6/25 MiLB Gameday: Can't anyone win anymore?

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Today's Games:

IL:Pawtucket (Anthony Ranaudo) vs. Norfolk (Nick Additon) [7:05pm]
EL: Portland (Henry Owens) vs. New Hampshire (Scott Copeland) [6:05pm]
CL:Salem (Corey Littrell) vs. Carolina (Adam Plutko) [7:05pm]
SAL: Greenville (Teddy Stankiewicz) @ Asheville (Antonio Senzatela) [7:05pm]
NYPL: Lowell (Jake Drehoff) vs. Tri-City (Blaine Sims) [7:05pm]
GCL: GCL Sox vs. GCL Rays [12:00pm]
DSL: DSL Sox vs. DSL Nationals [10:30am]

Notes:

Mookie Betts and Henry Owens selected to represent the USA at the All-Star Futures Game.

Shane Victorino continued a rehab assignment in Pawtucket last night.

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

 

[RedOctober3829]

Alex Speier ‏@alexspeier 25s
No Victorino or Middlebrooks in PawSox lineup. Cecchini back in left field today.
 

 

[soxhop411]

no Swihart today

 

[Cuzittt]

no [background=#f5f8fa]Swihart today[/background]

Or anyone else from the Seadogs. Game postponed.

 

[Cuzittt]

GCL Sox win 7-0.

Boxscore

Dedgar Jimenez went 5 innings, giving up 3 hits and a walk; striking out 2. Keivin Heras went 4 innings, giving up a hit and a walk; striking out 4.

Victor Acosta went 3/4 with 2 doubles, a HR, 3 runs scored and 5 RBI. Jose Vinicio went 1/2 with a triple, 2 walks, a CS and a SF. Darwin Pena and Javier Guerra each went 1/3 with a walk; Guerra with a SB. Joseph Monge went 0/3 with a walk. Alex McKeon went 0/3 with a HBP. Jordon Austin, Rafael Olivares and Derek Miller each went 0/4; Olivares with a SB.

 

[mabrowndog]

Jen McCaffrey ‏@jcmccaffrey 1m
Three more hits for Betts tonight. Reached safely in all 21 games RT @alexspeier: Betts is now hitting .345 with a .417 OBP in Triple-A.

 

[SouthernBoSox]

All Mookie's hits were infield hits, but they were infield hits because he forced it.

Speed don't slump.

 

[Cuzittt]

Pawsox win 16-5.

Boxscore

Anthony Ranaudo went 5 innings, allowing a run on 2 hits, a walk and a HBP; striking out 2. Chris Resop went 2 innings, allowing a run on 4 hits and a walk; striking out 4. Drake Britton went an inning, allowing 2 runs on 2 hits (1 HR); striking out 2. Alex Wilson pitched the final inning, allowing a run on 2 hits.

Travis Shaw went 3/4 with 2 doubles, a HR and a walk. Ryan Roberts went 3/5 with 2 doubles and a HR. Mookie Betts went 3/5 with a walk. Christian Vazquez went 2/5. Alex Hassan went 1/3 with a double and 2 walks. Mike McCoy went 1/4 with 2 walks. Carlos Rivero went 1/4 with a triple and a HBP. Garin Cecchini went 1/5. Dan Butler went 0/3 with a SF and a HBP.

 

[Cuzittt]

Salem wins 5-1.

Boxscore

Corey Littrell went 6 innings, allowing a run on 7 hits and a walk; striking out 5. Nate Reed went 2 innings, giving up a hit and a walk; striking out one. Dayan Diaz pitched the 9th, striking out one.

Jantzen Witte went 2/4 with a double. Ryan Dent went 1/2 with a walk and a SB. Jordan Weems went 1/3 with a HR. Mike Miller, Reed Gragnani and Mario Martinez each went 1/4; Martinez with a HR. Kevin Heller went 0/2 with a sacrifice. Matty Johnson went 0/3 with a walk and a SB. Aneury Tavarez went 0/3 with a walk.

 

[Cuzittt]

Drive lose 11-4.

Boxscore

Teddy Stankiewicz went 5 innings, allowing 6 runs on 10 hits (1 HR), a walk and a WP; striking out 4. Taylor Grover went 3 innings, allowing 5 runs on 6 hits (1 HR), a walk and 2 WPs; striking out 3.

Jimmy Rider went 1/3 with a HR and a walk. Tzu-Wei Lin went 1/3 with a walk. Manuel Margot went 1/4 with a triple. Wendell Rijo went 1/4. Kendrick Perkins went 1/2 with a walk before being replaced by Zach Kapstein who went 0/1. Carlos Coste went 1/1 after replacing Kevin Mager who went 0/2 with a walk. Tim Roberson went 0/3 with a walk. Carlos Asuaje went 0/4. Forrestt Allday went 0/5.

 

[Cuzittt]

Lowell scored the final 8 runs, win 8-4.

Boxscore

Jake Drehoff went 5 1/3 innings, allowing 4 runs on 8 hits, a walk and 2 HBPs; striking out 2. German Taveras went 2 2/3 innings, giving up 2 hits and striking out 4. Rob Smorol went an inning, giving up a hit.

Nick Longhi went 2/3 with a double and a walk. Mike Meyers went 2/4 with a double and a triple. Mauricio Dubon went 2/4. Deiner Lopez went 1/3 with a walk. David Sopilka went 1/3 with a HR and a sacrifice. Danny Mars went 1/4. Jordan Betts went 0/3 with a walk. Bryan Hudson went 0/4 with a walk. Franklin Guzman went 0/5.

 

[Cuzittt]

DSL Sox walk-off with a 2-1 victory.

Boxscore

Jhonathan Diaz went 5 1/3 innings, giving up 3 hits, a HBP and 3 walks; striking out 4. Juan Perez went 2 2/3 innings, allowing an unearned run on 3 hits and 2 walks. Yeferson Ardiles pitched the final inning, striking out 2.

Rafael Devers went 2/3 with a double, a SB and a walk. Yoan Aybar and Luis Alejandro Basabe each went 2/4; Aybar with a CS. Gerardo Carrizalez went 1/1 with a walk, a sacrifice and a HBP. Raiwinson Lameda went 1/4. Luis Benoit went 0/3 with a walk and a PO/CS. Roldani Baldwin and Luis Alexander Basabe each went 0/3 with a walk. Samuel Miranda went 0/3 with a sacrifice.

 

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STORIES

PAWSOX

Game Story

Pawtucket exploded for its biggest offensive outburst in a calendar year with 16 runs and 15 hits as the PawSox blasted the Norfolk Tides, 16-5, Wednesday night in front of 5,157 fans at McCoy Stadium.

Pawtucket (40-41) had not scored more than nine runs in any game on the season before erupting against the Tides by scoring in every inning but the second and the eighth. Ryan Roberts homered twice, while Travis Shaw homered and drove home five as the PawSox scored their most runs in any game since June 25th, 2013 (16 vs. Toledo.)

Garin Cecchini’s two-out, two-run single in the first against Tides starter Nick Additon (3-3) began the scoring parade. Pawtucket tacked on a run in the third on Roberts’ first long ball of the night that made the score 3-0, then chased Additon from the game with a four-run fourth.

Shaw’s two-run double highlighted the eight-batter rally in the fourth, with Mookie Betts collecting an RBI single and Roberts an RBI double. The PawSox also plated four more in the fifth against reliever Kelvin De La Cruz, as Shaw picked up a two-run double for the second consecutive inning.

SALEM

Game Story

The new guys: Jantzen Witte and Jordan Weems made their LewisGale Field debuts Wednesday and played key roles in Salem’s 5-1 victory over Carolina.

With the Red Sox trailing 1-0, Weems slapped an opposite field line drive off the left field foul pole for a two-run home run. Witte drilled a leadoff double to the wall in left center to begin the sixth and scored on Mario Martinez’s no-doubt homer to left-center field.

For Weems, it was his first career home run after being selected in the third round of the 2011 draft. He is in Salem due to the dearth of catchers on the roster. At Greenville this season, he was batting .166 with no home runs and a .215 slugging percentage.

“I knew I hit it well. I was just hoping it would stay fair,” Weems said. “I was actually saying that to myself, I was saying it out loud. At first, I thought it was off the wall, because it made that sound.”

To his horror, as the ball bounced back down the left field line, a Mudcats player picked up the ball and tossed it into the crowd. Fortunately for Weems, the ball was tracked down.

Witte — who also singled in the eighth inning — was promoted after raking the South Atlantic League to the tune of a .330 batting average and now owns a modest five-game hitting streak at Salem. During that span, the 24th-round draft pick in 2013 out of TCU has hit .368 (7-for-19) with two doubles and a triple.

Littrell literally good: During Salem’s 1-5 start, the team’s starting pitchers have been dreadful, posting an earned-run average of 11.62. Corey Littrell (4-4) put an end to that troubling trend with six innings of one-run ball.

His most impressive stretch came during the third inning after he had surrendered a run-scoring single to Erik Gonzalez. With one out and runners on second and third after a double steal, Littrell fanned Carolina’s Nos. 4 and 5 hitters, Yandy Diaz and Joe Sever.

He didn’t allow another runner past first base.

DRIVE

Game Story

Ryan McMahon homered and drove in four runs to lead the Asheville Tourists to an 11-4 victory over the Greenville Drive Wednesday night at McCormick Field.

Antonio Senzatela (8-1) picked up the victory after working 5 2/3, giving up three earned runs on four hits and four walks. Senzatela struck out two batters as the Tourists won their second straight over the Drive to improve to 47-29. Greenville dropped to 37-39 with the loss.

Trailing 1-0 after two innings, the Drive grabbed the lead in the third inning when Kendrick Perkins and Kevin Mager led off the frame with a pair of walks and later scored on a two-run single to left by Tzu-Wei Lin.

Greenville added a run in the fourth when Manuel Margot tripled and scored on a single by Perkins to give the Drive a 3-1 lead.

It was all Tourists after that.

Asheville moved on top with three runs in the fourth inning and added two runs in each the fifth and sixth innings for an 8-3 advantage. After Greenville scored its final run in the seventh inning, the Tourists put the game away with three runs in the eighth for an 11-3 cushion.

SPINNERS

Game Story

On a night when the Spinners retired the No. 25 of 2009 New-York Penn League All-Star Ryan Westmoreland, telling his story in a moving pre-game ceremony, the Spinners found some late game inspiration. The Spinners scored two runs in the seventh to tie the game and four runs, including a three-run home run by David Sopilka, in the eighth for a come from behind win, 8-4, over the Tri-City ValleyCats Wednesday night.

Tri-City (8-5) jumped out to an early lead, as the Spinners fell behind for the sixth straight game as the ValleyCats scored four second inning runs. Three straight singles plated a run, and after an infield fly rule an Alex Hernandez double cleared the bases to give Tri-City a 4-0 lead.

Lowell (6-7) got a run back in the bottom half of the inning, taking advantage of a leadoff walk by Nick Longhi. A balk advanced Longhi to second and he moved to third on an infield single by Mauricio Dubon, scoring when Mike Meyers hit into a doubleplay.

The Spinners cut into the lead further in the fourth, again capitalizing on a leadoff walk, this time by Jordan Betts. A one-out double by Longhi brought him home to cut the lead in half.

The score remained there until the seventh inning when the Spinners bats, who had just three hits to that point in the game, taking advantage of another leadoff free pass, this time on a strike three wild pitch that allowed Longhi to reach. A bunt single by Dubon moved Longhi to second and Meyers doubled to score Longhi. Deiner Lopez followed with an RBI single of his own, tying the score at four. After Luis Ordosgoitti intentionally walked Bryan Hudson to load the bases, but struck out Danny Mars and Betts to keep the score tied.

Ordosgoitti was not so fortunate in the eighth however as the Spinners broke the 4-4 tie. With two-outs and Longhi on first, Meyers tripled to center to give the Spinners the lead. After a Lopez walk, David Sopilka hit a towering three-run home run off Westmoreland's No. 25 on the videoboard, giving the Spinners an 8-4 lead that would hold for the final.

 

[jscola85]

Seriously, someone get Devers a visa ASAP.  He doesn't belong down in the DSL anymore.