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Thursday’s News & Notes — Playoff Edition

Team Yesterday Today Probable Pitchers
Harrisburg Lost, 5-4 vs. Trenton, 7:00 p.m. Karns (10-6, 3.26) vs. Greene (8-4, 3.18)
Hagerstown OFF DAY @ Savannah, 7:05 p.m. Turnbull (6-5, 3.58) vs. Ynoa (15-4, 2.72)



Trenton 5 Harrisburg 4
• Cole 4IP, 7H, 1R, 0ER, BB, K
• Mirowski (BS, 1; L, 1-1) 1⅓ IP, 2H, 2R, 2ER, 2BB, 2K
• Head 2-4, 2B, 2RBI
• Burns 1-3, 2R, 2BB, SB

The Senators are on the ropes after a 5-4 loss to the Thunder that gives Trenton a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five Eastern League Championship Series. A.J. Cole walked just one and struck out just one, but labored through four innings (87 pitches) to scatter seven hits and allow just an unearned run in the 1st. Harrisburg took a brief 2-1 lead with single runs in the 4th and 5th innings. Trenton answered the first salvo with two in the bottom of the 5th to recapture the lead at 3-2, to which the Sens matched in the top of the 6th for a 4-3 Harrisburg lead. The Thunder plated the tying and game-winning runs in the last of the 7th as they capitalized on a pair of one-out walks with two singles and a slow roller to second. Harrisburg got two runners on with one out in the 9th with singles by Jeff Howell and Billy Burns, but neither Brian Goodwin nor Steve Souza Jr. could connect off Trenton closer Tommy Kahnle to send in pinch-runner Sean Nicol or Burns.

Hagerstown vs. Savannah — Game 3 Sally League Finals
The Sand Gnats achieved what the Senators could not: a split on the road to turn the series into a best-of-three at home. Tonight, Hagerstown faces the Sally League’s Pitcher of the year, 20-year-old Gabriel Ynoa, who won Game 1 in the Divisional Series and five of his last six starts in the regular season. Things don’t get any easier for Hagerstown after Ynoa, as Savannah has tabbed Steven Matz (2.62 ERA, 2.63 FIP) and former position prospect Jacob Kuebler (2.76 ERA, 3.16 FIP) as its Game 4 and 5 starters. Kylin Turnbull gets the ball for the Suns tonight, hoping to celebrate his 24th birthday with a “W.” The Suns have not announced potential starters for Games 4 and 5, but with Jake Johansen having made zero starts with less than five days’ rest this season and an reportedly injured Austin Voth, it’s likely to be two of the following three pitchers: Dakota Bacus, Ian Dickson, and Pedro Encarnacion.

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      1. cool, thx.

        for the record, I did not mean to imply that you were responsible for the usual clandestine injury reporting.

        1. No worries — I knew you meant that Voth isn’t a candidate for next year’s M*A*S*H unit.

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