Minor League Recap - 7/24

Games of 7/23

Mark Melancon continued his impressive season, improving to 6-0 last night in Trenton's 3-1 win over the New Hampshire Fisher Cats. With the game tied 1-1 in the 9th, Austin Jackson led off with a double and Chris Malec followed with an RBI triple. Joe Muich's RBI single added some insurance. Muich was only in the game due to a nasty injured suffered by catcher P.J. Pillitere. A foul ball ricocheted off the screen and hit Pillitere square in the face, breaking several bones in his nose. Mike Ashmore has more on Pillitere's injury.

	July 23, 2008
	Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Trenton 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 9 0 New Hampshire 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 0 Recap | Box | W: M. Melancon (6-0, 1.93); L: Z. Dials (2-3, 3.74) HR: None.

The Tampa Yankees also won in the 9th inning, 6-4, over the Brevard County Manatees. Josh Kreuzer was the hero with a walk off 2-run home run. Kreuzer had once been a highly touted prospect in the Blue Jays organization, including winning the Florida State League's MVP award, but was released in mid-June.

	July 23, 2008
	Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Brevard County 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 4 6 2 Tampa 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 2 6 10 1 Recap | Box | W: W. Arias (4-0, 2.61); L: E. Shanks (0-1, 3.21) HR: TAM: J. Kreuzer (2).

You guessed it, the Charleston River Dogs also won the in the 9th. They trailed the Greensboro Grasshoppers 3-1, but Justin Snyder belted a 2-run home run to tie the game up and Jesus Montero delivered a pinch-hit single to put the Dogs ahead. Wil De la Rosa started for Charleston, allowing 1 run in 5.2 innings pitched, with 8 strikeouts.

	July 23, 2008
	Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Charleston 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 4 8 0 Greensboro 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 3 7 2 Recap | Box | W: J. Ortiz (3-2, 1.85); L: S. Cishek (2-5, 4.40) HR: CHA: J. Snyder (5).

No late inning heroics for Staten Island as the Baby Bombers fell to the Jamestown Jammers 7-2. Mike Lyon did hit his third home run of the season.

July 23, 2008
	Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Staten Island 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 10 1 Jamestown 4 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 X 7 9 0 Recap | Box W: D. Clothier (2-0, 4.05); L: N. Asselin (0-1, 4.50); SV: A. Campbell (1) HR: STA: M. Lyon (3).

The GCL Yankees are struggling for runs this season, they got only one last night on a Jose Pirela RBI single, and it showed again last night in a 7-1 loss to the GCL Braves.

	July 23, 2008
	Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E GCL Braves 0 0 1 1 4 1 0 0 0 7 9 0 GCL Yankees 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 7 2 Recap | Box W: B. Oberholtzer (3-0, 1.90); L: R. Marte (1-1, 1.40) HR: None.

Rain had a big effect last night, postponing Scranton's game with the Richmond Braves.