Indianapolis got thrashed again, Altoona had a late comeback and Greensboro was rained out.
YESTERDAY’S RESULTS
Prospect Watch: Strong Start from Bubba Chandler; Henry Davis Homers
TRIPLE-A: INDIANAPOLIS INDIANS
INDIANAPOLIS VS COLUMBUS
Final Score: Columbus 7, Indianapolis (9-15) 0
Indianapolis Starter: Quinn Priester
Pitching Line: 4.2 IP, 4 H, 4 ER, 3 BB, 5 K
Box Score
Top Performers:
- None
Game Recap:
Indianapolis continued its disappointing season with a 7-0 loss to Columbus.
Quinn Priester started well, throwing four shutout innings, but he couldn’t get out of the fifth. He left with two outs, two runs in and two runners on. Cam Alldred came in and let both of those runners score, then three of his own before finally getting an out. The seven runs were all the scoring in the game. Priester’s ERA stands at 7.78. Angel Perdomo worked one scoreless inning and Hunter Stratton two.
The offense didn’t show. Indy had three hits, singles by Josh Palacios, Aaron Shackelford and Chavez Young. They also had five walks.
DOUBLE-A: ALTOONA CURVE
ALTOONA @ READING
Final Score: Altoona (9-8) 3, Reading 2
Altoona Starter: Sean Sullivan
Pitching Line: 5 IP, 4 H, 2 BB, 6 K
Box Score
Top Performers:
- Henry Davis 1-3, 2 BB
- Domingo Leyba 2-4, BB
- Mason Martin 0-1, 3 BB
- Nick Dombkowski 2 IP, H, 2 K
Game Recap:
Down 1-0, Altoona rallied for three runs in the ninth and held on to beat Reading, 3-2.
Sean Sullivan kept his ERA at 0.00 through three starts, fanning six in five innings. He gave up four hits and two walks. Nick Dombkowski followed that with two scoreless frames. Neither team scored until Tyler Samaniego gave up a run in the bottom of the eighth on a walk, a ground out and a single.
Altoona had chances to score on the strength of eight hits and seven walks, but they couldn’t take advantage. Matt Gorski had a rough day, going 0-for-5 and stranding seven runners.
In the ninth, the Curve finally got on the board. Starting with the last of Mason Martin’s three walks, they loaded the bases with nobody out. Connor Scott tied the game with a sacrifice fly, then Altoona loaded the bases back up. With two out, Henry Davis walked to force in the go-ahead run and Domingo Leyba brought in another with an infield hit.
Tahnaj Thomas had trouble in the bottom of the ninth, walking the first two batters and allowing a run on a single. He got a break in the end, though, in the form of a line drive double play.
Leyba and Jacob Gonzalez each had two hits. Davis had a single and two walks.
HIGH-A: GREENSBORO GRASSHOPPERS
GREENSBORO VS ROME
Final Score: Postponed
Greensboro Starter:
Pitching Line:
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Top Performers:
Game Recap:
Greensboro’s game with Rome was postponed. It’ll be made up as part of a doubleheader tomorrow.
LOW-A: BRADENTON MARAUDERS
BRADENTON @ DUNEDIN
Final Score: Dunedin 9, Bradenton (11-7) 5
Bradenton Starter: Alessandro Ercolani
Pitching Line: 3 IP, 5 H, 3 ER, 2 BB, 5 K
Box Score
Top Performers:
- Nick Cimillo 1-3, 2 BB
- Ryan Harbin 2 IP, H, BB, 2 K
Game Recap:
Bradenton had a ninth-inning rally terminated by rain and lost to Dunedin, 9-5.
Starter Alessandro Ercolani deserved better. Misplays by his defense — two misjudged fly balls and a dropped one — turned into three extra base hits and cost him three earned runs. He could have ended up with three scoreless innings.
Carlos Lomeli followed and had a lot of trouble throwing strikes. He still could have managed two scoreless innings, but Termarr Johnson threw the ball away on an easy, 20-foot throw to first, letting in two runs with two outs. That put the Marauders down 5-0.
Bradenton’s hitters meanwhile were being blown away by an overage pitcher named Rafael Sanchez. He retired the first 16 batters he faced and ended up fanning 11 over five and two thirds innings.
Nick Cimillo singled in the sixth to become the first baserunner. Bradenton got four in the inning to close within a run, one each on a wild pitch and an error, then two on a double by Rodolfo Nolasco.
Ryan Harbin held the line with two scoreless innings, but Darvin Garcia blew up the game in the eighth, allowing four runs.
The Marauders still had a shot in the ninth. They got a run and loaded the bases with nobody out on a leadoff double by Shalin Polanco and three walks. With the tying run at the plate, the rains came and the game was declared over. Very minor league, and not in a good way.
Johnson had a dismal game. Apart from the error, he had two other defensive misplays. (Bradenton was charged with only the one error, but several others should have been scored that way.) He also went 0-for-3 with a walk, and after the walk he got picked off second while representing the tying run.
The Marauders had only four hits. Cimillo reached three times on the single and two walks.
