Yankees' Adams fans career-high 12 in win

If you're a Columbus Clipper, the chances are good that Chance struck you out Wednesday.
Yankees No. 7 prospectChance Adams whiffed a career-best 12 batters and allowed just one hit over six innings to lead Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre in a 6-0 shutout of Columbus.

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"[The strikeouts were] nice. I wasn't really thinking about it at the time, just trying to go out and get the complete game," the right-hander said. "Obviously I wasn't able to, but I felt confident with my pitches."
Adams (3-1) struck out 12 of the 20 batters he faced, limited the Clippers to three baserunners and threw 63 of 93 pitches for strikes in his best start since throwing 5 2/3 hitless frames on April 8 for Double-A Trenton. The 22-year-old lowered his ERA to 1.57 in the win after reliever Ben Heller worked a scoreless seventh to close out the first game of a doubleheader at PNC Field.
"Pitch count-wise, if I finished this game, I'd have finished around 106 pitches and my next start I'd only go 80 or something, so they just limited me for next start, but I definitely wanted to go back out there," he said.
Adams got most of his strikeouts swinging by going away to right-handed hitters, relying on his fastball and a slider that broke off the plate. He struck out the side in a perfect first inning and whiffed two more in the second before Erik Kratz began the third with a line-drive double to left. Adams, the Yankees' No. 2-ranked right-handed prospect behind injured James Kaprielian, struck out two in the inning to escape trouble.
He worked around a two-out walk in the fourth and used a double-play ball from Kratz in the fifth to erase a leadoff free pass to Mike Papi. The 2015 fifth-round pick pitched a flawless sixth, popping up Yandy Díaz after a pair of strikeouts in his final inning.
"I was just commanding my pitches really well, me and [catcher Castillo] had a good feel together," Adams said. "[Our] defense made some awesome plays, including a sick double play and a ball hit to right in the second inning that Dustin made a nice play on. If those plays don't get made, it could be a different outcome."

Tyler Wade, the Yankees' No. 11 prospect, went 2-for-4 with a homer in the first, his fourth of the season. The leadoff man is batting .292.
Right fielder Dustin Fowler, New York's No. 8 prospect, added two hits and a two-run homer in the fourth, his ninth, to help bump his average to .312. Catcher Wilkin Castillo went 3-for-3 with an RBI while top-ranked Gleyber Torres was held hitless in three plate appearances.
Adams has allowed two earned runs or fewer in all 10 of his starts this season across two levels. He's struck out 59 in 58 innings, a span in which he's walked 22 but has held batters to a .169 average.
The 2016 Florida State League All-Star began the season at Trenton and went 4-0 with a 1.03 ERA in six starts before earning a promotion to the International League on May 13. He was the Eastern League's Pitcher of the Week on April 16 and is coming off a season in which he earned a MiLB.com Yankees Organization All-Star nod. In 49 Minor League appearances -- 34 of them starts -- Adams owns a 23-3 record with a 1.96 ERA.
"I just go out and try and command my pitches, go deep into games and get a lot of strikeouts," he said. "I just go out, pitch my game and try to do my best."
Michael Peoples (1-3) went six innings, allowing six runs and 10 hits to suffer the loss for Columbus. The Indians farmhand struck out one and walked three. 
The win was the seventh shutout for Scranton/Wilkes-Barre this season. The RailRiders also took Game 2, 4-3, in the completion of a game that began Thursday.