Baby Bomber Recap 4/25/13: Offense lets down Wang

Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders: L 1-4 vs. Columbus Clippers

2B Corban Joseph 1-5, 2 K - 13 for his last 42 (.310)
3B David Adams 2-3, BB
LF Zoilo Almonte 1-3, BB, K, SB
C Austin Romine 1-4, HR, PB - first homer of the season
CF Melky Mesa 0-4
RF Addison Maruszak 1-3, BB, K
SS Gil Velazquez 2-4, E6 - fielding error, second of the season

Chien-Ming Wang 6.2 IP, 4 H, 3 R/1 ER, 2 BB, 2 K, WP - 13 groundouts, 4 flyouts
Juan Cedeno 2.1 IP, 2 H, 1 R/0 ER, 3 BB, K, WP - 20 of 39 pitches for strikes

The Scranton beat writers said that Wang might have been more impressive tonight than he was in his debut, but the defense behind him let him down and the offense couldn't get anything going until Romine's solo shot in the ninth inning. Brett Marshall faces the Columbus Clippers today at 7:05.

Double-A Trenton Thunder: Off

Nik Turley starts today against the Portland Sea Dogs at 7:05 pm.

High-A Tampa Yankees: Off

Bryan Mitchell starts today against the Clearwater Threshers at 6:30 pm.

Low-A Charleston RiverDogs: L 0-7 vs. West Virginia Power

CF Jake Cave 1-4, HBP
SS Cito Culver 2-4, 2 K
DH Greg Bird 1-3, HBP - 8 for his last 35 (.229)
3B Dante Bichette Jr. 0-4, K
LF Kelvin De Leon 0-3, 2 K, HBP
RF Yeicok Calderon 0-3, BB, 2 K - 6 for his last 30 (.200)
1B Reymond Nunez 1-2, BB, HBP
C Nick McCoy 0-4
2B Francisco Rosario 0-3, BB, K, E4 - fielding error

Daniel Camarena 5 IP, 6 H, 7 H/5 ER, 0 BB, 7 K, balk - 55 of 74 pitches for strikes
Alex Smith 2 IP, 1 H, 0 ER, 0 BB - four groundouts, two flyouts
Ben Paullus 2 IP, 3 H, 0 ER, BB - 16 of 25 pitches for strikes

The Power scored six runs in the second inning which was more than enough to beat the RiverDogs who couldn't manage to push any runs across, even when the Power put four of them on base by plunking them. Minor league baseball! Charleston takes on the Kannapolis Intimidators today at 7:05 pm.