Darin Ruf homered for the 3rd straight day (#11) , and Sebastian Valle had 3 hits, including his 4th home run of the season, as the Clearwater Threshers beat Bradenton, 5-4 Monday. Travis Mattair and Cesar Hernandez (2 RBI) added 2 hits each for the Threshers, who got another great effort from Jonathan Pettibone. Pettibone (2.81) went 6 good innings, allowing 2 runs on 5 hits and 2 walks, striking out 4. Clearwater is 15-16 in the second half (54-46 overall), trailing first place Tampa by 2 games.............In Reading, RBI by Tim Kennelly and Carlos Rivero in the bottom of the 9th gave the R-Phils a come-from-behind 5-4 win over Altoona, and making a winner of Mike Cisco (6-0, 1.99). Steve Susdorf had 3 more hits (2 doubles), raising his average to .339. Reading has won 7 of their last 10, and at 54-48, are only 1.5 games behind first place New Hampshire, who lost again to New Britain. Anthony Gose had homered in the top of the 13th inning to give the Fisher Cats a 5-3 lead, but Bobby Korecky gave up 3 runs in the bottom half and New Britain stole the victory. In addition to his 10th home run of the year, Gose had a single and a walk, and stole his 47th base of the year. Korecky had pitched scoreless ball in to 10th, 11th and 12th, before letting in the game wining runs in the 13th. Travis d'Arnaud (.316) added 2 hits for New Hampshire.
In Allentown, the IronPigs made it 3 in a row over Columbus with a 4-1 win. Nate Bump (3-6, 5.42) threw 7 shut out innings for Lehigh Valley. Mike Zagurski gave up a home run to Beau Mills in his inning, and Justin DeFratus (looking more comfortable each time out) threw a scoreless 9th to pick up his 2nd save. Jason Donald (.320) was 1 for 4 for the Clippers.
In Frisco, Jonathan Villar stayed hot, with a single, a triple and his 7th home run for Corpus Christi, leading the Hooks to a 9-3 win. Villar has homered in 3 of the last 4 games and is 12 for 28 (.429) during his current 8-game streak!!.............In Sacramento, Michael Taylor (.287) was 3 for 3 with a walk, including a double, his 11th home run and 5 RBI to lead the River Cats to a 10-1 over Reno. Adrian Cardenas (.306) added a double in 3 at bats............. In Omaha, Robinson Tejeda pitched 3 innings for the Storm Chasers and allowed 2 runs on 4 hits in Round Rock's 9-2 win.............In Scranton, the Yankees pounded the Chiefs, 15-1. Greg Golson (.286) had 2 hits and scored a run for the Yankees.
No comments:
Post a Comment