Pinstriped Performances: Walk-Off Wednesday

As ballyhooed pitching prospects made highly anticipated Triple-A and Double-A debuts, the two senior Yankees affiliates played hero ball on Hump Day. Rob Brantly and Donny Sands cranked game-ending home runs in extra innings to lift their teams to victory.

Luis Gil. Photo by Matt Kardos.

Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (25-11): Hoy Jun Park’s RBI single in the bottom of the ninth to tie the game set the stage for Brantly’s heroics in the tenth as the RailRiders overcame an early 5-2 deficit to win 10-7 over Syracuse.

• Star of the Game: Rob Brantly – 2-for-5, 1 home run (3), 3 RBI, 2 runs scored. With runners on second and third and one out in the tenth of a tie game, Brantly could’ve simply lifted a fly ball to the outfield; instead, he lifted one over the wall
• Hoy Jun Park: 1-for-2, 1 RBI, 4 walks. Park got on base all night long and extended the game with his one-out single in the ninth
• Estevan Florial: 1-for-4, 3 runs scored, 2 walks, 2 strikeouts
• Trey Amburgey: 1-for-5, 2 runs scored, 1 walk, 2 strikeouts
• Thomas Milone: 3-for-5, 1 RBI, 1 run scored, 2 strikeouts
• Luis Gil: 5 IP, 7 H, 5 ER, 3 BB, 4 K, 95 pitches (58 strikes). Gil was tagged for two home runs in his Triple-A debut
• Brooks Kriske: 1.1 IP, 2 H, 2 ER, 2 BB, 1 K, 32 pitches (19 strikes)
• Sal Romano: 0.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 K, 4 pitches (2 strikes)
• Reggie McClain: 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 3 K, 34 pitches (25 strikes)
• Nick Goody: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K, 11 pitches (8 strikes). Goody’s perfect top of the tenth earned him his fourth win of the year

Donny Sands playing for the Somerset Patriots on May 9, 2021. (Chirs Jones)

Somerset Patriots (23-13): A wild, back-and-forth affair saw the Patriots tie the score in the bottom of the ninth and rally twice in extras to emerge with a 7-5 win over Richmond.

• Star of the Game: Donny Sands – 1-for-5, 1 home run (6), 3 RBI, 1 run scored. Sands hit his third home run in the last two nights in the bottom of the 11th inning to send everybody home happy
• Luke Voit: 0-for-3, 1 walk, 2 strikeouts
• Oswald Peraza: 1-for-4, 1 run scored, 1 walk, 2 strikeouts
• Diego Castillo: 3-for-5, 1 RBI, 2 runs scored, 1 strikeout. Castillo has opened the series against the Flying Squirrels with back-to-back three-hit games
• Michael Beltre: 2-for-4
• Isiah Gilliam: 1-for-4, 1 RBI, 1 strikeout. Gilliam’s clutch two-out double scored the tying run in the bottom of the ninth
• Luis Medina: 5.2 IP, 5 H, 3 ER, 2 BB, 10 K, 91 pitches (59 strikes). The first domino to fall (or rise?) in Hudson Valley’s dominant rotation trio was Medina, who thoroughly impressed in his Double-A debut
• Michael Gomez: 1.1 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 23 pitches (17 strikes)
• Keegan Curtis: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K, 19 pitches (12 strikes)
• Stephen Ridings: 2 IP, 1 H, 1 R (0 ER), 1 BB, 5 K, 33 pitches (26 strikes)
• Zach Greene: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 K, 4 pitches (4 strikes)

Josh Breaux (Robert M. Pimpsner/Pinstriped Prospects)

Hudson Valley Renegades (21-15): A see-saw matchup between the BlueClaws and Renegades ended in Jersey Shore’s favor by a 6-4 score.

• Star of the Game: Josh Breaux – 4-for-5, 1 double, 1 RBI, 1 run scored. Breaux followed up his walk-off home run on Tuesday with his fourth multi-hit game and first with four hits this season
• Josh Smith: 2-for-4, 1 double, 2 runs scored, 1 walk, 1 strikeout
• Anthony Seigler: 1-for-4, 1 double, 1 run scored, 1 walk, 2 strikeouts
• Mitch Spence: 4 IP, 5 H, 2 ER, 1 BB, 4 K, 67 pitches (43 strikes)
• Charlie Ruegger: 1 IP, 2 H, 3 ER, 3 BB, 2 K, 38 pitches (18 strikes)
• Nick Ernst: 2.2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 6 K, 44 pitches (29 strikes)
• Justin Wilson: 1.1 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 3 K, 34 pitches (19 strikes)

Anthony Volpe (Photo by John Brophy/Pinstriped Prospects)

Tampa Tarpons (27-11): A rain-shortened evening saw Bradenton take home a six-inning victory over the Tarpons, 3-2.

• Star of the Game: Anthony Volpe – 1-for-3, 1 double, 1 RBI, 1 strikeout. Volpe recorded Tampa’s only extra-base hit of the night and boasts a healthy .955 OPS
• Austin Wells: 0-for-3, 2 strikeouts
• Trevor Hauver: 0-for-2, 2 strikeouts
• Pedro Diaz: 1-for-2, 1 RBI, 1 run scored
• Jhonatan Munoz: 4 IP, 1 H, 3 ER, 2 BB, 6 K, 62 pitches (38 strikes)
• Anderson Munoz: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K, 19 pitches (11 strikes)