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Minors 5.29.14: Mazzilli spurs walk-off win

EL PASO 7, LAS VEGAS 4: Starter Joel Carreno allowed two runs on six hits and four walks in five innings. John Church surrendered three sixth-inning runs as the Chihuahuas opened a 5-1 lead. Josh Satin and Andrew Brown homered in the loss. Omar Quintanilla went 3-for-5 with two doubles. Box

BINGHAMTON 7, NEW HAMPSHIRE 2: Brian Burgamy ripped a two-run homer during a three-hit game to lift Binghamton to the series win. New Hampshire opened the scoring


lastname Burgamy against Hansel Robles in the second when Hector Gimenez produced a solo homer. The Fisher Cats loaded the bases an inning later, but Robles escaped with a strikeout and a groundout. Robles (3-2) allowed one run over 6 2/3 innings in his longest start of the season. He struck out five and held the Fisher Cats hitless in eight at-bats with runners in scoring position. Aaron Sanchez held Binghamton to one hit through three innings. In the fourth, Burgamy and Kevin Plawecki opened the inning with singles. With Matt Clark at the plate, Sanchez threw a wild pitch that allowed Burgamy to score. Clark followed with an RBI double. Three batters later, Travis Taijeron also doubled, giving the B-Mets a 3-1 lead. In the fifth, Nelfi Zapata singled and scored on Darrell Ceciliani's double. With two outs, Clark singled to plate Ceciliani for a 5-1 lead. After a leadoff walk to Ceciliani in the seventh, Sanchez was pulled. Burgamy greeted reliever Austin Bibens-Dirkx with a two-run homer, his seventh long ball of the season. Jack Leathersich took over for Robles in the seventh and retired all four batters he faced. Cody Satterwhite allowed one run in the ninth. Zapata played third base for the first time in his career. Plawecki’s fourth-inning single extended his hitting streak to eight games. Box

BREVARD COUNTY 9, ST. LUCIE 1: Tyler Wagner tossed eight innings and limited St. Lucie to a fifth-inning solo homer by Phillip Evans. With the Manatees already leading 2-1, Seth Lugo surrendered a two-out, two-run double to Tyrone Taylor in the seventh. Brevard County then sent 10 batters to the plate against Lugo and Beck Wheeler in the eighth, scoring five runs on six hits. Mike Garza, Jose Sermo, Orlando Arcia and Taylor all had run-scoring hits in the frame. Luis Cessa took the loss, although he did not pitch poorly. The first four batters of the game reached -- on three doubles and a single -- and two scored. Cessa settled down to strand runners at second and third. He did not allow another run. Cessa struck out five and gave up seven hits in six innings. The Mets only had six hits. Half came from Jairo Perez, who went 3-for-4 for the second straight game. Box

SAVANNAH 3, ROME 2 (12 innings): L.J. Mazzilli plated Patrick Biondi with a walk-off


lastname Mazzilli single in the bottom of the 12th as the Gnats (35-15) moved 20 games over .500. Starter Ricky Knapp allowed two runs in 6 1/3 innings. Akeel Morris, Robert Coles, John Mincone and Tim Peterson (3-0) combined for 5 2/3 innings of scoreless relief. Amed Rosario, the 18-year-old signed for $1.75 million out of the Dominican Republic, went 0-for-5 with five strikeouts as the DH in his first official 2014 minor-league game. Rosario, who had been playing in extended spring training, is briefly with Savannah before joining Brooklyn for its season, which begins June 13. Rosario hit .241 with three homers in 212 at-bats last season with short-season Kingsport. Box

Compiled with team reports