Light Schedule In Minors On Monday

Many minor leagues had few games ... and many leagues had no games ... Monday.

As a result of the light schedule, the longest game of the day was an 11-inning affair in Niles, OH.

The Mahoning Valley Scrappers (Indians) camed from behind to tie the Tri-City Valley Cats (Astros) in the 9th on a Josh Roberts home run, then won it in the 11th:

Roberts tied the game at 5 with a two-out solo home run in the bottom of the ninth inning. He came up again in the bottom of the 11th with two out and Andy Lytle on second base, but this time Langbehn and the ValleyCats chose to walk him.

And while Roberts’ long home run to right field kept the Scrappers alive, it was all-star centerfielder Jason Denham’s suicide-squeeze bunt down the third-base line that beat Tri-City, 6-5, Monday night.

The Scrappers improved to 30-24 and moved a game and a half in front of second-place State College in the Pinckney Division of the New York-Penn League. Tri-City fell to 31-23 but is still in first place in the Stedler Division.

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The Scrappers and the Valley Cats play in the New York-Penn League (Class A Short-Season)

The best pitching performance of the day on Monday was a 2-hit, complete game shutout by Corpus Christi Hooks (Astros) pitcher Chance Douglass against the Tusla Drillers (Rockies):

Douglass retired the first six hitters of the game before hitting Alvin Colina with a pitch to begin the third. A double play eliminated Colina, and the Drillers did not have another base runner until two outs in the fifth as Matt Miller ended the no-hit bid by dropping a single into center field. Colina followed with another base hit, but it would be the final runner of the game for Tulsa. Douglass retired Doug Bernier to end the fifth, then retired the next 12 Drillers in a row to end the game.

It was only the second complete game of the season against Tulsa and only the third time that the Drillers had been shutout. Douglass improved his record to 7-6 with the victory.

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The game was Douglass' second complete-game shutout of the year, and the 5th in the Texas League (Double-A) this season.