The Lake County Captains have a deciding game on Friday night, while the Kinston Indians now trail their playoff series, 2-0.
AAA Columbus Clippers
Yankees 5, Columbus 4 For the second straight night, Columbus and Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) played 10 innings.
But unlike Wednesday, on Thursday the visiting Yankees won and evened the International League best-of-five playoff series, 1-1. Game 3 is tonight in Scranton/Wilkes Barre at 6:05.
Columbus committed three errors Thursday, which led to three unearned Yankees runs.
Zach McAllister started for Columbus and lasted 5 innings. The right-hander allowed four runs, one earned, on five hits and four walks. He coughed up three home runs.
Columbus right-handed reliever Saul Rivera pitched a scoreless ninth but walked the leadoff man in the tenth, who stole second and scored on a single.
DH Wes Hodges homered for the Clippers, and center fielder Ezequiel Carrera had two hits and four walks.
Columbus lefty Aaron Laffey pitched 1 1/3 scoreless innings.
Notes: (Numbers in parentheses are regular season statistics. Other numbers include playoff games) Going into Thursday night's game, Clippers OF Jose Constanza (.319) was hitting .369 (38-of-103) in his last 25 games....OF Ezequiel Carrera (.286) was 15-of-45 (.333) with three doubles, one triple, two home runs, six stolen bases, six RBI and seven runs in his last 11 games. Carrera, 23, was acquired by the Indians with IF Juan Diaz -- a 21-year-old who hit .271 at Advanced A Kinston -- in the June 26 trade that sent Russell Branyan to the Seattle Mariners. Carrera homered and doubled in the Clippers' 6-4, 10-inning Game 1 win over the Yankees....Catcher Luke Carlin, who slugged a two-run homer in the bottom of the 10th inning on Wednesday night to give the Clippers a 6-4 Game 1 win over the Yankees, was acquired by the Indians on Aug. 10 from the Pittsburgh Pirates organization for a player to be named later. Carlin, 29, hit .239 with two homers and 23 RBI in 205 at bats for Class AAA Indianapolis before hitting .231 with two homers and six RBI in 39 at bats for Columbus. Carlin has 112 major league at bats -- 94 with San Diego in 2008 and 18 with Arizona in 2009 -- hitting .152 with one homer and seven RBI....1B Wes Hodges (.270) had hit three homers and a double and driven in eight runs in his last nine games....RH reliever Vinnie Pestano (1-2, 14 saves, 1.55) had posted five saves and an 0.82 ERA in his last 11 games, pitching 11 innings and striking out 13, while allowing four hits and two walks....RH reliever Zach Putnam (0-1, 3.33) had allowed one run (unearned) while going 1-0 in his last 11 games, fanning 16, walking three and giving up five hits in 15 1/3 innings....RH reliever Josh Judy (3-0, two saves, 2.68) had allowed one run (unearned) in his last nine games, fanning 13 in nine 10, while yielding five hits and two walks....RHP Zach McAllister, the Clippers' starter on Thursday night, was the New York Yankees' third pick in the 2006 draft. He was 8-10 with a 5.09 ERA in 24 starts for Scranton/Wilkes-Barre this season, before being acquired by the Indians from the New York organization on Aug. 20 as the player-to-be-named-later in Cleveland's July 31 trade of Kerry Wood to New York. McAllister was 1-2 with a 6.88 ERA in three regular season starts for the Clippers.
Advanced A Kinston Indians
Dash 2, Indians 0 Kinston had four hits, which was one more than host Winston-Salem, N.C., but still lost the Carolina League playoff game. The K-Tribe trails the first-round best-of-five series, 2-0. Game 3 is Friday night in Kinston, N.C., at 7 p.m.
Righty Austin Adams started for Kinston and went 4 innings. He allowed two earned runs on two hits and two walks while striking out five. Lefty Chris Jones (three innings, one hit allowed) and righty Matthew Langwell closed out the game.
One of Kinston's four hits went for extra bases, a double off the bat of 3B Kyle Bellows.
Notes: (Numbers in parentheses are regular season statistics. Other numbers include playoff games) Going into Thursday night's game, Catcher Chun Chen (.320) was 15-of-35 (.429) with six doubles, one homer, seven RBI, six runs and eight walks in his last 10 games games. Chen, in 172 at bats with Kinston, had 17 doubles, six homers, 30 RBI and 38 walks. Including his time this season with Lake County, Chen hit .315 with 38 doubles, three triples, 12 homers and 69 RBI in 390 regular season at bats........3B Jeremie Tice (.283) was 12-of-43 (.279) with three homers, two doubles, one triple, 11 RBI and eight runs in his last 11 games....LF Bo Greenwell (.292) was 16-of-41 (.390) with three doubles, one triple, one homer, eight runs and five RBI in his last nine games....OF Donnie Webb (.267) was 14-of-33 (.424) with two doubles, one triple, one homer, 12 runs, seven RBI and three stolen bases in his last 11 games....RHP Austin Adams, the Indians' starter on Thursday night, finished the regular season 6-1 with a 1.53 ERA in 13 games (12 starts) for Kinston. Including his stint with Lake County to begin the season, Adams was 8-5 with one save and a 2.49 ERA in 26 games (20 starts), striking out 112, walking 36 and holding batters to a .218 average in 112 innings....Indians RH starting pitcher Joe Gardner and RH reliever Cory Burns were named to the Carolina League year-end all-star team, which includes just one starter and one reliever. It is the first time Kinston has swept the pitching spots on the year-end all-star team since RH starter Bartolo Colon and RH reliever Danny Graves won the honors in 1995....Gardner (12-6, 2.65), Cleveland's third-round pick in the 2009 draft, led the league in wins and was third in ERA. He was also first in the league in holding hitters to the lowest batting average, .199. Including his time with Lake County to begin the season, Gardner led pitchers in the Indians minor league system with 13 wins and 142 strikeouts. He finished 13-6 overall with a 2.75 ERA, walking 62 and allowing just six home runs. Overall, Gardner held hitters to a .197 batting average. He is scheduled to start Friday night's third game, in Kinston....Burns (1-2, 1.83) led the league with 30 saves. With Kinston, Burns had struck out 56, walked 13 and held batters to a .210 average with two homers going into Thursday night's game. Burns began the season with Lake County, and he finished a combined 1-2 with 42 saves (in 45 opportunities) with a 1.96 ERA. Burns struck out 81 and walked 14 in 55 innings, while allowing a .212 batting average and two homers....Going into Thursday night's game, RH reliever Matthew Langwell (4-2, five saves, 2.41) had struck out 58, walked 14 and held batters to a .219 average and four homers in 56 innings....RH Brian Grening (4-3, 3.74) had fanned 67 and walked 28 in 53 innings, holding batters to a .214 average....LH reliever Chris Jones (4-3, two saves, 2.39) was a combined 6-5 with three saves and a 2.51 ERA in 89 2/3 innings with Kinston and Lake County. He had struck out 85 and walked 29 in 89 2/3 innings. Opponents were hitting .226 with four homers against him....RH reliever Tyler Sturdevant (3-2, 3.72) had struck out 35 and walked 11 in 29 innings with Kinston. Including his time this season with Lake County, Sturdevant was 6-2 with two saves and a 2.09 ERA. He had struck out 91 and walked 19 in 64 2/3 innings, holding batters to a .192 average and four homers.
A Lake County Captains
Whitecaps 8, Captains 0 West Michigan put up 18 hits and cruised to the Midwest League playoff win in Eastlake to force a series-deciding third game, which will be played Friday night in Eastlake at 6:30 p.m..
Left-handed starter Vidal Nuno gave up four runs, all earned, on nine hits in five innings. He struck out seven and did not walk a batter.
Lake County had four hits, all singles, and drew two walks.
Notes: (Numbers in parentheses are regular season statistics. Other numbers include playoff games) Going into Thursday night's game, 1B Adam Abraham (.264) was hitting .355 (66-of-186) with 16 doubles, 11 homers and 44 RBI in his last 47 games....RH reliever Preston Guilmet (4-1, 11 saves, 2.25) had struck out 80 and walked 10 in 53 innings, holding batters to a .184 average and two homers....RH reliever Jose Flores (1-1, six saves, 2.14) was 1-0 with two saves in his last eight games, striking out 13 in 11 scoreless innings, while giving up seven hits and one walk. Flores had fanned 55 and walked seven in 43 innings overall, holding batters to a .219 average and one homer....RH reliever Francisco Jimenez (8-1, one save, 3.59) was 3-0 with an 0.84 ERA in his last eight games, striking out 24 in 21 1/3 innings while yielding 16 hits and four walks....OF Delvi Cid (.253) led the Midwest League with 71 stolen bases (in 87 attempts), the stole two bases in two tries in Game 1 against the Whitecaps. The 73 steals overall in 89 attempts are an 82 percent success ratio for Cid. In his first three minor league seasons, Cid stole a total of 68 bases in 102 attempts, a 67 percent rate....RH reliever Rob Bryson, acquired from the Milwaukee organization when the Indians traded CC Sabathia to the Brewers in 2008, began the season with Lake County, pitching in eight games. He was then promoted to Advanced A Kinston, where he made 13 appearances. Bryson then was promoted to Class AA Akron, where he pitched in 12 games, including his only three starts of the season. With the three teams, Bryson was 7-2 with one save and a 2.53 ERA. He struck out 80 in 53 1/3 innings, an average of 13.5 strikeouts per every nine innings. Bryson walked 21 and held hitters to a .165 batting average....RHP Jason Knapp (1-0, 3.94) is scheduled to start for the Captains if a third game is necessary in the best-of-three series. Knapp was a 2008 second-round draft pick of the Philadelphia Phillies, who sent him to the Indians in the Cliff Lee trade last July. Knapp, coming back from offseason shoulder surgery yet still regarded as an elite prospect, began pitching in July for the Indians Arizona League rookie team. He has struck out 29 in 16 innings for the Captains in four games, after fanning 18 in 12 1/3 innings over five outings in the Arizona League. In the 28 1/3 combined innings, Knapp has given up just 17 hits -- including no homers. He has walked 12....LHP Giovanni Soto is 3-2 with a 3.77 ERA in six starts with the Captains since the Indians acquired him from West Michigan, a Detroit Tigers farm team, in exchange for Jhonny Peralta. In a combined 22 games -- all starts -- for the Captains and Whitecaps, Soto is 9-8 with a 2.93 ERA and two shutouts. He has struck out 107, walked 36 and held batters to a .237 average and seven homers in 113 2/3 innings.
Source: http://www.cleveland.com/tribe/index.ssf/2010/09/minor_league_report_41.html
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