucket player collected more than one of the team's six hits, while Pirela, Adonis Garcia and Ramon Flores each had two of Scranton's ten.

 
Wow - Scranton has guys named Zach Nuding and Zelous Wheeler. I'm in awe!