Guardians Farm Report: Leftwich Fans 10 Lynchburg Win

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

Todd Paquette | Jun 1, 2022

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Cleveland Guardians

Just three games on tap Tuesday for the Cleveland Guardians affiliates as Columbus who was the only team that played on Memorial Day got the night off.

Double-A Akron RubberDucks

Richmond 3 Akron 2

After a Brayan Rocchio single in the first inning RubberDucks Micah Pries would step up drive him home on his fifth home run of the season. Unfortunately for Akron it would be the only runs they would push across the plate as Richmond would shut them out the rest of the game.

#Guardians 24yr old (1B) prospect Micah Pries with a 2-run HR for Akron tonight in the 1st inning vs Richmond. For Pries it was his 5th HR of the season all coming in the month of May.@micahpries @AkronRubberDuck #ForTheLand pic.twitter.com/a0MyuLUeBL
— Guardians Prospective (@CleGuardPro) June 1, 2022

The Ducks starter Hunter Gaddis would make two mistakes in the game once in the third inning giving up a two-run home run and the fifth inning on a solo home run which eventually proved to be the winning run. Gaddis would look dominate despite the costly home runs striking out 10 Flying Squirrels over his five and two thirds' innings of work.

Gaddis with the 10 strikeouts would end up with 49 in the month of May to lead all minor league baseball. He now has 64 on the season which only trail his teammate Logan Allen for the most in the Guardians organization with 65.

#Guardians 24yr old RHP prospect Hunter Gaddis with 10 more strikeouts tonight for Akron! Gaddis has an incredible 49 for the month of May 30 coming just in his last 3 starts over just 16.1 innings.

Tonight 5.2(IP) 4H 3R 3ER 2BB 10SO@hgaddis22 @AkronRubberDuck #ForTheLand pic.twitter.com/1IUbv5dc4k
— Guardians Prospective (@CleGuardPro) June 1, 2022

With the 3-to-2 loss Akron falls to 27-19 on the season.

Top Performers:

Micah Pries 1-4 R HR 2RBI
Bo Naylor 1-4 2B BB
Jose Tena 1-4 3B
Jonathan Engelmann 1-3 BB
Hunter Gaddis 5.2(IP) 4H 3R 3ER 2BB 10SO
Andrew Misiaszek 2.0(IP) 1H 0R 0ER 0BB 3SO

High-A Lake County Captains

Lake County 7 West Michigan 6

Lake County trailed 3-to-0 in the top of the first inning before their first at bat getting to starter Tanner Bibee who had his first rough start of the season.

The Captains would respond however putting up five runs in the bottom half of the inning two coming off the bat of Ray Delgado who would hit his second home run of the year. Delgado has been swinging a hot bat of late putting up a .400 average over his current four game hitting streak.

#Guardians 22-year-old INF prospect Ray Delgado hit his 2nd HR of the season for Lake County on Tuesday in part of a 5-run 1st inning in the Captains 7-6 win. Delgado extended his hitting streak to 4 straight games.

During streak: 6-15 3R 1HR 3RBI .400 AVG#ForTheLand pic.twitter.com/BItOZoK37B
— Guardians Prospective (@CleGuardPro) June 1, 2022

With the game tied at 6-to-6 in the seventh Lake County's Angel Martinez who had reached earlier in the inning on a walk would score the eventual winning run on a throwing error by the Whitecaps first baseman .

The Captains bullpen combination of Randy Labaut and Zach Hart would hold West Michigan scoreless over the final two innings with Labaut picking up his fifth win of the season and Hart his second save.

Top Performers:

Ray Delgado 2-4 R HR 2RBI
Christian Cairo 3-4 R RBI SB
Angel Martinez 1-3 2R RBI BB SB
Joe Naranjo 1-3 2R RBI 2BB
Connor Kokx 1-3 R 2B 2BB
Alexfri Planez 1-4 2B RBI
Damon Casetta-Stubbs 2.0(IP) 0H 0R 0ER 2BB 0SO
Randy Labaut 2.1(IP) 1H 0R 0ER 2BB 1SO (W)
Zach Hart 1.2(IP) 1H 0R 0ER 0BB 2SO (SV)

Low-A Lynchburg Hillcats

Lynchburg 4 Carolina 2

Hillcats starter Jack Leftwich continued his tremendous start to his pro-career in 2022 striking out a career high 10 batters against a very good Mudcats offense. Leftwich would only allow one run on three hits lowering his ERA to 1.97 on the season with Lynchburg.

#Guardians 23yr old RHP prospect Jack Leftwich set a career high 10 strikeouts tonight for Lynchburg! Leftwich lowers his ERA to 1.97 on the season.

Line - 5.0(IP) 3H 1R 1ER 0BB 10SO

Last 3 outings - 12.0(IP) 7H 1R 1ER 1BB 17SO 0.75 ERA@Jacklefty21 @LynHillcats #ForTheLand pic.twitter.com/VkbPdRZKoh
— Guardians Prospective (@CleGuardPro) June 1, 2022

Heading now to the bottom of the eighth inning with the game tied at two runs apiece with two outs the Hillcats would get a single by Victor Planchart then Dayan Frias would come up clutch with his first triple of the season to give Lynchburg a 3-to-2 lead.

#Guardians 19yr old switch hitting INF prospect Dayan Frias with a two out triple to give Lynchburg a 3-2 lead in the 8th inning tonight in their win over Carolina. @FriasDayan @LynHillcats #ForTheLand pic.twitter.com/BSZWkeE0pb
— Guardians Prospective (@CleGuardPro) June 1, 2022

The next batter up Richard Paz would single to give the Hillcats an insurance run driving home Frias from third making it a 4-to-2 game.

Lynchburg reliever Elvis Jerez would come on in the ninth inning to record the final three outs earning his fourth save of the season.