Athletics Minor League Baseball Blog

Stockton lost 10-3 to Lake Elsinore and that wrapped up their bid at the California League championship. They best Modesto 2-1 to move on, then took care of San Jose 3-1 but Lake Elsinore was too much to handle.

Stockton was the first half winner so they could skate a little on the second half of the season.  Their second half record was just 37-33 and that was third best behind first place Modesto who were 41-29.

The River Cats had to come back from a 0-2 deficit to beat Reno but then they couldn’t do the same against Omaha as they were swept 0-3 against Omaha.  The third loss of the series also saw the River Cats give up double digits in runs again and that was after a game one pitchers duel.

Still, 88-56 is nothing to scoff at.  They finished 17 games ahead of second place Las Vegas and they were the lone team in the division with a winning record.  Omaha was just a little bit better though.  Of course Omaha went on to lose to Columbus in the Triple A championship game.

Midland won their final game of the season 3-1 against Frisco.  Brett Hunter picked up the win despite he throwing the fewest innings out of the four pitchers that got into the game.  Jonathon Ortiz struck out two in two shutout innings and he picked up his first save of the season.

Jose Rivero tripled and he drove in two runs.  Michael Spina went two for five with an RBI.