6/22 MiLB Gameday: More Scoring than Boston

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Today's Games:

IL:Pawtucket (Allen Webster) @ Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (Shane Greene) [1:05pm]
EL: Portland (Michael Augliera) vs. Altoona (Adrian Sampson) [1:05pm]
CL:Salem (Cody Kukuk) @ Potomac (John Simms) [6:05pm]
SAL: Greenville (Myles Smith) vs. Savannah (Chris Flexen) [4:05pm]
NYPL: Lowell (Dioscar Romero) vs. Tri-City (Sebastian Kessay) [3:05pm]
GCL: GCL Sox - OFF
DSL: DSL Sox - OFF

Notes:


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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Kevin Thomas @ClearTheBases

So another stealing attempt against @BLAKESWIHART_1 Out by a foot. Swihart has now thrown out 23-of-43 (.535 percentage)

 

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Portland Sea Dogs @PortlandSeaDogs

With a win today, the Sea Dogs will be the first team in all of professional baseball with 50 wins

 

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Jeff Levering @JLevering4
Garin Cecchini starting in left field for the PawSox this afternoon.

 

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Jeff Levering @JLevering4
Garin Cecchini starting in left field for the PawSox this afternoon.

Finally!  I don't know why it has taken so long for the organization to start playing him at different positions - especially LF and 1B - given that he's behind WMB and maybe Xander on the depth charts at 3rd, and with Sean Coyle possibly in the mix as well

 

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Pawsox lose 5-4.

Boxscore

Allen Webster went 5 1/3 innings, allowing 4 runs (2 earned) on 4 hits (1 HR), a WP and 2 walks; striking out 5. Chris Resop went 1 2/3 innings, allowing a run on 2 hits and a walk. Rich Hill went an inning, giving up 2 hits.

Dan Butler went 3/4 with a double. Will Middlebrooks went 2/4. Carlos Rivero went 1/3 with a walk. Ryan Roberts went 1/4 with a double. Mookie Betts went 1/5. Travis Shaw, Garin Cecchini, and Alex Hassan each went 0/4. Mike McCoy went 0/5.

 

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Seadogs lose 5-4.

Boxscore

Michael Augliera went 6 2/3 innings, allowing 5 runs on 9 hits (2 HRs), a WP and 3 HBPs; striking out 5. Aaron Kurcz went 2 1/3 innings, striking out 2.

Deven Marrero went 3/4. Keury de la Cruz and Jonathan Roof each went 2/4; Roof with a HR. Bo Greenwell went 1/3 with a double and a sacrifice. David Chester and Derrik Gibson each went 1/4; Gibson with a double and was picked off. Sean Coyle went 0/3 with a walk. Blake Swihart and Matt Spring each went 0/4.

 

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Salem loses 11-4.

Boxscore

Cody Kukuk went 3 innings, allowing 8 runs on 7 hits (1 HR) and 2 walks; striking out 2. William Cuevas went 5 innings, allowing 3 runs on 5 hits (1 HR), 4 walks and 2 HBPs; striking out 4.

Carson Blair went 2/3 with a walk. Jantzen Witte went 2/4. Mario Martinez and Ryan Dent each went 1/4; Dent with a double. Matty Johnson went 1/5 with a triple. Reed Gragnani went 0/2 with 2 walks. Kevin Heller went 0/3 with a HBP. Mike Miller went 0/4 with a walk. Aneury Tavarez went 0/4.

 

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Drive win 7-3.

Boxscore

Myles Smith went 4 innings, allowing 2 runs on 5 hits, 2 walks and a Balk; striking out 4. Mike Adams went 3 innings, allowing a run on a hit and a walk; striking out 3. Pete Ruiz went 2 innings, giving up 2 hits and striking out one.

Carlos Coste went 3/4. Kevin Mager and Carlos Asuaje each went 2/4; Mager with a double. Jimmy Rider, Tim Roberson and Kendrick Perkins each went 1/4; Rider and Perkins with doubles, Rider adding a SF, Perkins adding a SB. Zach Kapstein went 0/2 with a HBP, a walk and a SB. Forrestt Allday went 0/3 with 2 walks. Wendell Rijo went 0/4.

 

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Spinners lose 2-1.

Boxscore

Willie Ethington went 4 innings, allowing a run on a hit, 3 walks and 2 HBPs; striking out 2. Rob Smorol went 3 innings, allowing a run on a hit and a walk; striking out one. German Tavarez went 2 innings, giving up 3 hits and a walk; striking out one.

Nick Moore went 2/3 with a double and a walk and a SB. Deiner Lopez, Sam Travis, and Nick Longhi each went 1/4. Bryan Hudson went 0/3 with a walk. Jordan Betts, Raymel Flores and Alixon Suarez each went 0/3. Franklin Guzman went 0/4 with a SB.

 

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STORIES

PAWSOX

Game Story

The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders scored the final four runs including a game-winning tally in the bottom of the eighth inning to make up an early 4-1 deficit and earn a 5-4 win over the Pawtucket Red Sox Sunday afternoon at PNC Field to win their second straight in the four-game series.

Will Middlebrooks, playing in his sixth game of a Major League injury rehab assignment, played the entire game as the designated hitter and went 2-for-4 with a run scored. Middlebrooks started for the third consecutive day and is now 6-for-19 with two walks during his rehab stint.

Austin Romine's eight-inning RBI double that was lost in the sun by right-fielder Alex Hassan plated the go-ahead run. The RailRiders recorded three hits in the eighth to snap a 4-4 tie, two of them allowed by reliever Rich Hill including Romine's tough-luck double.

Pawtucket (38-40) stranded runners on the corners in the ninth when reliever Danny Burawa induced a sharp groundout from Mike McCoy. The ball would likely have gone into centerfield for a tying hit had the runner at first base, Mookie Betts, not been in motion trying to steal which brought the shortstop Carmen Angelini over to cover second base.

Scranton (36-39) got terrific relief pitching from Pat Venditte (2-2) and Burawa after starter Shane Greene allowed four runs in the first five innings. The switch-pitcher Venditte pitched three perfect innings to earn the win and has now retired all 14 batters he has faced in two appearances against the PawSox this season.

Pawtucket starter Allen Webster was staked to a 4-1 lead after 2 ½ innings but allowed a pair of unearned runs in the bottom of the third, then the game-tying tally in the sixth. Romine's sacrifice fly in the sixth against reliever Chris Resop (4-1) brought home the tying run.

SEADOGS

Game Story

The Portland Sea Dogs (49-26) failed to complete a ninth inning rally and fell in the finale of the season series 5-4 to the Altoona Curve (27-47) Sunday afternoon at Hadlock Field. The loss is the only one for Portland against the Curve in 2014, as they finish the series 5-1.

The Sea Dogs held a 3-2 lead after four innings, but the Curve kept the comeback alive and took their first lead of the day with a three-run fifth. Gift Ngoepe began the rally with a leadoff single; he moved to second on the one out single by Junior Sosa and visitors were in business.

Drew Maggi followed with a single right that plated two runs, one on an RBI, the other on a crazy turn of events. The 'Dogs threw home and Maggi took off for second, got into a rundown, but so did Sosa at third. The throw went to third, but nobody covered the plate, Sosa scored and Maggi moved to second.

The inning was capped off on Justin Howard's RBI single that plated the third run of the frame and made it 5-3 Altoona.

Portland bounced right back and scored a run off of Adrian Sampson of the Curve. Derrik Gibson doubled to begin the inning and scored when Deven Marrero hit a single to right that Willy Garcia bobbled and made it 5-4.

That would be all Portland could muster against the Altoona starter as Sampson (5-4) went a full seven innings and allowed just the four runs on eight hits. Kenn Kasparek took over and pitched a perfect eighth.

The Sea Dogs had one final surge in the ninth as Keury De La Cruz led off the final frame with a single and moved to third on a two-out double to right off the bat of Bo Greenwell. With the tying run at third, the winning run at second, Kasparek buckled down and struck out Derrik Gibson to end the game.

DRIVE

Game Story

Needing a victory to clinch a series split, the Greenville Drive (2-2, 36-37) used a pair of big innings late in the game to take the lead and eventually pull away for a 7-3 win over the Savannah Sand Gnats (2-2, 46-24) on Sunday afternoon at Fluor Field.

Trailing 3-1 in the bottom of the sixth, the Drive scored a trio of runs to take the lead. Carlos Asuaje singled to begin the frame and scored two batters later when Kendrick Perkins smoked a double off the center-field wall.

After Savannah reliever Paul Paez (0-1) issued a walk to Zach Kapstein, Perkins and Kapstein pulled off a double steal which tied the game when Colton Plaia's throw sailed into the outfield. Carlos Coste then delivered the eventual game-winning hit with a single into left-center.

The Drive added three more runs in the seventh as well. Jimmy Rider reached on an error to begin the frame, and singles by Tim Roberson and Asuaje loaded the bases. Two batters later, Perkins grounded into a fielder's choice to bring Rider home, and Kevin Mager's two-run double high off the Green Monster plated Roberson and Perkins.

The late rally made a winner of Drive reliever Mike Adams (1-1), who hurled three terrific innings, allowing just one run, one hit and one walk with three strikeouts.

Savannah scored single runs in the second and third off Greenville starter Myles Smith thanks to a Stefan Sabol sacrifice fly and a Victor Cruzado RBI groundout.

The Drive finally got on the scoreboard against Chris Flexen in the fifth on Rider's sacrifice fly, and Plaia answered in the top of the sixth with an RBI double.

Coste went 3-4 with the winning RBI to lead the Drive offense, while Asuaje and Mager added two hits each. Plaia had three hits for the Sand Gnats.

SPINNERS

Game Story

On a day where the pitching dominated, the Lowell Spinners received one less timely hit than the Tri-City ValleyCats, who emerged with a 2-1 win Sunday afternoon at LeLacheur Park.

Tri-City (6-4) took the lead right at the start following a lead-off walk by Marc Wik. After a stolen base and a groundout advanced Wik to third, A.J. Reed brought him home with a run-scoring groundout, giving the ValleyCats a 1-0 lead.

There the score would remain, as the Spinners struck out seven of their first nine trips to the plate. In the bottom of the fourth inning Lowell (5-5) was able to break through. Deiner Lopez beat out a one-out grounder to shortstop for an infield single, advancing to second on a wild pitch. After a Sam Travis single moved him to third, a Franklin Guzman fielder's choice brough home Lopez to even the score at one.

The ValleyCats took the lead for good however in the sixth inning. With Rob Smorol on in relief, J.D. Davis led off the inning with a triple to the right-centerfield gap. Ricky Gingras followed with a groundout to the hole at short, scoring Davis to put the Cats ahead, 2-1.

The Spinners had a chance to tie it up in the seventh after a one-out single by Nick Longhi and two-out single by Nick Moore put two runners on. Moore would steal second but Derick Velazquez came out of the bullpen to strike out Raymel Flores to end the threat, and the Spinners went in order in the eighth and ninth innings to close out the loss.

The loss wasted a strong effort by Willie Ethington, making his first start of the season. In four innings, Ethington allowed just the first inning run on one hit and three walks, striking out two. Smorol (0-1, 2.25) allowed just one run but it was a big one. He struck out one in his three innings of work before German Taveras navigated in-and-out of trouble through two scoreless innings to give the Spinners a chance at the comeback.

Offensively the Spinners bats were quiet once again, limited to just five hits. Moore led the way offensively with two hits, including a double, but the Spinners have now recorded just eight hits over their last two games.