BUFFALO 7, LEHIGH VALLEY 4: The Herd trailed 4-0 after five innings before rallying with a five-run sixth inning in which all of the runs scored were unearned. Russ Adams reached base on a fielding error by second baseman Ozzie Chavez. Adams was at first base with two outs when Kirk Nieuwenhuis drew a walk and Mike Cervenak singled to load the bases. Buffalo followed with three consecutive walks, to Zach Lutz, J.R. House and Valentino Pascucci. Jesus Feliciano then singled to drive in two more runs for the 5-4 advantage. An inning later, Lutz hit his first Triple-A home run, a two-run shot with two outs, to give Buffalo the 7-4 lead. Mike Antonini worked five innings and earned his second Bisons win of the season. Both victories have come in Coca-Cola Park against the IronPigs. Mike O'Connor struck out three in 1 1/3 innings to earn his sixth save. Lutz finished the game 2-for-3 with two runs scored and three RBIs. Jose De La Torre struck out four batters in two innings of relief. Boxscore

HARRISBURG 9, BINGHAMTON 1
HARRISBURG 3, BINGHAMTON 1: Binghamton mustered just two runs combined in losing both ends of a doubleheader with Harrisburg. The Senators tied a season high with four homers in winning the opener 9-1, before taking the nightcap in 3-1 fashion behind the strong start of Adrian Alaniz. Right-hander Brandon Moore made his Double-A debut in Game 1 and encountered immediate trouble. Steve Lombardozzi clobbered the third pitch he saw from Moore and sent it out to right-center for a solo homer, his fifth of the season. Moore then walked the next two hitters on eight straight balls. Chris Marrero made him pay with an RBI double to left-center. Tim Pahuta rounded out the scoring with an RBI groundout to third, staking Harrisburg (75-64) a 3-0 lead. Moore managed to dodge trouble in the second inning, but gave up another long ball in the third. Marrero led off with a single to left. Michael Burgess followed and rattled a two-run homer off the right-field foul pole to up the lead to 5-0. The Senators knocked Moore from the game in the fourth. Lombardozzi led off the inning with a bunt single. After Josh Johnson flied out, Jesus Valdez scored the runner with a double. Marrero then laced a 2-1 offering from Moore out of the yard to left-center for his 18th homer. Michael Burgess followed and went back-to-back with Marrero with a homer to dead=center, upping the lead to 9-0. Meanwhile, Tom Milone faced three over the minimum until the sixth when Binghamton (65-74) struck for its only run. Jose Coronado led off with a single to center, extending his season-high hitting streak to eight games. After Jordany Valdespin flied out, Josh Satin and Sean Ratliff strung back-to-back singles together to plate Coronado, making it 9-1. Milone went on to toss the seventh for his second complete game of the season to seal his 12th win of the year. He allowed a run on seven hits and struck out nine. Moore was charged with the loss after surrendering a season-high nine runs on eight hits over 3 1/3 innings. The nightcap featured better pitching for the B-Mets. Mark Cohoon carried a no-hitter into the fourth and Alaniz dueled him to a scoreless deadlock through four innings. Burgess pushed the Senators ahead, though, in the fifth with a solo homer to right off Cohoon. It proved to be the lone run allowed by Cohoon, who was pulled for a pinch hitter in the last of the fifth. The southpaw gave up three hits over five innings to take the loss. Harrisburg extended its lead in the sixth against John Lujan, who allowed four straight to reach, culminating with a Marrero RBI single. Roy Merritt spelled the righty and gave up a sacrifice fly to Devin Ivany, stretching the lead to 3-0. Alaniz exited after allowing a leadoff single to Coronado in the sixth, upping his hitting streak to nine games. Jack Spradlin replaced the starter and finished the inning in scoreless fashion. The B-Mets mounted a charge in the ninth with a homer from Brahiam Maldonado leading off the inning. However, closer Cole Kimball buckled down and retired the next three hitters to nail down his 12th save in 16 chances. Alaniz earned the win, his first, with five-plus innings of scoreless work. He allowed two hits and struck out five. Marrero went a combined 5-for-7 with four RBIs to pace the Senators. Binghamton combined for just 10 hits in the doubleheader. Boxscores Game 1 Game 2

FORT MYERS 9, ST. LUCIE 7: The Mets fell behind 9-0 after two innings and battled back to within two runs, but could not complete the comeback. Orlando Tovar made his first start as a St. Lucie Met after being called up from Kingsport and was not welcomed kindly by Fort Myers. The Miracle scored nine runs (seven earned) on eight hits in 1 2/3 innings against Tovar. Trailing 9-0, the Mets began the long road back in the fourth inning, scoring twice. Two more runs in the sixth cut it to a 9-4 deficit. In the seventh inning, the Mets rallied to plate three runs keyed by a two-run double off the bat of Stefan Welch, making it a 9-7 game. That’s as close as the Mets would come. Seven of the last eight Mets batters were retired to close out the game. Sammy Martinez relieved Tovar with two outs in the second inning and retired all but two batters he faced in 3 1/3 innings. Martinez turned the game over to Nick Carr in the sixth inning. Carr sat down all six batters he faced. Rhiner Cruz handled the eighth and ninth innings and allowed only one batter to reach base while striking out five to give the Mets the chance for the comeback. Francisco Pena and Kai Gronauer each had two hits. Pena and Welch both drove in a pair of runs. Boxscore

SAVANNAH 5, ASHEVILLE 4 (12 INNINGS): The Gnats improved to 7-0 at home in extra innings. The win keeps Asheville a game and a half behind the Greenville Drive with three to play for the final playoff spot in the South Atlantic League. The Gnats, who are going to the playoffs for the first time in 14 years, will play the second-half champion, either the Drive or the Tourists, in the first round of the SAL playoffs. In a 4-4 game, Savannah right fielder Cody Holliday led off the bottom of the 12th by drawing a walk, the team's 10th, a new season high. After an out, and with the hit-and-run on, second baseman Luis Nieves executed with the single through the left side to send Holliday to third and place runners at the corners with one out. Shortstop Robbie Shields followed by chopping a ball on the right side of the infield, bringing Holliday home with the winning run. Nieves was the hitting star for Savannah, going 4-for-4 with two walks and a double. Three times, the Tourists established leads only to see the Gnats tie the score. The Tourists grabbed a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning against Savannah starter Gonzalez Germen. The first four batters all singled on the way to Asheville's 2-0 lead. However, after allowing his fifth single in the first, Germen settled in and retired 13 of the next 14 men to face him. The Gnats tied up the score at 2 in the bottom of the fifth. Savannah drew five walks, including two with the bases loaded, and did not have a hit in the inning. After the Tourists took a 3-2 lead with a run in the top of the sixth, the Gnats evened the score at 3- in the bottom of the seventh, again scoring without the benefit of a base hit. Savannah used two walks, a passed ball and a wild pitch to score its seventh-inning run. Asheville scored in the top of the ninth against reliever Marcos Tabata on a bloop single along the left-field line, but the Gnats tied the game on Asheville pitcher Sheng-An Kuo's two-base throwing error. Tabata worked scoreless innings in the 10th, 11th and 12th to earn his fourth win with Savannah. Boxscore

BROOKLYN 5, TRI-CITY 4: The Brooklyn Cyclones (50-23) defeated Tri-City (37-35) in the opening game of the last series of the regular season. The win is Brooklyn's 50th -- only the second time in franchise history the Cyclones achieved that mark. (The 2001 squad had 52 wins.) If the 2010 Cyclones win the last two games of the year, they will set a new all-time best home record -- 30-8, which also was achieved in 2001. On Friday, Cyclones hurlers surrendered four runs on seven hits while striking out seven Valley Cats. Starting pitcher Angel Cuan, limited to four innings of work in preparation for the playoffs, allowed no runs on three hits while striking out three. Hamilton Bennett took the mound in the fifth inning, surrendering two runs on three hits over two innings. Adam Kolarek came on in the seventh inning to pitch two scoreless frames before allowing a two-run home run that pulled Tri-City to within one run. Johan Figuereo ended the Valley Cats’ rally, though, getting two outs to earn his eighth save. Brooklyn bats victimized Tri-City’s pitching, scoring five runs on 10 hits with four players registering multi-hit games. Third baseman James Schroeder hit his first home run of the season -- a two-run shot to left field in the fourth inning. Cyclones newcomer ZeErika McQueen registered his first hit and first multi-hit game in a Brooklyn uniform, going 2-for-3 with one RBI and one stolen base. Catcher Juan Centeno continued his hot hitting at home, going 2-for-3 with two runs and one RBI, including his third double in two days, bringing his average to .372. Center fielder Cory Vaughn and shortstop Wilfredo Tovar were the third and fourth Cyclones to have multi-hit games, going 2-for-3 and 2-for-4, respectively. Vaughn also notched his 43rd run and 55th RBI. Right fielder Will Cherry rounded out the offense with a 1-for-4 effort, including one RBI. Boxscore

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