AAA, April 7

Ineternational League probables:

Rochester/Syracuse and Louisville/Ottawa have already been postponed
Buffalo at Richmond: Jeremy Sowers vs Wes Obermueller
Charlotte at Toledo: Nik Lubisch vs Zach Miner
Indianapolis at Pawtucket: Brandon Duckworth vs David Wells (on rehab)
Durham at Norfolk: Edwin Jackson vs Jeremi Gonzalez
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre at Columbus: Jeremy Cummings vs Matt Childers

Highlights from yesterday:

Boof Bonser pitched six shoutout innings, walking 2 and fanning 8, as Rochester beat Syracuse 5-3. Jason Bartlett doubled and tripled, scoring twice, and Luis maza had three hits and three RBI for the Red Wings. For the Sky Chiefs, Sergio Santos had a pair of hits, a run scored and an RBI.

Charlotte made a second-inning run stand up for a 1-0 win over Toledo. Tim Redding shut down the Mud Hens over 6 innings (1 BB, 7 K). WIl Ledezma fanned 9 in 4 2/3 but was the hard-luck loser.

Pawtucket was shackled by Tom Gorzelanny for four innings, but got single runs in each of the last three innings to take a 3-2 win over Indianapolis. The Indians managed just two hits off four PawSox pitchers, both of which were solo HRs by Ray Sadler. Rodney Nye homered in the seventh, Jeff Bailey tied the game in the eighth with a solo shot, and then Trent Durrington got a one-out triple in the ninth. Willie Harris followed with a walk and went to second on defensive indifference - a key play, because when Alejandro Machado grounded to first Brad Eldred had to come home with the ball, and Durrington beat the rap to score the winning run. Gorzelanny fanned eight in his four innings.

Jose Lima gave up two dingers and four runs to the Durham Bulls, and Jason Hammel pitched 5 shutout innings with 7 Ks as the Bulls handed Norfolk an 8-0 defeat. Shawn Riggans and Darnell McDonald took Lima deep, and the Bulls scored in every inning from the third through the eighth. The Tides had just five hits, two by DH Juan Tejeda.

PCL Probables:

Round Rock at New Orleans: Carlos Hernandez vs Kyle Denney
Albuquerque at Iowa: Yusimiro Petit vs Les Walrond
Memphis at Oklahoma: John Webb vs John Rheinecker
Nashville at Omaha: Ben Hendrickson vs Bobby Keppel
Colorado Springs at Tacoma: Jose Acevedo vs Bobby Livingston
Salt Lake City at Tucson: Dustin Moseley vs Edgar Gonzalez
Fresno at Las Vegas: Brian Cooper vs DJ Houlton
Sacramento at Portland: Juan Dominguez vs Mike Thompson

Highlights from yesterday:

In the game of the day, New Orleans took a 4-3 lead into the ninth at home against Round Rock in front of a sellout crowd, but couldn’t hang on, losing 5-4 to the Express. Closer Travis Hughes wild-pitched in the tying run, and then walked in the winning run. Luke Scott ‘s solo shot in the eighth off Kevin Gryboski tied the game at 3, but the Zephyrs picked up a run in the bottom half on an error by Express SS Cody Ransom. LArry Broadway had two hits and an RBI for New Orleans.

Stephen Drew’s first AAA at-bat yielded a solo HR, but that was the only highlight for Tucson in a 9-3 thrashing by Salt Lake City. Mike Napoli had four hits, Erick Aybar three, and Howie Kendrick two for the Bees, who jumped on Kevin Jarvis for six runs (four earned) in the second and third. Drew added a single, and Carlos Quentin (playing RF) chipped in with two hits for the Sidewinders.

Las Vegas broke a 2-2 tie with a five-run fifth, winning 7-2 over Fresno. Chad Billingsley’s AAA debut lasted five innings, during which he yielded a two-run homer to Fred Lewis. Joel Guzman made his AAA debut at 1B for the 51s. Delwyn Young’s two-run double was the big hit of the five-run inning. Andre Ethier also had a pair of RBIs.

Oklahoma outlasted Memphis 5-4 in 13 innings. The Red Hawks parlayed a Gary Matthews double, Drew Meyer triple, and Rashad Eldridge HR into a three-run first, only to see Shaun Boyd deliver a bases-loaded double in the second to tie the score. Memphis tallied a single run in the third on John Gall’s double, and Oklahoma tied it in the sixth on Eldridge’s double, an error, and a balk by Anthony Reyes. That was it until the bottom of the 13th, when Meyer’s single plated Nick Trzesniak with the game-winner off Alan Benes. Robinson Tejeda lasted just three innings, allowing four runs three earned), while Reyes lasted through six.