Phelps, Goedert and Head all homer as Clippers sweep home games in IL finale.
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AAA Columbus Clippers
Clippers 4, Bulls 0: 2B Cord Phelps, 3B Jared Goedert and LF Jerad Head homered, and RHP Zach McAllister allowed six hits in seven innings as host Columbus took a 2-0 series lead over Durham in the best-of-five Governor’s Cup International League Championship Series. McAllister struck out five and did not walk a batter. RHP Zach Putnam and RHP Vinnie Pestano each pitched an inning of relief for the Clippers.
Notes: The third game of the series, and if necessary, Games 4 and 5, will be played at Durham on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. RH Yohan Pino is scheduled to start Game 3 for the Clippers, and RH Paolo Espino is slated for the Game 4 start....Going into Wednesday night's game, the Clippers playoff leaders in batting average were catcher Luke Carlin, .500 (7-of-14); OF Jerad Head, .444 (8-of-18); CF Ezequiel Carrera, .429 (9-of-21); IF Drew Sutton, .333 (6-of-18); 1B Wes Hodges, .316 (6-of-19); OF Jose Constanza, .280 (7-of-25); 3B Jared Goedert, .273 (6-of-22). Carlin and Hodges each had two home runs; Carlin and 2B Josh Rodriguez each had three doubles. Leaders in RBI were Head and Hodges (eight), Carlin (five) and Carrera and Rodriguez (four). Leaders in runs were Head and Carrera (six) and Carlin and Hodges (five). Rodriguez was hitting .222 (4-of-18) but had produced seven runs. 2B Cord Phelps was hitting .200 (4-of-20) but led in walks with five. ... Going into Wednesday night's game, RH Yohan Pino (1-0, 0.00), LH David Huff (1-0, 1.93), RH Paolo Espino (1-0, 2.57) and RH Zach McAllister (0-0, 1.59) had made the Clippers' five playoff starts (two by Huff) and had a combined ERA of 1.61 in 33 2/3 innings. ... Hodges was 16-of-53 (.302) with five home runs, two doubles, 15 RBI and nine runs in his last 13 games. ... Carrera was 22-of-62 (.355) in his last 15 games, with three doubles, two triples, two homers, 11 runs, nine RBI and eight stolen bases in nine attempts. ... Constanza had reached base in his last 29 games and hit .378 (37-of-98). ... Carrera had reached base in his last 24 games, including -- like Constanza -- all five playoff games. ...RH reliever Zach Putnam had allowed one run (unearned) while going 1-0 in his last 12 games, fanning 19, walking three and giving up five hits in 16 1/3 innings; RH reliever Josh Judy has allowed one run (unearned) in his last 10 games, fanning 14 while yielding five hits and two walks in 11 1/3 innings.
A Lake County Captains
Captains 9, LumberKings 6: 1B Jason Smit and RF Gregory Folgia delivered two-run singles in the eighth inning as Lake County defeated host Clinton (Iowa) in Game 1 of the Midwest League Championship Series.
RHP Jason Knapp started for the Captains and allowed two runs in 3.1 innings. He gave up two hits, no walks and struck out six. SS Casey Frawley had a two-run double and DH Tyler Holt a run-scoring single as Lake County took a 3-0 lead in the third inning.
The LumberKings responded with three in the fourth. Tim Morris had a two-run single, and Mario Martinez delivered a run-scoring ground out for Clinton. James Jones hit a two-run homer in the fifth inning and singled in Matthew Cerione in the sixth for a 6-3 LumberKings lead.
Lake County came back with two in the seventh. C Roberto Perez walked and scored on an error, and Smit scored on a ground out by pinch hitter Kyle Smith. Smit plated Frawley and LF Chase Burnette in the eighth. Folgia drove in Perez and Smit.
Notes: Knapp had struck out 35 in 21 innings for the Captains in five games, including his five scoreless innings for the victory in a decisive Game 3 win over West Michigan in the first playoff round. Prior to joining the Captains, Knapp, 20, had fanned 18 in 12 1/3 innings over five outings in the Arizona League -- where, beginning in July, he pitched in games for the first time since having off-season shoulder surgery. In the 33 1/3 combined innings going into Wednesday night's game, Knapp was 2-2 with a 2.43 ERA and had given up just 19 hits -- including no homers. He had walked 13. Knapp, a 2008 second-round draft pick of the Phillies and considered an elite prospect, came to the Indians in the trade of Cliff Lee to Philadelphia last July. ... Going into Wednesday night's game, RH reliever Preston Guilmet had earned a save in all three of his playoff appearances, pitching six scoreless innings. He had struck out nine, walked none and allowed two hits. Including the regular season and playoffs, Guilmet was 4-1 with a 2.02 ERA and 14 saves in 33 games (all relief), striking out 88 and walking 10 in 58 innings, while giving up just 37 hits -- including just three homers. ... 1B Adam Abraham was hitting .348 (70-of-201) 17 doubles, 12 home runs and 45 RBI in his last 52 games.
Source: http://www.cleveland.com/tribe/index.ssf/2010/09/clippers_look_for_2-0_champion.html
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