Mike Salas
All four Dodgers Affiliates took the fields Friday night with various records in their respective six-game series. Triple-A affiliate Oklahoma City went into Friday’s game up 3-1 over the Aces. Double-A Tulsa is on a hot streak and is up 3-1 over Springfield. The High-A Great Lakes Loons are getting back to their winning ways and are up 2-1 over Beliot and the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes in Single-A have hit a road bump and have dropped the first three games against Modesto.
Friday night’s pitchers: OKC Landon Knack 2-1 record, 4.15 ERA, and 29 SO. Tulsa Justin Wrobleski 2-1 record, 4.35 ERA, 44 SO. Loons Jackson Ferris 1-3 record, 5.91 ERA, 39K. Quakes P Cam Day 1-2 record, 6.57ERA, 23SO.
The Loons started off the day playing game four of a six game series against the Beliot Sky Carp. Loons Jackson Ferris and Carps Karson Milbrandt threw 3 scoreless innings until the top of the fifth when the Carps scored two. For the third straight night, the Loons and Carps go into extra innings, unfortunately the Loons drop the game 5-4 to tie the series 2 games apiece. LF Chris Newell was the standout for the Loons, Newell hit the game tying HR for his thirteenth of the season.
OKC put Landon Knack on the mound to try and take a 3-1 lead over the Reno Aces. Knack would go up against Reno’s RHP Ronaldo Hernandez. Reno would get on the board first with a double that scored one. In the bottom of the third, RF Chris Owings would hit a triple to center field and 2B Jonathon Arauz hit a sacrifice fly to score Owings and tie the game up 1-1. In the bottom of the fifth, SS Trey Sweeney hit a home run to left field that put OKC up 2-1. CF James Outman hit a line drive to left field to tie the game up 3-3 scoring Drew Avans. In the bottom of the ninth Austin Gauthier scored from third base on a wild pitch to end the game, OKC wins 4-3. Standouts, Trey Sweeney with his HR, Andre Lipcius, who has continued to hit, James Outman with a clutch hit in the eighth, and a solid game by Landon Knack.
After a rain delay, Tulsa Drillers finally got things started to play a seven-inning game against the Springfield Cardinals. LHP Justin Wrobleski took the mound for Tulsa, taking on Cardinals RHP Tink Hence. Hence was lights out, Tink pitched 6IP / 5H / 1BB / 13K / 2.76 ERA. Tink threw a career high 13 strikeouts. Tulsa’s Wrobleski pitched an impressive 6.1IP / 5H / 1ER / 2K / 3.94ERA. Unfortunately, that one run was a walk-off to end the game. In a pitcher’s duel through six innings, Tulsa lost 1-0 in a shortened seven inning game. Both pitchers were the standouts; Justin Wrobleski and Tink Hence put on pitching clinic in very close game.
Rancho Cucamonga came into last night’s game on a five-game losing streak, trying to right the ship with a win. P Cam Day got the call to face P Tyler Gough and the Modesto Nuts. Rancho got on the board first with an Oswaldo Osorio single to center field scoring Samual Munoz. Modesto would answer with four runs in the bottom of the second and add on four more runs to take an 8-2 lead into the sixth inning. In the sixth inning, Rancho closed in ending the inning being down 6-8. Modesto would add on 3 more runs and Rancho countered with adding two coming into the nineth inning 11-8 Modesto. Juan Alonso an RBI double to left field scoring Jesus Galiz brining the Quakes 9-11 with one out. After a Kendall George groundout and Jeral Perez strikeout, the Quakes drop their sixth game in row to end the night.
Good night for OKC and Friday night baseball in the minor leagues. Even though the Loons, Rancho, and Tulsa lost, the games were competitive with dominant pitching by Tulsa and never-give-up hitting by the Loons and Quakes. Let’s hope Saturday snaps Rancho’s six game losing streak and garners wins for Great Lakes, Tulsa, and Oklahoma City.
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