Baby Bird Brief - June 16

Buffalo lost the opener, which was a continuation of Monday's game, 3-1. Buffalo was only able to find 5 hits in the first game, so they didn't have a lot of baserunners to work with. Buffalo did turn the unusual 1-4-2 double play, so that was interesting.

• Felix Doubront started and allowed 2 runs in his 3 innings prior to the suspension of the game.
• Andrew Albers allowed a run in 4.1 innings
• Gregory Infante finished up with 0.2 scoreless

• Steve Tolleson went 1-4 with an RBI and a strike out
  
• Caleb Gindl, Andy Burns, Alex Hassan & Jonathan Diaz each had a hit

Buffalo found a little more offense in the second game, as they picked up 8 hits in a 3-1 win over Lehigh Valley.

• Jeff Francis started and went 6 innings, allowing a run on 3 hits and striking out 5
• Bobby Korecky threw a shutout inning

• Matt Hague had 3 hits
• Munenori Kawasaki had a double
• Caleb Gindl, Andy Burns, Josh Thole & Ramon Santiago each had a hit

New Hampshire fell behind, scored 3 to take the lead, but allowed Erie to tie the game and then take the lead in the 8th for a 6-3 win.NH only picked up 4 hits on the night, which made scoring runs difficult. Plus the Fisher Cats made 3 errors

• Taylor Cole allowed 3 runs (2 earned) on 8 hits in 6 innings. He struck out 4
• Danny Barnes allowed 3 unearned runs in 2 innings to take the loss. He allowed 3 hits and a walk

• Dalton Pompey had another 2 hit game, although he was thrown out trying to stretch one in to a double, and struck out twice
• Ryan Schimpf hit a 3-run HR for NH, his 7th for NH (9th overall this year). His next HR will be his 100th professional dinger
  
• Jon Berti had the other NH hit

Dunedin played a tight game for the first half, but fell apart late as they fell 6-1 to Palm Beach. Dunedin had 8 singles & a walk. Palm Beach had 12 hits and 5 walks.

• Jeff Hoffman started and went 5.2 innings. The first 5 innings were decent, but the 6th saw Hoffman allow 4 singles and a walk. He was hurt by an error as well, but overall, he allowed 3 runs on 9 hits and 3 walks, while only striking out 1
• Phil Kish threw 1.1 scoreless innings
• Matt Smoral had another rough outing, allowing 3 runs on 2 hits, a walk and a hit batter in 0.1 innings.
• Backup catcher Chris Schaeffer threw 0.2 innings to close the inning out, recording 2 ground outs and a walk

• Roemon Fields had 2 hits and made a fielding error.
  
• J.D. Davis, L.B. Dantzler, Matt Dean, Mitch Nay, Dawel Lugo & Martin Medina each had a hit

Lansing got a good start and found more offense late in a 13-3 win over Bowling Green. The win puts Lansing up 1 game on Great Lakes & Bowling Green with 5 to go. Lansing still has 2 more with Bowling Green & then 3 with Great Lakes to wrap up the first half.Lansing had the big sticks working in this one, as they had 17 hits, including 3 doubles, 2 triples and 4 HR's

• Starlyn Suriel started and went 6 shut out innings. Suriel allowed 6 hits and a walk, while striking out 1
• Dusty Isaacs allowed 3 runs, 2 earned, in 2 innings of relief
• Carlos Ramirez had a scoreless inning

• Anthony Alford had 4 hits to break out of his slump. He finished a HR short of the cycle, scored 2 runs and drove in 2
• Chris Carlson had a 4 hit game, finishing a double short of the cycle. He hit his 1st HR of the year
• Jason Leblebijian had a big game, with 2 HR's, driving in 3
• Richard Urena hit his 11th HR to keep his gap at the top of the leaderboard. Urena also had 2 errors
  
• Josh Almonte had 2 hits
• Ryan McBroom & Tim Locastro both had doubles. Locastro was also hit by a pitch
• Rowdy Tellez also had a hit & made 2 errors in the field

The DSL Jays got beat up early, allowing 6 runs in the first 3 innings and weren't quite able to complete the comeback, as they lost 10-9. The Jays did score 4 in the 9th to make it close, but couldn't find the equalizer

On Tap:

• Randy Wolf starts for Buffalo against Lehigh Valley
• Joel Pineiro throws for New Hampshire against Erie, as the Baby Jays toss all their old MLB starters out today
• Murphy Smith gets the ball for Dunedin as they take on Palm Beach
  
• Sean Reid-Foley starts as the Lugnuts look to extend their lead against Bowling Green
  
• The DSL Jays take on the D-Backs