Guardians Farm Report: Jones Drives In Three And Reaches Base Five Times In Clippers Win

Here is a recap of what happened with the Guardians minor league teams last night

Todd Paquette | Jun 9, 2022

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Cleveland Guardians

Six of the seven Cleveland Guardians minor league affiliates were in action Wednesday with the Arizona Complex League squad getting the day off.

Triple-A Columbus Clippers

Columbus 11 Indianapolis 3

The Clippers offense put up 11 runs on 10 hits and nine walks against the Indians pitching staff Wednesday without the aid of a single home run.

The headliner in the offensive attack was that of Nolan Jones playing in just his second game of the season coming back from injury as he would reach base all five times he came up to bat. Jones would drive in three runs on three base hits and walk twice in the contest.

After a rough first game back Tuesday night #Guardians 24yr old OF prospect Nolan Jones reached base 5x today driving in 3 runs in the Clippers 11-3 win!

Line: 3-3 R 3RBI 2BB@Nolan_Jones10 @CLBClippers #ForTheLand pic.twitter.com/YgQbpsKW87
— Guardians Prospective (@CleGuardPro) June 8, 2022

Columbus held Indianapolis scoreless for the first seven innings of the game with starter Tanner Tully earning the win giving the team five strong frames allowing five hits while walking none and striking out two. Tully record moves to 5-0 on the season.

The Clippers are now 12 games over .500 at 34-22 on the year.

Top Performers:

Nolan Jones 3-3 R 3RBI 2BB
Bobby Bradley 1-3 2R 2B 2RBI BB
David Fry 1-3 2R 2RBI 2BB
Will Brennan 2-3 R RBI BB 2SB
Will Benson 1-3 3R 2B 3BB
Mitchell Tolman 1-5 2B 2RBI
Tanner Tully 5.0(IP) 5H 0R 0ER 0BB 2SO (W)

Double-A Akron RubberDucks

Somerset 2 Akron 1

RubberDucks starter Joey Cantillo held the Patriots scoreless without allowing a hit through the first five innings of the game. After giving up a walk to the first batter in the sixth Somerset would get their first hit followed by another walk. Cantillo would get a force out at second base on the next batter, but a runner would score then he would be taken out of the game.

#Guardians 22yr old LHP prospect Joey Cantillo had a no-hitter through 5 innings for Akron tonight but lost it & his 1-0 lead in the 6th allowing 2 runs. Cantillo's ERA now at 2.34 on the year.

Line - 5.1(IP) 2H 2R 2ER 2BB 5SO (81 Pitches 53 Strikes)@joeyycantillo #ForTheLand pic.twitter.com/9984xD9GUU
— Guardians Prospective (@CleGuardPro) June 9, 2022

Somerset would tack on one more run in the inning that would be charged to Cantillo. For Cantillo unfortunately the offense could only muster one run in the game on four base hits and he would end up being charged with the loss.

Two of Akron's four hits came off the bat of catcher Bo Naylor who reached base four times adding two walks as well. Julian Escobedo drove in the Ducks only run on the night.

Akron falls to 30-23 on the season with the loss.

Top Performers:

Bo Naylor 2-2 2BB
Julian Escobedo 1-3 RBI
Chris Roller 1-3 R
Joey Cantillo 5.1(IP) 2H 2R 2ER 2BB 5SO
Andrew Misiaszek 2.2(IP) 1H 0R 0ER 0BB 2SO

High-A Lake County Captains

Lake County 5 Fort Wayne 2

The Captains and TinCaps were locked in a pitchers duel early on in the game as both teams starters would give their teams tremendous outings.

Lake County starter Aaron Davenport would set career highs in innings pitched and strikeouts throwing five and a third scoreless frames allowing just two hits and striking out nine.

#Guardians 21yr old RHP prospect Aaron Davenport had it all working tonight setting career highs in innings & strikeouts for Lake County! Davenport lowered his ERA to 2.72 on the year.

Line - 5.1(IP) 2H 0R 0ER 1BB 9SO (84 Pitches 52 Strikes)@aarondav34 @LCCaptains #ForTheLand pic.twitter.com/y22KFfsuq8
— Guardians Prospective (@CleGuardPro) June 9, 2022

TinCaps starter Robert Gasser would strikeout 11 Captains batters over seven innings allowing just one run in his start.

Fort Wayne would lead 2-to-1 after scoring a couple runs in the sixth inning off Lake County's bullpen. In the top of the eighth inning with Gasser now out of the game the Captains offense would break through scoring four runs in the inning.

Two of the four runs in the inning would come off the bat in the form of a 435 foot blast by Jhonkensy Noel. For Noel it was his 14th home run of the season as he now leads both the Midwest League in home runs and the Guardians farm system.

#Guardians 20yr old INF/OF prospect Jhonkensy Noel with a 435 foot 2-run bomb onto the patio area at Parkview Field! Only other player to hit a ball there ever was Fernando Tatis Jr! It was Noel's organizational leading 14th HR on the year.@jhonkensy15 @LCCaptains #ForTheLand pic.twitter.com/HLRXARzYRG
— Guardians Prospective (@CleGuardPro) June 9, 2022

Leading now 5-to-2 in the ninth Captains reliever Trey Benton would make his first appearance since being promoted from Lynchburg and throw a scoreless frame earning his first save with his new team.

The win improves the Captains record to 28-24 on the year.

Top Performers:

Jhonkensy Noel 1-4 R HR 2RBI
Joe Naranjo 1-3 R BB SB
Gabriel Rodriguez 1-4 R 3B
Aaron Bracho 1-2 RBI
Korey Holland 1-3 R BB
Aaron Davenport 5.1(IP) 2H 0R 0ER 1BB 9SO

Low-A Lynchburg Hillcats

Fredericksburg 7 Lynchburg 5 (Game 1)

Lynchburg would take a 1-to-0 in the first inning when Jake Fox led off the game with his second home run of the season.

#Guardians 19yr old INF/OF prospect Jake Fox led of the game tonight in game one of a double header vs Fredericksburg with his 2nd HR of the season for Lynchburg. @Jake_Fox8 @LynHillcats #ForTheLand pic.twitter.com/37hKfkbJEn
— Guardians Prospective (@CleGuardPro) June 8, 2022

Unfortunately for the Hillcats this would be the only time the led in the entire game as the Nationals would get to Lynchburg starter Reid Johnston scoring two in the first, two in the second and three runs in the third. It was not all Johnston's fault as Lynchburg would commit four errors in the game and only two of the seven runs charged to him were earned.

The Hillcats have dropped their first two games on the road vs the Nationals with the loss as their record falls to 28-24 on the year.

Top Performers:

Jake Fox 1-3 2R HR RBI BB
Jorge Burgos 1-3 2B 2RBI BB
Yordys Valdes 1-4 2B 2RBI
Luis Durango 1-2 R
Dayan Frias 0-2 R 2BB
Isaiah Greene 0-2 2BB
Yeury Gervacio 2.0(IP) 1H 0R 0ER 1BB 5SO

Lynchburg @ Fredericksburg (Game 2)

Game two of the scheduled double header would be postponed by rain and made up Thursday.

Due to weather in the area, game two of tonight's doubleheader has been postponed. The two teams will play a doubleheader tomorrow starting at 5:05.

Fans who had tickets to tonight's game can exchange them for any future home game, including tomorrow's doubleheader. #WeAreFXBG
— Fredericksburg Nationals (@FXBGNats) June 9, 2022

Dominican Summer League Guardians (Blue)

DSL Cubs (Red) 5 DSL Guardians (Blue) 2

The Guardians (Blue) squad would lose their first game of the season after starting out the year with two straight wins.

After scoring 27 combined runs over their first two games they would be held to just two runs by the DSL Cubs (Red) pitching staff.

Guardians (Blue) Jeffrey Mercedes who homered in his first professional game on Tuesday would collect two more hits and score once in the game.

Top Performers:

Samuel Parra 1-3 2B RBI
Guielle Borrome 1-2 R 2B
Jeffrey Mercedes 2-3 R
David Leon 1-3 RBI
Frederic Garcia 3.2(IP) 5H 2R 2ER 1BB 6SO
Bryant Capellan 2.0(IP) 0H 0R 0ER 1BB 1SO

Dominican Summer League Guardians (Red)

DSL Guardians (Red) 9 DSL Rockies 5

The DSL Guardians (Red) squad would pick up their first win of the season on Tuesday moving to 1-2 on the season defeating the DSL Rockies.

The Guardians (Red) squad would homer three times in the game putting up nine runs. Two of the home runs would come off the bat of outfielder Chrsitopher Espinola who would also double in the game and drive in three runs.

The other home run would come off the bat of shortstop Yanki-Jean Baptiste who would also double in the game and drive in three runs of his own. Jean-Baptiste has now homered in two of his first three games to start his professional career.

#Guardians 17-year-old (SS) prospect Yanki Jean-Baptiste with another HR today in the Dominican Summer League. Baptiste with a 2-run shot in the 5th inning is his 2nd on the season in his first 3 career games!#ForTheLand
— Guardians Prospective (@CleGuardPro) June 8, 2022

Starter Javier Tovar pitched well making his first start of the season going four and two thirds' innings allowing two runs both unearned while striking out six Rockies batters.