Minor League Game Thread 4/7/24 SUNDAY

[texasdave]

DAYTONA - Daytona leads off today's action for the Reds farm clubs.

Adam Serinowski is seriously dealing today. He has tossed 3 perfect innings, striking out 4. He has only tossed 34 pitches.

4 hits for the Turtles, but no runs on the scoreboard.

Dominic Pitelli is 2 for 2, pushing his early-season batting average up to .636.

Daytona loaded the bases with one away in the first before the St Lucie starter was jerked. They inserted Jonah Tong, and he has been spectacular. He has fanned 8 in 3.0 IP.

EDIT: Make that 9 Ks in 3.1 innings.

[texasdave]

LOUISVILLE - The Bats went down in order in the top of the first.

Rehabber, Nick Lodolo, will take the ball in the home half of the inning for Louisville.

Lodolo works around a leadoff double, retiring the Stripers on 17 pitches (14 strikes).

[texasdave]

DAYTONA - Adam Serinowski hangs another zero on the board, striking out 2 in the 4th. He did give up his first hit of the contest.

[texasdave]

LOUISVILLE - Nick Lodolo shut the Stripers down for 2 frames, but got unloaded upon in the 3rd. His final line: 2.2 IP, 5 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 0 BB, 2 K. Lodolo also plunked a couple of batters.
Stevie Branche was up next and got reached for 3 more runs. Gwinnett leads 7-1.

Louisville run came on a double by Mike Ford, and a single off the bat of Alex McGarry.

[texasdave]

DAYTONA - moved to 2-1 on the season by blanking St. Lucie 2-0.

Adam Serinowski was stellar with 4 scoreless innings. He allowed one hit, no walks and struck out 6.
Nestor Lorant was quite good. He also worked 4 scoreless innings to pick up the win. 5 hits, 0 walks and 3 Ks.
Dylan Simmons earned the save with a 1-2-3 stanza. He fanned 2. Drafted in the 15th round in 2023, the Pitt alumnus made his first period in the minors a successful one.

Two singles for Donovan Pitelli.
Carter Graham singled twice and walked.
Johnny Ascanio homered (1) and was walked twice.

NOTE: St. Lucie hurler, Jonah Tong, went 4.1 innings and struck out 11. Yikes!

[texasdave]

DAYTON - Los Dragons scored a run in each of the first two innings, before allowing a 4-spot in the 3rd. That's where it stands in the top of the 6th, 4-2 Lansing.

Javi Rivera was victimized for all 4 runs.
Tanner Cooper came in with the bases loaded and all 3 runners scored.
Ian Gibaut dispatched Lansing in order in the 5th. 10 pitches, 8 strikes and 2 punch outs.
Arij Fransen is walking the tightrope in the 6th. He has allowed a single and walked 3, but no one has crossed home thanks to Jay Allen II gunning down a runner at second.
Pedro Alfonseca has now replaced Fransen. And he promptly balks a run home. Pedro strikes out the batter to end the inning.

Sal Stewart has singled twice for Dayton.
Ethan O'Donnell has singled and doubled.

[texasdave]

LOUISVILLE - goes down in flame for the 3rd straight contest. This time it's 8-2.

Sam Moll and Yosver Zulueta each posted a scoreless inning down the stretch.

Not much went on hitting-wise. Blake Dunn singled and walked.
Mike Ford doubled and homered (2).

Other than that, not much offensively.

[texasdave]

DAYTON - rallies late, and then walks off the Lugnuts 7-6.

Dayton relievers inherited 6 baserunners, and 5 of them touched home.
Brody Jessee saw his first action of the year and struck out 5 over his 2 innings on the mound.

Dragons erupted for 4 runs in the 7th, including home runs by Hector Rodriguez (1) and Jay Allen II (1).
The winning rally in the 9th saw Cam Collier single, Hector Rodriguez double, Ethan O'Donnell walk to load them up, and Cade Hunter singled home the winning run.

Dayton saw a ton of baserunners today on 14 hits,a nd 5 walks. Seemingly, everyone joined in on the actions.

Jay Allen II - HR (1), BB.
Sal Stewart - 3 SGL.
Cam Collier - 2 SGL, DBL. BA .385, OPS 1.077.
Hector Rodriguez - SGL, DBL, HR (1). BA .429, OPS 1.556. A triple shy of a cycle.
Ethan O'Donnell - SGL, DBL, BB.
Cade Hunter - 2 SGL. BA .375. OPS 1.194. Game winning hit in the bottom of the 9th.

[texasdave]

CHATTANOOGA - is off and running. They score a run in the top of the 1st, only to see Birmingham plate 2 in the bottom half of the inning.

Chase Petty is starting for the Lookouts.

Tyler Callihan and Justice Thompson each singled in the 1st.

[icehole3]

Jay Allen II delivers with his first HR of the year!
https://twitter.com/DragonsBaseball/...59435124339170

Hector Rodriguez HR
https://twitter.com/DragonsBaseball/...61602916794717

Cade Hunter walk off
https://twitter.com/DragonsBaseball/...72128744968335

Daytona shuts out St. Lucie on six hits, Johnny Ascanio helps things out offensively with a solo homer, and the Tortugas leave St. Lucie with a series victory!
https://twitter.com/daytonatortugas/...40709914079413

[goreds2]

Great information in these threads. Thanks!