Triple – A
Chris Heisey homered and added a single in 5 at-bats. He scored a run and drove in 3. Juan Francisco and Luis Bolivar each went 2-5. Francisco scored a run while Bolivar scored 3 times and added a double. Wes Bankston and Korey Feiner were each 2-4 in the win. Feiner scored a run and doubled.
Greg Atencio picked up his first win in Louisville by pitching the last out of the 5th and then the 6th inning. He allowed a run on a hit. Logan Ondrusek struck out 2 and pitched a scoreless 9th to pick up his 9th save of the season.
Double – A
Carolina 1 – Montgomery 0; game 1
Jose Castro went 2-4 with 2 singles and drove in the lone rbi in the win. Jake Long was 2-3 with 2 doubles and scored the only run of the game.
Alexander Smit struck out 9 over 6 innings to pick up the win. He allowed 2 hits and walked 4 to improve to 2-3 on the season. Sean Watson allowed a hit and struck out 2 in the 7th for his 6th save of the year.
Carolina 5 – Montgomery 0; game 2
Zach Cozart homered and drove in 2 rbis in a 2-4 night. The homerun was his 10th of the season. Yonder Alonso scored twice and had 2 singles in a 2-3 night. He also had an rbi and walked once. Kris Negron went 2-4 with a double and 2 runs scored.
Joseph Krebs made the start and pitched 3.1 hitless innings while walking 3 and striking out 4. Zach Ward came in in relief and allowed only 1 hit in 1.2 innings to pick up the win. Ward walked 2 and struck out 1.
Class A Advanced
Sarasota did not play.
Single – A
Carlos Mendez went 3-4 with an rbi and a run scored while Humberto Sosa hit his 4th homerun of the season and drove in 2.
Jordan Hotchkiss struck out 8 over 5 innings pitched, but allowed 3 runs to score on 5 hits and picked up the loss, dropping his record to 3-6 on the season. Andrew Bowman didn’t help matters any by allowing 4 runs on 3 hits in 1.1 innings of relief.
Rookie Leagues
Jefry Sierra was a perfect 3-3 at the plate. That’s it for the offense.
The pitching in this one wasn’t helped much by the Reds defense. The Reds committed 6 errors, 2 of which came from Billy Hamilton on throws, giving him 9 total errors on the season.
Frank Pfister went 3-4 with 3 singles, a run scored, and an rbi in the win. Mariekson Gregorius was 2-4 with 2 singles.
Luca Panerati pitched 5 innings, allowing 1 run on 6 hits while striking out 4, but did not factor into the decision. Tzu-Kai Chiu received the win by pitching 2 innings, allowing 2 runs on 5 hits.