Charlotte 0 Toledo 6
We covered the pitching for this game already. Marcus Thames homered, singled and walked. Mike Hessman homered. Don Kelly walked twice and doubled.
Akron 2 Erie 7
Scott Sizemore and And Dirks each had 3 hits. Ryan Strieby tripled and singled. Luis Marte allowed just 2 hits and 1 run, though he did walk 4 in 7 innings.
Lakeland 6 Palm Beach 5
Justin Henry went 3 for 5. Michael Bertram had 2 hits and 2 walks. Trevor Feeney allowed 1 unearned run in 5 innings with 3 hits, a walk, and 4 K’s.
Wisconsin 8 West Michigan 3
Gustavo Nunez had 4 hits, 2 of which were doubles. Mauricio Robles battled his control and walked 5 on the way to 5 runs allowed in 3 innings. Jered Gayhart fanned 2 with one hit allowed in 2 innings.
Charlotte 4 Toledo 2
Wil Rhymes and Don Kelly both went 3 for 4. Dusty Ryan homered, his 6th of the year. I think it’s time Ryan comes up and plays 2 days a week in lieu of Dane Sardhina. Brooks Brown went 8 innings using 97 pitches. He allowed 3 runs on 7 hits, 2 walks, and 2 K’s. Freddy Dolsi allowed a run on 3 hits and a walk in 1 inning.
Akron 1 Erie 4
Max Leon singled twice and doubled. Ryan Strieby and Andy Dirks each had 2 hits. Jonah Nickerson allowed just 1 run on 6 hits and 3 walks in 7 innings. Cody Satterwhite fanned 2 in 2 scoreless innings.
Lakeland 7 Palm Beach 6 (10 inn)
Jeramy Laster homered and singled. Michael Bertram and Justin Henry each had 2 hits. Thad Weber fanned 4 in 5.2 innings and allowed 3 runs on 6 hits.
Wisconsin 4 West Michigan 3
Brandon Douglas and Jordan Lennerton both went 2 for 4. Luke Putkonen allowed just 1 unearned run with 6 K’s in 6 innings. Victor Larez allowed 3 runs on 3 hits and 2 walks in his inning of work.
Norfolk 6 Toledo 8
Don Kelly and Brent Clevlen each had 3 hits. Marcus Thames went 1 for 5 with 2 K’s. Chris Lambert went 4 innings allowing 2 runs on 7 hits. Clay Rapada struck out 3 in 3 innings with 1 hit allowed. Freddy Dolis gave up 4 runs in 1+ innings. The Toledo pitchers combined to not issue any walks.
Erie 5 Harrisburg 6
Alex Avila, homered, singled and walked. Andy Dirks and Max Leon each had 2 hits. Mike Hollimon returned after not playing for over a month and he homered. Jon Kibler allowed 10 hits and 4 runs in 6 innings.
Jupiter 3 Lakeland 9
Audy Ciriaco hit a grand slam. Chris Carlson homered and singled while Jeramy Laster got the 2 hard parts of the cycle. Jordan Newton added 3 hits. Thad Weber pitched 2 perfect innings to start the game. Lauren Gagnier allowed 2 runs on 4 hits, 1 walk, 1 homer, and 2 k’s in 5 innings. Robbie Weinhardt gave up a homer.
Jupiter 3 Lakeland 0
There were 2 singles for Lakeland so there are no offensive highlights. Charlie Fubrush wen4 innings and allowed 3 runs on 5 hits including 2 homers.
Quad Cities 5 West Michigan 8
Brandon Douglas added 3 more hits. Avasail Garcia went 2 for 4. Brandon Hamilton only made it through 4.2 innings and he gave up 8 hits in 4.2 innings.
Norfolk 9 Toledo 5
Jeremy Bonderman made another rehab start. He threw 97 pitches, 60 of them for strikes, in 6 innings. He allowed 7 hits, 3 walks, a homer and he fanned 4. Casey Fien struggled recording one out and allowing 3 runs on 4 hits. Wil Rhymes doubled and singled. Marcus Thames struck out 3 times. Brent Dlugach had 2 hits and a walk.
Erie 6 Harrisburg 3 (10 innings)
Andy Dirks needed a homer for the cycle. Alex Avila went 3 for 4. Brennan Boesch and Scott Sizemore each had 2 doubles. Pat Stanley pitched 5 innings of shut out ball allowing 2 hits and 2 walks to go with 4 strikeouts.
Lakeland – suspended in 2nd
Quad Cities 4 West Michigan 8
Brent Wyatt had 4 hits. Ben Guez homered. Brandon Douglas and Gustavo Nunez each had 2 hits. Mauricio Robles pitched into the 8th inning. He allowed 3 runs on 6 hits and 2 walks with 7 K’s.
Toledo 1 Gwinnett 4
Ryan Roberson homered and Don Kelly doubled. Brooks Brown walked 5 and allowed 7 hits, but only 4 of those baserunners came around to score in 5.1 innings.
Erie 8 Akron 1
Brennan Boesch and Ryan Strieby both went double-homer. Cale Iorg homered and walked. Duane Below allowed just 1 unearned run on 2 hits, a walk and 3 K’s in 6.1 innings.
Lakeland – PPD again
West Michigan 5 Kane County 6
Gustavo Nunez and Brent Wyatt both had 2 hits. Nunez added 2 walks and Wyatt added 1. Bryan Pounds walked twice and doubled. Mark Sorenson fanned 6 in 6 innings and allowed 3 runs on 7 hits and 2 walks.
Toledo 3 Gwinnett 9
Ryan Roberson homered and Wilkin Ramirez tripled off of Tom Glavine in this shortened 5 inning game. Luke French allowed 8 runs on 5 hits (2 homers) and 4 walks in 4.1 innings.
Erie 6 Akron 7
Alex Avila was a triple short of the cycle and Joe Tucker had 2 doubles and a single. Max Leon and Santo De Leon each had 2 hits. Alfredo Figaro allowed 8 hits and 5 runs in 5 innings with 1 walk and 2 K’s. Cody Satterwhite allowed a run on a hit and 2 walks in his inning of work.
Lakeland – PPD
West Michigan 7 Kane County 4
Brent Wyatt had 3 hits and Avasail Garcia had 2 hits. Casey Crosby walked 5 and allowed 3 runs in 3.1 innings.
Lakeland 5 Tampa 2
Kody Kaiser and Michael Bertram each had 2 hits. Jeramy Laster homered. Andrew Hess allowed 2 runs on 4 hits and a walk in 6 innings.
Lakeland 6 Tampa 0
Chris Carlson doubled and singled. Audy Ciriaco added a double. Matt Hoffman pitched a 7 innings, 6 hit shut out with 4 K’s and no walks.
West Michigan 1 Peoriia 4
Billy Nowlin doubled. Luis Salas homered. Brent Wyatt walked twice and singled. Mauricio Robles allowed 4 runs on 4 hits (2 were homers) but he did fan 8 with only 2 walks.
Harrisburg 11 Erie 5
Scott Sizemore was 2 for 5 with a homer. Alex Avila and Shawn Roof also had 2 hits. Jonah Nickerson allowed 6 runs, but only 1 was earned in 5 innigns on 8 hits and 4 walks. Ramon Garica allowed 4 runs in his 1 inning of work.
Lakeland – PPD
West Michigan 6 Peoria 2
Bryan Pounds homered as part of a 3 for 5 day. Jordan Lennerton doubled and homered. Luke Putkonen lasted 7.1 innings and fanned 5 to go along with 5 hits, 3 walks, and 2 runs. Jared Gayhart pitche 1.2 scoreless innings with 3 K’s.
Toledo 0 Charlotte 4
Danny Worth had the lone hit, a double. Brooks Brown allowed 2 runs in 7 innings on 5 hits, 2 walks, and 4 K’s. Casey Fien allowed 2 runs in his inning of work.
Harrisburg 3 Erie 4 (10 inn)
Brennan Boesch, Santo De Leon, and Cale Iorg all had 3 hits. Iorg 12 for 36 in his last 10 games with 6 of the hits for extra bases, but he still has a 10/2 K/BB ratio over that time span. Duane Below allowed 3 runs on 5 hits and 5 walks with 4 ‘s. Zach Simons pitched 3 scoreless innings and Cody Satterwhite pitched 2 and neither allowed a hit while fanning 5.
Lakeland PPD
Great Lakes 6 West Michigan 4
Brent Wyatt and Brandon Douglas each went 2 for 5. Ronnie Bourquin had 2 hits and 2 walks. Casey Crosby allowed only a walk and a home run while fanning 7 in 6 innings.
Toledo 2 Charlotte 5
Wilkin Ramirez went 3 for 3 with a homer and a walk and has a 325/389/500 line. Chris Lambert struck out 8, but he allowed 2 homers as part of his 6 hits and surrendered 5 runs in 6 innings.
Erie 1 Bowie 3
Scott Sizemore doubled twice and Cale Iorg was 2 for 2 with 2 walks (he now has 3 on the season). Alfredo Figaro allowed 3 runs on 7 hits and 4 walks in 7 innings with 5 K’s.
Clearwater 9 Lakeland 8
Justin Henry was 3 for 5 with a triple. Kody Kaiser homered and walked. Mike Gosse doubled twice. Lauren Gagnier struck out 9 but allowed 5 runs in 6 ininngs.
Great Lakes 4 West Michigan 5
Bryan Pounds was 2 for 4 with a double. Ronnie Bourquin doubled and walked. Brandon Hamilton allowed 2 runs in 6 innings on 2 walks, and 6 hits with 6 K’s.
PREGAME: The Tigers are going for their third sweep in a week – of course one of those times they were the sweep-ee. The Tigers have outscored the A’s 23-2 in the first 2 games of the series. I’m going to this one though and the Tigers are 1-4 when I’m in attendance. But the 1 win was Opening Day with Armando Galarraga on the mound. So anything could happen.
Galarraga hasn’t pitched well of late, throwing lots of sliders and not enough balls in the strike zone.
Trevor Cahill pitches for the A’s. He has more walks than strikeouts (20/14) but a 3.69 ERA. He’s riding a string of 3 straight quality starts and he’s only given up more than 2 runs in a start one time this season.
Adam Everett and Ramon Santiago congratulate Curtis Granderson
POSTGAME: This one looked bad at the outset. Armando Galarraga was the-awful again, but I get the feeling this wasn’t entirely unexpected. Jim Leyland had Zach Miner up and working relatively quickly. Yes, 5 runs were plated before Galarraga was lifted, but it’s not often you have a replacement up and warm 15 minutes after the game starts.
It makes me think that there may be something beyond simple mechanical issues hampering Galarraga. I have no idea if he’s injured, but he does have a history of injuries, he saw a large spike in innings pitched last year, and he has lost the strike zone.
Fortunately the Tigers offense responded as they had all series. Detroit scored 34 runs over the last 3 games and have been responsible for 20% of the runs the A’s staff has allowed this season. In 3 games they hit 2 grand slams and 3 3-run homers. I kind of prefer that to small ball myself.
Ramon Santiago made the most of his start with a 4-4 day where he missed a cycle by just a double. Adam Everett did what he could to hold on to the primary shortstop role with 2 doubles, a single, and a sac bunt. And Curtis Granderson sealed the deal with a 3 run jack (he also had 3 walks).
Zach Miner was a pseudo starter today. He was by no means lights out but he deserves some credit (and he did get the win). He came in with runners on first and second and stranded them. He allowed a run in second inning, but when the Tigers scored their runs in the 3rd and 4th innings, he didn’t give any runs back to the A’s which let the offense take the lead for good.
The rest of the bullpenning was good as well save for 2 walks from Luke French.
This had to be a discouraging series for the A’s, to be blown out in 2 games and then cough up a 6 run early lead. Billy Beane has rightly been praised for his work with a limited budget, but A’s fans are getting fed up.
Photo Day
Today was on field photo day. It’s something we’ve done a couple times in the past. Back in 2003 there weren’t a lot of people. In 2007 it was a crushing mass of humanity. Today was something in between. It was full, but not packed and the Tigers organization did a great job of carving out areas for the kids. It is tough to make everyone happy, but I think they did a nice job striking a balance.
But I really have to give credit to the players. I don’t know if they enjoy these days or not, but if they don’t you would have no idea. Everyone I saw seemed to be having a wonderful time. The smiles seemed genuine and they took time to really try and pose for pictures instead of just walking the line. Inge was of course a fan favorite, but Andy Van Slyke probably got the biggest laughs when he was holding an infant and making faces at the kid. Willis picked up a kid and gave him a hug. Cabrera was playing with another kid.
I know that none of this stuff makes a difference in terms of wins and losses, but for fan relations it does make a difference. I’ve said it a number of times, but if a player is nice to my kid he’s earned himself my support. I’m sure that’s true for a lot of other parents as well and the team did well in that regard today.
Toledo 8 Charlotte 9
Wilkin Ramirez had himself a game with 4 hits, including 2 homers. Mike Hessman hit another homer and finished a triple short of the cycle. Scot Drucker allwoed 12 hits and 4 runs in 6 innings. Freddy Dolsi suffered the loss allowing 4 runs (2 earned) in two-thirds of an inning.
Erie 0 Bowie 4 (7 inn)
Deik Scram had the Seawolves lone hit. Jon Kibler went all 7 innings walking 2 and fanning 2.
Brevard County 1 Lakeland 0
Jordan Newton doubled. Audy Ciriaco singled and walked. Trevor Feeney allowed a run in 2.1 innings and Jay Sborz pitched 2.2 shutout innings. Robbie Weinhardt pitched 1 inning not allowing a runner and fanning 1.
Brevard County 6 Lakeland 10
Audy Ciriaco homered twice and doubled, driving in 7 runs. Kody Kaiser had a 3 hit day and he walked. Charlie Furbush K’d 4 and walked none in 5 innings. Brett Jacobson allowed 3 runs in two-thirds of an inning and Scott Green allowed 3 hits and 2 walk in 1.2 innings.
Great Lakes 6 West Michigan 13
Jeremy Bonderman pitched for the Caps, but I think you knew that already. Brandon Douglas went 3 for 4 pushing his line to 358/438/413. Brent Wyatt singled and homered.
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