Captains will have to win at Great Lakes on Monday and Tuesday nights to win Midwest League best-of-three Eastern Division series and reach league championship series.
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AAA Columbus Clippers
The Clippers were idle on Sunday. They will begin the best-of-five Governor's Cup Final for the International League championship against Louisville or Durham on Tuesday night at Columbus.
Notes: CF Ezequiel Carrera was 7-of-15 (.467) in the Clippers' three-games-to-one first round playoff series win against the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees. Carrera had one home run, one double, six runs, three RBI, four walks and two stolen bases....OF Jerad Head was 5-of-13 (.385) with a double, four runs and two RBI....1B-OF Drew Sutton was 6-of-18 (.333) with a double, three RBI and two runs....1B-DH Wes Hodges was 4-of-16 (.250) with one homer, one doubles, five RBI and three runs....RH reliever Zach Putnam faced six batters in the series and got them all out, four on strikeouts....RH reliever Josh Judy retired all seven batters he faced, striking out two.... Counting their playoff appearances, Putnam has allowed one run (unearned) while going 1-0 in his last 12 games, fanning 19, walking three and giving up five hits in 16 1/3 innings; Judy has allowed one run (unearned) in his last 10 games, fanning 14 while yielding five hits and two walks in 11 1/3 innings....The Clippers will play for in the Governor's Cup Final for the first time since 1997. They last won the title in 1996.
A Lake County Captains
Loons 10, Captains 8: Left fielder Jonathan Burnette slugged two home runs and a double to drive in four Captains' runs, but Great Lakes (Mich.) DH Brian Cavazos-Galvez was 4-of-5 with a homer, triple, five RBI and three runs in Game 1 of the Midwest League Eastern Division best-of-three finals in Eastlake.
Captains' CF Delvi Cid, who stole two bases to go with his two hits, grounded a two-run single during a three-run ninth inning rally that fell short. Left-handed starter Giovanni Soto took the loss, giving up four runs on three hits and five walks in 4 1/3 innings.
Lake County committed three errors in the last four innings, leading to three unearned runs. Captains 3B Adam Abraham drilled a solo homer, SS Casey Frawley had two doubles and an RBI and 1B Jason Smit singled twice and scored two runs.
Notes: Game 2 and, if necessary, Game 3 in the best-of-three series will be played on Monday and Tuesday nights at Great Lakes. The Captains will start RH Brett Brach against Loons RH Allen Webster in Game 2. Brach was 5-8 with a 3.46 ERA in 22 games, all starts, during the regular season. He struck out 90, walked 28 and allowed a .266 batting average, including nine home runs, in 119 2/3 innings. Brach started the Captains' 4-2, Game 1 win over West Michigan in the first-round playoff series. He did not get a decision, giving up two runs on five hits and a walk in five innings, with three strikeouts. Webster was 12-9 with a 2.88 ERA in 26 games (23 starts) for Great Lakes. He struck out 114 and walked 53 in 131 1/3 innings. Batters hit .239 with six homers against him. Webster was the starter and loser for the Loons in their 1-0, Game 1 playoff game loss to Fort Wayne in a first-round series. He gave up one run on two hits and six walks in five innings, with seven strikeout....Captains' RH reliever Jeremy Johnson was effective on Sunday, allowing no earned runs on two hits in the last three innings, with two strikeouts. The Captains made two of their three errors in the ninth inning, leading to two unearned runs off Johnson....RHP Preston Guilmet had saves in both of his first-round appearances against West Michigan. He pitched 3 2/3 scoreless innings, striking out four while allowing two hits and no walks. Including the regular season and playoffs, Guilmet is 4-1 with 13 saves and a 2.10 ERA. He has struck out 83, walked 10 and allowed 37 hits -- just three homers -- in 55 2/3 innings....Including his five-inning gem in Friday night's Game 3, RHP Jason Knapp has struck out 35 in 21 innings for the Captains in five games. Prior to joining the Captains, Knapp had fanned 18 in 12 1/3 innings over five outings in the Arizona League -- where, beginning in July, he pitched in games for the first time since having off-season shoulder surgery. In the 33 1/3 combined innings, Knapp, 20, is 2-2 with a 2.43 ERA and has given up just 19 hits -- including no homers. He has walked 13. Knapp, a 2008 second-round draft pick of the Phillies and considered an elite prospect, came to the Indians in the trade of Cliff Lee to Philadelphia last July....The Captains' starting and losing pitcher on Sunday, LH, Giovanni Soto was 3-2 record with a 3.77 ERA in six regular season starts with the Captains. The Indians acquired him from West Michigan, a Detroit Tigers farm team, in exchange for Jhonny Peralta on July 28. In a combined 22 regular season games -- all starts -- for the Captains and Whitecaps, Soto was 9-8 with a 2.93 ERA and two shutouts. He struck out 107, walked 36 and held batters to a .237 average and seven homers in 113 2/3 innings.
Source: http://www.cleveland.com/tribe/index.ssf/2010/09/captains_lose_best-of-three_pl.html
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