Michael Chavis hit a long home run and Davis Daniel was strong for six innings in Louisville’s win, Chattanooga moved to 6-0 behind Jose Acuna’s five shutout innings, Yerlin Confidan drove in four runs in Dayton’s win, and Kyle Henley picked up three hits for Daytona.
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The Louisville Bats won 5-1. Box Score
Game Notes
Edwin Arroyo his three home runs last season in 123 games with Chattanooga (including the playoffs). He’s got two this season in 11 games with Louisville.
JJ Bleday remains hot, picking up two more hits on Thursday. He’s hitting .316/.458/.526 on the season with six extra-base hits in his 11 games played.
Rece Hinds rejoined the Bats on Thursday. He went 0-3 with a walk and a run scored in the game.
Top Pitch Velocity: Zach Maxwell – 101.1 MPH (ball)
Top Exit Velocity: Michael Toglia – 108.8 MPH (single)
Furthest Hit Baseball: Michael Chavis – 450 feet (home run)
The Chattanooga Lookouts won 6-2. Box Score
Game Notes
Birmingham had a perfect game going with one out in the 5th inning, but Ruben Ibarra ruined that with a home run. Michael Trautwein followed up with one of his own to make it 2-0. They would score four runs in the 8th and seemingly put the game away but the Barons scored two in the bottom of the inning and had two men on but couldn’t get any closer than that.
The win moved to Chattanooga to 6-0. That’s the best record in minor league baseball – tied with Lakeland in the Florida State League. Eugene, a High-A team in the Northwest League is also undefeated, but they are 5-0.
Alexander Vargas kept his average on the year at .500. He’s 9-18 with a triple, two walks, and two strikeouts.
Leo Balcazar remained hot, too. He’s now 9-23 (.391) with two doubles, a home run, seven runs batted in, four walks, and five strikeouts in his six games played.
Carlos Jorge was placed on the 7-day injured list prior to the game. Last night he was hit in the head by a 93 MPH fastball and exited the game after he initially remained in the game to run the bases.
The Dayton Dragons won 7-4. Box Score
Game Notes
Dayton trailed 3-0 entering the bottom of the 4th inning but put up three runs and tied things up. Two innings later they would rally for a 4-run inning to take the lead and hold onto it.
Yerlin Confidan drove in four runs for the first time since June 24th of last season.
Things keep rolling for Alfredo Duno. With his hit and two walks he’s now hitting .333/.522/.533 through the first five games of the season. Duno has seven walks and four strikeouts.
Ryan McCrystal has only played in three games with Dayton so far but he’s gotten on base twice in each of those games.
Top Pitch Velocity: Luke Hayden – 98.9 MPH
Top Exit Velocity: Kien Vu – 106.9 MPH (groundout)
The Daytona Tortugas lost 10-2. Box Score
Game Notes
It has been a tough start for the Tortugas this season as they fall to 1-5 on the year. The team is hitting just .161 and the ERA for the pitching staff is 6.18. Daytona was town 10-0 before they would score two runs in the top of the 8th inning.
Kyle Henley had himself a nice game, picking up three hits and stealing another base. Last year he stole 57 bases in 99 games. He’s at four through six games this season. Henley is also hitting .350 this season with a .458 on-base percentage.
Top Pitch Velocity: Andrew Shaffner – 96.8 MPH (ball)
Top Exit Velocity: Henry Hunter – 110.1 MPH (triple)
Furthest Hit Baseball: Henry Hunter – 403 feet (triple)
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