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Magnificent Mills

Found July 03, 2009 on Batter's Box:
PLAYERS: Joe Inglett,  Aaron Mathews,  Brett Harper,  Randy Ruiz,  Kevin Howard,  Jason Lane,  David Dellucci,  Travis Snider,  Nick Gorneault,  Adam Calderone,  Brian Dopirak,  Brian Jeroloman,  Jonathan Malo,  Matthew Liuzza,  Kevin Ahrens,  Adam Loewen,  Anthony Hatch,  Yohermyn Chavez,  Kyle Morgan,  David Rubinstein
TEAMS: Toronto Blue Jays,  New York Yankees,  Cleveland Indians,  New York Mets,  Los Angeles Dodgers,  Pittsburgh Pirates

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The weather didn?t completely let up as two of the eight scheduled games were either cancelled or postponed. The other six games went ahead as the affiliates went 4-2. There were several fine pitching performances, including a fantastic game by Brad Mills in his return to Triple-A, and an offensive explosion at Double-A.3 Reno 0 @ Las Vegas 2 ? BoxscoreBrad Mills returned to Triple-A with a flourish and picked up his second win of the year with his second scoreless start for Las Vegas. Mills went 8 innings and only surrendered two hits and a walk. He struck out seven and got fourteen of his seventeen outs on balls in play on the ground. It was a busy night for Joe Inglett, Jonathan Diaz and the other 51s infielders. Inglett doubled to leadoff the bottom of the first and Aaron Mathews followed with another double. Mathews advanced to third on a groundout and scored on Brett Harper?s sacrifice fly. Inglett was the only 51 to have a multihit game, going 2 for 4. Randy Ruiz, Kevin Howar...
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