NEWS-Buffalo lost SS Bernardo Romero to a bad hamstring strain. He'll be out for the remainder of the post season.
A(S) Gold Gloves-Ryuichi Tsutsui 2B, Paul Stout LF, Tim Harvey CF
FRONTIER LEAGUE
Arizona Rattlers (Paul Green 16-12 4.31)
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Chicago Iron Pigs (Jorge Trujillo 16-10 4.26)
Ramon Castro, Pedro Salinas and Jeffrey Hudson homered in a 5 run 2nd inning and Jorge Trujillo went 7-7-3-3-2-4 for the win. Cisco Casas worked out of a bases loaded jam in the 8th before surrendering 3 in the 9th, but held for the Save. In his 1st playoff game ever, Castro went 3-4 2 HR's and 2 RBI's. Salinas was 2-2 with 2 HR's 2 RBI's. Jeffrey Hudson drove in 3.
Chicago 7 Arizona 6
W-Trujillo (1-0) L-Green (0-1) W-Casas (1)
HR AZ-Wilkins (1) Davs (1) CHI-Castro 2 (2) Salinas 2 (2) Hudson (1)
Chicago leads the series 2-0
Buffalo Bisons (Ken Lee 16-13 4.11)
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West Michigan White Caps (John Drake 18-7 3.03)
Down 5-2 in the 7th, the White Caps exploded for 9 runs over the next 2 innings to even the series. Allen Hunter went 4-5 2B (2) 2 RBI's Pedro Mejia hit a 3R HR and Javier Lopez went 2-4 2B (1) 3 RBI's and Norberto Adaricio went 2-5 HR (1) 3 RBI's.
West Michigan 11 Buffalo 5
W-Vargas (1-0) L-Lee (0-1)
HR BUF-J.Martinez (1) WMI-Mejia (1) Adaricio (1)
Series tied 1-1
COASTAL LEAGUE
Boston Bombers (Cody Miller 14-8 3.01)
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San Antonio Silver Stars (Chris Robinson 11-11 4.17)
Cody Miller, Hikaru Endo and Jake Ellison managed to hold the Silver Stars off the board while capitalizing on 2 Michael Moran errors to score 2 unearned runs and even the series. Robinson went 8-3-2-0-2-6 in the loss. Mike Johnston went 3-4 in the loss.
Boston 2 San Antonio 0
W-Miller (1-0) L-Robinson (0-1) S-Ellison (1)
HR NONE
Series tied 1-1
Fresno Grizzlies (Manny Ibarra 12-12 4.36)
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Corpus Christi Hooks (Adolfo Gobbi 16-7 3.61)
Manny Ibarra twirled a 5-hit masterpiece and RF Eric Prices' 2nd inning solo HR was the games only run as Adolfo Gobbi couldn't overcome the one mistake. Ibarra went 9-5-0-0-2-5 while Gobbi went 7-4-1-1-4-8 for the loss.
Fresno 1 Corpus Christi 0
W-Ibarra (1-0) L-Gobbi (0-1)
HR FRE-Price (1)
Series tied 1-1