2019 Minor League Baseball Season.

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Game 76
San Jose Giants (San Francisco) 2 Lancaster Jet Hawks (Colorado) 1
My night cap was a California League game and it turned out to be a pitching dominated game. The Giants (22-26) Jake Wong (Grand Canyon) went the first six, giving up three hits, one earned run, while striking out four and issuing just one base on balls. Wong squared his record at 1-1 and lowered his ERA to 4.50. Caleb Simpson (Hold 5 ERA 0.00) threw 1.2 innings allowing zero hits. He walked two and had three strikeouts. Picking up his fifth save was, Frank Rubio. ERA 0.34 after going 1.1 innings. Leading the Giants offense was, Kyle McPherson (James Madison) he blasted his fifth homer and drove in one run. He was 2-2 with a walk. Bryce Johnson (Sam Houston State) went 1-3 with a RBI. Also with two hits was, David Villar (.261).
For Lancaster (26-23) Ramon Marcelino (7) went deep to produce the only run they scored. Lucas Gilbreath 2-2 3.68 ERA (Minnesota) threw seven innings, allowing nine hits two earned runs. He did have some control issue (4 walks). He somewhat countered that with 5 strikeouts.

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Game 77
Columbia Fire Flies (Mets) 7 Charleston River Dogs (Yankees) 4
This one was scoreless until the fourth inning, that's when Columbia (20-32) exploded for four runs and then they backed that up with a three run seventh, to go up 7-0. Charleston would respond with two in the bottom of the seventh and then plate singles runs in the final two innings.
Wagner Lagrange (2) counted for all four runs in the seventh by hitting a grand slam.He would total two hits in this one and four RBI. Shervyen Newton (2) had a two run bomb, he would total three hits in this one. Chase Chambers (Tenn Tech) had the teams other RBI.
For Charleston, Brandon Lockridge (Troy) led the five hit attack, with two hits and one RBI. Also getting one RBI apiece were the following players. Max Burt (Northeastern), Matt Pita (VMI), Eduardo Navas.
Jose Butto (W) 1-6 4.69 ERA
Alex Mauricio 0-1 47.25 ERA
Jake Simon (SV 1) 0.00 ERA

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Game 78 (American Association) Independent League
Sioux Falls Canaries 4 Chicago Dogs 2 (7 Innings)
Adrian Nieto (.311) led the Canaries (6-5) with one hit and three RBI. Mitch Glasser, A player coach had one a hit and one RBI. The Macalester College grand and former 39th round draft pick of the Chicago White Sox plays infield and doubles as the teams hitting coach. Brett Vertigan (UC Santa Barbara) had two hits to lead the team in that department.
For the Dogs ( 6-4) the loss ended a nice little four game winning streak. Tony Rosselli (Indiana State) had one RBI giving him twelve on the year. Kelly Dugan drove in the other run. Victor Roache (Georgia Southern) had three hits to raise his average to .351. David Olmedo-Barrera checked in with two hits and raised his average up to .393.
Taylor Hill W 2-1 3.68 ERA
Austin Wright L 0-2 7.94 ERA
Ryan Flores (SV 2) 0-1 6.75 ERA

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Game 79
Lake Erie Crushers 8 Schaumburg Boomers 00 (Independent League/Frontier)
This was game one of a double header, so it was only a seven inning affair.
The Crushers (10-6) got home runs from, Emmanuel Marrero (5) and Sebastian Diaz (1). Diaz had three RBI to go with two hits. Marrero ended his day with the one hit and two RBI. James Davison Jr., Jake Vieth along with Bryan DeLaRosa all drove in a run. DeLaRosa led the trio with two hits.
The Boomers (10-6) Quincy Nieporte had two of the teams five hits.
Alex Romero W 2-0 1.80 ERA
Taylor Goshen L 1-1 3.79 ERA

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Game 80
Pawtucket Red Sox (Boston) 7 Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs (Phillies) 3 7 innings.
The Red Sox (20-29) put this one away with three unearned runs in the bottom of the sixth. Bryce Brentz hit a grand slam to give the Six a lead they would never give up. For Brentz the slam was like the one he hit last Wednesday and gives him seven homers on the season. As a team the Sox had just three hits, as their offense continues their season long struggle.

The Iron Pigs (26-22) got a two run bomb from Damek Tomscha (5). Deivy Grullon had the other RBI for the Pigs. In all the Pigs had eight hits, with Rob Brantly getting two of them.

Josh A. Smith W 2-2 5.88 ERA
Luke Leftwich L 0-1 13.97 ERA
Trevor Kelley SV (1) 1.13 ERA

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Game 81
Columbus Clippers (Cleveland)11 Norfolk Tides (Baltimore) 4
Watched this one last night on MILBTV, as I have all of the minor league games.
The Clippers (29-21) got long ball from Eric Stamets (4), Daniel Johnson (1), Tyler Naquin (1) and Eric Haase (14) to plaster the Tides (22-28). Stamets had a triple also along with 4 RBI. Johnson had two hits and 1 RBI. Naquin totaled two hits and 1 RBI, while Hasse ended his night with two hits and 2 RBI. Mark Mathias (.281) had two hits and 1 RBI. Mathias has quietly put together a good start to the season. Bobby Bradley checked in with a hit and he too drove in a run.
For the Tides, Mason Williams (.292) had three hits, including his eighth bomb of the season. He also had three RBI. Christopher Bostick checked in with a hit and a RBI. Leading the fourteen hit attack was, catcher Chance Sisco (.290)

Adam Plutko W 1-2 5.56 ERA
Josh Rogers L 2-5 9.41 ERA

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Game 82
Columbus Clippers (Cleveland)12 Norfolk Tides (Baltimore) 5
This one ended a little bit ago and it was a great game, if you are a Clippers fan.
The Clippers (30-21) pounded out 14 hits, including 4 bombs and a total of them going for extra bases. Going yard for the winners was the following players. Tyler Naquin (2),
Trayce Thompson (12), Mark Mathias (5) and Ryan Flaherty (5). Thompson has righted the ship and his power is starting to show. He now has 33 RBI. Mathias led the offensive attack with 3 hits and 3 runs scored. Just what you need your lead off hitter to do. Naquin pounded out 2 hits and 3 RBI. Flaherty (2 RBI), Thompson (1 RBI) and Dioner Navarro (2 RBI) all had two hits. Tim Federowicz had a hit and drove in one. The lifetime catcher was forced to play 3rd and 2nd base yesterday because of an injury to Adam Rosales. Tyler Krieger also had a hit and drove in a run.
The Tides (22-29) had three bombs of their own but once again pitching hurt them a lot. Joey Rickard (1) and Chance Sisco ( 9 & 10) Sisco once again is forcing Baltimore to give him some serious consideration to be called up. He has been up the last two season but has struggle. He seems the kind of player, especially on offense that has to play every day to be his best. He totaled 4 RBI in this one giving him 37.

Asher Wojciechowski W 5-1 3.67 ERA. The former Cincinnati Red is making a statement that says call me up, Cleveland.
Luis Ysla L 2-3 5/24 ERA

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Game 83
Bradenton Marauders (Pittsburgh) 7 Lakeland Flying Tigers (Detroit) 3
I tried watching these two play a couple of nights back but the feed from MILBTV kept going out. Last night for most of the game the feed was good, not great.
Bradenton (31-21) pounded out eleven hits, including two homers, a triple and a double. Leading the way with two hits was, Cal Mitchell (6) including homer and one RBI. Also going yard was, Robbie Glendinning (7). He too had one RBI. Raul Hernandez and Dylan Busby each drove in two. Hernandez had two hits, while Busby had one. Deon Stafford also had a hit and one RBI.
Lakeland (21-31) Dylan Rosa, Jon Rosoff and Colby Bortles all had a RBI.
Each had a hit and as a team that was all the Flying Tigers had for the game.
Catcher Jon Rosoff is hitting .304 on the season. He has been one of the few bright spots for this team.

Cody Bolton W 6-3 1.81 ERA
Jesus Rodriguez L 2-6 4.72 ERA

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Game 84
Charlotte Knights (White Sox 4) Toledo Mud Hens (Tigers) 00
The Knights (29-23) got eight innings out of starter Justin Nicolino (3-1. 4.44 ERA) He gave up just one hits, while striking out eight.
Adam Engel (Louisville) had two hits, including a bomb (4), a solo shot giving him 10 RBI on the season. Matt Skole checked in with one hit and two RBI (35). Daniel Palka ended his night with a hit and one RBI (23).
For Toledo, Tyler Alexander (1-7 7.74 ERA) went six innings, giving up two earned runs and five hits.

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Game 85
Gwinnett Stripers (Braves) 4 Indianapolis Indians (Pittsburgh) 2
The Stripers (33-23) used a two run third and a two run eighth to prevail in their day contest against the Indians (31-22). Andrés Blanco (9) blasted a two run shot and drove in another run to give him 3 RBI on the day. Adam Duvall (Louisville) also drove in a run to lead the offense. Sal Giardina had two of the teams six hits in the win.
For the Indians, Eric Wood (8) hit a solo shot and Pablo Reyes knocked in a run to lead the team. Reyes had two hits on the day, as did Kevin Kramer. The Indians out hit the Stripers 7-6.

Ben Rowen W 4-1 1.86 ERA
Mitch Keller L 5-1 3.40 ERA
A.J. Minter (SV 2) 0.00 ERA

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Game 86
Columbus Clippers (Cleveland) 7 Durham Bulls (Tampa) 5
Columbus (31-22) got homer runs from, Trayce Thompson (14), Tyler Naquin (3), Ryan Flaherty (6), and Brandon Barnes (7) to square their season record at 5-5 against Durham (32-24). Barnes had 3 RBI, Naquin two, while Thompson and Flaherty each had one. Mark Mathias had three of the teams nine hits.
For the Bulls, Nick Solak (8 & 9) homered twice and drove in two, while
Jake Cronenworth had a hit and a RBI, Dalton Kelly, who was recently called up from double- A Montgomery Biscuits had two hits and one RBI rounding out the RBI trio for the Bulls was, Michael Brosseau (Oakland), with one.

Neil Ramírez W 2-0 2.70 ERA
Ryan Merritt L 2-5 7.88 ERA (Merritt not to long back won a playoff game for the Indians) He is 5-8 since then, all in the Minor league. He was 3-0 in two different stints with Cleveland. (2016 & 2017)
Brooks Pounders (SV 1) 2.61 ERA. (This marked the 2nd time he has thrown back to back days. This season he is 2-1 with 1 save. He has 40 K's, 8 B.B (I intentionally) and he had thrwon 31 innings.

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Game 87
Buffalo Bison s (Buffalo) 4 Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (Yankees) 2 (7 Innings)
This was a continuation from a game suspended earlier in the season.
Buffalo scored in the first on a Cavan Biggio single.
Teoscar Hernández blasted a bomb, a sol shot to make it 2-0 in the third.
Patrick Kivlehan would double in two, in the fourth and this was a 4-0 game.
Scranton/Wilkes- Barre would score sing runs in the fifth and sixth to make it a 4-2 game and that would end up being the final score.
Breyvic Valera plated the firs run, with Mike Ford knocking in run number two.

Zach Logue (Kentucky) W 1-0 5.40 ERA
David Hale L 2-1 2.13 ERA
Kirby Snead (SV 1) 0.00 ERA

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Game 88
Corpus Christi Hooks (Houston) 4 Midland Rock Hounds (Oakland) 3
This was my late night game and thankfully it was a good one.
The Hooks (29-27) used a two run bomb from Granden Goetzman (12) plus 2 RBI from, Seth Beer all in the third to jump out in front of the Hounds (25-31). Te Hounds scored the last three runs of the game, all in the fourth to make this a run run game. Dairon Blanco (.286) plated two and then Nate Mondou (Wake Forest) plated the other.
Brett Adcock (Michigan) W 1-5 7.35 ERA
Matt Milburn L 2-4 5.40 ERA
Colin McKee (Mercyhurst) (SV 4) 1.82 ERA

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Game 89
Rochester Red Wings (Twins) 9 Syracuse Mets (Mets) 3
The difference in this one was a six run seventh inning. The Red Winds broke a 2-2 tie and never looked back. The two teams combined for twenty five hits, twelve runs
but no long balls.
Wilin Rosario had two hits and three RBI to pace the winners.
Brent Rooker also added two hits, with two RBI. Luis Arraez, Randy César and Tomás Telis all added a RBI. Tellis had three hits, not bad for the number nine hitter, who upped his average to .286.
The Mets would get three hits from, Luis Guillorme (.290). René Rivera (.298) added two hits, but the duo combined for zero RBI. Getting the RBI were veteran major leaguer Matt Kemp, ex Denver Bronco quarterback, Tim Tebow and Arismendy Alcantara. Alcantara added two hits to slate.

Zack Littell W 3-2 4.00 ERA
Chris Mazza L 1-2 3.00 ERA

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Game 90
Lexington Legends (Royals) 6 Greenville Drive (Boston) 3
The Legends (28029) score the last five runs to take the win over the Drive (25-33)
Rubendy Jaquez was one of three players to total two hits, he also had two RBI. Reed Rohlman had two hits and one RBI. Also with two hits was Nathan Eaton.
Freddy Fermin had one hit and he too drove in a run.
For the Drive, Jordan Wren (5) had three hits, including his a long ball and he knocked in two. Brandon Howlett had two hits and one RBI.
The two teams combined for twenty one hits, with the Legends getting eleven of them.
Austin Cox (Mercer) W 4-3 2.93 ERA
Brayan Bello L 2-5 8.37 ERA
Kyle Hinton (Delaware) SV 5 3.47 ERA

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Game 90 (Independent game/ Atlantic League)
Long Island Ducks 5 New Britain Bees 2
Daniel Fields (7) blast a solo shot in the top of the third to put the Ducks up 1-0. Fields spent six seasons in the Tigers family and made the show back in 2015. David Washington (12) blasted a two run shot in the fourth to put the Ducks up 3-0. Washington played for Baltimore back in 2017, though most of that season he was in triple A with Norfolk. L.J. Mazzilli (2) went yard in the sixth putting the Ducks up 4-0. Mazzilli was drafted by the Mets back in 2013.
Alejandro De Aza knocked in two for the Bees to make it 4-2 after Six. Aza is another major league vet, he had time with Marlins, Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox, San Francisco Giants, New York Mets, and Washington Nationals and appeared in over 100 games during five of those years.

Washington (13) hit a solo bomb in the seventh to round out the scoring.
With the Win the Ducks now stand 25-13, while the Bees drop to 20-17.

Joe Iorio W 2-0 2.01 ERA
Rainy Lara L 4-2 4.38 ERA
Enrique Burgos (SV 4) 3.38 ERA

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Game 91
Akron (Cleveland) 5 Altoona Curve (Pirates) 1

Akron (31-28) gets revenge for their one run loss the night before to the Curve (27-30). The Ducks, who have gone through several roster changes, as the parent club has been busy moving minor league parts around.
A three run bomb in the first from, Wilson Garcia (9) gave the Ducks a 3-0 lead and from there this one was basically over. In all Garcia would end up going 3-4 with 4 RBI. He leads the league in driving in runs with 43. He again homered (9) in the third to put his squad up 4-0. Mitch Longo (Ohio University) made it 5-0 in the fourth. Over all the former Ohio Bobcat had just one hit in three attempts and drove in just the one run. For the season he hits just .248.

The Curve avoided the shut out with a run in the ninth, when Brett Pope (.202) hit a RBI single. The Curve totaled 7 hits compared to 13 for the Ducks.

Eli Morgan (Gonzaga) W 4-0 1.78 ERA. He went 6 2/3 shutout innings, allowing 5 hits 6 strikeouts, with a solo base on balls.

Sean Brady L (3-5 OVERALL ) 2-3 with Altoona. He was released by Cleveland, after going 0-2 with Akron and 1-0 with Columbus.

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Game 92
Columbus Clippers (Cleveland) 3 Norfolk Tides (Baltimore) 2 10 innings
Almost forgot to post this one.
The Clippers get the walk off win in the bottom of the tenth on a Brandon Barnes sac fly. Barns (9) also homered in the game and he had 2 RBI. Ryan Flaherty (7) spanked a solo shot to provide the Clippers (35-26) with their other run.
The Tides (26-34) was led by Mark Trumbo (1) who went yard for the first time this year. Getting the teams other RBI was, Christopher Bostick . He also had a hit. Austin Hays led the team with 2 hits.

James Hoyt W 1-0 4.85 ERA
Jimmy Yacabonis L 1-2 5.51 ERA

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Game 93
(Independent League: CanAm)
Sussex County Miners 8 Quebec Capitales 6
I enjoy the independent leagues, so today I opted for this game.
It was an offensive slugfest mixed in with a tad bit of wildness from pitching but overall it was a good one for me to have watched.

The Minors (14-7) totaled nine hits in this one compared to 11 for Capitales (7-14)
Noah Cummings and paced the winners, with 2 hits and 2 RBI each. Nick Zaharion added 2 hits and 1 RBI. Trey Hair, Audy Ciriaco and Troy Dixon each drove in a run, with Ciriaco and Dixon each having a hit.

For Quebec, Alan Mocahbee drove in two and he has one hit. Michael Baca had 2 hits and 1 RBI. Also getting RBI were Kody Ruedisili and Chris Shaw, Ruedisili added a hit to his stat sheet.

Kevin Grendell W 2-2 9.90 ERA. He threw three scoreless innings out of the pen, with 5 K'S and 1 BB.

Ryan Newell (SV 3) 2.25 ERA

Marvin Gorgas L 1-3 7.94 ERA

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Gam3 94
Cedar Rapids Kernels (Minnesota) 10 Peoria Chiefs (Cardinals) 1
The Kernels (34-30) pounced on the Chiefs (27-36) for four runs in the third and three runs in the fourth to put this one away early. The Chiefs did score first to lead 1-0 after two innings of play. To complete the ten runs unanswered scoring, the Kernels added two in the seventh and a single run in the eighth. Kai-Wei Teng 1-0 2.79 ERA picked up the win by going six innings of four hit ball. He gave up the one earned run, wile posting eight strikeouts.
Ricky De La Torre (2) went 2-4 with a home run and 2 RBI. Jacob Pearson (3) went yard and drove in two, in all he had two hits. Jared Akins (6) had a hone run and 3 RBI. That trio led the winners offense. Andrew Bechtold added two hits and a RBI.

For the Chiefs, Juan Yepez knocked in the only run, but was hitless on the day. Ivan Herrera, a catcher had two of the teams four hits. For the season he is hitting .286. Taking the loss was Michael Brettell (Central Michigan). He drops to 2-3 with a 4.75 ERA.