Twins Minor League Report (4/25): Harrison Propels Lookouts

It came out later in the afternoon that Loek Van Mil was released from AAA and David Murphy had asked for, and was granted, his release. Terry Ryan told the media that John Hicks had been placed on waivers to open up a spot for Murphy. Whoops!

Anyway, the Twins played on Monday night with 14 pitchers on their active roster. There could be more moves as only Chattanooga was in action on Monday and, seriously, a two-man bench? Come on.

RED WINGS REPORT

Rochester - off day

The Red Wings will head to Buffalo to start a series on Tuesday.

CHATTANOOGA CHATTER

Chattanooga 7, Birmingham 6

Box Score

Travis Harrison had a day. He put the Lookouts on the board with an RBI double that scored Zach Granite who singled to open the inning and moved over on a sacrifice by Levi Michael.

Harrison led off the fourth inning with his second double of the night. Daniel Palka moved him to third on a single and Harrison scored on a Mitch Garver single. Stuart Turner loaded the bases with the third single of the inning. An error by the third baseman allowed Palka to score off of Engelb Vielma’s bat. And with two outs, Michael tripled to score Garver, Turner and Vielma, the third, fourth and fifth runs of the inning, pushing the lead to 6-2.

Aaron Slegers pitched six innings, giving up a single run in four of them and leaving with a 6-4 lead. He allowed seven hits and walked one. He struck out six.

Slegers was relieved and holds were credited to both Mike Strong and Jake Reed, who both pitched to the minimum three batters. Neither allowed a walk or hit and Reed’s defense was able to erase the base runner who was on due to Vielma’s sixth error of the season.

Nick Burdi was summoned to attempt to collect his first save of the season and coaxed a fly ball to record his first out. After walking a batter, Burdi allowed a hit and runners were on the corners. He got his second out of the inning with a swinging strikeout, but lost the save chance with the runner of first stole second and the batter followed with a ground-rule double. Burdi blew the save and the 6-4 win turned into a tie game.

Burdi retired the next batter and the Lookouts came to bat in the bottom of the ninth. Michael drew a one-out walk and guess who ended the game with a two-out double? None other than Travis Harrison, who hit his third two-bagger of the day.

The Lookouts improved to 7-12.

MIRACLE MATTERS

Fort Myers - off day

The Miracle will go to Jupiter to start a series on Tuesday.

KERNELS NUGGETS

Cedar Rapids - off day

The Kernels will host West Michigan starting on Tuesday.

TWINS DAILY PLAYERS OF THE DAY

Pitcher of the Day – Aaron Slegers

Hitter of the Day – Travis Harrison

TUESDAY’S PROBABLE STARTERS

Rochester @ Buffalo (5:05PM CST) – TBD

Birmingham @ Chattanooga (6:15PM CST) – RHP Ryan Eades (0-2, 6.14 ERA)

Fort Myers @ Jupiter (5:30PM CST) – LHP Stephen Gonsalves (1-1, 1.89 ERA)

West Michigan @ Cedar Rapids (6:30PM CST) – RHP Randy LeBlanc (1-2, 2.00 ERA)

Please feel free to ask any questions and discuss Monday’s only game.