It was mostly good news on the farm, as prospects Coby Mayo, Creed Willems, Anderson de los Santos and Maikol Hernández all homered.
Triple-A: Norfolk Tides 6, Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp (MIA) 5
A lot of things appear to be messed up with the Orioles org right now, but for one day in Norfolk everything was it should be: the starting pitching didn’t stink, Coby Mayo hit a home run, and the Tides roared back from a deficit with three runs in the ninth inning. Mayo’s solo blast put his team on the board in the first inning. Longtime Braves farmhand catcher Chadwick Tromp singled in a second Norfolk run the next inning.
Jacksonville built a 4-2 lead before the Tides rallied in the late innings. A Terrin Vavra walk and Tromp double closed the gap to one in the seventh.
The Jumbo Shrimp had made it a 5-3 game in the ninth, but the Tides had an answer. Luis Vazquez singled, took third on a Vavra double and scored on Tromp’s third RBI of the game. A pinch-hitting Samuel Basallo was intentionally walked, but it backfired. Fernando Peguero tied it, 5-5, with a single, and Dylan Beavers managed a bases-loaded walk to win it in the ninth.
Starter Cameron Weston kept Jacksonville off the board until the fifth inning. He allowed a two-run bomb and then a third run on a double steal, but he went on to get two more outs in the sixth inning. Relievers Levi Stoudt and Rodolfo Martinez allowed one run apiece, while Matt Bowman kept Jacksonville off the board.
Double-A: Chesapeake Baysox 10, Akron RubberDucks (CLE) 1
More dominance from lately-excellent starter Braxton Bragg. After last week’s one-run appearance against Portland, Bragg shut out the RubberDucks over five innings on Sunday, striking out six. Not a lot is going right for pitching in the Orioles org right now, so let’s thank our lucky stars for Braxton Bragg. The 24-year-old righthander has a 0.70 ERA and 0.96 WHIP in 38.2 innings this year.
After Bragg, Yaqui Rivera and Walter Pennington together covered three scoreless. Houston Roth allowed one run in the ninth but also struck out the side.
The Baysox got the scoring started in the first inning when Silas Ardoin plated Jeremiah Jackson with a double. Jackson made it a 3-0 game with a two-run home run in the fifth inning. Then, the Baysox exploded on Akron’s Tyler Thornton and Carter Spivey for a seven-run sixth. Anthony Servideo hit a two-run double. So did Hudson Haskin. A HBP, walk, and two stolen bases later, Creed Willems blew the game open with a three-run jack, his sixth on the season.
It was a great day at the office for Jeremiah Jackson (2-for-4, HR, 3 RBI), Willems, Silas Ardoin (2-for-3, RBI, BB) and Adam Retzbach (1-for-2, R, 2 BB).
High-A: Hudson Valley Renegades (NYY) 3, Aberdeen IronBirds 2
Aberdeen fell into a 3-0 hole and couldn’t quite pull off the comeback. Starter Cohen Achen allowed a first-inning solo homer, then left in the fifth inning with two men on, apparently due to a groin injury. Two runs, one unearned, were charged to his ledger. Hope Achen’s injury isn’t serious. Zane Barnhart, Robinson Martinez, Carter Baumler and Wyatt Cheney tossed 3.1 scoreless.
The offense scored a run apiece in the seventh and eighth inning, both on solo home runs. Anderson de los Santos knocked in his third to make it 3-1, then Jalen Vasquez brought the IronBirds to within one with his first of the year. four runs in the third inning. Ethan Anderson singled and Aaron Estrada doubled in four trips to the plate.
Low-A: Fredericksburg National 7, Delmarva Shorebirds 2
Maikol Hernández homered to get the Shorebirds on the board, his first four-bagger of the season, and also hit a double. Kevin Guerrero drove in a second Shorebirds run with an RBI single in the eighth. Guerrero reached base twice more with a pair of walks.
Starter Eccel Correa got tagged for three runs in the third after giving up two walks, a bunt single and a bases-clearing double, and one more run in the fourth. Ben Vespi pitched a good sixth but lost his command in the seventh, walking three. Both Correa and Vespi struck out four hitters apiece, though.
Three other Delmarva pitchers tossed scoreless innings: Deivy Cruz, Adrián Delgado, and Bryan Bautista.
Monday’s Schedule
There are no scheduled games for Monday.