Brown, the International League's 2009 batting champion, drove a bases-loaded triple to lead AAA Columbus to a 5-4 win over Pawtucket. Brown, who is 10-for-13 with the bases loaded, is driving in one run per every 4.5 at bats.
Jordan Brown in spring training with the Indians.FARM REPORT
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AAA Columbus Clippers
Clippers 5, Red Sox 4 DH Jordan Brown's (.304) bases-loaded triple gave Columbus a 5-2 lead in the bottom of the fifth inning and RH reliever Vinnie Pestano (1.72) escaped a bases-loaded jam to pitch a scoreless ninth inning for his ninth save in the International League game. LH reliever Jeremy Sowers (2-6, 6.53) pitched two hitless innings for the win. Brown is 10-for-13 (.769) with 26 RBI with the bases loaded this season.
Notes: Jordan Brown's 56 RBI are tied for seventh in the International League, despite his missing 39 games. He began the season on the disabled list following arthroscopic knee surgery, then was sidelined with a sore back. Brown, who led the International League with a .336 batting average last season, has one RBI per every 4.5 at bats. He also has 25 doubles; one per every 10.1 at bats....2B Cord Phelps (.373) was 1-for-3 to extend his hitting streak to 13 games, during which he's gone 20-for-49 (.408) with three doubles, one triple and two home runs....LF Nick Weglarz (.287) doubled and had an RBI single, making him 14-for-33 (.424) with five doubles and three homes in his last nine games....RF Jose Constanza (.307) was 3-for-5.
AA Akron Aeros
Aeros 5, Phillies 5 (suspended) The Eastern League game in Reading, Pa. was suspended with two outs in the bottom of the fourth inning after a 31-minute rain delay. It will be resumed on Aug. 17 prior to the regularly scheduled game. Aeros RF Jerad Head (.299) slugged his 11th homer, a two-run clout. CF Jordan Henry (.265) was 3-for-3, and 2B Jason Kipnis (.338), 1B Beau Mills (.239) and C Miguel Perez (.289) were each 2-for-2.
Notes: Head is batting .484 (15-for-31) with four homers, five doubles, 10 RBI and 10 runs in his last 10 games....Kipnis is 20-for-40 (.500) in his last 10 games....LHP Kelvin De La Cruz (5.56) started and allowed five runs on five hits and six walks in 3 1/3 innings, with three strikeouts....RHP Alex White, the Indians' first pick in the 2009 draft, is 6-4 with a 1.48 ERA in 12 starts at Akron. He has won his last three outings, posting an 0.90 ERA and striking out 21 while walking one in 20 innings. White is 4-1 with an 0.94 ERA in his last six starts, striking out 29 and walking three in 38 1/3 innings. Counting his eight starts with Kinston to begin the season, White is 8-7 with a 2.00 ERA and is holding hitters to a .204 batting average. In 117 innings, he has fanned 90 while giving up 87 hits and 35 walks.
Advanced A Kinston Indians
Blue Rocks 10, Indians 4 Catcher Chun Chen (.255, two homers) and 1B Nate Recknagel (.225, five homers) both hit solo homers and 2B Karexon Sanchez (.263) drilled two triples, but it wasn't enough for the host Indians as Wilmington scored six runs on seven hits in four innings off RHP Joseph Gardner (8-5, 3.14) in a Carolina League game.
Notes: Gardner gave up two homers, after allowing just four homers in 104 innings this season. In his last eight starts, Gardner had been tagged for one homer in 45 1/3 innings. Gardner is a combined 9-5 with a 3.17 ERA this season for Kinston and Lake County. He has struck out 115, walked 44 and yielded just 76 hits in 108 innings, holding batters to a .197 average....Chen was 3-for-15 with no extra base-hits or walks in his first four games with the Indians, but is 9-for-32 (.281) with three doubles, two homers and nine walks in 10 games since. Chen hit .312 with 21 doubles, three triples, six homers and 39 RBI in 218 at bats at Lake County before being promoted to the Indians....DH/3B Jeremie Tice (.294) doubled singled and drove in a run. He was 2-for-19 in his first five games with the Indians, but has hit in eight straight games since, going 13-for-32 (.406) with five doubles. Tice was leading the Midwest League with 51 RBI when promoted from Lake County to Kinston, and was batting .282 with 19 doubles, one triple and nine homers in 245 at bats.
A Lake County Captains
Chiefs 4, Captains 3 Peoria 1B Justin Bour grounded a two-run single off Captains RH reliever Jeremy Johnson (3-2, 4.18) in the top of the eighth inning for the Chiefs' final margin in a Midwest League game. Captains LH starter Vidal Nuno (4.88) got no decision, but held Peoria to one run on five hits and no walks, with eight strikeouts, in six innings. Lake County 1B Jason Smit (.248, six homers) slugged a two-run home run and 3B Adam Abraham (.232, eight homers) delivered a solo homer.
Notes: Nuno has struck out 58 and walked eight in 55 1/3 innings....Abraham is on a nine-game hitting streak, going 15-for-36 (.417) with four homers, four doubles and 10 RBI....20-year-old SS Argenis Martinez (.192) is 13-for-36 (.361) with three strikeouts in his last nine games. In his first 57 games of the season, Martinez hit .157 with 52 strikeouts in 157 at bats....Johnson has struck out 29 and walked seven in 28 innings.
A Mahoning Valley Scrappers
Spikes 1, Scrappers 0 RHP Alex Kaminsky (4-2, 1.96) held State College (Pa.) to one run on four hits and one walk in six innings, but the Scrappers couldn't score off three Spikes' pitchers, despite getting eight hits. LF Brian Heere (.216), SS Kevin Fontanez (.202) and 3B Giovanny Urshela (.267) had two hits each for the Scrappers. Mahoning Valley relievers James Reichenbach (3.66) and James Ehlert (2.41) combined to pitch three perfect innings in the New York-Penn League game: the LH Reichenbach striking out three in two innings; the RH Ehlert fanning one in an inning.
Notes: Kaminsky's 1.96 ERA ranks fifth in the New York-Penn League....Ehlert has struck out 26 and walked four in 18 2/3 innings.
Independent Lake Erie Crushers
ThunderBolts 8, Crushers 5 Dom Duggan had a two-run single, but Lake Erie lost an independent Frontier League game against Windy City in Crestwood, Ill.
Notes: RHP Josh Roberts (6-1, 1.96) leads the Frontier League in ERA and RHP Matthew Smith (7-4, 3.62) is tied for the league lead in wins....Going into Sunday night's game, 3B Andrew Davis (.338) was fourth in the league in batting.