Mike Sirota<\/a>. The recently promoted outfielder is settling in as nicely as anyone could\u2019ve hoped in this new environment in Double-A.<\/p>\nPayton Martin finally earned his first win of the year, working through nine base runners (6 of them on walks) to allow just one earned run in 5.1 innings.<\/p>\n
High-A Great Lakes<\/p>\n
It\u2019s tough to outhit your opponent and still lose by nine runs. That\u2019s what happened as a rattled pitching staff for the Great Lakes could not stop walking Wisconsin\u2019s hitters, leading to a 14-5 defeat that was somehow worse than that final score. The Loons managed to put up three garbage-time runs in the ninth to avoid losing by double digits.<\/p>\n
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On top of starter Jakob Wright, who allowed a couple of runs on one hit and five walks, the Loons had three other relievers concede more runs than they did hits. Among them was Acccimias Morales, the losing pitcher of record with four earned runs in 0.2 innings of work out of the bullpen.<\/p>\n
Single-A Ontario<\/p>\n
Seven of the Tower Buzzers\u2019 batters recorded multiple hits, and it was the ninth-hole hitter, AJ Soldra, leading the charge in this 13-10 win. Soldra recorded four hits in five at-bats, the last of them a home run, surprisingly the game\u2019s only long ball, when Ontario already led 12-10 in the ninth.<\/p>\n
Starter Hyun-Seok Jang had the Tower Buzzers set for a blowout win, but the bullpen almost gave it all away, allowing four runs in the seventh and another four in the eighth. Luckily, Robby Porco provided some stability by pitching two scoreless innings to wrap things up and earn a second save on the season.<\/p>\n
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Thursday\u2019s scores<\/p>\n
Great Lakes 5, Wisconsin 14<\/p>\n
Inland Empire 11, Ontario 13<\/p>\n
Friday\u2019s schedule<\/p>\n
3:05 p.m. PT: Great Lakes (Christian Zazueta) vs. Wisconsin (Josh Knoth)<\/p>\n
4:35 p.m. PT: Tulsa (Adam Serwinowski) at Wichita (Sam Armstrong)<\/p>\n
6:35 p.m. PT: Ontario (TBD) at Inland Empire (Mason Peters)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kendall George show took over in Double-A while the Comets shut out Reno at home. Player of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[36410,271590,32021,4279,2741,97891,283757,190274,227884,363,9600,12205,207313,51804,99,48161,274275],"class_list":["post-658661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-alex-freeland","tag-charlie-barnes","tag-comets","tag-dodgers","tag-george","tag-jack-suwinski","tag-kendall-george","tag-kohl-drake","tag-mike-sirota","tag-mlb","tag-oklahoma","tag-oklahoma-city","tag-river-ryan","tag-scoreless-innings","tag-sports","tag-tulsa","tag-tulsa-drillers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}