Norfolk’s Chayce McDermott struggles again, but Chesapeake and Delmarva win.
Triple-A: Nashville Sounds (MIL) 5, Norfolk Tides 0
Another stinker for Chayce McDermott, who allowed four runs in 4.1 innings. The righty started the season injured and is still struggling, at 0-5 with a 9.13 ERA. He’s allowed four runs or more in each of his last four starts. He walked three and struck out five.
Tides hitters certainly could have done more with their eight hits and four walks. They were all singles, was one problem. Going 0-for-5 with RISP was another. Jeremiah Jackson and Emmanuel Rivera went 2-for-4 each, and Heston Kjerstad, Samuel Basallo, Vimael Machín, and Terrin Vavra each had one.
Double-A: Chesapeake Baysox 6, Harrisburg Senators (WAS) 5 – F/10
For a second straight day, the Baysox took a game into extra innings, and they came up winners on Sunday. Starter Eccel Correa threw a nice 5.1 innings in his first game at Double-A, with only two unearned runs to his name. Correa started the season in Delmarva and moves up to the Baysox after a short stay in Aberdeen. Correa would have gotten the win, but for a blown save (more on that below).
The Baysox raced out to a 3-0 lead on a balk that scored Enrique Bradfield Jr. and a two-run home run by Adam Retzbach. The Baysox would add two runs on a pair of solo home runs from Anthony Servideo and Silas Ardoin.
Harrisburg, meanwhile, kept clawing back the lead while the Baysox did really stupid things: the Senators scored not one, not two, but three runs off of throwing errors, including two by shortstop Alfredo Velásquez. (Not a nice day in the field for Alfredo Velásquez.) After Correa’s 5.1 innings, Raúl Alcántara threw 1.2 innings and allowed one run. But in the eighth the Senators tied up the game against Nate Webb, who allowed two runs and got tagged with a blown save.
Then, in the tenth inning, reliever Preston Johnson kept the ghostrunner off the board with a pair of strikeouts and in the bottom half, Adam Retzbach singled home the winning run.
High-A: Jersey Shore BlueClaws (PHI) vs Aberdeen IronBirds – Canceled
Low-A: Delmarva Shorebirds 5, Salem Red Sox 4
The Shorebirds scored five late runs to edge out Salem. Yasmil Bucce hit an RBI single. Luis Almeyda hit another. Maikol Hernández tripled and scored on Andrés Nolaya’s single. Nate George singled and scored, and Luis Almeyda loaded the Shorebirds’ fifth. Bucce, Almeyda, Hernández and Nolaya had two hits apiece.
Starter Jack Crowder threw 3.2 innings and allowed one run and Bryan Bautista allowed one in 2.1 innings. The younger Vespi brother, Ben, threw two scoreless innings to get the win. Kenny Leiner got the save.
Monday’s Schedule
- There are no scheduled games on Monday.