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[Cuzittt]

Today's Games:

IL: Pawtucket (Brandon Duckworth) @ Louisville (Pedro Villarreal) [7:05pm]
EL: Portland (Chris Hernandez) @ New Hampshire (Ryan Tepera) [7:05pm]
CL: Salem (Keith Couch) vs. Wilmington (Elisaul Pimentel) [7:05pm]
SAL: Greenville (Jason Garcia) vs. Lexington (Juri Perez) [7:05pm]
NYPL: Lowell (Jacob Dahlstrand) vs.Connecticut (Charlie Gillies) [7:05pm]
GCL GCL Sox vs. GCL Twins [12:00am]
DSL DSL Sox @ DSL Mets2 [10:00am]

Notes:

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

[jonasi]

Boxes and Logs

Team	Box	Log	Gameday
Pawtucket	Box	Log	Gameday
Portland	Box	Log	Gameday
Salem	Box	Log	Gameday
Greenville	Box	Log	Gameday
Lowell	Box	Log	Gameday
GCL	Box	Log	Gameday
DSL	Box	Log	Gameday

[Lose Remerswaal]

Who should we be watching for on the Spinners (and on the Tigers, I guess)?

[Cuzittt]

Who should we be watching for on the Spinners (and on the Tigers, I guess)?

Well, neither team is lighting the world on fire.

The obvious players for the Spinners are Kolbrin Vitek (rehab) and Deven Marerro. I personally am interested in Aneury Tavarez.

Although I live in Norwich, I have only seen the Tigers once this season. Juaner Aguasvivas is the first baseman and is far bigger than anyone else on the team. And he has a great name.

[SoxScout]

[Cuzittt]

Pawsox win 9-1.

Boxscore

Brandon Duckworth went 6 innings, giving up 4 hits and 3 walks; striking out 3. Garrett Mock went 2 innings, allowing a run on a hit and 2 walks; striking out 2. Clayton Mortensen went an inning, giving up a hit and striking out 2.

Mauro Gomez went 5/5 with 2 doubles. Ryan Kalish went 3/6 with 2 doubles. Ryan Lavarnway went 2/4 with a HBP. Jose Iglesias went 2/6. Jason Repko went 1/4 with a double and a walk. Che-Hsuan Lin and Jon Hee each went 1/5; Hee with a double. Nate Spears went 0/3 with 2 doubles. Juan Carlos Linares went 0/4 with a SF.

[Cuzittt]

Salem loses 6-1.

Boxscore

Keith Couch went 6 innings, allowing a run on 6 hits, 2 walks and a WP; striking out 7. Charle Rosario went 3 innings, allowing 5 runs (4 earned) on 7 hits and 2 walks; striking out 3.

Travis Shaw went 2/4. Michael Almanzar and Lucas LeBlanc each went 1/3; Almanzar with a double. Shannon Wilkerson went 1/4. Christian Vazquez and Sean Coyle each went 0/3. Heiker Meneses, Brandon Jacobs and Xander Bogaerts each went 0/4.

[Cuzittt]

DSL Sox win 8-0 in a game ended in the 5th.

Boxscore

Luis Ortega went 5 innings, giving up a hit, 3 walks and a balk; striking out 6.

Gregori Titts and Alixon Suarez each went 1/2 with a walk. Roberto del Rosario and Anthony Amaya each went 1/3; Amaya with a Grand Slam, del Rosario with a SB. Roberto Duncan and Ricardo Andujar each went 0/1 with a walk. Aneudis Peralta, Manuel Margot and Andres Garcia each went 0/2 with a walk.

[Cuzittt]

Portland gives up 8 in the first... but come back to win 10-9 in 11 innings.

Boxscore

Will Latimer went 2/3rds of an inning, allowing 7 runs on 5 hits (1 HR) and 2 walks. Jason Urquidez went 4 1/3 innings, allowing a run on 2 hits and 2 walks; striking out 3. Caleb Clay went 2 innings, giving up a hit and striking out 2. Josh Fields went 3 innings, walking one and striking out 3. Brock Huntzinger went an inning, allowing a run on 2 hits and a walk.

Ronald Bermudez went 2/4 with a double and a HBP. Derrik Gibson went 2/4 with a walk. Jackie Bradley and Peter Hissey each went 2/5 with a walk; Bradley with a 3-run HR (tying the game in the 8th), Hissey with a double. Ryan Dent went 2/5 with a double. Jeremy Hazelbaker went 1/5 with a triple and a SF. Dan Butler went 1/5 with a double and a HBP. Marquez Smith and Reynaldo Rodriguez each went 1/6; Rodriguez with a double.

[Cuzittt]

Drive lose 7-4 in a game ended in the 8th.

Boxscore

Jason Garcia went 5 innings, allowing 5 runs (4 earned) on 8 hits, 2 walks and a HBP; striking out 5. Nefi Ogando went 2 innings, allowing 2 runs on 2 hits and 2 walks; striking out 3.

Jose Garcia went 1/3 with a triple and a walk. David Renfroe and Cody Koback each went 1/3 with a double. Nick Natoli went 0/1 with 2 walks. Boss Moanaroa went 0/1 with a walk and a HBP. Blake Swihart, Drew Turocy and Garin Cecchini each went 0/3. Keury de la Cruz went 0/4.

[Cuzittt]

Lowell could not win for SoSH, losing 7-4.

Boxscore

Jacob Dahlstrand went 4 2/3 innings, allowing 4 runs on 5 hits and 3 walks; striking out 2. Greg Larson went 4 innings, allowing 3 runs (1 earned) on 4 hits, a WP and 2 walks; striking out 2. Kyle Kraus picked up the final out, giving up a hit.

Matthew Marquis went 2/4 with a HR. Deven Marrero went 1/3 with a walk. Oscar Perez, Mike Miller, Kolbrin Vitek, Matthew Gedman and Jake Davies each went 1/4; Perez with a double, Miller with a SB. Dreily Guerrero and Aneury Tavarez each went 0/4.

[Cuzittt]

GCL Sox lose 10-4.

Boxscore

Francellis Montas went 3 innings, allowing 7 runs (6 earned) on 8 hits and a walk; striking out 2. Jeffrey Wendelken went 2 innings, giving up a hit and striking out 2. Oscar Melendez went 3 innings, allowing 3 runs (2 earned) on 4 hits and 2 WPs; striking out one. Kevin Mager pitched the final inning, giving up a hit and 2 walks; striking out 1.

Kevin Mager went 2/4 with a double. Nick Moore went 1/3 with a walk and a SB. Tzu Wei Lin went 1/3 with a walk. Jeremias Pineda went 1/4 with a triple and a PO/CS. Mike Meyers, Beau Bishop and Keaton Briscoe each went 0/3 with a walk. Shaq Green-Thompson went 0/2 (1 K) before being replaced by Jose Colorado who went 0/2. Nathan Minnich went 0/4.

[Eric Van]

DSL Sox win 8-0 in a game ended in the 5th.

Sox 1st inning:

BB, WP, BB, WP, BB ... BK.
1B (1 RBI), SB, WP, BB.
Pitching change.
BB ... GS.
BB, BB, 1B to load the bases. Ten straight batters reached (seven on BB), no outs.
GDP for the 8th run, then Manny Margot popped up.

[PhilPlantier]

GCL Sox lose 10-4.

Boxscore

Francellis Montas went 3 innings, allowing 7 runs (6 earned) on 8 hits and a walk; striking out 2. Jeffrey Wendelken went 2 innings, giving up a hit and striking out 2. Oscar Melendez went 3 innings, allowing 3 runs (2 earned) on 4 hits and 2 WPs; striking out one. Kevin Mager pitched the final inning, giving up a hit and 2 walks; striking out 1.

Kevin Mager went 2/4 with a double. Nick Moore went 1/3 with a walk and a SB. Tzu Wei Lin went 1/3 with a walk. Jeremias Pineda went 1/4 with a triple and a PO/CS. Mike Meyers, Beau Bishop and Keaton Briscoe each went 0/3 with a walk. Shaq Green-Thompson went 0/2 (1 K) before being replaced by Jose Colorado who went 0/2. Nathan Minnich went 0/4.

Typo?

[Cuzittt]

STORIES

PAWSOX

Game Story

Mauro Gomez banged out five hits in five at-bats in leading the Pawtucket Red Sox to a 9-1 rout of Louisville Friday night.
Gomez became the first PawSox player with five hits in a game since Drew Sutton accomplished the feat last season.
Pawtucket lashed out 15 hits against Louisville pitching. Ryan Kalish added three hits, including a pair of doubles in his first game back since suffering a knee injury. Jose Iglesias had two hits.
Brandon Duckworth got the win, improving to 9-2 with six shutout innings, allowing only four hits. Duckworth's earned run averaged improved to 3.17.

SEADOGS

Game Story

Portland scored a pair of runs on three straight hits in the 11th inning to finish off a rousing comeback with a 10-9 win over the Fisher Cats on Friday night at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium.
The Sea Dogs needed a three-run homer from Jackie Bradley Jr. in the top of the eighth to get it to extra innings.
"That was amazing," said Portland Manager Kevin Boles. "This group has done this all year. No matter what the score is, they just keep fighting back."
The Sea Dogs are 8-2 since the Eastern League All-Star break.
Dan Butler, who scored the winning run on Thursday night, knocked in the go-ahead run on Friday. Reynaldo Rodriguez and Butler hit back-to-back, two-out doubles. Butler then scored on Peter Hissey's single and Portland led 10-8.
They needed the insurance run.
The Fisher Cats got one back off Brock Huntzinger in the bottom of the 11th, and had runners on first and second with two outs. Huntzinger got Jake Marisnick to pop out to Rodriguez at first to end the game.
Josh Fields led an impressive relief effort for the Sea Dogs and earned the win with three hitless innings.
Sea Dog relievers allowed one hit over the middle nine innings.
"The offense really stuck with it and they battled and scrapped," Fields said. "The relievers battled and gave the team a chance to come back. We kind of fed off each other."
Bradley's line shot to left-center in the top of the eighth came off Chorye Spoone, who was a Sea Dog last week. Released by the Red Sox on Sunday, he signed with the Blue Jays' organization on Friday.
Spoone came on with an 8-5 lead for the eighth. Derrik Gibson walked to open the inning and Ryan Dent singled to left. With a full count, Bradley fouled off a couple of pitches and then drilled his homer.
The Fisher Cats spotted the Sea Dogs a couple of runs in the top of the first.
They got those, and plenty more, back in their half of the inning.
Portland starter Will Latimer, just down from Pawtucket, had all sorts of problems. He allowed seven runs on five hits -- the big blow a grand slam by Brian Van Kirk -- and walked two. John Tolisano's sacrifice fly to center scored Brian Bocock and that was it for Latimer.
The Fisher Cats got to reliever Jason Urquidez for two more hits and another run. New Hampshire sent 11 batters to the plate.

SALEM

Game Story

AT LEAST THERE WERE MONKEYS: A crowd of 2,888 at Salem Memorial Ballpark got a show from sheep dog-riding, goat-herding monkeys Friday but not much from the Red Sox, who opened a 10-game homestand with a 6-1 loss to Wilmington.
B-A-N-A-N-A-s: The night's most well-received moments were provided Team Ghost Riders, which purports to have the "best sheep dog riding monkeys in the business." It was hard to argue after they herded goats in the outfield following the fourth and seventh innings to rousing applause.
"That's an interesting promotion," said Sox first baseman Travis Shaw, who also saw the performance last year while at rookie-level Lowell. "It's fun to watch, good for the crowd. They ventured into the infield. ... It was a little different."
SLOW '0' : The monkeys will return tonight, and the Sox can only hope their bats show up, too. They didn't on Friday, as Wilmington right-hander Elisaul Pimentel held Salem to two hits over seven scoreless innings.
The Sox had not previously faced Pimentel, who was making his fifth Carolina League start. Scouting reports were scant.
"He was mixing it up," said Shaw, who singled in his final two at-bats to finish 2 for 4. "He threw three pitches for strikes tonight. He kept everything down; I don't think he missed up at all. His change-up was really good against lefties. I know it fooled me a couple times. He pitched really well tonight."
FIRING BACK: Salem starter Keith Couch was solid, striking out seven over six innings. The one run he allowed was enough to earn him a tough-luck loss, but he lowered his ERA to 4.17.

DRIVE

Game Story

Waiting for a last-inning rally didn’t work for the Drive Friday as they never got to the ninth.
A thunderstorm swept over Fluor Field as the seventh inning finished, sending the 5,760 fans to cover and ending the game early. Lexington benefited with a 7-4 win and earned a split of the series first two games.
The seven-inning game came one night after the teams went 15 innings. For a while, Friday night’s game followed the back-and-forth style of Thursday’s marathon.
Lexington (51-46, 12-16) went up 1-0 in the second as Justin Gominsky brought in Matt Duffy via a sacrifice fly.
The Drive tied it in the third. Jose Garcia tripled to score Nick Natoli, who had walked.
Gominsky and Duffy repeated the sacrifice fly effort in the fourth inning to send Lexington back in front, 2-1.
Greenville (46-51, 12-15) grabbed a 4-2 lead with three runs in the bottom of the fourth. David Renfroe, who doubled with one out, scored on a throwing error off Blake Swihart’s grounder. Cody Koback then brought home Boss Moanaroa and Swihart with a double to center.
“They made a mistake, and we took advantage of it,” said Drive manager Carlos Febles.
Lexington took the lead right back in the fifth, getting three runs off of Drive starting pitcher Jason Garcia (4-5). He suffered the loss after having won his last three decisions.
“He didn’t execute in that inning,” Febles said. “He was leaving the ball up in the zone and got touched. Those are the kind of innings you’re hoping that after you score three runs to take the lead you shut them down and hand it back to your offense.”

SPINNERS

Game Story

Game-time temperature: 72 degrees. Before darkness fell, the game was played under a museum-painting sky.
But try as they might, the Lowell Spinners could not complete the scene for 4,705 fun-seekers at LeLacheur Park. The struggling home team competed, it battled, it led 2-0 and 4-2 early, but in due course succumbed to the rut in which it is stuck, losing to the Connecticut Tigers, 7-4.
Lowell's record fell to 9-23. The Spinners after 32 games are 15 games behind the first-place Tri-City ValleyCats in the NY-Penn League's Stedler Division.
"Unfortunately we didn't have shutdown innings after we scored," said Lowell manager Bruce Crabbe. "It's hard to give up two-run leads every time you score twice. It's a little bit of a downer offensively when you do that."
But Crabbe also noted the Spinners did nothing offensively after their two-run third inning, managing only three hits thereafter.
In the second inning, Matt Marquis launched a two-run homer to left field on an 0-2 pitch for a 2-0 Spinners lead. Also scoring on the blast was Jake Davies, who led off the inning with a single.
Marquis was playing his third game for Lowell since being sent down from the Greenville Drive of the South Atlantic League. He played 25 games in Lowell last season (.337-3-13) after being drafted in the 41st round out of Maryland. This season he
batted .233-1-7 in 36 games combined with Greenville and Salem.
"I was struggling a little bit. They sent me back to get comfortable again," said Marquis, who went 2-for-4 last night and is 4-for-12 since returning to Lowell. "I didn't (play) enough games (in Greenville) to jell. It's not an excuse. I'm a professional baseball player. I have to be ready to play every day. It's something I have to learn as I go."
Marquis has tackled greater obstacles. The outfielder from Annandale, N.J., suffered a broken hand as a freshman at Vanderbilt in 2009, transferred to the University of Maryland to be closer to his parents who had both been diagnosed with cancer, and left school last year to be with them. He is also a hemophiliac.
"Crazy road," said Marquis. "I'm just happy to be playing professional baseball."
Even to be playing in Lowell during this summer of few victories thus far.
"I played with a bunch of these guys last year, and also in the spring," said Marquis. "This team jells really well. We have a lot of fun in the locker room. We don't like the losses. We're working hard to change that. But it's not keeping us down. We still have fun playing the game. Every single person is positive."
The Spinners came into Friday night last in team batting (.230), last in team pitching (4.86 ERA) and just plain last in the New York-Penn League. This baseball summer in Lowell has not even been a winner for marquis rehabs. All those Boston Red Sox getting hurt and not one has shown up at LeLacheur Park to get his timing back.

[someoneanywhere]

Sox 1st inning:

BB, WP, BB, WP, BB ... BK.
1B (1 RBI), SB, WP, BB.
Pitching change.
BB ... GS.
BB, BB, 1B to load the bases. Ten straight batters reached (seven on BB), no outs.
GDP for the 8th run, then Manny Margot popped up.

Nice to see the bard singing the trials of the other guys.

[Lose Remerswaal]

Not impressed by much on the Lowell team (was fun seeing the Tigers eating at the buffet/BBQ before the game and interacting with the fans "what ice cream is that?? "I think it's an eclair" "what's an eclair?" "it's got crumbs on it" "oh, I think I'll take the chocolate instead".

Marerro did a nice Ole on a hard hit ground ball that wasn't more than 2 steps to his left, earning an error, and was late covering the bag on a steal (but did still turn it into an out).