6/17 MiLB Gameday: Lowell in the Morning/All-Star Festivities Begin

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Today's Games:

IL:Pawtucket (Steven Wright) @ Rochester (Yohan Pino) [7:05pm]
EL: Portland (Michael Augliera) @ Erie (TBD) [7:05pm]
CL:Salem - OFF [All-Star Break]
SAL: Greenville - OFF [All-Star Break]
NYPL: Lowell (Dioscar Romero) @ Tri-City (Francis Ramirez) [10:05am]
GCL: GCL Sox - Opening Day - June 20th vs GCL Twins
DSL: DSL Sox vs. DSL Rockies [10:30am]

Notes:

Pawtucket may have rehab appearances by Will Middlebrooks and Shane Victorino.

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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Carolina League/California League All-Star Game will be held tonight at Frawley Stadium in Wilmington Delaware. Game Begins at 7:05pm.

Salem Red Sox representing will be Justin Haley (pitcher), Reed Gragnani (INF) and Kevin Heller (OF). Jonathan Roof (OF) was selected but will be in Erie PA playing for the Portland SeaDogs.

The South Atlantic League All-Star Game will be held tonight at Hickory. Game Begins at 7:05pm.

The Drive will be sending 7 participants for the Southern Division All-Stars: Jake Romanski (starting Catcher), Jantzen Witte (Starting 1B), Carlos Asuaje (Inf), Joe Gunkel (Pitcher), Jonathan Aro (Pitcher), Darren Fenster (Mgr, acting as a coach) and Paul Abbott (Pitching Coach).

 

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Lowell wins 2-1.

Boxscore

Dioscar Romero went 3 2/3 innings, giving up a hit and 4 walks; throwing 2 WPs and striking out 3. Willie Ethington went 4 1/3 innings, allowing a run on 6 hits and a walk; striking out one. Carlos Pinales went an inning, striking out one.

Danny Bethea went 1/3. Mauricio Dubon, Nick Longhi and Nick Moore each went 1/4; Moore with a double and a SB. Deiner Lopez and Franklin Guzman each went 0/2 with a walk and a CS, Lopez also getting a SB. Raymel Flores went 0/3 with a walk. Alixon Suarez went 0/3. Mike Meyers went 0/4.

 

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DSL Sox win 6-2.

Boxscore

Daniel Gonzalez went 6 innings, allowing a run on 6 hits and a HBP; striking out 4. Algenis Martinez went 3 innings, allowing a run on 2 hits (1 HR) and a walk; striking out one.

Carlos Tovar went 2/3 with a double, triple and a walk. Samuel Miranda went 2/3 with a HBP. Yoan Aybar and Rafael Toribio each went 1/3 with a walk. Juan Barriento went 1/3 before being replaced by Juan Hernandez who went 0/1. Pablo Urena and Isaias Lucena each went 1/4 with a double. Luis Alexander Basabe went 1/5. Rafael Devers went 0/4.

 

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Portland game suspended due to rain. Portland up 2-0, bottom of the 2nd. 1st and 2nd for Erie, no outs. Will resume tomorrow.

 

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Pawtucket game suspended due to rain. Pawsox up 2-1, top of the 4th. 1 out, runner on first. Will resume tomorrow.

 

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And so goes the short-lived Devers consecutive games reached base streak.

 

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Carolina All-Stars lose 3-2 to the California All-Stars.

Boxscore

Justin Haley pitched the 2nd inning, allowing a run on 2 hits; striking out one. He is credited with the loss. Reed Gragnani and Kevin Heller each came in as substitutes and each went 0-2.

 

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South Atlantic League decide to play soccer, ending the game after 10 innings with a 4-4 tie. Both teams score a pair of runs in the 10th.

Boxscore

Jonathan Aro pitched a scoreless 5th inning for the South, giving up 2 hits and a walk; striking out 2.

Jantzen Witte started at 1st base and went 0/3. Jake Romanski started at catcher and went 0/1 with a walk. Carlos Asuaje subbed in at 3rd base and went 1/2. Joe Gunkel may have waved from the dugout, but he did not enter the game.

 

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Lowell Spinners Game Story

Just 12 hours after the conclusion of Monday's heartbreaking defeat, the Lowell Spinners avenged the loss to salvage a series split with a 2-1 win over the Tri-City ValleyCats Tuesday morning in Troy. Willie Ethington saved the day for the Spinners, allowing just one run on six hits in 4.1 innings of long-relief.

With a 10am start for Education Day at Joseph L. Bruno Stadium, the Spinners got an early start on scoring, jumping out to a second inning lead. Nick Moore was the catalyst, doubling with one out and stealing third base. An error by JD Davis at third allowed Moore to score, giving the Spinners a 1-0 lead.

Lowell (2-3) would add to the lead in the top half of the fourth inning. Mauricio Dubon singled to lead off the inning, advancing to second on a wild pitch. Nick Longhi followed with an RBI single to put the Spinners ahead, 2-0.

After cruising through the first three-innings, Spinners' starter Dioscar Romero ran into trouble in the fourth. After a lead-off walk and wild pitch put AJ Reed at second, Romero walked Nick Tanielu putting runners on first and second with no out. Romero induced a double play, advancing Reed to third. At this point Ethington came into the game, getting Ariel Ovando to pop out to end the inning.

Tri-City (3-2) was able to get to Ethington for a run in the sixth inning. After back-to-back singles to lead off the inning, Tanielu attempted to bunt his way on but Moore made the play while the runners advanced into scoring position. After a strikeout, Mott Hyde delivered a run-scoring double, to pull the ValleyCats within one, 2-1.

That was as close as they would get however, as Ethington and Pinales closed out the win with three scoreless innings for a 2-1 final.

Offensively the Spinners made the most of the four hits by using small ball and taking advantage of two ValleyCats errors. Longhi, Dubon and Danny Bethea each singled, while Moore doubled and added a stolen base. Deiner Lopez added his team leading third stolen base as well.