The Blue Jays fell 6-4 to the Charlotte Stone Crabs on Thursday evening, wrapping up their pre-All-Star Game schedule with a 27-37 record. Despite the loss, it was stlil a special evening at Dunedin Stadium as Vladimir Guerrero Jr. made a surprise appearance to throw out the first pitch during
The Blue Jays fell 6-4 to the Charlotte Stone Crabs on Thursday evening, wrapping up their pre-All-Star Game schedule with a 27-37 record. Despite the loss, it was stlil a special evening at Dunedin Stadium as Vladimir Guerrero Jr. made a surprise appearance to throw out the first pitch during the Blue Jays Father's Day Celebration complete with a dual bobblehead of Vlad Jr. and his father, Vladimir Guerrero Sr.
The Blue Jays scored first, driving home two runs in the second inning. LF Eduard Pinto legged out a one-out triple and then dashed home on a wild pitch to put Dunedin up 1-0. RF Rodrigo Orozco, CF Joshua Palacios, and SS Kevin Warmoth followed with singles to extend the lead to 2-0.
Charlotte answered back immediately in the third. Zacrey Law led off the inning with a home run to cut Dunedin's lead in half. After Dunedin starter LHP Zach Logue retired the next two batters, Tristan Gray singled, Robbie Tenerowicz worked a walk, and Jesús Sánchez was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Jermaine Palacios came through for the Stone Crabs with a two-RBI double, putting Charlotte up 3-2.
In the fourth, Josh Lowe slipped a home run just over the fence in left field to extend Charlotte's lead to 4-2. Dunedin SS Kevin Smith responded with a solo home run of his own in the home half of the inning, his third of the year, extending his current hitting streak to eight games.
Gray kept the home run barrage going in the fifth inning with a solo shot to right, increasing the Stone Crabs lead to 5-3.
Logue's day was finished after the fifth inning. In his first loss of the season with Dunedin, the lefty allowed five runs on eight hits while striking out one.
Each team scored once in the seventh inning. Warmoth knocked his second hit of the game, a single with two outs, and Jacob followed with his second hit, a double to score Warmoth.
Trailing 6-4, the Blue Jays went down in order in the eighth and ninth innings, dropping the team ten games below .500 at the All-Star Break.
C Riley Adams, LHP Angel Perdomo, and LHP Travis Bergen have been selected as Dunedin's representatives at the Florida State League All-Star Game this Saturday at George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa. After the All-Star game, the Blue Jays will play four games in three days against St. Lucie (finishing a rain-suspended game from earlier this year in a Monday doubleheader) to conclude the first half. The season's second half will begin on Thursday, June 21st when the Blue Jays travel to Clearwater to open the new half against the Threshers.
