Dodgers Minor League Baseball Blog

Inland Empire’s hunt for the California League championship came to an end in an 8-2 blowout loss to Lake Elsinore.  Cody White had a rough start and he took the loss.  He gave up three runs on six hits and two walks with one strikeout in four innings.

Shane Justis went three for four with a double and an RBI.  Jaime Pedorza went three for four with two doubles and a run.

Inland Empire scored seven runs and they outhit Lake Elsinore but it wasn’t enough in a 10-7 loss as their series will now go into a winner take all game three tomorrow.  Jamie Hoffmann got it done again with a nice game.  He went four for five with a homerun, two RBIs and two runs.  Joshua Bell went three for five with an RBI and three other Inland Empire hitters had two hits a piece.

Francisco Felix took the loss although he was hardly the only culprit.  Four of the five pitchers used in the game gave up runs with Garrett White getting the hardest.  He gave up three runs in just 2/3 of an inning.

Inland Empire took a 1-0 lead in their series with Lake Elsinore in a fourteen inning game that clocked in at four hours.  The game winner was an RBI double by Jamie Hoffman that pushed home the winning run.

Javy Guerra was awesome in four innings of shutout relief.  He did give up two hits and two walks but he struck out six and he more importantly, he picked up the win.