Fish Farm Report: June 17th

Transactions

Kolton Mahoney was promoted from the Batavia Muckdogs back up to the Grasshoppers, and Sam Perez was dropped correspondingly from Greensboro to the NYPL.

Triple-A

Pacific Coast League

New Orleans Baby Cakes 2, Nashville Sounds 3

Adam Conley had a quality start for the Baby Cakes (23-44) with 11,678 in attendance at First Tennessee Park, but the Nashville Sounds (35-31) finished with a walkoff, 3-2 victory.

Conley pitched six frames, giving up two runs on four walks and four hits while striking out three. He finished with a 57 GameScore, getting 60-of-99 pitches into the zone. Brian Ellington pitched two scoreless hitless innings, but allowed three walks, and Kyle Lobstein (0-1, 0.00) took the loss, allowing an unearned run on a hit and two walks in the bottom of the ninth.

The Sounds, the triple-A team for the Oakland Athletics, struck in the bottom of the third to open the scoring on a Bruce Maxwell sacrifice fly, then held the lead until the seventh, when Maxwell collected another RBI on a bases loaded walk. The Cakes came back in the top of the eighth with a Mike Aviles RBI-single and a Cal Towey bases loaded walk to tie the contest at two. Renato Nunez finished it with two outs, the bases loaded, and a full count with a single to left field, scoring Matt McBride with the winning run. Each team finished with just five hits.

Elsewhere in the PCL

Round Rock Express 7, Memphis Redbirds 3
Oklahoma City Dodgers 11, Colorado Springs Sky Sox 2
Iowa Cubs 8, Omaha Storm Chasers 1
Albuquerque Isotopes, Sacramento River Cats
El Paso Chihuahuas, Fresno Grizzlies
Las Vegas 51s, Reno Aces
Salt Lake Bees, Tacoma Rainiers

Double-A

Southern League

Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp (28-40)

Like in most other Jumbo Shrimp contests this week, their game four showdown with the Pensacola Blue Wahoos (40-28) was rained out.

Elsewhere in the SL

Chattanooga Lookouts 7, Tennessee Smokies 5
Montgomery Biscuits 11, Mississippi Braves 1
Mobile BayBears 2, Biloxi Shuckers 1 (7)
Jackson Generals 10, Birmingham Barons 5
Biloxi Shuckers, Mobile BayBears

High-A

Florida State League

Jupiter Hammerheads (31-34)

Everyone took a day off for today’s all-star contest aside from Jupiters’ all-stars. Kyle Barrett and Jeff Kinley each got into the game. Barrett went 0-for-2 and Kinley pitched a perfect ²⁄₃ of an inning.

Elsewhere in the FSL

The FSL North All-Stars defeated the FSL South All-Stars, 5-2 with 3,553 present at Joker Marchant Stadium.

Gavin LaValley, the North All-Stars designated hitter, went deep twice for four RBI, and was the unquestionable player of the game. LaValley is in his fourth season of pro ball in the Cincinnati Reds organization, this season with the Daytona Tortugas.

Single-A

South Atlantic League

Greensboro Grasshoppers 8, Delmarva Shorebirds 2 (6)

The Grasshoppers (37-30) defeated the Delmarva Shorebirds (28-39) by an 8-2 final in a rain-shortened six-inning contest with 7,114 in the house at First National Bank Field.

Kolton Mahoney (2-2, 1.88) earned the win by pitching to a 60 GameScore by getting 40-of-61 over the plate. He whiffed four over five innings, allowing two earned runs on four hits and no walks. Kyle Keller pitched a perfect inning of relief.

Colby Lusignan opened the scoring with a two-run shot in the bottom of the first inning, his sixth of the season. The Hoppers added a run on an Eric Gutierrez RBI-single in the third.

The Shorebirds, the Baltimore Orioles single-A affiliate, brought in their pair of runs on a fourth-inning Chris Clare single, but that was as close as Delmarva got. The fifth inning would see the Hoppers score four runs on a Luis Pintor (2) solo homer, a James Nelson sacrifice fly, and a Justin Twine two-RBI single. They added another on a Corey Bird RBI-groundout.

The Hoppers racked up 10 hits in 27 at bats for an in-game .370 batting average. Gutierrez and Boo Vazquez each picked up a pair of hits.

Elsewhere in the SAL

Rome Braves 8, Greenville Drive 5
Augusta GreenJackets 7, Asheville Tourists 2
Charleston RiverDogs 3, Columbia Fireflies 0
Hagerstown Suns 6, Lexington Legends 5
Lakewood BlueClaws 2, Hickory Crawdads 1 (10)
West Virginia Power 6, Kannapolis Intimidators 1

Short-A

New York-Penn League

Batavia Muckdogs

One more day.

Rookie

Gulf Coast League

Marlins

Eight more days.

Rookie

Dominican Summer League

DSL Marlins 4, DSL Braves 2

The Marlins defeated the Braves, 4-2, Saturday morning in DSL action. They scored four runs despite collecting only three singles, from Bryan Pineda, Walner Espinel, and Miguel Pena. Omar Lebron stole his seventh base in just his 11th game of the season.

On the hill, Winston Mora pitched three shutout one-hit innings, striking out two. Rafael Eysseric allowed an unearned run on one hit over three frames, and Elkin Alcala (2-0, 0.00) earned the win, striking out one in two perfect relief innings.

The Marlins scored a pair in the second inning on a Yefri Del Rosario wild pitch, then allowed the Braves to get back within a run in the fourth Eudis Lora RBI-double.

The Braves tied it on a Danyer Salazar RBI-groundout in the eighth, but the Marlins put two across the plate in the ninth on a Christoper Rodriguez RBI-groundout and a Miguel Pena RBI-single.

Elsewhere in the DSL

Rangers1 3, Astros Orange 1
Astros Blue 6, Athletics 5 (10)
Angels 9, Cardinals 0
Rays2 5, Cubs1 3
Cubs2 4, D-backs2 3
Dodgers2 4, Pirates 1
D-backs1 5, Giants 4
Indians 19, Indians/Brewers 8
Mets1 10, Rockies 1
Reds 13, Orioles 12 (10)
Blue Jays 5, Padres 4
Nationals 6, Phillies Red 4
Mets2 4, Rangers2 2
Red Sox 8, Rays1 0
Royals 4, Dodgers1 (10)
Tigers 7, Brewers 3
Mariners 9, White Sox 6
Twins 6, Yankees 5

Marlins’ Minor Leaguers of the Day

Pitching:

Kolton Mahoney struck out four over five innings for the Grasshoppers.

Hitting:

Boo Vazquez hit a single and a double for Greensboro.

Prospect Watch

#1 Braxton Garrett @BraxGarrett

#2 Tyler Kolek @Tyler_Kolek

#3 Brian Anderson: @AndersonBrian01

#4 Dillon Peters: @dillypickz

#5 Isael Soto

#6 Thomas Jones: @thomasjones08

#7 Stone Garrett: @stonegarrett22

#8 Drew Steckenrider: @asteckenrider20

#9 James Nelson went 1-for-3 with a run and an RBI, and is at .327 for Greensboro.

#10 Edward Cabrera:

#11 Austin Dean: @AustinDean_3

#12 Cody Poteet: @PoTweet_34

#13 Albert Guaimaro @AlbertGuaimaro3

#14 Jordan Holloway: @jordholl14

#15 Jeff Brigham: @jbrigs34

#16 Sam Perez: @SCPerez_

#17 Tayron Guerrero: @TyronGuerrero7

#18 Roy Morales: @roy_morales25

#19 Sean Reynolds: @sean___reynolds

#20 Remey Reed: @Remey_Reed

#21 Brett Lilek: @Brett Lilek

#22 Andy Beltre

#23 Humberto Mejia

#24 Justin Twine went 1-for-3 with two RBI and a strikeout, and is hitting .178 for Greensboro.

#25 John Norwood: @Norwood_10

#26 Joe Gunkel: @joe_gunkel

#27 Yefri Perez: Perez

#28 Destin Hood: @22_dhood

#29 Samuel Castro

#30 Brian Schales: @BrianSchales

Later

At 1:05PM the Shrimp will host the Blue Wahoos for games four and five of their five game series. They’ll send out Omar Bencomo (4-4, 4.85) for the first game and Chris Mazza (1-4, 3.20) in the second.

At 4PM, the Grasshoppers will host the Shorebirds in the first-half season finale. L.J. Brewster (4-4, 3.66) will make the start. The Hoppers are officially unable to clinch a postseason berth regardless of how the contest plays out.

The Baby Cakes will host the Sounds tomorrow at 7:35PM in game two of their four-game series. RHP William Cuevas (0-0, 0.00) will make his first start as part of Miami’s organization.