Toledo Mud Hens 6, Iowa Cubs 2 (box)
The Toledo Mud Hens took Sunday’s game against Iowa, 6-2, to split the series against the Cubs.
Dylan File was outstanding in this one, giving the Mud Hens five innings of one-hit ball. He went 1-2-3 in every frame but the second and didn’t allow any free bases. File only threw 61 pitches, but he also started on Tuesday. Smart to not overdo it and take him out after he’s in line for the win.
File left with a four-run lead, thanks to a three-spot in the first. Max Clark led the inning off with a walk and stole second — his 18th of the year — and Max Anderson drove him in with a double (initially ruled an error) right after. Gage Workman kept things going with an RBI single up the middle, and Trei Cruz scored him on a sac fly.
Clark scored again in the third after leading off with a single. He stole second, again, and moved to up a bag on another Workman single. Brett Callahan drove Clark in with a base hit. 4-0, Toledo.
Iowa got a run back in the sixth after Yilber Diaz took over for File. Other than that two-out RBI double, Diaz was fine. Luke Taggart relieved him in the seventh and got five straight outs. Toledo turned to Ricky Vanasco for the four-out save.
Vanasco got the job done, but it wasn’t exactly efficient. He walked a batter in the eighth and gave up a pair of singles in the ninth. The Mud Hens traded a run for an out, and they could afford to because of a two-run eighth.
Workman was at the center of the scoring again, doubling in Anderson, stealing third and scoring on another sac fly from Cruz.
Trade: Woo-Suk Go was sent to Minnesota for cash considerations. He has an assignment clause in his contract and will join the Twins on Tuesday, according to Dan Hayes.
Clark: 1-3, 2 R, BB
Anderson: 2-4, 2B (13), 2 R, RBI, 2 K
Workman: 3-4, 2B (24), 2 R, 2 RBI
File (W, 5-5): 5.0 IP, H, 0 R, 0 BB, 6 K
Coming Up Next: The Mud Hens are on the road next week against the Indianapolis Indians, starting Tuesday at 7:05 p.m. ET.
(F/10) Erie SeaWolves 4, Akron RubberDucks 3 (box)
Erie finished off the sweep with its eighth straight on Sunday, but it took extra innings for the SeaWolves to take down the Akron RubberDucks, 4-3.
Hayden Minton went 3.1 innings to start. Besides a solo homer in the fourth, he was fine. Four hits, two walks and three strikeouts. Nothing special, but also not anything bad.
Just after Minton gave up the lead, Erie took it back on a Garrett Pennington double and Max Burt two-run homer.
Minton left the game after getting the first out of the fourth. Tyler Owens replaced him and got the next two outs. Carlos Pena was next, and he worked the same four innings he’s gone in each of his previous relief outings with Erie. A solo homer in the sixth was his only blemish. He had five strikeouts to one walk and allowed just two more hits in the outing. Unfortunately, that homer tied up the game and gave him a blown save.
Both offenses stalled until the ninth. Garrett Pennington finally broke the tie with a leadoff home run, but Wandisson Charles gave the run back in the bottom of the inning, sending the game to extras.
Bennett Lee drove in Viandel Pena from second, but Erie couldn’t add an insurance run. Chris Meyers also got hurt while swinging. It looked like his back, and he was in obvious pain, running to first on a single. Peyton Graham replaced him in the outfield, which is nice because he was hit in the arm with a pitch yesterday and left the game.
Charles closed things out with a 1-2-3 10th, including a pair of strikeouts. Bring out the brooms!
Pennington: 2-4, HR (2), 2B (4), 2 R, RBI, 2 K
Burt: 1-4, HR (3), R, 2 RBI
Bigbie: 2-5, 2B (14), K
Pena (BS, 2): 4.0 IP, 3 H, R, ER, BB, 5 K, HR
Coming Up Next: The SeaWolves are at home next week against the Harrisburg Senators, starting Tuesday at 6:05 p.m. ET.
Lake County Captains 6, West Michigan Whitecaps 4 (box)
West Michigan dropped the series against Lake County, 4-2, with a 6-4 loss on Sunday.
Rayner Castillo had another up-and-down start. He started out fine, going 1-2-3 in the first, but Castillo hit a batter and walked another in the second, which served as a bad omen.
Lake County got to him in the third. A pair of singles and a walk loaded the bases for Nolan Schubart, who cleared them with a double down the right-field line. Castillo worked around a pair of baserunners in the fourth, but that was it for him.
Carlos Lequerica took over on the mound in the fifth. He got into three straight three-ball counts, but only one of them resulted in a walk. The other two were punchouts, both coming on the changeup.
West Michigan threatened in the bottom of the fifth, with men on the corners and only one out, but nothing came of Andrew Sojka’s double.
Ethan Sloan got the sixth. He gave up three straight singles to open the frame. Samuel Gil made a nice diving stop on the third, but the throw was a tad late and forced the first baseman off the bag. A pair of sac flies made it 5-0.
Luke Stofel also had some trouble in the seventh, allowing back-to-back one-out singles, but he worked his way out of it. The Whitecaps finally got some runs on the board in the bottom half of the inning, scoring three on four singles and a walk. Woody Hadeen and Jackson Strong had RBI base knocks, and Clayton Campbell drove one in on a sac fly.
Eliseo Mota gave a run back to the Captains in the eighth, allowing back-to-back hits with two outs. Ryan Harvey faced the minimum in the ninth despite walking the leadoff man, aided by a 4-6-3 double play.
Hadeen reached on an error that could have been ruled a base hit in the ninth. Rainer and Campbell walked to load the bases. Strong cut the deficit to two runs with a sac fly, but the next two batters went down to end the game.
Rainer: 1-4, BB, K
Strong: 2-3, 2 RBI, BB
Sojka: 2-4, 2B (9), R, 2 K
Castillo (L, 1-6): 4.0 IP, 4 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 3 BB, 4 K
Coming Up Next: The Whitecaps are at home next week against the Fort Wayne TinCaps, starting Tuesday at 12:05 p.m. ET.
Palm Beach Cardinals 5, Lakeland Flying Tigers 3 (box)
Despite outhitting the Palm Beach Cardinals 11-5, the Lakeland Flying Tigers couldn’t claim a series win on Sunday, losing 5-3 to split the series.
Connor Fenlong had a nearly identical start to his first with Lakeland a week ago. He went 4.2 innings, struck out eight and walked one. The only differences for him were allowing a pair of runs (one earned) on three hits instead of five. The stuff is clearly good enough to think about High-A. He’s 26 years old, and a recent Indy league signing, so while the Tigers have him in Lakeland tuning some things up, he should be pushed as rapidly as he can handle.
Before those runs scored off Fenlong, Lakeland took a 3-0 lead. In the third, Jesus Pinto hit his third triple of the year to score Jack Goodman (walk), and Beau Ankeney drove in Pinto with a single up the middle.
Hunter Dobbins tripled and scored in the fourth for the other run. Goodman got the RBI this time.
Fenlong left the game with two on and two out in the fifth, giving way to Xiomer Guacache. A single and an error from Pinto in right field cleared the bases, hence the unearned runs. Guacahe gave up another run in the sixth. This one was earned after back-to-back walks to open the frame.
Lakeland kept getting on base, but the Flying Tigers went 2-for-12 with runners in scoring position, stranding eight batters. Clutch hits matter more in games like these.
Donye Evans got the seventh and worked around a one-out walk. Jan Carballo pitched the final two frames, dealing with multiple baserunners in each. Palm Beach scored its fifth run off him in the eighth, and that was the game.
Ankeney: 2-5, RBI
Dobbins: 2-4, 3B (2), R
MacDonald: 2-4
Fenlong: 4.2 IP, 3 H, 2 R, ER, BB, 8 K
Coming Up Next: The Flying Tigers are on the road next week against the Dunedin Blue Jays, starting Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. ET.
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