Starting Pitching Better Than Clutch Hitting

The affiliates could easily have gone 6-0 but they had to settle for a split as two games got away in extra innings and another was lost in the late going.  The hitting with runners in scoring position was abysmal but there were a number of good performances turned in on the hill. Iowa 4 Las Vegas 2Des Moines, IA - Lefty Fabio Castro only gave up a double over the first three innings but he got cuffed around in the fourth as the Cubs scored twice on a two-run single by Bobby Scales.  The rally was set up by a triple and two walks, including one to former Jay John-Ford Griffin.  Castro found his mojo when he retired the last eight men in a row, striking out the side swinging in the sixth.  Castro allowed two runs over six frames on three hits and two walks while striking out five.By that time, Vegas put together a two-out rally in the fifth to cut the Iowa lead to 2-1 when Aaron Matthews doubled home a Howie Clark single.  Dirk Hayhurst also ma...