Games played on June 30
Minor League Player of the Day: Adam Muenster (Billings) 2-3, HR, 2 RBI, 1 run scored.
AAA
Gwinnett 3 – Louisville 1
For the 2nd consecutive day, the Bats fall to Gwinnett by a 3-1 final. Yonder Alonso went 2-3 with a double and 2 walks. Dave Sappelt was 2-4 with a double.
Chad Reineke picked up the loss and fell to 6-5 on the season. Reineke allowed 3 runs on 6 hits and 2 walks in 5 innings pitched. Tom Cochran struck out 5 and allowed 2 hits and a walk in 3 relief innings.
AA
Tennessee 7 – Carolina 5
Denis Phipps, Henry Rodriguez, Felix Perez, and James Skelton had 2 hits each. Phipps had a single and a triple, scored a run, and drove in an RBI. Rodriguez had 2 singles as well as 2 RBI. Perez had 2 singles while Skelton had a single and a double as well as scoring 2 runs.
Tim Gustafson allowed 4 runs on 4 hits and a walk in 4 innings pitched. He struck out 3 and left with the game tied. Reliever Chris Mobley allowed 3 runs on 3 hits and a walk in 1 relief inning to pick up the loss and fall to 0-1 on the season.
High A
Stockton 4 – Bakersfield 3
For the 2nd consecutive day, the Blaze fall to Stockton by a 4-3 score. Ryan LaMarre and Chris Richburg had identical lines for Bakersfield. Each went 2-4 with a homerun, 1 run scored, and an RBI. It was LaMarre’s 4th homerun of the season and Richburg’s 5th.
J.C. Sulbaran allowed 4 runs on 4 hits and 4 walks in 3.2 innings to drop to 4-2 on the season. He struck out 2.
A
Bowling Green 6 – Dayton 5
Frank Pfister went 2-4 with an RBI and 2 runs scored. Donald Lutz had 2 hits in 5 at-bats. Both hits were singles and he scored a run. Tucker Barnhart hit his 2nd homerun of the season, a 2-run shot in the 6th inning.
Kyle Lotzkar struck out 7 in 7 innings pitched. He allowed 3 runs (2 earned) on 6 hits and a walk. Luca Panerati picked up the loss by allowing 3 runs on 2 hits and 2 walks in an inning of relief.
Rookie
Billings 8 – Helena 7
Adam Muenster went 2-3 with a homerun, 2 RBI, and a run scored. The homerun was his 1st of the season. Nick O’Shea went 2-4 with a solo homerun, his 2nd of the season. Dayne Read went 2-5 with 2 RBI.
Wes Mugarian went 4.1 innings in the start, allowing 6 runs on 7 hits and 5 walks while striking out 7.
AZL Mariners 8 – AZL Reds 5
Brennan May went 2-4 with a triple, run scored, and an RBI.
Justice French struck out 6 in 4.1 innings, but allowed 3 runs on 5 hits to pick up his first loss of the season.
Strange game in Dayton last night….Lotzkar was outstanding, retired the first 9, then in the 4th struggled, then regains his stuff in the 5th, 6th, and 7th. Panerati was about out of trouble in the 8th, on a 3-2 pitch, it was hit into a spot down the RF line that was just out of 3 guys reach, couldn’t have been placed any worse. Tough one to lose.
Was nice to see Spotlight Player Tucker Barnhart hit his second homer.
Thank you Billings from saving us from an organizational sweep.
Congrats to the FOUR Bats to make the AAA All-Star game: Alonso, Hermida, Cozart and Mesoraco. And, Alonso and Mesoraco will represent the Reds in the Futures Game. I have to think if he hadn’t gotten hurt, Sappelt would have also made the ASG, giving the Bats the entire OF for the International League.
Congrats on another HR Tucker! And he threw out another SB attempt. 37 successful, 36 caught stealing. Nice D!