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Three minor league affiliates won on Sunday, Tulsa goes down in defeat.
Player of the day
Rancho Cucamonga right-handed pitcher Dean Kremer gave up no hits in six innings pitched on Sunday. His ten strikeouts was a season high.
Triple-A Oklahoma City
The Dodgers took advantage of the few chances they had to win 3-2 over the Nashville Sounds (Athletics). With two out in the sixth inning, the Dodgers hit five straight singles that produced all of the runs they scored on Sunday.
Breyvic Valera started the rally with his hit, Edwin Rios followed with his single. Kyle Farmer drove in the first run with a base hit. Kyle Garlick scored the second run with his hit.
Matt Beaty would cap the scoring with the fifth straight single to score Farmer.
Manny Bañuelos started for the Dodgers and he pitched five innings, giving up a run and four hits. Joe Broussard, JT Chargois, Pat Venditte and Brian Schlitter combined to pitch four innings and give up one runs and two hits.
Schlitter pitched the ninth inning and he gave up two runs and the sole hit in the game. Schlitter would collect his ninth save for the Dodgers.
Double-A Tulsa
The Drillers lost 6-3 to Corpus Christi Hooks (Astros) on Sunday. Mitch White gave up three runs in 1⅔ innings and Shea Spitzbarth would also give up three runs in relief.
White has struggled in his few games at Tulsa. White has only pitched 13 innings in 2018 but he has walked 11 and given up 15 runs and 16 hits in those few innings.
DJ Peters started the game with a solo home run, his tenth of the season. That would be all of the Quakes scoring until the ninth when with two out, Yusniel Diaz singled home two runs.
Diaz, Peters and Drew Jackson each had two hits but the team only hit 2-for-13 with runners in scoring position.
Class-A Rancho Cucamonga
The Quakes scored five runs in the ninth to win 8-2 over the Inland Empire 66ers (Angels). Dean Kremer, Ryan Moseley and Jason Richman combined to pitch a one-hitter against the 66ers.
Kremer had a great start, he pitched six innings, gave up no runs and hits and he struck out ten and walked one.
Gavin Lux went 3-for-5 with a home run, Connor Wong hit his 11th home run. Cody Thomas also homered.
Class-A Great Lakes
The Loons scored five unanswered runs to beat the Lake County Captains (Reds) 7-3 on Sunday. Brayan Morales singled home the tying run in the seventh. Gersel Pitre would score the go-ahead run in the eighth with his single.
In the ninth, Moises Perez hit his first home run of the season and later Carlos Rincon tripled home two more runs to end the scoring.
Connor Strain pitched the last three innings to collect the win. Leo Crawford started the game and he gave up a run and three hits.
Transactions
No transactions reported on Sunday.
Sunday’s scores
Rancho Cucamonga 8, Inland Empire 2
Monday’s schedule
10:00 a.m. PT: Great Lakes (TBD) at Lake County (Kirk McCarty)
10:05 a.m.: Oklahoma City (Daniel Corcino) at Nashville (Chris Bassitt)
2:05 p.m.: Rancho Cucamonga (Chris Mathewson) vs. Lake Elsinore [Angels] (TBD)