Tigers Minor League Baseball Blog

Giovany Soto improved to a perfect 3-0 on the season with five shutout frames in the GCL Tigers 10-0 win over the GCL Yankees.  He gave up four hits and a walk with four strikeouts.  Marcos Nunez gave up four hits with four strikeouts in four shutout innings of relief.

Chao-Ting Tang went two for three with a home run, two walks, three RBIs and two runs.  Londell Taylor went two for five with a double, two runs and two RBIs.

The GCL Yankees and GCL Tigers split shutouts today as they made up a rain out.  The GCL Tigers were on the losing end of a 3-0 game in the first one.  Bruce Rondon gave up two runs on four hits and three walks with five strikeouts in four innings and he dropped to 0-1.  The hitters managed only four hits and all four were singles.

Game two went a lot better and it was a 1-0 win.  Marcos Nunez improved to 1-0 with three innings of shutout relief while Melvin Mercedes pitched a shutout ninth to pick up his third save of the season.  Jordan Cruz was the hitting star and he went two for three with two doubles and a run.

The GCL Tigers trailed for most of this game until they rallied for six runs in the top of the seventh inning to give them a 7-4 win.  Elvin Soto went two for four with a double and an RBI while Luis Castillo went two for five with a run.

Marcos Nunez picked up the win although he was kind of the right place at the right time because he gave up two of the four Phillies run.  Melvin Mercedes threw a shutout ninth and he picked up save number one.