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AAA: Rochester Red Wings 13, Pawtucket Red Sox 5
PARK BANG! PARK BANG! PARK BANG!
That’s right—1B Byung Ho Park hit not one, not two, but THREE home runs yesterday as the Red Wings trampled the Red Sox 13-5. As if that weren’t enough power for you, DH Daniel Palka and CF Logan Schafer hit dingers too.
WATCH: #ParkBang X 3!! Byung Ho Park homers THREE times for the @RocRedWings today. pic.twitter.com/lZ1XTAYkjC
— Morrie Silver (@MorrieSilver8) July 28, 2016
SP Jason Wheeler pitched 5 innings and gave up three earned runs, but that doesn’t even really matter when your lineup is hitting home runs like it’s going out of style.
AA: Chattanooga Lookouts 4, Tennessee Smokies 3
CF Zack Granite hit a walk-off RBI single in the bottom of the 9th inning to lift the Lookouts over the Smokies. RF Edgar Corcino—who went 2-for-4 with an RBI and two runs scored—scored the winning run.
1B Mitch Garver also went 2-for-4 in the game with an RBI. That RBI—Garver’s 62nd of the year—tied him with Daniel Palka for the team lead.
SP David Hurlbut had a stellar outing for the lookouts, pitching 7 innings while allowing only two earned runson four hits and one walk. He struck-out six.
High A: Ft. Myers Miracle off
No game for the Miracle.
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Low A: Cedar Rapids Kernels 2, Kane County Cougars 0
Kernels SP Sam Gibbons and Cougars SP Max Duval held a pitchers’ duel yesterday in Kane County, and Gibbons came out the victor. Although Duval outlasted Gibbons, pitching 7 innings to Gibbons’ 6, he gave up an RBI single to Kenrels SS Nelson Molina that would be his undoing.
Molina, who is hitting .304 on the year, went 2-for-3 in the game with a double, a walk, the RBI, and a run scored.
As most pitching duels do, the game featured some stellar defense. Kernels 1B Zander Wiel made a game-saving play on a grounder in the 4th inning, and both teams combined for four double plays in the game (only one was by the Kernels, but whatever we still won.)
Rookie: Elizabethton Twins 0, Bristol Pirates 0
The baby Twins and baby Pirates played one half inning of this game before they decided to reschedule it due to weather, because apparently they also have baby weathermen.