Jeanmar Gomez now 10-3, 2.32 ERA at Columbus after strong outing for win: Minor league report

Akron, Kinston and independent Lake Erie Crushers win one-run games. Captains get one-hit in loss. Scrappers win big.

Chuck Crow, The Plain DealerJeanmar Gomez has sparkled at Columbus this season around two brief stints with the Indians.

MINOR-LEAGUE REPORT

AAA Columbus Clippers

Clippers 6, IronPigs 3 RH Jeanmar Gomez (10-3, 2.32) held Lehigh Valley (Pa.) to one run on six hits over the first seven innings to get the International League road win for the Clippers. Gomez struck out five and walked two. 1B Nick Johnson (.214) belted his third home run — a solo shot — and he doubled, walked and scored three runs. Catcher Michel Hernandez (.224) drilled a two-run homer, his first with the Clippers, and CF Tim Fedroff (.275) doubled home two runs.

Notes: IF Jason Donald, playing 3B, was 1-for-5 with a double, making him 18-for-37 (.486) with six doubles and a homer in his last 10 games....Gomez, 23, has had two brief stints with the Indians this season, going 0-2 with a 5.70 ERA in five games, including four starts. He made his major league debut with the Indians last season, when he was 4-5 with a 4.68 ERA in 11 games, all starts.

AA Akron Aeros

Aeros 6, SeaWolves 5 CF Jordan Henry (.259) drove in three runs with a double and single, and RH starter Joe Gardner (7-7, 4.79) got the win despite yielding four runs in 5 2/3 innings for the Aeros in the Eastern League game at Erie (Pa.). RH closer Cory Burns (2.38) pitched the ninth inning for his 27th save, after RH reliever Rob Bryson retired the four batters he faced, three of them on strikeouts. For the Aeros, LF John Drennen (.243) doubled twice, 1B Matt McBride (.288) doubled and singled, and 3B Kyle Bellows (.220) and catcher Raul Padron (.328) both singled twice.

Notes: Padron is 21-for-64 (.328) with four doubles and a homer with the Aeros....SS Juan Diaz (.257) is 13-for-42 (.310) with three doubles and a homer in his last eight games....Bryson, who missed the early part of this season with a broken foot, has a 1.33 ERA in 20 1/3 combined innings this season for Lake County, Kinston and Akron. He has struck out 28, walked four and given up 11 hits. 

Advanced A Kinston Indians

Indians 11, Blue Rocks 10 RF Abner Abreu (.244) was 4-for-4 with five RBI, a double and his 11th home run, a two-run clout in the bottom of the seventh inning for the final runs in the Carolina League slugfest at Kinston (N.C.). 1B Jeremie Tice (.281) drove in two runs with his sixth homer and a double, and scored three runs. RH reliever Kyle Landis (4-0, 1.03) retired the four Wilmington (Del.) batters he faced to get the win, and RH closer Preston Guilmet (1.80) notched his 25th save with a perfect ninth inning.

Notes: Abreu is 14-for-32 (.438) with four homers, three doubles and 12 RBI in his last 10 games....Landis has struck out 29 while allowing just 13 hits and six walks in 26 1/3 innings.

A Lake County Captains

River Bandits 3, Captains 1 Quad Cities (Iowa) RH Trevor Rosenthal (4-7, 3.29) allowed one hit — a ground single by RF Carlos Moncrief (.241) leading off the bottom of the first inning — to get the Midwest League win at Classic Park in Eastlake. Rosenthal struck out eight and walked one before being replaced with two outs in the ninth inning, after the Captains scored on a three-base error and a wild pitch. LH Mike Rayl (5-5, 2.83) took the loss, allowing one run on six hits while fanning four and walking one in six innings.

Notes: Moncrief is 16-for-45 (.356) with four homers and three doubles in his last 10 games.

A Mahoning Valley Scrappers

Scrappers 10, Spikes 3 SS Tony Wolters (.298), 2B KC Serna (.289) and DH Todd Hankins (.254) had three hits each for the Scrappers in their New York-Penn League win at State College (Pa.). RH starter Mason Radeke (2-0, 3.90) got the victory, yielding two runs on four hits and a walk, with two strikeouts, in five innings.

Notes: Catcher Alex Lavisky (.197), a 2010 Lakewood St. Edward High School graduate and Cleveland’s eighth pick in the draft that June, doubled home a run, and is 11-for-38 (.289) with three homers and three doubles in his last 10 games.

Independent Lake Erie Crushers

Crushers defeated the Joliet Jammers, 5-4, in a Frontier League game at Joliet (Ill.).

Notes: RH Josh Roberts (6-3, 3.48) is 4-0 with a 1.99 ERA in his last six starts. He has struck out 22, walked eight and allowed 29 hits in 40 2/3 innings during that span....Going into Friday night’s game, RH reliever Kelyn Schellenberg was 1-0 with one save and a 1.20 ERA in 24 games. He had walked one batter in 30 innings.

Source: http://www.cleveland.com/tribe/index.ssf/2011/07/jeanmar_gomez_now_10-3_232_era.html

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