Astros Minor League Recaps

Thursday's Games

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Oklahoma City over Nashville 5-4 in 14 innings
Bobby Doran tossed the first five and two-thirds innings and allowed three runs on seven hits and a walk while striking out four. He was followed by five and a third scoreless innings from Pat Urckfitz, Jose Cisnero and Jorge de Leon. Jason Stoffel allowed one run in the top of the 12th, but the RedHawks came back to re-knot the game in the bottom of the frame. Stoffel went on to put up zeroes in the 13th and 14th and was rewarded with the win when Jose Martinez (3x7) hit a walk-off double to end the marathon. Way back in the fourth inning, George Springer scored the first run on a passed ball, and Japhet Amador scored the second on a Che-Hsuan Lin sac fly. Another run came across in the eighth on a Springer RBI single. Although Springer went three-for-six with an RBI and scored twice, he did not add any home runs or stolen bases to his totals. Currently at 37/43, he has four more games in which to gain entrance to the 40/40 club.

Corpus Christi over Frisco 6-2
R.J. Alaniz (6IP 4H 2R 3BB 3SO) allowed the only two Frisco runs in the second and improved his record to 8-9. He was followed by two picture perfect innings from Andrew Robinson. Jonas Dufek allowed no hits in the ninth, but finally allowed his first walk since his promotion to AA (while lowering his ERA to 0.56). Michael Burgess hit a lead-off double and was driven in by Ronald Torreyes (3x4 R) for the first Hooks run in the second. Torreyes doubled in another run in the fourth. The Hooks put up a crooked number in the fifth, scoring three on RBI singles from Matt Duffy and Jio Mier. The final run came in the sixth on an RBI double from Kike Hernandez. Jonathan Meyer went four-for-five and scored a run.

Lake Elsinore over Lancaster 11-9
Kyle Smith got hit hard. He was charged with seven runs on six hits (three home runs) and two walks in only two official innings of work (he pitched to three batters in the third without recording an out). Blair Walters and Tyson Perez let four more runs score over the next four innings. Jordan Jankowski did a great job pitching the final three and halting the parade of Storm runners from crossing the plate. Carlos Perdomo did his best to keep the 'Hawks in the game as he went three-for-four with a walk, three doubles, four RBI and scored twice. Nolan Fontana was also three-for-four with an RBI, a stolen base and a run scored. Fontana drew his 101st and 102nd walks of the season as well. Delino DeShields was one-for-five with a walk, two RBI and two runs scored. DeShields also stole his 50th base of the season. Joe Sclafani hit his 27th double of the season.

Quad Cities over Wisconsin 6-3
Joe Bircher (3.2 7H 3R/2ER 3BB 2SO) got the start and was followed by Jamaine Cotton who pitched four strong innings of relief for the win. Patrick Christensen got his first save for Quad Cities. Rio Ruiz (3x4) singled in two runs in the first and one in the third to go with a Danry Vasquez RBI double in the latter frame. Roberto Pena (2x4) doubled in the final two runs in the ninth. Austin Elkins went two-for-three with a walk and scored twice.

Vermont over Tri-City 8-3 in 7 innings (Game 1)
Evan Grills took the loss, allowing six runs on seven hits in only one and two-thirds innings. Justin Hess got the final out of the second, but then struggled as he pitched to five batters in the third without recording an out and allowed two additional runs to score. Zach Dando righted the ship with four scoreless innings. Conrad Gregor went three-for-three with a ground rule double RBI, and Brett Booth went two-for-three with an RBI.

Vermont over Tri-City 4-0 in 7 innings (Game 2)
Kevin Comer (4.2IP 5H 3R 2BB 7SO) took the loss. The fourth Vermont run came against Chris Munnelly in the seventh. The 'Cats were held to five hits with Ryan Dineen having the only multi-hit game, including a double. Conrad Gregor also doubled in the game.

Danville over Greeneville 3-2 in 10 innings
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GCL Yankees2 over GCL Astros 5-2
Agapito Barrios (4IP 6H 4R/0ER 2BB 1SO) got the start and the loss. He wasn't helped by the five Astros errors in the game. Jorge Perez tossed three scoreless, and Juan Santos allowed the final run in the eighth. The Astros got one in the third on a Yonathan Mejia sac fly scoring Luis de la Rosa and one in the seventh as Hector Roa scored from third on a ground out. Alex Gonzalez went two-for-four and Luis Reynoso had the only extra-base hit, a double.

Player of the Game: Carlos Perdomo did his best to keep Lancaster in the game last night. Perdomo is hitting .457/.512/.543 over his last 10 games. Rio Ruiz gets honorable mention for his three RBI night.

Pitchers of the Game: I'm going to award the honors to both Jordan Jankowski and Jamaine Cotton. Jankowski did his best to give Lancaster the opportunity to come back and Cotton really stretched it out with four terrific innings of relief to get a well-deserved win.