Saturday, March 24, 2012

Goedert, Mills, Buck all homer as Clippers batter Bats: Minor-league report

Bases-loaded walk lifts Aeros; Mike Rayl shines in Kinston's shutout of Fredrick; West Michigan routs Lake County; Hankins' homer not enough for Mahoning Valley; Kulbacki's two RBI lift Lake Erie.

AAA Columbus Clippers

Clippers 12, Bats 4: Columbus got homers from 3B Jared Goedert (.271, 14 HRs), 1B Beau Mills (.250, 6 HRs) and RF Travis Buck (.263, 4 HRs) and won the International League game in Louisville, Ky. Mills finished with four hits and 2B Argenis Reyes (.306) had three.

RH Paolo Espino (3.57) started and threw four innings. He allowed two runs (both earned) on five hits. Espino struck out six and walked none. RH Zach Putnam (6-3, 3.72) pitched two scoreless innings to earn the win.

AA Akron Aeros

Aeros 6, Phillies 5: Akron DH Michel Hernandez (.337) walked with the bases loaded and two out in the bottom of the 13th as the Aeros outlasted visiting Reading (Pa.).

Aeros C Chun Chen (.258) and 2B Karexon Sanchez (.213) homered for Akron. It was Chen's 16th home run of the season and Sanchez's ninth.

Advanced A Kinston Indians

Indians 1, Keys 0: LH Mike Rayl (4.74) threw seven scoreless innings and RF Bo Greenwell (.257) doubled in LF Jordan Casas (.262) in the eighth inning as Kinston (N.C.) won the Carolina League game over visiting Fredrick (Md.).

Rayl allowed five hits, struck out four and walked one. RH Nickolas Sarianides (2-0, 3.72) pitched the eighth to get the win and RH Preston Guilmet (1.60) struck out two in the ninth in earning his 34th save.

2B Casey Frawley (.215) and 1B Jesus Aguilar (.247) each had two hits for the Indians.

A Lake County Captains

Whitecaps 7, Captains 3: West Michigan banged out 15 hits and beat Lake County in a Midwest League game in Eastlake.

RH Danny Salazar (0-2, 3.60) started and pitched three innings. He gave up one run (earned) on four hits. LH J.D. Reichenbach (3.65) relieved and got touched up for five runs (all earned) in four innings on nine hits, including two home runs by the Whitecaps' James Robbins.

RF Brian Heere (.246) and LF LeVon Washington (.209) each had two hits for the Captains.

A Mahoning Valley Scrappers

Crosscutters 6, Scrappers 2: Scrappers 2B Todd Hankins (.253) hit his fourth home run but Mahoning Valley lost the New York-Penn League game to visiting Williamsport (Pa.)

RH Hector Rondon, the Indians' Minor League Pitcher of the Year in 2009, pitched in a game for the first time since having Tommy John surgery in August 2010.

Rondon, 23, pitched one inning and allowed one earned run on two hits.

Independent Lake Erie Crushers

Crushers 3, Wild Things 2: RH Josh Roberts (4.17) pitched seven sharp innings and LF Kellen Kulbacki (.270) hit his sixth homer and drove in two runs to lead Lake Erie past visiting Washington (Pa.).

Source: http://www.cleveland.com/tribe/index.ssf/2011/08/goedert_mills_buck_all_homer_a.html

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