Thursday’s News & Notes

Lehigh Valley 4 Rochester 2
• Shuman 5IP, 1H, 0R, 2BB, 5K, HBP
• Sinclair (BS, 1; L, 0-1) 1IP, 4H, 4R, 4ER, 0BB, 2K, HR
• Pinckney 2-3, R, RBI, SB
• Lile 1-4, 3B, BB

Seth Shuman spun five shutout innings with four baserunners in his AAA debut. He may or may not have been holding Jack Sinclair’s beer as the latter caoughed up four run in the top of the 9th to turn the Red Wings’ 2-0 lead into a 4-2 loss to the IronPigs. Shuman allowed one hit, two walks, and struck out five. Sinclair allowed all four Lehigh Valley runs on four hits, including a three-run HR. Daylen Lile tripled in his first AAA at-bat and later walked while Brady House homered for the fifth time and Andrew Pinckney singled twice and scored ahead of Andrew Knizer’s double. That was the one (1) hit in 13 RISP chances. Roster moves: OF Daylen Lile, RHP Marquis Grissom Jr. promoted from Harrisburg; RHP Daison Acosta placed on 7-Day I.L.

Harrisburg 6 Reading 3
• Choi 5⅔ IP, 6H, 3R, 3ER, 0BB, 5K
• Powell (W, 1-1) 1⅓ IP, 0H, 0R, 0BB, 3K, 1-0 IR-S
• Cuevas (SV, 2) 1IP, 0H, 0R, 0BB, 0K
• Lawson 3-4, R, 2B
• Naranjo 2-4, R, BB, 2RBI
• Romero 2-4, R, HR, 3RBI

Max Romero’s Earl Weaver Special in the 8th was the highlight Harrisburg’s comeback from 3-0 down after six to a 6-3 win over Reading. The blast took Hyun-Il Choi off the hook for the “L” and gave the “W” to Holden Powell, who stranded a runner and got the last out of the 6th and put up a goose egg in the 7th, as did Garrett Davila in the 8th for the hold and Michael Cuevas for the save. Cortland Lawson led the Senators hit column with two singles and a double while Joe Naranjo also reached base three times with two singles and a walk. Roster moves: OF Jared McKenzie reassigned from Wilmington.

Brooklyn 15 Wilmington 1
• Kent (L, 2-3) 4IP, 9H, 8R, 8ER, 1BB, 6K, 2HR
• S. Vazquez 1IP, 0H, 0R, 0BB, 2K
• Lomavita 1-3, R
• Pimentel 1-2, RBI, HBP

A six-run 2nd would be more than enough for the Cyclones to blow past the Blue Rocks, 15-1. Jackson Kent gave up eight runs on nine hits (two HR) and a walk over four innings to lose for the third time in five starts. Wander Arias and Yeuris combined to allow seven runs over three innings to put the game out of reach. Chad Lomavita singled to lead off the second, took third on an Elijah Green double, and, after a double play, scored on Wilmington’s third and final hit – an RBI single by Brandon Pimentel, who also broke up a streak of 17 consecutive batters retired with a hit-by-pitch in the 8th.

Salem 4 Fredericksburg 2
• Meckley 5IP, 5H, 2R, 1ER, 2BB, 3K, WP
• Amaral (L, 1-1) ⅔ IP, 3H, 2R, 2ER, 0BB, 1K, HR
• Ross 2-4, R, 2B
• Peoples 1-4, R, HR, RBI, 2K

Salem’s Fraymi De Leon broke a 2-2 tie with a two-run HR to which Fredericksburg had no answer in a 4-2 loss. Alex Meckley let in the first two Red Sox runs on five hits and two walks over five innings. He struck out three. The loss went to Austin Amaral on the aforementioned homer and three hits total over two-thirds of an inning. Jackson Ross singled, doubled, and scored the first run on an error while Nick “Power to the” Peoples homered for the second FredNats run. The rest of the lineup went 0-for-24 with two walks and five strikeouts.