Down On The Farm: July 4

Abbreviated today because of the holiday. Happy 4th everyone.

AAA Durham Bulls (40-45)

5-4 loss
Matt Mangini 2/4 1 R 1 2B 2 RBI 1 K
Cole Figueroa 2/3 1 2B 1 RBI 1 BB
Lance Pendelton 6 IP 4 H 3 R (2 ER) 2 BB 3 K
Brandon Gomes .2 IP 2 H 2 ER 1 BB 0 K (BS 3) (L 4-2)

AA Montgomery Biscuits (7-4)

6-1 win
Omar Luna 1/4 1 R 1 2B 2 RBI 1 K
Tyler Bortnick 1/4 1 R 1 2B 2 RBI 1 K
Michael Sheridan 4/4 1 2B
Jake Thompson 7 IP 2 H 1 R (0 ER) 2 BB 3 K (W 6-5)

High-A Charlotte Stone Crabs (4-6)

3-2 loss
Luke Bailey 2/3 1 R 1 HR 1 RBI
Victor Mateo 6 IP 2 H 1 ER 3 BB 1 K
George Jensen 2 IP 2 H 2 ER 0 BB 1 K (L 2-3)

Low-A Bowling Green Hot Rods (6-4)

5-1 win
Ryan Brett 1/3 1 R 1 RBI 1 BB 2 SB
Drew Vettleson 3/4 2 R 1 2B 1 HR 2 RBI
Alejandro Segovia 1/4 1 R 1 HR 2 RBI
Parker Markel 7 IP 4 H 1 ER 1 BB 8 K (W 3-5)
Austin Hubbard .1 IP 0 H 0 R 0 BB 1 K (S 10)

Short Season-A Hudson Valley Renegades (9-5)

7-5 loss
Justin O'Conner 2/5 1 R 1 2B 1 K
Thomas Coyle 2/5 2 R 1 RBI
Michael Williams 2/4 1 2B 2 RBI
Jeff Ames 5 IP 3 H 3 R (0 ER) 3 BB 7 K
Rob Finneran 2 IP 4 H 2 R (0 ER) 1 BB 3 K (BS 3)
Jose Molina 2 IP 3 H 2 ER 2 BB 1 K (L 0-1)

Rookie Princeton Rays (9-4)

7-2 loss
Andrew Toles 2/4 1 R 1 2B
Bruedlin Suero 4 IP 7 H 5 ER 1 BB 3 K (L 0-2)

Rookie Gulf Coast League Rays (6-4)

3-2 loss
Benjamin Kline 3/4
Armando Araiza 2/4 1 R 1 K
Carlos Cedeno 4 IP 3 H 1 R (0 ER) 1 BB 3 K
Dayne Quist 1 IP 3 H 2 ER 0 BB 3 K (BS 1) (L 1-1)

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Star of the day- It was close between Jake Thompson and Parker Markel, but I'll go with Markel because of how disappointing his season has been.

Goat of the day- Hudson Valley's defense seemed pretty poor.

Today's games (probables courtesy of milb.com)

Durham v. Norfolk 6:05 PM (MiLB.TV)
TBA v. Jason Berken (1-2, 2.99)

Montgomery v. Mobile 8:05 PM
Joe Cruz (6-6, 4.86) v. Derek Eitel (6-6, 4.43)

Charlotte v. Fort Myers 6:30 PM
C.J. Fiefenhauser (7-3, 3.41) v. Matthew Hauser (2-1, 2.30)

Bowling Green @ Fort Wayne 7:05 PM
Roberto Gomez (8-2, 2.48) v. Frank Garces (4-4, 2.62)

Hudson Valley @ Vermont 4:05 PM
Jesse Hahn (0-1, 8.53) v. Chris Lamb (2-0, 1.20)

Princeton @ Pulaski 4 PM
Blake Snell (1-0, 0.00) v. Jochi Ogando (1-0, 1.06)

GCL Rays @ GCL Red Sox 12 PM DOUBLEHEADER