AAA: Fresno lost to Memphis 5-4
(allowing two runs in top of 9th inning)

Fresno: CF Clay Timpner: 2 for 4, HBP
Fresno: 1B Travis Ishikawa: 3 for 4, HR, 2 2B, BB, SO
Fresno: P Pat Misch: 2 for 2
Memphis: RF Brian Barton: 1 for 5, HR, 2 SO
Memphis: CF Jon Jay: 2 for 4, 3B, BB

Fresno: LHP Pat Misch: 6.0 IP, 7 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 5 K--1 HR

Ishikawa had a huge game with a HR, 3 XBH and a BB.  He improved his PCL line to .276/.338/.642 in 134 AB.  Overall for the season, he has a .285/.366/.527 line in 368 AB, after a year ago hitting just .268/.319/.431 in 371 AB at two different levels.  Timpner also reached base three times, raising his OBP back to an even .300.  Misch was one of two other Grizzlies with multiple hits, but he had just two plate appearances.  The Cardinals' Barton homered for the second consecutive night, while teammate Jay reached base three times and also threw out a runner at the plate.

Misch had his eighth start since being demoted back to the minors (when Correia came off the DL).  The 5 K the highest total since the first of those eight starts.  With 3+ ER allowed in all but one of his last eight starts, he has an ERA over 6.00 in that time span.

AA: Connecticut lost to New Hampshire 5-1

Connecticut: SS Kyle Haines: 1 for 3, 2B, BB, SO, E
Connecticut: DH Eddy Martinez-Esteve: 1 for 3, BB

Connecticut: LHP Ben Snyder: 5.0 IP, 8 H< 5 R, 5 ER, 3 BB, 4 K--2 HR

Haines and EME each reached base twice for the Defenders, improving their team-leading OBPs to .386 and .393, respectively.  No one else on their current roster has an OBP above .350.

Snyder continues to scuffle since his promotion to the upper minors, with his ERA rising a little higher to 8.44 after seven starts.  After just one ground ball out last night, he has a 0.57 GO/AO ratio in those seven starts after a 1.17 AO/GO ratio with San Jose begin this season and a 1.02 AO/GO ratio last year with Augusta.  Is her leaving his pitches up in the zone too often?  He has allowed 6 HR as a Defender after allowing just 2 HRs with San Jose.

A+: San Jose lost to Modesto 4-3
(allowing the go-ahead run in the top of the 9th inning)

San Jose: CF Darren Ford: 2 for 3, BB, SO
San Jose: C Jackson Williams: 1 for 3, HR, SO
San Jose: SS Sharlon Schoop: 3 for 4

San Jose: RHP Kevin Pucetas: 5.0 IP, 7 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 7 K--2 WP
San Jose: RHP Dan Griffin: 3.0 IP, 1 H, 4 K
San Jose: RHP Waldis Joaquin: 0.1 IP, 2 H
Modesto: RHP Jhoulys Chacin: 5.0 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 5 K--1 HR

Ford and Schoop each reached base three times, helping to raise their respective AVGs to .229 and .244.  Williams connected for his 4th HR of the year.

Pucetas had 7 K, the second highest total in his last ten starts, but he also allowed more than 2 ER in a start for the first time since late May, raising his ERA to 2.71.  Striking out four of the ten batters he faced, Griffin had his first multi-strikeout line in over a month.  Making his second appearance with San Jose, Joaquin allowed singles to the first two batters he faced, allowing one of two inherited runners to score.  The Rockies' Chacin, who began the season with a 1.86 ERA in sixteen SAL starts, has now allowed 1 ER or less in five of seven Cal League starts.  With Modesto, the 20-year-old has peripheral stats of 37 H, 8 BB and 41 K in 41.1 IP

A-: Augusta at Columbus was suspended by rain
(with Augusta railing Columbus 6-5 in the 3rd inning)

Augusta: 2B Nick Noonan: 1 for 1, HR
Augusta: LF Garrett Baker: 1 for 2, HR, SO

Augusta: LHP Craig Clark:2.1 IP, 5 H, 6 R, 6 ER, 1 BB, 2 K --1 HR, 2 HB, 1 PO

In the 2nd inning, Noonan and Baker had connected for their 5th and 8th HRs.

Clark had not allowed more than 4 ER in any of his previous ten starts but already allowed 6 ER while recording just seven outs before the game was suspended.

ssA: Salem-Keizer at Vancouver was postponed by rain
(A makeup doubleheader is scheduled for today.)

R: Giants defeated A's 19-5

Scottsdale: RF Ryan Mantle: 3 for 5, 2B, SO
Scottsdale: SS Shane Lindsley: 3 for 5, 2B, SF, SO, 2 E

Scottsdale: RHP Jorge Bucardo: 3.0 IP, 4 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 3 BB, 1 K--1 HB

Mantle and Lindsley each had three of the rookie Giants' sixteen hits, raising their respective AVGs to .306 and .348.

Is the 18-year-old Bucardo overmatched in the AZL?  He has allowed a lot of baserunners, with a WHIP above 1.50 and a .303 BAA, and has made it through the fifth inning just twice in his seven starts.

DSL: Giants defeated Blue Jays #2 7-4

Dominican: LF Sundrendy Windster: 2 for 4, HR
Dominican: RHP Edward Concepcion: 6.0 IP, 9 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 2 K--1 HR

Windster: (19.5 y.o.) connected for his league-leading 8th HR among 167 AB.  Only three other players on the team have more than one home run this year, and those three players have combined for 8 HRs.  Concepcion (19.10 y.o.) had one of his less effective starts, but he improved his W-L record to 6-1 and maintained an ERA below 3.75.  Among the Gigantes' five regular starters, that ERA ranks in the middle (i.e., 3rd); the overall team ERA is 4.17.