5/31 MiLB Gameday: Adding a 5th team

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Today's Games:

IL:Pawtucket (Stephen Wright) @ Norfolk (Suk-Min Yoon) [7:05pm]
EL: Portland (Keith Couch/Michael McCarty) @ Trenton (TBD/Graham Stoneburner) [2:05pm/7:05pm]
CL:Salem (Pat Light) @ Potomac (Dakota Bakus) [6:35pm]
SAL: Greenville (Teddy Stankiewicz) vs. Hickory (Kelvin Vazquez) [7:05pm]
NYPL: Lowell - Opening Day - June 13th vs. Vermont
GCL: GCL Sox - Opening Day - June 20th vs GCL Twins
DSL: DSL Sox vs. DSL Mets [10:30am]

Notes:

Seadogs play a split DH in NJ. Both games scheduled for 7 innings.

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

 

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DSL Roster

 

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Seadogs win the afternoon tilt, 9-4.

Boxscore

Keith Couch pitched a complete game (7 innings), allowing 4 runs (2 earned) on 8 hits and a HBP; striking out 5.

Mookie Betts went 3/4 with a triple and a walk. Bo Greenwell went 2/2 with a walk, sacrifice and SB. Sean Coyle went 2/4. Deven Marrero and Matt Spring each went 1/3 with a walk; Marrero adding a SF. Heiker Meneses went 1/3 with a sacrifice. Peter Hissey went 1/3 with a HBP. Blake Swihart went 0/3 with a walk. Stefan Welch went 0/5.

 

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Seadogs win the nightcap, 4-3.

Boxscore

Mike McCarthy went 6 innings, allowing 3 runs on 5 hits (1 HR), striking out 3. Noe Ramirez went an inning, giving up a hit and striking out one.

Mookie Betts went 3/4 with a double. Deven Marrero went 2/4 with a double and a SB. Stefan Welch went 1/3 with a walk. Michael Brenly went 1/3 with a double. Matt Spring went 1/4. Sean Coyle and Bo Greenwell each went 0/2 with a a walk. Derrik Gibson and Heiker Meneses each went 0/3.

 

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Pawsox lose 3-1.

Boxscore

Stephen Wright went 6 innings, allowing 3 runs (2 earned) on 7 hits and a walk; striking out 6. John Ely went 2 innings, giving up 3 hits.

Christian Vazquez went 2/4 with a double and was picked off. Shannon Wilkerson went 1/3. Carlos Rivero, Travis Shaw and Ryan Roberts each went 1/4; Shaw with his 1st AAA HR, Roberts with a SB. Stephen Drew went 0/3 with a walk. Justin Henry went 0/3 with a SB. Corey Brown and Dan Butler each went 0/4.

 

[Mugsy's Jock]

In the Sea Dogs doubleheader, Mookie Betts is 6-for-8. So far.

 

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Salem loses 8-1.

Boxscore

Cody Kukuk went 3 2/3 innings, allowing a run on 5 hits and 3 walks; striking out 4. Justin Haley went 3 innings, allowing 7 runs (2 earned) on 5 hits and a walk; striking out one. Madison Younginer went 1 1/3 innings, walking one and throwing a WP; striking out 2.

Leonel Escobar went 2/3 with a double and a sacrifice. Reed Gragnani went 2/4. Kevin Heller went 1/3 with a HBP. Mario Martinez and Tim Roberson each went 1/4; Roberson with a double. Matty Johnson, Jonathan Roof and Ryan Dent each went 0/3 with a walk; Johnson with a sacrifice. Aneury Tavarez went 0/4.

 

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Drive lose 7-1.

Boxscore

Teddy Stankiewicz went 6 innings, allowing 3 unearned runs on 4 hits, 2 walks and a HBP; striking out 3. Ellis Jimenez went 2 innings, allowing 3 runs on 3 hits (1 HR) and 3 walks. Taylor Grover went an inning, allowing a run on a hit, a walk and a HBP.

Jantzen Witte went 3/4 with a HBP. Forrestt Allday went 2/4 with 2 doubles and a walk. Manuel Margot went 2/4 with a double and a SB. Carlos Asuaje went 1/3 with a walk and a SB. Wendell Rijo, Kendrick Perkins and Carlos Coste each went 1/4. Jordan Weems went 0/4. Tzu-Wei Lin went 0/5.

 

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DSL box score finally posted. Devers 3-5 with a HR and 2B. Great start for him.

 

[Jed Zeppelin]

Fap fap fap.

 

[Mighty Joe Young]

So what does Jantzen Witte have to do to get some prospect love .. OPS of 1.029 in over 200 ABs in his first full season. I know he was a 24th round draft pick and is a little old for low A but it's still pretty impressive

 

[Drek717]

So what does Jantzen Witte have to do to get some prospect love .. OPS of 1.029 in over 200 ABs in his first full season. I know he was a 24th round draft pick and is a little old for low A but it's still pretty impressive

He's 24 so I'd say he's more than a little old for a guy playing in Greenville.  I do think they should look to promote him aggressively though.  Send him up to Salem and see what he does.  If he continues to hit through June and July then let him spend August in Portland.  Not like there's a better 1B prospect between him and Travis Shaw who just moved up to AAA, so they might as well move him through the low minors quickly.

 

[Cesar Crespo]

Carlos Asuaje too.


Too bad Sean Coyle can't stay healthy and glad to see Marrero end his slump. It was getting ugly... sorta like Garin.

 

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DSL Sox open with a 10-1 victory.

Boxscore

Daniel Gonzalez went 5 innings, allowing a run on 6 hits and a walk; striking out 4. Juan Perez went 3 innings, walking 3 and striking out one. Jervis Torrealba went the final inning in perfect fashion.

Rafael Devers went 3/5 with a double and a HR. Roldani Baldwin went 2/3 with a triple and a HBP before being replaced by Jose Lozado who went 0/1. Carlos Tovar went 2/3 with a walk before being replaced by Luis Benoit who went 1/1. Samuel Miranda went 2/3 with a SB before being replaced by Fabian Nieva who went 0/1. Luis Alexander Basabe went 1/3 with a triple, 2 walks and a SB. Pablo Urena went 1/3 with a walk and a CS. Raiwinson Lameda, Rafael Toribio and Juan Hernandez each went 0/4; Hernandez with a SB.

 

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STORIES

PAWSOX

Game Story

Norfolk starter Suk-min Yoon allowed just one run in seven strong innings and combined with two relievers on a six-hitter as the Tides topped the Pawtucket Red Sox, 3-1, Saturday night to even the four-game series at one win apiece.

Yoon allowed five hits including a solo home run to Travis Shaw, his first at the Triple-A level. The right-hander allowed the leadoff runner to reach base in five of his seven innings but did not once allow that runner to score.

Steven Wright, transferred to the Pawtucket roster before the game to continue his MLB injury rehab assignment, started for the PawSox and allowed three runs (two earned) and seven hits in six innings.

Wright (0-1) allowed two-out runs in the fourth and sixth innings to provide the winning margin for Norfolk. With the score tied at one in the fourth, a two-out error by second-baseman Ryan Roberts opened the door for the Tides’ go-ahead rally.

Chris Marrero and Xavier Paul followed Roberts’ error with back-to-back singles, with Paul’s hit bringing home Brett Wallace to make it 2-1. In the sixth, Wallace walked with two outs and was driven home by Marrero’s RBI double that sailed over the head of centerfielder Shannon Wilkerson.

Pawtucket turned four groundball double plays behind Wright and reliever John Ely to keep the score within striking distance. Norfolk relievers Chris Jones and Evan Meek finished the victory with Meek earning his first save of the season.

SEADOGS

Game Story

It was between games of the Portland Sea Dogs’ doubleheader sweep of the Trenton Thunder on Saturday, and Mookie Betts found himself wondering why he just didn’t feel right with the bat in his hands.

“Right now I don’t feel too well at the plate,” he said before heading to take extra swings in the batting cage.

Of course, all Betts did in Game 1 was go 3 for 4 with a triple, three runs, four RBI and a walk to help the Sea Dogs to a 9-4 victory.

Then Betts went 3 for 4 again in the second game as Portland completed a sweep of the day-night doubleheader by coming from behind for a 4-3 victory.

It was the Sea Dogs’ first day-night doubleheader since a split against New Britain on May 17, 2008.

“He’s a fun, exciting player,” said Manager Billy McMillon of Betts, who has 23 multihit games in 53 starts. “He brings a lot of energy to the table, he works hard and he plays the game the right way.”

Betts, 21, played big roles in each win.

In a five-run fourth inning, he delivered the biggest blow, sandwiching a two-run triple off the wall in left-center field between an RBI single by Heiker Meneses and Deven Marrero’s sacrifice fly to put the opening game out of reach.

Portland tacked on a run in the sixth when Betts scored from third on a wild pitch, and added two more when – you guessed it – Betts was able to place a ball just inside the chalk in left field with two outs in the seventh off reliever Cesar Cabral.

The second game was more of a nailbiter.

SALEM

Game Story

The Potomac Nationals strung together five hits, a walk, three Red Sox errors and a wild pitch to plate seven runs in the seventh inning and win going away, beating Salem 8-1.

Potomac opened the scoring in the fourth with an RBI double from Shawn Pleffner to give the Nationals a 1-0 lead.

Salem countered in the fifth as Tim Roberson led off with a double and later scored from third on a fielding error by Nationals’ shortstop Stephen Perez, tying the game 1-1.

The wheels came off in the seventh against Sox reliever Justin Haley as a pair of singles and a walk loaded the bases for Perez who laced a two-run single to center, making it 3-1.

Perez moved to second on a throwing error by Matty Johnson, then, Sox right fielder Aneury Tavarez dropped a pop fly in shallow right field, which brought home Tony Renda, increasing the lead to 4-1.

Pleffner followed with his second double, which plated Perez to make it 5-1. Oduber drove in a run with a single, with another run scoring on a poor throw home by Jonathan Roof to make it 7-1.

Sox reliever Madison Younginer’s third strike to Norfork was wild, which brought home the final run of the inning. Gilberto Mendez surrendered only one hit over 22⁄3 innings of relief to earn his second victory of the season.

Haley took the loss for Salem, which dropped his record to 4-2.

DRIVE

Game Story

Hickory scored six runs over the final four innings Saturday night to pull away and defeat Greenville 7-1.

It was another night of missed opportunities for the Drive as they outhit their visitors 11-8 in a game played in front of 5,673 at Fluor Field. Like Thursday’s loss, Greenville left runners in scoring position in three innings and had runners thrown out at third in two other frames to end opportunities.

“We hurt ourselves today,” Greenville manager Darren Fenster said. “Their first four runs one way or another were plated from mistakes on our end. They did a good job of capitalizing, and they put the game away late.”

The Crawdads have won two of the first three games of this series. The Drive will try to even the count in today’s series finale at 4:05 p.m.

Hickory (27-27) posted an unearned run in the first. Joe Jackson (Mauldin) doubled to left field where Greenville’s Kendrick Perkins had trouble picking up the ball. That allowed Nick Vickerson, who had been hit by a pitch, to score from first.

The Crawdads, benefitting from another Greenville error, added two unearned runs in the sixth to build a 3-0 lead.

 

[JakeRae]

Carlos Asuaje too.


Too bad Sean Coyle can't stay healthy and glad to see Marrero end his slump. It was getting ugly... sorta like Garin.

Asuaje is another guy who needs to perform at a higher level before he's worth noticing. At 22, he's only 1 level below where he should be and seems a probable mid-season promotion, so he's much less of a stretch as a prospect than Witte.

 

[Cesar Crespo]

Yeah, if he gets ABd in Salem, he could start next year in Portland. Nothing in Salem holding anyone back, luckily (unluckily).