Twins Minor League Report (8/17): Unheralded Seventh Rounders Pitch

RED WINGS REPORT

Buffalo Bisons @ Rochester Red Wings

Box Score

The Red Wings were out-hit 11-8, but came out victorious thanks to a couple of solo home runs and holding the Bisons to just 1 for 11 with runners in scoring position.

Taylor Rogers gave up ten hits in 6.2 innings but managed to give up just three runs (two earned). Rogers walked one, and struck out three batters. Rogers picked up a win to move to 9-10 with an ERA of 3.85, nearly a run higher than it was ten starts ago when he was 7-4 with a 2.97 ERA. Over his last 10 Rogers is just 2-6 with a 5.14 ERA with a 1.522 WHIP and a 2.35/1 strikeout to walk ratio. Rogers' Monday night start was the first time since June 24 that he gave up two earned runs or fewer in a start.

Rogers turned things over to the bullpen in the seventh and Cole Johnson pitched two-thirds of an inning spanning the seventh and the eighth, striking out one and giving up no runs, hits, or walks. Aaron Thompson finished the eighth in scoreless fashion and Michael Tonkin fanned two of the three batters he faced in the ninth to pick up his thirteenth save of the year.

Xavier Avery hit a solo home run in the second inning to give the Red Wings an early lead. The Bisons came stampeding back and were up 3-1 when a Reynaldo Rodriguez single in the fifth inning evened the score. In the sixth inning Jose Martinez homered to left field, giving the Red Wings the lead and Rogers and the bullpen kept the Bisons bats silent the rest of the evening. Kennys Vargas started at designated hitter in the three hole and was 0-4 with a strike out. Vargas is 6-23 with five strikeouts and seven walks with more multi-walk games than multi-strikeout games since an August 11 promotion back to Rochester.

Final: Bisons 3, Red Wings 4

LOOKOUTS LOOK-IN

SCHEDULED OFF DAY

MIRACLE MATTERS

Charlotte Stone Crabs @ Fort Myers Miracle

POSTPONED DUE TO RAIN

KERNELS KORNER

SCHEDULED OFF DAY

E-TWINS E-NOTES

Danville Braves @ Elizabethton Twins

Box Score

Andro Cutura pitched six strong innings for the E-Twins, giving up no runs on just three hits. He walked two and struck out four. His ERA is now 1.08 over his first nine starts for Elizabethton. Cutura, a Slidell, Louisiana native, was drafted by the Twins in the seventh round of the 2014 draft out of Southeastern Louisiana University. After Cutura's exit, Anthony Mciver pitched two scoreless, giving up a hit, a walk, and he struck out three. Alex Robinson pitched the ninth, giving up a hit and earning a strikeout to preserve the victory for the Twins.

E-Town's ninth hitter, second basemen Manuel Guzman had one of the best games of his young career, 4-4 with two doubles, two RBI, and a run scored. Catcher A.J. Murray had a nice game as well, going 3-4 with a double, an RBI, a run scored and a strikeout.

Final: Braves 0, Twins 6

GCL Twins

GCL Orioles @ GCL Twins

Box Score

The GCL Twins gave up a pair of runs in the first, second and sixth innings and a single run in the seventh to fall by a score of 7-3 to the GCL Orioles. Starter Jovani Moran was making just the fourth start of his career, drafted in the seventh round of the 2015 draft out of the Carlos Beltran Baseball Academy in Puerto Rico. Jovani has yet to pitch more than four innings in a start, and Monday night was no exception. Moran gave up four hits, four runs, and two walks. He struck out just one of the fifteen batters he faced. Reliever Matz Schutte didn't fare much better, giving up a pair of runs in the sixth before being lifted for Rich Condeelis. Condeelis gave up a run on three hits, but struck out three and walked one in two innings. Andrew Vasquez pitched a scoreless ninth, but worked harder than he needed to, giving up a two-out single, then throwing a wild pitch before walking the next batter. Vasquez then struck out the final batter of the game to end the suffering for Twins pitchers.

Leadoff hitter Christian Cavaness was 2-4 and first basemen Bryant Hayman was 2-4 with a double, the only hitters with more than one hit. The Twins did rack up four doubles, half of their eight hits on the night. In addition to Hayman's double, Blake Schmit, Robert Molina and Roberto Gonzalez also added two baggers.

Final: Orioles 7, Twins 3

TWINS DAILY MINOR LEAGUE PLAYERS OF THE DAY

Hitter of the Day - Manuel Guzman, Elizabethton Twins

Pitcher of the Day - Andro Cutura, Elizabethton Twins

FRIDAY'S PROBABLES

Buffalo @ Rochester - Jeff Francis vs. Logan Darnell (2-1, 1.54)

Chattanooga @ Pensacola - Greg Peavey (6-4, 4.40) vs. Daniel Wright

Charlotte @ Fort Myers (Double Header) - Buddy Borden vs. Stephen Gonsalves (5-1, 2.34), Greg Harris vs. TBD

Kane County @ Cedar Rapids - Josh Taylor vs. Keaton Steele (4-3, 3.65)

Danville @ Elizabethton - TBD vs. Josh Stashak (4-1, 1.80)

Gulf Coast Twins @ Gulf Coast Orioles - TBD vs TBD

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