Joseph homers as SWB sweeps doubleheader

Triple-A Scranton Game One (5-4 win over Charlotte in seven innings) makeup of Saturday’s rainout

• 1B Corban Joseph: 2-3, 1 R, 1 HR, 3 RBI, 1 BB — second start at first base of the season
• RF-CF Melky Mesa: 2-3, 1 2B, 1 RBI
• CF-LF Zoilo Almonte: 1-4, 1 2B, 2 K
• 3B David Adams: 1-4, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 K — 14 hits in his last 37 at-bats (.378)
• RHP Dellin Betances: 3.1 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 3 BB, 6 K, 2 WP, 2/1 GB/FB — 46 of 80 pitches were strikes (58%)
• RHP Sam Demel: 2.2 IP, zeroes, 3 K, 3/2 GB/FB — 22 of 29 pitches were strikes (76%) … three hits, two walks, zero runs, and seven strikeouts in his last 8.2 innings

Triple-A Scranton Game Two (5-0 win over Charlotte in seven innings)

• 2B Corban Joseph & CF Melky Mesa: both 0-4 — CoJo struck out thrice, Melky twice
• RF-LF Zoilo Almonte: 2-4, 1 2B, 4 RBI
• SS-RF Addison Maruszak: 2-3, 2 R, 2 2B
• C Jeff Farnham: 3-3, 1 R, 1 PB — came off the phantom DL to replace Romine, so nice start to his season
• RHP Chris Bootcheck: 6 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 6 K, 4/5 GB/FB — 54 of 89 pitches were strikes (61%) … he’s allowed one earned run total in four starts and 24 innings this year

High-A Tampa (7-1 loss to St. Lucie)

• CF Mason Williams & LF Ben Gamel: both 0-4, 1 BB — Gamel struck out twice and threw a runner out at the plate
• DH Rob Refsnyder: 2-4, 1 BB — this is getting silly now
• C Gary Sanchez: 0-5, 2 K, 1 E (pickoff)
• RHP Mikey O’Brien: 4 IP, 8 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 5 K, 1 HB, 4/1 GB/FB — gonna have to do better than that if he wants to get back to Trenton

Both Double-A Trenton and Low-A Charleston were rained out. The Thunder will play a doubleheader tomorrow, but the Low-A game was flat-out cancelled and will not be made up.