Minor League Schedule and Recaps

Saturday's Schedule

DSL Indians	DSL Astros	9:30 CST
GCL Nationals	GCL Astros	11:00 CST
Danville	Greeneville	5:00 CST		Rodriguez, Richard (1-0, 2.45)
Connecticut	Tri-City	6:00 CST	Robertson, Montreal (0-0, 1.69)	Velasquez, Vincent (1-0, 1.93)
Asheville	Lexington	6:05 CST MiLB.tv	Jensen, Chris (7-2, 4.54)
NW Arkansas	Corpus Christi	7:05 CST MiLB.tv	Arguelles, Noel (2-7, 6.12)	Doran, Bobby (1-0, 9.00)
Memphis	Oklahoma City	7:05 CST MiLB.tv	Gast, John (4-2, 5.67)	Bass, Brian (1-2, 4.41)
Rancho Cucamonga	Lancaster	9:00 CST	Sanchez, Angel (6-3, 4.86)	Grimmett, Zachary (2-5, 7.76)

Friday's Results

DSL Rays over DSL Astros 5-4
Samil de los Santos pitched a solid start for the Astros, and they led this one until Frangy Colon (L, 0-2) allowed three runs in relief in the eighth. Pedro Coa was two-for-four with his first home run of the season.

GCL Astros over GCL Nationls 8-2
Chia-Jen Lo stretched it out to two innings in this outing and still has a 0.00 ERA. Enderson Franco got his first win with a five inning relief outing allowing two runs on six hits and Rodney Quintero provided two scoreless final innings. The Astros took the lead in the first and never looked back. There were several good offensive performances, including Carlos Correa (2x5, 2-2B, RBI), Brett Phillips (2x5, 2-3B, 2R), and Darwin Rivera (2x5, 2-2B, RBI, 2R).

Danville over Greeneville 6-2 in 17 innings
I hope that Richard Rodriguez is well rested because as the probable starter in today's game, he may be asked to stretch it out after seven Greeneville pitchers were used in this 17 inning marathon on Friday. Adrian Houser had a beautiful start, pitching six innings with three hits, no runs, no walks and eight strikeouts. But the Danville pitchers were dealing as well. Tied at 0-0 through eight, both teams scored one run in the ninth to force extra innings. The teams again exchanged runs in the 16th inning, and finally in the 17th Tanner Bushue allowed four unearned runs (due to a Jean Batista throwing error with two outs) for the loss and that was that. I think I can safely say that Michael Dimock and Zach Dando will not be available for today's game after combining for seven innings of relief. Brian Blasik continues to shine for Greeneville as he was three-for-seven and drove in a run. Jean Batista collected three errors.

Tri-City over Connecticut 5-2
And now it is seven wins in a row for Tri-City. Brady Rodgers allowed two runs (one earned) on seven hits and no walks with seven strikeouts in 5.2 innings of work. Four pitchers combined to provide scoreless relief with Blake Ford earning his fourth save. Tyler Heinemen had a successful two-for-two debut; Jesse Wierzbicki was two-for-three with an RBI; and Andrew Aplin continues to impress as he went two-for-three with a double, RBI and scored two runs.

Asheville over Lexington 4-3
In a rare spot start, Carlos Quevedo allowed three runs in only 2.1 innings and was charged with the loss. Tommy Shirley got his first work as a Legend, allowing one run on four hits in 3.1 innings. Gabriel Garcia took it the rest of the way with scoreless relief. Lexington trailed from the start and could never quite get that big hit they needed. It was good to see Zach Johnson with a three-for-four night with two doubles as he has been in a bit of a slump as of late. Justin Gominsky drove in two runs with a double.

Iowa over Oklahoma City 7-0
Paul Clemens (L, 8-7) allowed five runs over only 5.1 innings for the loss. The Redhawks were held to five hits. Jimmy Paredes was two-for-three with a triple and a walk.

Rancho Cucamonga over Lancaster 8-7
David Martinez allowed five runs (four earned) on eight hits over six innings which was enough to keep Lancaster in the game until Pat Urckfitz allowed three runs for his second loss and second blown save of the season. Rafy Valenzuela had a nice two-for-five night with his second home run of the season. George Springer and Chris Epps were both two-for-four. Telvin Nash was hit in the nose by a foul ball in the dugout and taken to the hospital. According to Jason Schwartz, he is day-to-day.

Game of the Day
Corpus over Northwest Arkansas 3-1
Nothing really exciting about this game, just a good solid team win. Jose Cisnero allowed only one run in six innings. Henry Villar and Jason Stoffel provided scoreless relief. Kody Hinze had a nice night, going two-for-two with two walks, but it was Andy Simunic who drove in two of the runs via an RBI double and an RBI single.

What went right: Solid pitching and Andy Simunic's bat.

What went wrong: 0-fers from Austin Wates and Jose Martinez. Frankly, I'm just happy to have Austin back in the line-up and off the DL.

Jose Cisnero (W, 5-6) - 6IP 8H 1R 2BB 5SO
Henry Villar - 2IP 0H 0R 0BB 2SO
Jason Stoffel (S, 12) - 1IP 1H 0R 0BB 2SO

Kody Hinze - 2x2 2B 2BB R
Andy Simunic - 2x4 2B 2RBI
Jay Fernandez - 1x4 RBI

Player of the Day: I think you have to go with the guy who hits two triples in one game. Who does that? Brett Phillips it is!

Pitcher of the Day: Adrian Houser really had a terrific bounceback performance after the last one didn't go so well. I'm as impressed by the zero walks as I am by the eight strikeouts.