Friday, May 27, 2011

Taylor, Villar, Murphy go deep

In Sacramento Thursday, Michael Taylor was 3 for 5, including his 1st home run of the year, driving in 4 runs in the River Cat's 7-2 win over New Orleans. Michael is hitting .377 with 11 RBI in 12 games so far for Sacramento. Adrian Cardenas (.351) added 2 more hits for the Cats...........In Lancaster, the JetHawks bounced back from their 25-9 loss on Wednesday, exacting a measure of revenge on the Quakes with 13-4 win. Jonathan Villar (.272) had 3 hits, a single, a double and his 3rd home run of the year for Lancaster. Villar has now homered on consecutive days...............In Zebulon, the Birmingham Barons beat the Mudcats, 8-2. Quintin Berry had a double, an RBI, and an outfield assist to nail a baserunner at third base!

In Allentown, the IronPigs got 3 runs in the first inning off Andy Baldwin, and it was enough to take Lehigh Valley to a 3-2 victory. After allowing the 3 runs on 2 home runs in the first, Baldwin settled in and threw 6 good innings for Rochester, not allowing any more runs to score and keeping the Red Wings in the game. Scott Mathieson recorded 5 outs to notch a "hold", and Mike Zagurski threw a scoreless 9th to pick up his 8th save.

In Portland, Travis d'Arnaud (.330) had 2 hits, 2 walks and scored 2 runs in New Hampshire's 13-4 win over the Sea Dogs. Anthony Gose added 2 walks and a run scored to the Fisher Cats' cause........In Reading, the R-Phils lost again to the Thunder, who seem to have their number so far this year. On Thursday, B. J. Rosenberg made his 2nd start since replacing Chris Kissock in the rotation and threw a good 5 innings, 2 runs, only 1 earned on 5 hits and NO walks, striking out 5. Jacob Diekman had another disaster, allowing a hit, 3 walks, and a plunk, while picking up just 2 outs. Tyson Brummett (1.97) had to come on to bail Diek out, and Brummett put in 2.1 innings of scoreless relief. Reading collected just 5 hits, scored their only run in the bottom of the 9th, and left the bases loaded, giving Trenton the 3-1 win.

The BlueClaws have come home and split the first 2 games of their series with Greensboro. Both Garrett Claypool and Ervis Manzanillo had excellent starts, with Claypool receiving no decision after 7 good inning Wednesday and Manzanillo getting the win in Thursday's 7-6 victory. Zack Collier had 4 hits for the BlueClaws and Jim Murphy hit his 11th home run and drove in 5 of Lakewood's 7 runs.

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