Rubberducks even the division series in 10 innings, while the Clippers no-hit Toledo Thursday Night
Cleveland Guardians minor league recap for Friday, September 20, 2024
Columbus Clippers 2, Toledo Mudhens 0
Box Score · Clippers improve to 79-66
When a Clippers no-hitter is the least-talked about thing regarding the Guardians’ organization Thursday, you already know that it was one heck of a day for the whole system. But yes, you heard that right. In the midst of the Guardians clinching the playoffs and the Akron Rubberducks forcing a game 3 against Erie, a combination of Connor Gillispie, Randy Labaut, Anthony Gose and Tanner Burns gave the Toledo Mudhens a goose egg in the hits column.
Connor Gillispie pitched 5 of the 9 innings, K’ing seven and allowing the only two Mudhen baserunners by way of the free pass. Randy Labaut threw two hitless with two K’s, and then Anthony Gose and Tanner Burns rounded things up in the end! Well done to these four pitchers for completing one of the hardest feats in baseball, even in AAA!
No-hitter!
— Guardians Prospective (@CleGuardPro) September 20, 2024
Columbus Clippers throw a combined no-hitter at Toledo!
Connor Gillispie gets the win and Tanner Burns the save!
Gillispie - 5.0(IP) 0H 0R 7SO
Labaut - 2.0(IP) 0H 0R 2SO
Gose - 1.0(IP) 0H 0R 0SO
Burns - 1.0(IP) 0H 0R 0SO#ForTheLand pic.twitter.com/gyqquykSvj
As for the offense, the top four in the lineup carried all the weight. Ray Delgado had himself two hits and a walk last night, driving in a run and being driven in as well. J-Rod was the one to drive in Ray on a seeing-eye single to right field in the 6th.
Akron RubberDucks 7, Erie SeaWolves 4
Box Score · RubberDucks even series 1-1
Parker Messick had the bump for the second of this best-of-three series. He went 4.2 innings of two-run baseball, giving up four hits, two walks and fanning four. Zane Morehouse also gave up a run in his 1.1 innings of work following Messick, and Aaron Davenport pitched the remaining three innings of the first nine. He seemed to be doing great, as he hadn’t given up a single hit or walk heading into the 9th, and he had three K’s as well. But he did end up giving up the tying run, but nothing more.
#Guardians 23yr old LHP prospect Parker Messick allowed two runs over 4.2 innings of work tonight striking out four Erie batters in game two of the Eastern League division playoff series.
— Guardians Prospective (@CleGuardPro) September 20, 2024
Line - 4.2(IP) 4H 2R 2ER 2BB 4SO (97 Pitches 62 Strikes)#ForTheLand pic.twitter.com/zuIw5xivo6
Kody Huff carried the Ducks into the 9th, providing all four runs with a bases-clearing double in the 5th and an RBI single in the 7th.
Huff delivers!#Guardians 23yr old (C) prospect Kody Huff with a bases loaded 3-run double in the 5th inning breaks a scoreless tie and gives Akron the lead in game two of the playoffs vs Erie!#ForTheLand pic.twitter.com/v3RGOFrLGV
— Guardians Prospective (@CleGuardPro) September 19, 2024
#Guardians 23yr old (C) prospect Kody Huff drives in his 4th run of the game to give Akron the lead over Erie in the 7th inning.#ForTheLand pic.twitter.com/67AuLv8G3o
— Guardians Prospective (@CleGuardPro) September 20, 2024
Unfortunately, that was all only enough to keep Akron up 4-3 heading into the bottom of the 9th. As aforementioned, Aaron Davenport would give up a lead-off triple, only to have the tying run come home off a sac fly. But luck would turn drastically in Akron’s favor in the 10th, when the Ducks would score three runs off of two separate ground balls. The SeaWolves just could not seem to close it out as they committed error after error, which gave Akron the lead and Bradley Hanner the chance to shut the door, prompting a rubber match tonight!
Akron takes the lead!#Guardians 23yr old OF prospect Guy Lipscomb with an infield base hit allows C.J. Kayfus to score on an error by Erie's pitcher to make it a 5-to-4 game in the top of the 10th inning!#ForTheLand pic.twitter.com/FPNhV0bMY4
— Guardians Prospective (@CleGuardPro) September 20, 2024
Insurance!#Guardians 22yr old switch-hitting INF prospect Dayan Frias collects an infield base hit to drive in Guy Lipscomb as Joe Lampe comes around to score on an error on the throw making it 7-to-4 Akron in the top of the 10th over Erie.#ForTheLand pic.twitter.com/Q8q2Pea9qu
— Guardians Prospective (@CleGuardPro) September 20, 2024
Hanner slams the door shut as Akron evens the series with Erie at 1-to-1 with the deciding game three of the Double-A Eastern League division series tomorrow!
— Guardians Prospective (@CleGuardPro) September 20, 2024
Final in 10 innings:
RubberDucks 7
SeaWolves 4#ForTheLand pic.twitter.com/mrFF5zaUVU