Chis with 2 early singles, Kip with a homer and David Huff with 3 shutout innings as Clippers take an 6-0 early lead.

Austin Adams starts and leaves again quickly after retiring 2 of the 8 batters he faced in the first. Aeros trail 4-1 in the 5th

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80 degree game time temp in Fort Wayne and Cole Cook on the hill for the Captains. Trail 2-1 after 3.

76 but rain in North Carolina so Clayton Cook's scheduled start washed away.

Good day for infielders:

CLE AAA Chisenhall, Lonnie 3B 5 2 4 1 .258
CLE AAA Kipnis, Jason 2B 5 1 2 2 .246 HR (1), 3B (2)
CLE LoA Urshela, Giovanny 3B 4 1 1 1 .319 HR (2)

And for some of our developing relievers.

CLE AA Hagadone, Nick 3 1 0 0 0 4 0.00 W (1-0)
CLE AA Lee, Chen 2 4 2 2 1 2 5.59
CLE AAA Putnam, Zach 2 0 0 0 0 3 0.73 Sv (3)

Captains fall 5-4. Carlos Moncrief with a 3-run homer, Jason Smit a pair of singles and a walk, he's back to .406. Cole Cook 4 runs allowed in 3 1/3. Kyle Landis appears for the first time since a 2009 injury, 1 scoreless inning, for the 24 year old RH.

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Will David Huff be back in Cleveland? I hope not. He got the win last night for Clippers, lasting 7 innings, 6 of which he pitched scorelessly and in the 4th he allowed 4 runs. No K, No W in 7 IP.

2 hits by Huffman and by Kipnis, 4 by Chisenhall

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Aeros lose the first of 2, 6-4; Tim Fedroff with 3 hits, including a triple. McBride with 2. Adams and Lee both had bad nights on the mound

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1-0 winner in Game 2. Eric Berger 4 shutout innings, 5K, 2W. Hagadone 3 with 1 hit and 4 K. Donnie Webb and Juan Diaz each with a pair of hits.

Hagadone for the season 13 2/3 IP 7 hits 1 walk 18 K. To Columbus, please.

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Hagadone and Berger look good and Mills and Jones not so much. It is still early.

buck84 wrote:My break out players will be

Hagadone and Mills

These are really come back players. I like Berger and Chris Jones to move up fast as left hand relievers.

Scott BArnes has not had a lot of attention as a prospect but he's now in AAA and he's not yet 34. He went 6 2/3 scoreless last night, 2 hits, walkd 5, fanned 7. Nonprospect closer Carlton Smith finished with 2 1/3 more shutout innings, 4 more K. Clips winners behind 2 hits each by Phelps and JordanBrown and a 2-bi triple from Travis Buck

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Maybe the folks at Kinston won't miss minor league baseball after the rotten team fielded there in their finale season. KTribe falls 16-6. Clayton Cook never got an out in the second, yields 9 in 1 inning; Chris Jones tagged for 4 earned and 6 hits in 2, 2 homers; Marty Popham 2 more homers and runs in the final 4.

Justin Toole 2 doubles; Abner Abreu single, walk, 2 K.

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Steven Wright was coasting along with a 10-4 lead after 4 and didn't get out of the 5th, as 6 runs scored on his yield of 6 hits and errors helped out, so 2 were earned. Urshela with his 4th error. Good ole Nick Bartolone with 2 reaches double figures in April, a nifty trick.

"The other catcher named Alex" Monsalve with 3 hits, one a double and 2 rbi. Carlos Moncrief doubled and walked twice. He's batting only 239 but has an OPS of 911 due to 15 walks, and 12 extra bases of his 16 total, sounds like Grady's start in Cleveland. Moncrief has 4 singles, 7 doubles, 2 triples, 3 homer.

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The Clippers got a solid start from Scott Barnes and won their seventh game in a row last night, beating the Gwinnett Braves 4-0.

Barnes (1-1) went 62/3 innings, allowed two hits, struck out seven and walked five.

Cord Phelps drove in Ezequiel Carrera with a single to give the Clippers a 1-0 lead in the third inning. They made it 2-0 in the seventh on a sacrifice fly by Luke Carlin.

With two on and two out in the eighth, Travis Buck tripled to make it 4-0.

Barnes pitched his way out of trouble in the fourth after runners reached first and second with one out. In the sixth, with two on and no one out, Carlin picked off Mauro Gomez at second and Barnes got Joe Mather to ground into a double play.

Carlton Smith pitched three innings to record his first save of the year.

The Indians have activated Jason Donald from the DL and optioned him to AAA. They got Josh Rodriguez (inf) back from the Pirates (Rule 5 draft) and have assigned him to AAA as well.