Yankees Minor League Baseball Blog

The RiverDogs played a couple of extra innings in their final game of the season as they beat Rome 6-5 in eleven innings.  Kevin Smith went two for five with a triple, three RBIs and a run.  Chase Odenreider tripled twice, drove in two runs and scored.

Jonathan Hovis improved to 4-5 with a shutout inning of relief.  All three other pitchers gave up at least a run.

Michael Dunn gave up seven runs in five innings as the RiverDogs fell to a seven run deficit.  They then proceeded to pick away at the lead until they scored three in the ninth to tie the game and send it into extra frames.  Then in the bottom of the eleventh, James Cooper doubled home Mitch Hilligoss to win it.  Cooper finished the game four for six with a double, a homerun, two RBIs and two runs.  Kevin Smith went three for four with a homerun, three RBIs and two runs.

Jonathan Hovis improved to 3-5 with two innings of shutout relief.  He didn’t give up a single base runner and he struck out one batter.

The RiverDogs jumped out to a 7-3 lead only to see the pen give up fve runs late to lost the game 8-7.  Jonathan Hovis took the loss and he gave up two runs in 1 2/3 innings.

Seth Fortenberry had three hits in the game including a solo homerun.  Kevin Smith went two for four with a double, two RBIs and a run.  Also, Mitch Hilligoss made history by hitting in a Sally League record 36 straight games.  Hopefully he can keep that streak going.

Starter Garrett Patterson threw four shutout innings before giving way to the pen, who performed admirably.  Nicholas Petersen picked up the win with shutout eighth and Jonathan Hovis picked up the save with a shutout ninth.  It was his fourth save of the season.

Seth Fortenberry was the hitting star. He went two for four with a double and an RBI in the 2-1 win.  Andres Perez tripled and he scored a run.