July 16th Blue Jays Minor Leagues Recap: Luplow and Brown go deep in back to back games

Buffalo- Trent Thornton allowed 6 runs in the 3rd run. The Mud Hens scored a run in the 8th inning off Paxton Schultz who went 5 strong innings. Jordan Luplow went deep for a second game, hitting a solo home run in the 3rd inning. Rafael Lantigua, Luplow, Otto Lopez, and Tyler Heineman all finished with two hits in a 7-3 loss.

New Hampshire- postponed

Vancouver- Devonte Brown powers the C’s over the Em’s. In the bottom of the 9th, Euguene led 3-2, Brown crushed his 9th home run with two runners on base. With his game-winning home run, Brown has gone deep 4 times in the past 5 games and owns a .333/484/.875 slash over the last 15 days. Cade Doughty also went deep, a solo home run in the 6th inning. He also had an RBI single in the 1st inning. Rafael Sanchez pitched 6 scoreless and Eric Pardinho pitched a scoreless 7th. Justin Kelly allowed 2 runs on 3 hits in the 8th and Andres Tolhurst allowed a run in the 9th inning.

Dunedin- Bradenton scored 7 runs between the 4th and 5th innings. Irv Carter failed to complete 5 innings, allowing 7 runs over 4.1IP. Filipe Bello and Alex Amalfi allowed 2 runs over the final 3.2IP. The D-Jays scored 3 runs in the 4th, taking a 4-1 lead, on a pair of RBI doubles, an RBI single, and a double steal resulting in Glenn Santiago stealing home.

Triple-A

Buffalo Bisons (42-47)

Loss 7 to 3

HR- Jordan Luplow (8)

Starter- Bowden Francis 2.0IP, 2H, 0R, 0BB, 4K

L- Trent Thornton (4-1, 4.39ERA)

Double-A

New Hampshire Fisher Cats (39-42)

Game results from July 14th

Won 7 to 2

HR- Damiano Palmegiani (11)

Starter- Sem Robberse 5.0IP, 3H, 2R, 2BB, 4K

W- Robberse (2-5, 4.15ERA)

H- Andrew Bash (5) and Mason Fluharty (5)

Advanced-A

Vancouver Canadians (51-32)

Won 5 to 3

HR- Cade Doughty (10) and Devonte Brown (9)

Starter Rafael Sanchez 6.0IP, 2H, 0R, 2BB, 3K

W- Andres Tolhurst (1-0, 2.25ERA)

H- Eric Pardinho (1)

BSV- Justin Kelly (2)

A-Ball

Dunedin Blue Jays (38-46)

Loss 9 to 4

HR- none

Starter- Irv Carter 4.1IP, 5H, 7R, 1BB, 5K, and 1HRA

L- Carter (0-6, 7.20ERA)

FCL Blue Jays (8-20)

Game results from July 15th

Loss 11 to 6

HR- Yhoangel Aponte (5) and Cristian Feliz (5)

Starter  Johan Simon 1.0IP, 4H, 4R, 1BB, 1K, and 1HRA

L- Simon (0-1, 36.00ERA)

DSL Blue Jays (13-15)

Game results from July 15th

Won 21 to 10

HR- none

Starter Samuel Acuna 2.0IP, 5H, 4R, 0BB, 4K, and 1HRA

W- Carlos Meza (2-1, 4.64ERA)

Top Performers

• Buffalo- Rafael Lantigua (2-for-5, RBI, 2B, E), Jordan Luplow (2-for-5, R, RBI, HR, 2B, K), Otto Lopez (2-for-4, R, 2B, BB, E), Tyler Heineman (2-for-3, R, BB, K), LJ Talley (0-for-1, 3BB), Paxton Schultz (5.0IP, 3H, 1R, 2BB, 5K)
• New Hampshire-
• Vancouver- Dasan Brown (0-for-2, R, 2BB, K), Cade Doughty (2-for-4, R, 2RBI, HR), Devonte Brown (1-for-2, R, 3RBI, HR, 2BB, SB)
• Dunedin- Tucker Toman (1-for-3, R, RBI, 2B, K), Jeffrey Wehler (1-for-3, R, RBI, 2B, K)

Leo Jimenz On-Base Streak

Leo and Fisher Cats were rained out; therefore, his 19-game on-base streak remains intact. Jimenez holds a batting average of .291 with a .367OBP and .451SLG.

Alan Roden went o-for-3 with a walk and a strikeout, ending his hit streak at 14 games.

Davis Schneider went 1-for-5 with a strikeout to extend his on-base streak to 17 games. He also has hits in 8 straight.

Michael Turconi went 1-for-3 with a walk, extending his on-base streak to 16 games.

Steward Berroa and the Fisher Cats were rained out. His on-base streak remains intact at 13 games and his hit streak remains 4 games.

Damiano Palmegiani was also rained. His on-base streak is at 10 games.

Transactions

Released- 1B PK Morris