Yankees Minor League Baseball Blog

The pitching wasn’t quite there but the Yankees made up for it at the plate as they took care of Clearwater 9-6.  Daniel Brewer led the way and he went three for five with a double, four RBIs and a run.  Jack Rye also had a nice game and he singled four times and scored three runs.

Ryan Zink picked up the win and he improved to 8-10.  He gave up three runs on five hits and one walk with two strikeouts in six innings.  Jonathan Hovis struck out the final batter of the game and he picked up his 21st save of the season.

Tampa got to make up their rain out from yesterday and they took both games in a doubleheader against the Reds.  Hector Noesi improved to 1-0 with a decent enough start.   He gave up three run son six hits and a walk with five strikeouts in five innings.  Seth Fortenberry went two for four with two RBIs while Austin Romine went two for three with a double, a solo home run and two runs.

Craig Heyer picked up the win in game two.  He improved to 3-2 and he gave up two runs (one earned) on three hits in four innings.  Jonathan Hovis threw a shutout ninth and he picked up save number 11.  Mitch Hilligos went two for four with a double and two runs while Brandon Laird went two for four with a double, a home run and four RBIs.

Tampa finally got a couple of games in after a couple of days of rain and the end result is a doubleheader split with St. Lucie.  In game one, the Yankees comeback fell short in a 5-4 loss.  They scored three in the seventh inning but couldn’t push across the winning run.  Daniel Brewer went three for four with a double, a run and an RBI.  Eric Fryer went two for four.  Ryan Zink took the loss and he fell to 4-7.  He gave up four runs on seven hits and three walks with four strikeouts in six innings.

Game two went substantially better and it was Lance Pendleton who threw a gem of a game.  He gave up just a hit and a walk with two strikeouts in five shutout innings.  Jonathan Hovis struck out two in a shutout seventh and he picked up his tenth save of the season.  Seth Fortenberry went two for three with a double and a run while Daniel Brewer went two for four with a run.

Lance Pendleton improved to 6-4 on the season with a really nice start in Tampa’s 5-3 win over Clearwater.  He gave up just five hits with six strikeouts in six shutout innings.  Jonathan Hovis threw a shutout ninth inning and he picked up his eighth save of the season.

Eric Fryer went two for two with a double, a run, an RBI and two walks.  Damon Sublett belted a two run homer while Brandon Laird went deep with a solo shot.

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.