Jarred Cosart pitched the Clearwater Threshers to a 1-0 win over Bradenton Sunday, by throwing 7 1-hit innings, 1 walk and 8 Ks. Cosart was perfect through the first 6 innings before allowing a lead off single to Robbie Grossman. Clearwater scored in the top of the 1st when Leandro Castro had a 1-out single, stole second (#5) and scored on a hit by Darin Ruf. Troy Hanzawa (2 for 3) had the only multi-hit game for the Threshers, and Justin Friend picked up his 14th save. Friend has allowed just 1 run on 6 hits in 19 innings of work in an outstanding season thus far.
Fidel Hernandez had a double and a home run, one of 3 hit by Reading Sunday, Matt Rizzotti (.351) had 2 more hits and a walk, and Cody Overbeck (#11) and Derrick Mitchell (#6) also homered for Reading in a 5-4 win in the final game of the New Hampshire series. The Fisher Cats took 3 of 5 from Reading, and lead them by .5 games in the standings. Hernandez, getting a chance to play second base every day with the injury to Harold Garcia, is all over this opportunity, batting .325 for the season and is 11 for his last 16 (.688!!) J.C. Ramirez was the winning pitcher, going 8 very strong innings to improve to 5-2, 2.92 on the year. Anthony Gose was 1 for 4 and scored a run for the Cats.
It has not happened much this year, but Sunday's 6-2 defeat of the BlueClaws by Hagerstown falls to the bullpen and the defense. Lakewood wasted an excellent effort from Ervis Manzanillo, who went 6 solid frames and allowed just 1 run on 4 hits and 3 walks, striking out 4 and leaving a 1-1 game. Chase Johnson (1 IP, 2 runs, 2 hits, walk) and Tyler Knigge (.2 IP, 3 runs,-only 1 earned, 3 hits and a walk) both had rare sub-par outings and that was that. A wild pitch by Knigge, and errors by Miguel Alvarez and Alan Schoenberger did not help in the madness of the top of 8th inning. Lakewood had just 5 hits, including 2 doubles from Jim Murphy (and RBI #24).
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