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Kannapolis Intimidators (White Sox) 25-22 @ Greensboro Grasshoppers (Miami) 27-21

This one had been scoreless but in the top of the third,Seby Zavala doubled (3) and then came around to score on a Max Dutto single.
Starting on the mound for the Grasshoppers is Dustin August Beggs (Kentucky) 3-3 2.44 ERA.
1-0 After 2 1/2 Intimidators.

The Intimidators are back at it again in the fourth.
Micker Adolfo walks.
Zach Remillard singles to pit two on and zero outs.
Brandon Dulin homers (7) to center, to make this a 4-0 game.
Seby Zavala homers (10) to left and this is a 5-0 game.


In the bottom of the fifth
Alex Jones hits a ball to the warning track to center field. Joel Booker has the ball come out of his glove and bounce off of the right fielder,Micker Adolfo arm and then go over the wall for a solo home run. 5-1

Reilly Hovis 2-4 5,35 ERA(Career in the minors/just one season) is on to throw the sixth for the Grasshoppers.

Top of the sixth and Kannapolis is at it again.
Brandon Dulin hit by pitch.
Seby Zavala singles on a line drive to center fielder Aaron Knapp. Brandon Dulin to 2nd.
Joel Booker walks and the bases are juiced.
Jameson Fisher triples (4) on a ground ball to right fielder Walker Olis. Brandon Dulin scores. Seby Zavala scores. Joel Booker scores.
(8-1)

Top of the seventh and there is a Pitching Change for the Grasshoppers: Chad Smith replaces Reilly Hovis.

Alec Hansen goes 7 innings for Kannapolis 15 strike outs, zero walks,5 hits and 1 earned run.

Bottom of the eighth and the Intimidators have a new pitcher on
Victor Diaz 0-0 0.00 ERA.

Top of the ninth and the new pitcher for the grasshoppers is
Ryley MacEachern (SUNY Stony Brook) 2-2 5.52 ERA.

Kannapolis 8 Greensboro 1

Alec Hansen (W, 5-3)
Dustin Beggs (L, 3-4)

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Bowling Green Hot Rods(Tampa Bay) 5 Lake County Captains (Indians) 3

Lake County jumped out in front in the opening inning, on a Conner Capel (7) solo home run.

The Hot Roads though responded with a three spot in the bottom half of the first.
Lucius Fox walked and the swiped 2nd base(10) to open thing up.
Rene Pinto strikes out swinging. Passed ball by catcher Li-Jen Chu. Lucius Fox to 3rd. Jesus Sanchez to 2nd. Rene Pinto to 1st and the flood gates had been opened.
Miles Mastrobuoni doubles (5) to clear the bases, that were loaded to make it a 3-1 game after one.

Bowling Green tacked on two more in the bottom of the third, to take a four run lead.
Miles Mastrobuoni singled with two out and then a two run bomb by Adrian Rondon(3) made it a 5-1 game.

The scored stayed that way until the top of the eighth.
Conner Capel walked to get things started.
Jorma Rodriguez singled.
Li-Jen Chu walked to load the bases.
Gavin Collins doubled(1) to make it a 5-3 game.
The next three Lake County batters struck out and the scored would stay and in 5-3.

5-3 Bowling Green wins.

Bowling Green 22-27
Lake County 17-32

Peter Bayer (W, 1-1)
Justin Garza (L, 1-2)
Brian McAfee (S, 1)

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Modesto Nuts 29-22(Seattle) at San Jose Giants(San Francisco) 22-29

(Nuts) Anthony Misiewicz 2-2 5.26 ERA(Michigan State)
(Giants)Mike Connolly 3-4 3.40 ERA (Maine)

Bottom of the first
Ryan Howard walked with one out.
Bryan Reynolds singled to put two on with one out.
Aramis Garcia singled to load the bases.
With two outs Dillon Dobson(Appalachian State) doubles (8) to clear the bases and makes this a 3-0 Giant lead.

In the bottom of the third the Giants tacked on one more run, to go up 4-0.
Aramis Garcia singled on a line drive to left fielder Logan Taylor.
Dillon Dobson reached on a fielding error by left fielder Logan Taylor. Aramis Garcia scores. Dillon Dobson to 3rd.

4-0 after three.

Modesto strikes for three in the top of the fourth.
Joey Curletta walked.
Logan Taylor homered (5) and we had a 4-2 game.
Arturo Nieto and Joe DeCarlo to put two on with one out.Braden Bishop singled to load the base.
Jordan Cowan reaches on a force attempt, fielding error by first baseman Dillon Dobson. Arturo Nieto scores. Joe DeCarlo to 3rd. Braden Bishop to 2nd.

4-3 Giants after 3 1/2.

Modesto Top of the 8th
Two solo homers puts Modesto up 5-4.
Logan Taylor (6)
Joe DeCarlo (5)

Top of the ninth and Modesto scores again, this time on a wild pitch by Ryan Halstead, Chris Mariscal scored.

Final
6-4 Modesto.

Joey Strain (W, 2-1)
Caleb Simpson (BS, 2)(L, 0-2)
Matt Walker (S, 4)

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Columbus Clippers 6(Indians) Louisville Bats 5

I watched this on on Spectrum sports yesterday.

Columbus had a 5-2 lead at one time, but the Bats made the Clippers work hard to escape this one with a win.

The following players had RBI for the Clippers.
RBI: Shaffer (44); Papi (11); Stamets (18); Urshela (27).

For the Bats
HR: Wallach (4)
RBI : Vincej (6); Winker 2 (33); Wallach (9); Sweeney (3)

Ryan Merritt (W, 6-5)
Jackson Stephens (L, 3-4)
Josh Martin (S, 4)

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Columbus Clippers 30-31(Cleveland) at Indianapolis Indians 32-29(Pittsburgh)

Pitching match up
Columbus Mike Clevinger 3-1 1.50 ERA
Indians Tyler Eppler 4-2 3.30 ERA

Abraham Almonte(1) Goes yard to put Columbus up 1-0 after 1/2 inning.

Eric Wood plates two(25 RBI) to give the Indians a 2-1 lead, after two innings of play.

Austin Meadows doubles (15) scores three, in the bottom of the fourth, to put the Indians up 5-1.

Nellie Rodriguez homers (7) to make this a 5-2 game after 5 1/2.

Joey Terdoslavich and Erich Weiss both drive in runs to make this a 7-2 Indy lead.Eric Wood makes it 9-2, with a two out 2 RBI hit, after eight.

Richie Shaffer homers (13) connects for a solo homer run in the ninth and this cuts the Indy lead to 9-3.Columbus was trying to get the weekend sweep.

Tyler Eppler (W, 5-2)
Mike Clevinger (L, 3-2)

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Wilmington Blue Rocks 33-29(Royals) at Lynchburg Hillcats36-25 (Cleveland)

Pitching match up
Wilmington Andres Machado 2-5 5.01 ERA
Lynchburg Aaron Civale 3-5 4.28 ERA

Lynchburg with three in the first.
Ka'ai Tom singles to start things off.
Yonathan Mendoza singles to put two on with zero out.
Sicnarf Loopstok singles on a ground ball to shortstop Nicky Lopez. Ka'ai Tom scores. Yonathan Mendoza to 2nd. (1-0 Lynchburg)
Willi Castro singles on a ground ball to center fielder Cody Jones. Yonathan Mendoza scores. Sicnarf Loopstok scores.(3-0 Lynchburg )

Lynchburg gets three more in the third.
Sicnarf Loopstok triples (3)
Martin Cervenka singles on a ground ball to left fielder Kort Peterson. Sicnarf Loopstok scores.(4-0 Lynchburg)
Jodd Carter out on a sacrifice fly to left fielder Kort Peterson. Martin Cervenka scores.(5-0 Lynchburg)
Anthony Miller singles on a line drive to right fielder Anderson Miller. Willi Castro scores.(6-0 Lynchburg)

Wilmington makes it 6-1 in the top of the fourth.
Nicky Lopez doubles (11)
Anderson Miller singles on a ground ball to right fielder Ka'ai Tom. Nicky Lopez scores.

Lynchburg bottom of the fifth
Daniel Salters doubles (6)
Anthony Miller doubles (6) on a fly ball to left fielder Kort Peterson. Daniel Salters scores. (7-1 Lynchburg)

Lynchburg bottom of the sixth.
Ka'ai Tom homers (4) on a fly ball to right field.(8-1 Lynchburg)

Final
Lynchburg 8-1
Aaron Civale (W, 2-1)
Andres Machado (L, 2-6)

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Durham Bulls(Blue Jays) 11 Columbus Clippers 00(Indians)
Johnny Field had a bomb(5) and 1 RBI
Shane Peterson had a bomb(9) and 2 RBI
Mike Marjama had a bomb(5) and 3RBI
Kean Wong HAD 3 3RBI

Brent Honeywell (W, 6-5)
Michael Peoples (L, 1-4)

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Columbus Clippers(Indians) 7 Gwinnett Braves 6
This one turned out to be one of the better games I have listened to this season.

Eric Stamets homers (7) to make it 1-0 Columbus after two.

Ozzie Albies homers (4) to tie it back up at one, in the top of the third.

Eric Stamets homers (8) to put Columbus back up 2-1 to the one after four,

Tyler Naquin homers (2) and the Clippers had a 3-1 lead, after five innings of play.

The Braves came back with five in the sixth to take a 6-3 lead.
Carlos Franco doubles (3) on a line drive to left fielder Chris Colabello. Jace Peterson scores. Dustin Peterson scores. Matt Tuiasosopo scores and this was a 4-3 Braves lead.
Kyle Kubitza out on a sacrifice fly to center fielder Tyler Naquin. Carlos Franco scores and it was a 5-3 Braves lead.
Xavier Avery singled a run it and this was a 6-3 Braves lead.

Eric Stamets homers (9) another solo shot, his third of the game to make this a 6-4 game after six.

Richie Shaffer homers (15) on a fly ball to left center field. Joe Sever scores and this one was locked up at six. Shaffer now leads the International league in home runs.


Columbus would get the win in the bottom of the ninth, on a Chris Colabello double (10)

Final 7-6 Columbus.

David Speer (W, 1-0)
Mauricio Cabrera (L, 2-2)

Braves 35-31
Clippers 33-33

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Columbus Clippers (Indians) 3 Toledo Mudhens(Detroit) 2 14 innings

Toledo (32-40) jumped out to a 1-0 lead, after their first at bat.Brendan Ryan doubled (10) and then came around to score on a Efren Navarro base hit.

The game remained 1-0 until Columbus(38-35) came up in the home half of the sixth inning.
Erik Kratz homered (11) to tie it up 1-1. Kratz will play everyday now because of an injury to to the other Columbus catcher, Adam Moore. The two had been sharing time.

There would be no more scoring until the top half of the 13th. Catcher Bryan Holaday homered (5) to give Toledo a 2-1 lead.

Columbus locked things up at 2-2 in the bottom of the inning.
Nellie Rodriguez doubled (9)
Pitch hitter Chris Colabello singled to put runners on the corner.
Josh Wilson was hit by pitch to load the bases.
Tyler Naquin hit into a force play but a run scored to tie it back up.

In the bottom of the 14th Eric Stamets homered (10) on a fly ball to left field., to give the home team the win.

Stamets, from Dublin has been hot with the long ball as of late. He had struggle for most of the season.

Jeff Johnson (W, 2-1)
Joe Jimenez (L, 0-1)

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Columbus Clippers (Indians) 4 Toledo Mudhens(Detroit) 1

The Clippers got 6 2/3 innings from Jarrett Grube (W, 3-3) to post the win today. Grube, who the Indians just traded to get back last week, gave up three hits, o earned runs, walked two and struck out five.

Joe Colon (S, 6) struck two of three out in the ninth to pick up the save.

Richie Shaffer blasted a three run homer to provide all the offense they needed. The homer was number 17 on the year.

Giovanny Urshela homered for the sixth time this season, to provide Columbus with their fourth and final run.

Anthony Vasquez (L, 2-5) to the loss for Toledo.
Michael Almanzar knocked in the only Toledo run.

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Toledo Mudhens(Tigers)3 Columbus Clippers(Indians)2

The Mudhens no matter how good or how bad have always been a pain in the side of the Clippers and this year has been more of the same.

Toledo (36-42) scored single runs in the first, fifth and sixth and then relied on pitching and defense to post the one run win.

Jim Adduci and Jason Krizan had RBI for the winners.

Jarrett Grube (L, 3-4) gave up one earned run in this one. Columbus had three large errors that directly led to two runs and the loss.

Erik Kratz had both of the RBI for the Clippers(41-38), as he seen his total RBI grow to 22 on the season, while his batting average now stands at .304.

Anthony Vasquez (W, 3-5) posted the when, while former Cleveland Indian Edward Mujica (S, 6) picked up the save.

I watched his one on Spectrum sports channel.

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Lake County(Cleveland) 3 Bowling Green(Tampa Bay) 2 7 Innings

Lake County(33-45) posting the win in game one of today's double header.
Posting the first complete game of the year for the winners was,Tanner Tully( Ohio State) (W, 4-5). The former Buckeye gave up 6 hits, 1 earned run, 1 base on balls and 3 strikeouts.

Li-Jen Chu(9) hit a bomb for the winners, as did Jose Medina(7) both were solo blast.

Luke Wakamatsu had the other Lake County RBI.

Bowling Green (34-42) got a solo blast from,Robbie Tenerowicz(10).
Kenny Rosenberg (L, 2-6) took the loss.

Bowling Green had 6 hits, while Lake County totaled 5.

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Toledo Mudhens(Tigers) 2 Columbus Clippers(Indians)1

Toledo(37-42) once again walks away with another one run victory over the Clippers(41-39).

I believe the Clippers went 1-11 with guys in scoring position.

For Toledo, Drew VerHagen (W, 6-5) picked up the win by going 6 innings, allowing 8 hits, one earned run to go along with 6 strikeouts.
JaCoby Jones picked up his 23rd RBI on the season and teammate Jim Adduci gathered his 6th.

For Columbus the hard luck loser was,Adam Plutko (L, 4-8). He gave up 7 hits and 2 earned runs, while striking out four and allowing zero walsk.
Chris Colabello had the only RBI for Columbus. He now has 36 on the season.

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Mahoning Valley Scrappers 3 (Indians) Auburn Doubleday 0(Washington 7 Innings

Game one of the double header goes to the Scrappers (7-5).
A three run fourth inning provided all of the runs in this one.
Gian Paul Gonzalez (Puerto Rico Baseball Academy, Gurabo, PR)drove in one run, while Elvis Perez (Non drafted free agent) drove in the other two.


For Auburn (3-9) the offense was limited to just three hits.
Chance Shepard(North Carolina State) had a double, the other two hits were singles.

Grant Hockin (W, 1-1)
Tomas Alastre (L, 0-1)
Riley Echols (S, 1)

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Akron RubberDucks 6(Cleveland) Bowie Baysox 1(Baltimore) 7 Innings

The RubberDucks(40-36) took game one of the double header today, with the aid of some good pitching and timely hitting.Michael Peoples (W, 2-3) went six strong innings, allowing just one earner run, on five hits.

Francisco Mejia went 2-4 and drive in one. Akron also got single RBI from Todd Hankins,Tyler Krieger,Dorssys Paulino, Joe Sever and and Mark Mathias.

For Bowie(41-40) Stephen Wilkerson drove in the only run they got. Tanner Scott (L, 0-1) took the loss.

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Columbus Clippers(Indians) 2 Toledo Mudhens(Tigers) 00

I watched this one on Spectrum sports channel and it was the first time the Clippers won, when on TV and in the process they ended the six game winning streak that Toledo had going.

Shawn Morimando (W, 8-5) went the distance giving up 7 hits and striking out 6. He allowed just one walk.

Columbus scored single runs in the 8th and the 9th.
Nellie Rodriguez hitting just .140 blasted his 10th home run of the season. He's a lot like Dave Kingman, home run or strike out.

Columbus got another run on a double play ball.

Matthew Boyd (L, 3-1)

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Mahoning Valley Scrappers 2 (Indians) Auburn Doubleday 0(Washington 15 Innings

The Scrappers (9-5) have all of a sudden seem to be a team with a lot of pitching potential and this game, all of that pitching was needed. The offense, for both teams had produced zero runs after 14 innings of play.

In the 15th the Scrappers plated two huge runs. The first run came home in a base hit by,Samad Taylor . Run number two came in on a Jesse Berardi hit.

For the game the Scrappers did have 13 hits, but never could get the big hit to score any runs before the final inning.

The Doubledays (3-11) had 8 hits in this one. Paul Panaccione (Grand Canyon) and
Branden Boggetto (South West Missouri State) each had two of them.

The Scrappers got a 4 hit game from, Jesse Berardi (St. Johns) and a 3 hit game from,Ulysses Cantu (Boswell, Saginaw, TX)

Kirk McCarty (W, 2-0)
Ping-Hsueh Chen (S, 2)
Michael Rishwain (L, 0-2)

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Williamsport Crosscutters (Philadelphia) 4 State College Spikes (St. Louis) 2

The Spikes (9-6) took a 2-0 lead in the top of the 3rd. The first run came home on a ground out from Edwin Figuera. The second run scored on a J. D. Crowe single.

The game stay that way until the bottom of the seventh, when the Crosscutters plated three. Josh Stephen double in two, to lock this one up.Rodolfo Duran doubled in Stephen to make it a 3-2 game.

The Crosscutters(7-8) run final run scored on a Jhailyn Ortiz double in the 8th.


Julian Garcia (W, 2-1)
Anthony Shew (L, 2-1)
Luis Ramirez (S, 1)

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Columbus Clippers (Indians) 1 Indianapolis Indians) (Pirates) 0

This was my 2nd game of the day/night and it was a good one.

Columbus posted the games only run in the sixth on a Ronny Rodriguez sac. fly.

The Clippers(43-40) not only won on the road , they took down the division leader.

Indy (47-37) remain 3.5 games ahead of the Clippers in the standings.

Ryan Merritt (W, 7-5)
Steven Brault (L, 7-4)
Tyler Olson (S, 1)

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Columbus Clippers (Indians) 6 Indianapolis Indians) (Pirates) 5

Clippers (44-40)won again lat night and did so on TV again.
This one had a lot more offense then the night before, as the scores shows.

Columbus logged in early with three runs in the bottom of the first.
After singles by Michael Martinez and Tyler Naquin 37 year old catcher Erik Kratz homers (12) to put the good guys u[ 3-0.

First place Indianapolis struck back with a single run in the top of the fourth.
Jarrett Grube left the game because of an injury, so the Clippers were forced to go the the bullpen and bring in Cole Sulser.
Danny Ortiz doubled (15) to greet Sulser.
Jordan Luplow plated him with a RBI single.

Columbus answered in the bottom half of the fourth, with a single run of their own.
Daniel Robertson singles, move to second on a ground out. He then swiped third base and scored on a Ronny Rodriguez ground out, to make it A 4-1 game.

The Indians would score another single run in the sixth.
Jordan Luplow (2) blasted a solo home run and we had a 4-2 game.

The Clippers struck back in the bottom of the inning, with what turned out to be two huge runs.
Giovanny Urshela walked and then came around two score on a long home run by,Ronny Rodriguez (7) Ronnie Rod, as he is called by the announcers is now hitting .273 is making it hard for Cleveland not to start to take notice of him.

Heading to the ninth, Columbus held the 6-2 lead and the game looked well in hand. But when you 18-20 at home, things never seems to go as one might think it will.

Eric Wood walked to open things up.
With one out Eury Perez walked to bring up Starling Marte. All he did was blast his first long ball of the season, at this level and the game was 6-5.
Tyler Olson came in and got the next two batters to close this one out.

Kyle Crockett (W, 2-2)
Drew Hutchison (L, 4-4)
Tyler Olson (S, 2)

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I have not posted much lately but I have been listening almost daily to games.

Columbus Clippers(54-45) Cleveland 5 Syracuse Chiefs (34-64) Washington

Columbus has taken over first place since the last time I posted on them.
Yesterday the Clippers eked out a one run win over a poor Syracuse squad.
Columbus scored the winning run in the eighth inning, on a Michael Martinez single to center field.Since joining the Clippers, Martinez has five RBI.

The Chiefs took a 2-0 lead, in their half of the third inning.
Michael Almanza singled with one out.
Andrew Stevenson blast his 2nd bomb of the season, a two run shot.That would be the only hit for Stevenson, in his five trips to the plate.

The Clippers responded with four of their own, in the bottom of the fourth.
Ronny Rodriguez singled, a infield hit to shortstop. Ronnie Rod has to be getting some interest from the Indians front office. He is very solid and plays multiple positions and plays them all well. Rodriguez steals (8) 2nd base.

Michael Martinez walked to out two on, with just one out.
Both runners took off and both were safe. Stolen base 9 for Ronnie Rod and number 1 for Martinez.

Adam Moore homers (6), a three run shot to put the Clippers up 3-2.
Tyler Naquin homers (7) and this had become a 4-2 Columbus lead.

Syracuse scored two in the sixth to lock things back up at four.
The first run came on a homer by,Clint Robinson homers (14),
Clippers starter, and my favorite Columbus pitcher, Jarrett Grube was pulled one batter later, after giving up a single to,Brandon Snyder.
Grube was replace by Shawn Armstrong, who gave up back to back walks to load the bases. The tying run scored on a force out by,Michael Almanzar.

Kyle Crockett (W, 5-3)
Sammy Solis (L, 1-3)
Louis Head (S, 4)