MiLB Game Summary Reports – 04-27-2024

Weekends are tougher for me to write a post with a lot of away soccer and hockey games.  I got home and only had the energy to write up the MiLB Game Summary Reports.

MiLB GAME SUMMARY REPORTS 

Albuquerque Isotopes (Colorado) 10 – OKC Baseball Club 7

Eduardo Salazar started for OKC and was battered around in his 3.2 IP.  He gave up 9 runs which was one more than his previous 4 starts combined.  But then again, none of those were in Albuquerque.

Tanner Dodson allowed a HR in the 5^th for the 10^th run.  Braydon Fisher and Jesse Hahn kept the Isotopes off the board the final three innings.

In the 2^nd inning, Ryan Ward singled and scored on a Kody Hoese double.  In the 4^th, Andre Lipcius hit a 3-run HR, and this would prove to be the last time OKC was in the game.

OKC did load the bases with 3 singles in the 5^th with one out, but did not score.

In the 8^th, Ryan Ward drew a walk and scored on Kody Hoese’s 2^nd double of the game.  Hoese came around to score on 2 wild pitches.

Miguel Vargas slugged his 5^th HR, his first since April 3, for the final run by OKC, as they fell short by 3.

Trey Sweeney had 2 singles in his 5 AB.  Sweeney has now reached base in each of the 25 games he has appeared in this year.  He is on a 7-game hitting streak (16-35 – .457).

Kody Hoese had 2 doubles, and has a hit in 16 of the 18 games he has played this year.  How he has started the season, has to raise the eyebrows of all who had given up on him.  I do not think he will get a legit chance at LAD, but he sure deserves a chance at trying to show what he has at the MLB level.

• Miguel Vargas – 2-5, 2 runs, 1 RBI, HR (5)
• Trey Sweeney – 2-5
• Andre Lipcius – 2-5, 1 run, 3 RBI, HR (3)
• Ryan Ward – 3-4, 1 BB, 2 runs
• Kody Hoese – 2-4, 1 run, 2 RBI, 2 doubles (6)

Box Score

Great Lakes Loons 14 – Fort Wayne TinCaps (Padres) 3

This was a much anticipated match between a pair of young first round picks.  22 year old LHP Maddux Bruns was making his 2024 debut for the Loons, and 20 year old RHP Dylan Lesko starting for the TinCaps.  This was the second time Lesko has faced the Loons.  The last time he threw four shutout innings, no hits, 3 BB, 1 HBP, 1 K.

Well the anticipation was short lived as Bruns did not get out of the 2^nd inning and Lesko did not get out of the 3^rd.

Bruns struck out the first two on 7 pitches, and got a F-7 3^rd out.  That was 11 pitches, with the first 8 strikes and 9 of the 11.

In the 2^nd, Great Lakes broke out with 3 on an Alex Freeland 3-run HR, following a Yunior Garcia double and a Jake Vogel BB.

After Bruns’ 1^st inning, it was set up for him to pitch and not to throw. 1^st batter drew a BB, followed by a single.  On a sac bunt, Bruns made an errant throw and one run scored with runners on 2^nd and 3^rd.  After a ground out, the 2^nd run scored on a sacrifice fly.  The next two batters walked, and Bruns was lifted after 32 pitches in the 2nd for Kelvin Bautista.

Bruns final line –  1.2 IP, 3 runs (1 earned), 1 hit, 3 BB, 2 K, 43 pitches (25 strikes).

With the score knotted at 3-3, Lesko was in a position to take charge.

Dylan Campbell doubles to open the inning.  Chris Newell drew a 1 out BB.  Yunior Garcia drew a 2 out BB to load the bases.  Campbell scored on a WP.  Nick Biddison walked to load the bases again.  Jake Vogel drew a walk that plated Newell.  Lesko was pulled after 2.2 IP and 70 pitches.  The next pitcher hit Alex Freeland to force in the third run.

Singles by Campbell, Kyle Nevin, and Chris Newell brought in the Loons’ 7^th run in the 4^th.

The Loons scored their 8^th run in the 6^th with Kyle Nevin leading off and singling.  With one out, Tharon Liranzo singled and Nevin moved to third.  Nevin scored on a Garcia sac fly.

In the 7^th, Thayron Liranzo hit a 3 run HR.  In the 9^th, Liranzo was the key bat once again.  He hit a 2 run double, and scored the third run of the inning on a ground out.  Liranzo is finally showing signs of life.  He is 4-9 in the last two games with 2 doubles, a HR, and 5 RBI.

The Loons pitchers were dominant after the 2^nd inning.  Kelvin Bautista and Michael Martinez pitched a scoreless and hitless inning each, before Christian Romero entered in the 5^th.  He had help from a pair of DP, but in no inning did he allow 2 runners on the bases until the 9^th.  He got the K to end the game.  Romero pitched 5.0 scoreless innings, 2 singles, 3 BB, and 4 K.  Romero threw 68 pitches in his 5.0 IP.

• Alex Freeland – 2-4, 1 BB, 1 HBP, 1 run, 4 RBI, double (6), HR (2)
• Dylan Campbell – 3-5, 1 HBP, 3 runs
• Kyle Nevin – 3-6, 2 runs
• Thayron Liranzo – 3-6, 2 runs, 5 RBI, double (4), HR (1)
• Yunior Garcia – 1-4, 1 BB, 2 runs, 2 RBI, sacrifice fly, double (1)
• Jake Vogel – 1-2, 3 BB, 1 run, 1 RBI
• Chris Newell – 1-4, 2 BB, 2 runs, 1 RBI

Box Score

Rancho Cucamonga Quakes 7 – Lake Elsinore Storm (Padres) 4

Edgardo Henriquez started and completed 2.0 innings.  He faced 7 batters.  He walked 1 and struck out 6.

RC got on the board in the 1^st.  Kendall George led off with a single and scored on 3 wild pitches.

Jose Rodriguez continued his stellar pitching.  He was not as dominant as he was in his last outing (04-21), he was still very good.  He completed 4.0 innings, 2 hits, 2 BB, and 6 K.  He did allow an unearned run in the 4^th.  After the leadoff hitter reached on a fielding error, Rodriguez issued a walk. A single brought home the unearned run.  Rodriguez proceeded to strike out the next three batters after the single to retire the side.

RC got the run back in the bottom of the 4^th.  A walk, single, and two HBP forced in a run.

RC broke it open in the 6^th while scoring 5.  Carlos Rojas singled, and Jordan Thompson drew a BB.  Both runners came home on a Logan Wagner triple.  Wagner scored on a single by Jefferson Valladares.  Juan Alonso doubled putting runners on 2^nd and 3^rd.  Both runners scored on a WP and sac fly.

Joseilyn Gonzalez allowed two runs in the 7^th and another in the 8^th to let the Storm creep back into the game.  But Reynaldo Yean entered in the 9^th to close it out.  He walked one but struck out the side for his 2^nd save.

• Carlos Rojas – 2-3, 1 run
• Logan Wagner – 1-3, 1 HBP, 1 run, 2 RBI, triple (1)
• Jeral Perez – 1-4, Sac Fly, 1 RBI
• Juan Alonso – 1-2, 1 BB, 1 HBP, 1 run, 1 RBI, double (4)
• Zyhir Hope – 1-4, double (8)

Box Score

The Tulsa Drillers game against the Northwest Arkansas Naturals (KC) was postponed due to threatening weather.  They are scheduled to play two 7 inning games on Sunday.