Tuesday MiLB Games – 4 Games, 4 Wins

OKC Comets 7- Round Rock Express (Texas) 3

OKC jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the top of the 1^st.  2B Ryan Fitzpatrick led off with a single, and with one out, 1B Ryan Ward slugged 2-run HR (5).  RF James Tibbs III followed with a double (8).  CF Zach Ehrhard reached on a E-4.  LF Jack Suwinski followed with a 3-run HR (6) and a quick 5-0 lead.

In the 2^nd, Fitzpatrick hit his second single, and moved to 3^rd on Tibbs III 2-out single.  Fitzpatrick scored on a balk.

After retiring the side in order in the 1^st, RHSP Christian Romero ran into a little trouble in the 2^nd.  A single, sac bunt, and single scored one.  That was followed by a 2-run HR and the lead was cut in half, 6-3.

The Comets got one more in the 5^th.  Tibbs III hit his 2^nd double of the night, and 9^th on the season.  That was followed by a HBP and 2 BB to force in a run.

Romero had some traffic in innings 3-5, but no runs.  After Romero, RHRP Paul Gervase followed with 2 scoreless innings, with 4 K.  RHRP Chayce McDermott and RHRP Jerming Rosario pitched the final 2.0 innings.  They faced 6 batters and struck out 5 of them.

• James Tibbs III – 3-4, 1 BB, 2 runs, 2 doubles (9)
• Ryan Fitzpatrick – 2-5, 1 run

Box Score

Tulsa Drillers 17 – San Antonio Missions (Padres) 7

Some good and bad in this one.  The bad? After LHSP Adam Serwinowski had a great start in his last game, he returned to his early season concerns.  He completed just 4.0 innings, throwing 85 pitches (53 strikes).  He allowed 6 runs (all earned) on 7 hits, 2 BB, and registered 5 K.  Adam left trailing 6-4, but that is before the good took over.

Tulsa scored 17 runs on 15 hits and 9 BB.  They also benefited from 3 San Antonio errors.  Tulsa top 2 hitters were big in this one.  They started out in the first inning.  RF Josue De Paula singled, stole 2B (8), and scored on DH Zyhir Hope’s double (4).

The Drillers temporarily took the lead in the bottom of the third.  LF Chris Newell led off with a triple (1), and scored on a throwing error.  3B Kyle Nevin drew a 2-out BB and scored on Hope’s 4^th HR.

San Antonio went back on top with 4 in the 4^th, 3 on C Ethan Salas’ HR.

De Paula hit his 2^nd HR of the season with one out in the 5^th.

Tulsa took the lead for good in the 6^th.  The big blow was 2B Jake Gelof’s 3-run HR (5).  Newell followed with his 2^nd HR.

Griffin Lockwood-Powell hit his 3^rd HR in the 7^th.

The Drillers broke it open in the 8^th.  CF Kendall George led off with a single and moved to 3^rd on Nevin’s 4^th double.  Hope was IBB.  1B Joe Vetrano cleared the bases with a grand slam (3).  Gelof drew a walk and scored ahead of Newell’s 2^nd HR of the game (3).

After Serwinowski was lifted, 4 Tulsa pitchers completed 5.0 IP.  They allowed 1 run on 4 hits, 3 walks, and 9 K.

Kendall George and Chris Newell each had 3 hits. Josue De Paula, Zyhir Hope and GLP each had a pair of hits.  Every Driller’s hitter had a least one hit except Elijah Hainline, but he had 3 BB.

Box Score

Great Lakes Loons 11 – Peoria Chiefs (Cardinals) 4

RHSP Aidan Foeller struggled in this one.  He allowed 4 runs on 6 hits, 2 BB, with 6 K in 3.1 IP.  LHRP Cody Morse finished the 4^th inning and retired the side in the 5^th.

But the pitching star on the night was LHSP Jakob Wright.  He completed 4.0 scoreless and hitless innings.  He did not walk a batter, and struck out 8, including 4 in the 9^th.  The only baserunner was a batter who struck out, but reached on a WP.

Meanwhile Great Lakes was putting up some offense.  They scored 11 runs on 18 hits and 5 BB.  DH Eduardo Guerrero was the only Loon without a hit.  7 of the 8 remaining Loons hitters had at least 2 hits. 

In the first inning, LF Charles Davalan led off with a single, and scored on RF Mike Sirota’s double (8).  CF Eduardo Quintero singled to plate Sirota.  With one out, 2B Nico Perez doubled putting runners on 2^nd and 3^rd.  C Jesus Galiz got a 2-out single for 2 more runs. 

GL did not score in the 2^nd, but scored in the next 4 innings. 

In the 3^rd, with one out and one on, 1B Jose Meza singled, moving the runner to 3^rd.  Meza stole 2B (6).  One run scored on a WP.

In the 4^th, with 2 outs, Quintero walked and scored ahead of 3B Logan Wagner’s HR (7).

A BB, balk, and RBI single by SS Jose Izarra scored on in the 5^th.

In the 6^th, singles by Sirota, Quintero, Perez, Meza, and Galiz scored 2 more.

In the 8^th, Nico Perez hit his 2^nd double in the game (6) and scored on Meza’s single for the final tally.

• Eduardo Quintero – 3-4, 1 BB, 3 runs, 1 RBI
• Nico Perez – 3-4, 1 BB, 3 runs, 2 doubles (6)
• Jose Meza – 3-5, 2 RBI
• Charles Davalan – 2-5, 1 run, double (6)
• Mike Sirota – 2-4, 1 BB, 2 runs, 1 RBI, double (8)
• Logan Wagner – 2-5, 1 run, 2 RBI, double (8), HR (7)
• Jesus Galiz – 2-3, 2 BB, 1 run, 3 RBI

Box Score

Ontario Tower Buzzers 4 – Lake Elsinore Storm (Padres) 3 – 10 innings

Much better outing for LHSP Blake Snell.  He struck out the side in the 1^st inning.  He allowed a leadoff double in the 2^nd, and then proceeded to strike out the side again.  He retired the side in order in the third to finish his night.  3.0 IP, 1 hit, 6K.

CF Jaron Elkins led off the 4^th with a BB.  He stole 2B and scored on LF Ching-Hsein Ko’s double (4) and a 1-0 lead.

RHP Hyun-Seok Jang followed Snell and pitched a competent 4.0 innings.  He allowed a run on 2 hits and 1 BB.  The run he allowed was from a double followed by a steal of 3^rd and home.  He also had 5 K.

2B Joendry Vargas led of the 6^th with a single.  That was followed with 2 BB and a ground out to give Ontario the lead again.

RHRP Will Gagnon followed Jang.  He issued a BB, and a 2^nd batter reached on catcher interference.  A force out put runners on the corners.  The runner on 1^st stole 2B.  A single plated both Storm runners and a 3-2 lead. 

Down 3-2 in the 9^th Ko slugged a game tying HR (3) to force extra innings.

RHRP Jecsua Liborius did not allow a run in the 10^th.  He completed 2.1 scoreless innings.

In the bottom of the 10^th, DH AJ Soldra was the placed runner.  On a ground out, Soldra moved to 3^rd.  Soldra would later score on a balk for the walk off win.

Ko was the only Ontario hitter with 2 hits, a double and HR.  Elkins had the other XBH, double.

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