Big Guy's Minor League Game Report

(We have a new feature here at Sliding Into Home. Big Guy who contributes his Minor League reports, will not be contributing his SWB Yankees Game reports.)

The SWB AAA Yankees defeated Lehigh Valley (Phillies) 3-2. The win gave SWB a 4 game sweep over Lehigh Valley and brings their record to a perfect 4-0 to start the 08 season.

Final	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Lehigh Valley	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1		2	7	0
Scranton/WB	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	X		3	9	0

PITCHING: Darrell Rasner got his first start of the season and pitched very well. He went 6 shutout innings allowing only 3 hits, 0 walks and had 5 strikeouts. A runner reached 2nd base in the first inning after the leadoff batter singled and moved to 2nd on a sac bunt but a nice catch in deep rightfield by Greg Porter helped Rasner out of the jam. After the first Rasner allowed a single in the 2nd and another single in the 4th. That was it. He had 5 groundouts--8 flyouts and threw only 73 pitches 51 for strikes--21 balls. Rasner left with the score 3-0 and picked up his 1st win.

Scott Strickland pitched a scoreless 7th in his first appearance of the year. There was a double in the inning when Christian lost the ball in the sun in centerfield. In the 8th the bullpen;s scoreless streak of 10 innings was snapped when a run scored on a walk, and 2 singles. ... Chris Britton came on in relief of Strickland with 2 out and 2 runners on base and got a pop foul for the final out with the score at 3-1. ... Jose Veras came on for his 3rd appearance in the first 4 games and picked up his 2nd save in two days. An unearned run scored on a single, with the runner moving up on 2 groundouts. The run scored on a passed ball making the score 3-2 Yankees.

OFFENSE: SWB jumped out to an early 1-0 lead in the 1st inning when Greg Porter walked, Cody Ransom singled and Jason Lane had a RBI single. They left the bases loaded... Lane led off the 4th inning with a solo homer. Another run scored when Eric Duncan doubled and he scored on a Nick Green RBI double. Again they left the bases loaded.

Jason Lane had a solo homer, and an RBI single... Eric Duncan had a double, an infield single, and a walk. ... Nick Green had an RBI double... Chris Stewart had 2 singles. ... Cody Ransom and Justin Christian each had a single.

FULL BOX SCORE

NOTES: Brett Gardner had the game off. Chris Stewart made his SWB debut at catcher. Stewart was picked up a few days ago after being released by the Rangers. Jeff Marquez makes his AAA debut Monday against Louisville with Kei Igawa pitching on Tuesday.

OTHER YANKEE MINOR LEAGUE AFFILIATES

(AA) Trenton defeated Binghamton 13-7 - Box Score - Recap

Final	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Trenton	0	1	3	3	0	0	0	2	4		13	14	1
Binghamton	0	0	3	0	0	2	0	2	0		7	6	2

W: J. Schmidt (1-0, 0.00); L: E. Brown (0-1, 12.00)
HR: TRE: M. Carson (1).

(High A) Tampa beat Sarasota 8-5 - Box Score - Recap

Final	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10		R	H	E
Tampa	1	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	3		8	12	2
Sarasota	0	0	4	0	0	1	0	0	0	0		5	11	3

W: J. Valdez (1-0, 0.00); L: R. Medina (0-1, 20.25)
HR: TAM: E. Gonzalez 2 (2).

(Low A) Charleston was beaten by Rome 4-1 - Box Score - Recap

Final	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Charleston	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0		1	7	2
Rome	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	X		4	7	1

W: S. Evarts (1-0, 0.00); L: A. Olbrychowski (0-1, 1.80); SV: E. Osuna(1)
HR: None.

(I'd like to thank Big Guy for his great contributions)