Blue Jays MiLB Report: Angel Perdomo dazzles the Cubs, but the Lugnuts fall short

Scores and analysis for Blue Jays minor league games played on Sunday, May 29th

Buffalo Bisons (26-24)   –   2
Toledo Mud Hens (22-26)   –   3

The Bisons fell victim to a come-from-behind walk off home run off the bat of Steven Moya. Former Blue Jay Anthony Gose scored two runs for the Mud Hens while the Bisons could only gather two hits against Toledo starter Chad Bell.

Roberto Hernandez gave up one run and avoided the big inning despite allowing ten hits and two walks in five and two thirds. Pat Venditte pitched two and a third and struck out five batters before giving up a single to Gose in the ninth and giving way to Dustin Antolin. The right-hander gave up the back-breaking home run two batters later.

Andy Burns and Jesus Montero had two hits each in a relatively quiet night for the Herd’s offence. 

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New Hampshire Fisher Cats (22-26)   –   11
Reading Fightin Phils (33-17)   –   8

Five Fisher Cats batters had multi-hit games in a high-scoring affair against the Fightin Phils. A 10-2 lead in the third inning did get uncomfortably close against a scary Phils offence, but Chris Smith and Matt Dermody shut them down in the 8th and 9th.

Starting pitcher John Anderson and reliever Jason Berken combined for seven innings of work and seven earned runs on 14 hits.

Designated hitter Melky Mesa hit a solo shot and Christian Lopes went 2-for-3 with a walk and three RBI’s out of the nine hole. Other notables were Jon Berti‘s 2-for-5 night with a triple and Rowdy Tellez went 1-for-5 with a double and three strikeouts.

Dunedin Blue Jays (22-29)   –   4
Daytona Tortugas (23-28)   –   8

Justin Shafer pitched into the seventh inning but allowed seven runs on eight hits, three walks, and six strikeouts. The D-Jays were unable to break out offensively as Derrick Loveless and Richard Urena were a combined 0-for-10 at the top of the lineup.

Jason Leblebijian hit his sixth home run of the season for Dunedin and catcher Jorge Saez was 2-for-4 with a double and a couple of RBI’s. Top prospect Anthony Alford was also 0-for-4, in a tough night for the young Blue Jays.

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Lansing Lugnuts (24-24)   –   0
South Bend Cubs (31-17)   –   1

Angel Perdomo dominated a lethal Cubs offence that had 17 runs on 19 hits just one night earlier. Perdomo pitched seven shut out innings of one-hit ball to silence some hot bats in the South Bend dugout. He walked three and struck out three, while improving his remarkable opponents batting average against to .142. He leads the MiLB in that category.

Unfortunately for Perdomo, the Lugnuts could only generate three hits. A scoreless game in the ninth ended when when Eloy Jiminez hit a home run to lead off the inning against reliever Starlyn Suriel to give the Cubs a 1-0 victory.