The Akron Aeros and Kinston Indians also get victories on Friday night, but a power outage causes the suspension of the Lake Erie Crushers game.
AAA Columbus Clippers
Clippers 10, Indians 9 Columbus and Indianapolis combined for seven home runs in a slugfest Friday at Huntington Park in Columbus. The Clippers scored the winning run in the eighth on an RBI single by Luis Valbuena. Columbus home runs were slugged by Jordan Brown (his third), Cord Phelps (second), Jared Goedert (15th) and Wes Hodges (seventh). Vinnie Pestano (1-1) pitched the final 1 1/3 innings for the victory.
AA Akron Aeros
Aeros 10, SeaWolves 1 Akron rolled to its largest victory margin of the season at Erie, Pa. Beau Mills slugged a two-run homer as the Aeros won for the eighth time in their past 11 games.
Advanced A Kinston Indians
Indians 9, Red Sox 0 Chun-Hsiu Chen clubbed his first home run of the season for Kinston, N.C., and Austin Adams (1-0) and Marty Popham combined to limit visiting Salem, Va., to no runs on eight hits.
A Lake County Captains
TinCaps 1, Captains 0 Fort Wayne, Ind., scored the only run it needed in the top of the first at Classic Park in Eastlake when Danny Payne walked, stole second and third and then came home on a sacrifice fly. Fort Wayne managed only two hits.
A Mahoning Valley Scrappers
Lake Monsters 10, Scrappers 5 Vermont scored six runs in the top of the fifth and held on to beat Mahoning Valley in Niles. Brian Heere hit his first home run of the season for Mahoning Valley, a two-run shot in the fifth.
Independent Lake Erie Crushers
Crushers at Otters, susp. Lake Erie's game at Bosse Field in Evansville, Ind., was suspended in the bottom of the fifth when a light tower in right field went out. The game, tied at 2-2, was delayed for over an hour.