MIDLAND, Mich. — A six-run seventh inning propelled the Burlington Bees to a 7-3 win over the Great Lakes Loons in Saturday’s Class A Midwest League game.
Kevin Maitan had a two-run single in the inning as the Bees sent 11 hitters to the plate.
Jordyn Adams had three hits for the Bees, extending his hitting streak to six games. Adrian Rondon, in his first game with the Bees, had two hits.
Parker Joe Robinson (2-0) was the winning pitcher in relief. Greg Veliz picked up his first save.
Stephen Kolek (6-6) took the loss.
The Bees are 3-1 on the road trip against teams from the Eastern Division.
LANSING, Mich. — Hector Yan allowed two hits over seven innings, and Jordyn Adams had three hits and drove in two runs in the Burlington Bees’ 7-2 win over the Lansing Lugnuts on Friday night.
The Bees (51-46 overall, 12-15 second half) won two out of three from the Lugnuts to start a six-game road trip against the Midwest League’s Eastern Division.
Yan (4-3) struck out seven and walked one. He allowed one unearned run.
Adams, hitting at the top of the order, doubled to drive in one run and hit a solo home run in the fifth inning. Adams has a five-game hitting streak, hitting .417 in the current stretch.
The Bees scored four runs in the third inning, then added single runs in the fifth, sixth and ninth innings.
Kevin Maitan, Spencer Griffin and Nonie Williams each had two hits for the Bees. Griffin drove in two runs.
Fitz Stadler (2-6) was the losing pitcher.
The Bees begin a three-game series with the Great Lakes Loons on Saturday.
Photo: Will Power speaks during the media session after Friday’s qualifying.
By John Bohnenkamp
NEWTON — The Team Penske drivers qualified 1-2-3 for Saturday’s Iowa 300 IndyCar Series race at Iowa Speedway.
The pole winner, Simon Pagenaud, was happy.
Will Power, on the outside of the front row, was not.
“Is it any surprise?” Power said with a bemused look. “It’s just this season.”
Neither was Josef Newgarden, starting third.
“We’re third,” Newgarden said. “It wasn’t good enough.”
The Penske cars have always been fast on this .875-mile oval, but actually winning a race here has been difficult. Helio Castroneves won in 2017, and that’s it for the team. Newgarden won in 2016, but that was with Ed Carpenter Racing.
This was the eighth pole for a Penske driver in the 13-year history of this event, but it guarantees nothing. Power has five of those poles, and his average finish in those races is 8.4. The average finish of a Penske pole winner here is 7.6.
“I’m not big into stats, so…,” Newgarden said.
So there’s that.
Pagenaud’s smile was uneasy. His average speed was 180.073 miles per hour, almost a half-mile an hour ahead of Power, but this track that gets bumpier by the year nearly nipped him.
“This joint is intense,” he said. “Still shaking.”
The Penske cars were 1-2-3 in the morning practice — that order went Newgarden-Pagenaud-Power — so what happened later in the afternoon during Friday’s qualifying wasn’t a surprise.
Power even admitted through not the best of moods that it wasn’t a bad day.
“It actually was pretty good,” he said. “The car was pretty good. Actually, all three cars were pretty good. Just a very little amount I missed out by.”
The Penskes all need something good this weekend.
Newgarden leads the series with 434 points, four points ahead of second-place driver Alexander Rossi and third-place driver Pagenaud.
Pagenaud has surged into contention since May, when he swept at Indianapolis, winning the Grand Prix and then the 500. He’s coming off a win last week at Toronto, and a good Saturday night here makes this an even more interesting championship race.
“I won Indy,” Pagenaud said. “So you can’t be disappointed with anything. You can’t complain about anything. Just keep going. That’s what we’re doing right now. We’re refreshed, ready to go.”
Power has just three podium finishes this season — a third-place finish in the series opener at St. Petersburg, a third-place finish in the second race at Detroit, and a second-place run at Road America. But he hasn’t won in the last 13 races.
Someone asked him what it’s like to be on a run like Pagenaud is doing right now.
“I haven’t been on a roll like that in a long time,” Power said. “It’s felt amazing when things go your way. I don’t know how you get it.”
He looked toward the ceiling in some search for spiritual intervention.
“If you’re listening, please, just give me a chance,” Power said, raising his hand above.
Then he smiled, his best mood on the dais.
This track seems to be good to Power on qualifying day before stinging him after the green flag falls on race day. He has just one top-three finish, three top-fives, and six top-10s in 10 races.
“I enjoy this place,” Power insisted. “I do. I’ve been trying to win here for a long time. I would love to win a race here.”
He will be on the front row, although it doesn’t take long to catch the back of the field.
“You’re in lapped traffic all of the time,” Power said. “You have to be good at getting through traffic.”
And that’s how you win here. Saturday will be hot, the track will be slippery. Tire degradation was a popular topic all throughout Friday, and it will make a difference in the 300 laps of the race.
“Good cars go forward, bad cars go back,” Power said.
Pagenaud has never won here. He has led all of the 13 laps in seven starts, and he’s finished in the top five only twice.
“It’s a tough track,” he said. “Tough track.
“I love Iowa. It’s a bullring.”
Newgarden and Power came to the media center first. Power was quickly moving toward the door as the question-and-answer session concluded.
“I rest my case,” he said to Newgarden, who was right behind him.
The two drivers, and their teammate, were fastest on Friday.
Being fast on Saturday will be about who makes their case the best.
LANSING, Mich. — The Lansing Lugnuts got to Burlington Bees starter Dylan King early, then had to hold on late for a 5-4 win in Thursday’s Class A Midwest League game at Cooley Law School Stadium.
The Lugnuts scored all of their runs in the first three innings off King (0-1).
Kyle Tyler held Lansing scoreless over the next six innings as the Bees tried to rally.
Burlington got three runs in the fourth. Spencer Griffin scored on a wild pitch. Francisco Del Valle scored on Justin Jones’ triple, then Jones scored on Connor Fitzsimons’ single.
Kevin Maitan’s solo home run got the Bees to within 5-4, but that would be the end of the scoring.
Will McAffer (3-3) was the winning pitcher. Cre Finfrock got the save.
The two teams conclude their three-game series on Friday night.
LANSING, Mich. — The Burlington Bees got all of their runs in the fifth inning for a 3-2 win over the Lansing Lugnuts in Wednesday’s Class A Midwest League game.
Spencer Griffin’s single drove in Tim Millard with the first run. Kevin Maitan scored on a wild pitch to tie the game at 2. Francisco Del Valle’s ground out scored Griffin with the go-ahead run.
Ed Del Rosario (2-1) was the winning pitcher in relief of Luis Alvarado. Del Rosario struck out three and allowed one hit in two innings. Parker Joe Robinson threw two shutout innings, then Luke Lind pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for his second save of the season.
Great Lakes already has a playoff spot wrapped up — the Loons won the first-half title in the Eastern Division. Lansing is currently in the second playoff spot for the second half.
The Bees, who stumbled at the start of the second half are coming off a 6-3 homestand, winning two of the three three-game series in the set.
PLAYERS TO WATCH
Three Bees are having their best months of the season. Infielder Justin Jones is batting .333 for the month. Infielder Alvaro Rubalcaba is batting .325 in July with a .963 OPS. Outfielder Francisco Del Valle is batting .318.
Starting pitcher Kyle Tyler is 2-0 with a 1.34 ERA on the road this season. Cole Duensing is 3-1 with a 3.73 ERA on the road.
Lansing outfielder Griffin Conine has a .319 batting average and a 1.035 OPS in July. Conine has four home runs. Catcher Gabriel Moreno is batting .300 for the month, while starting pitcher Sean Wymer is 2-0 with a 1.59 ERA.
Great Lakes infielder Jacob Amaya is batting .347 with a 1.132 OPS for the month. Infielder Luke Heyer is batting .306 with a .912 OPS in July. Starting pitcher Jose Martinez is 3-0 with a 1.89 ERA for the month.
Photo: Cole Duensing threw five strong innings in the Burlington Bees’ 3-1 win over the Lake County Captains. (Steve Cirinna/Burlington Bees)
By John Bohnenkamp
The final pitch of Cole Duensing’s night was a called third strike on a 3-2 pitch to Lake County’s Connor Smith.
Duensing, who thought he might have been out of the fifth inning a pitch earlier, slapped his glove, then pumped his fist to celebrate.
Duensing and relievers Greg Veliz and Austin Krzeminski combined on a two-hitter as the Burlington Bees took a 3-1 win over Lake County in Monday’s Class A Midwest League game at Community Field.
The Bees (49-45 overall, 10-14 second half) completed a 6-3 homestand, heading into Tuesday’s off day and a six-game road trip through the Eastern Division with some confidence.
“The second half didn’t start the way we wanted to for us, but things are kicking into gear,” said Duensing (6-4), who picked up his first win since June 5, a span of seven starts.
“It’s kind of would-have, could-have,” said Bees manager Jack Howell, whose team had leads get away in the first two games of this three-game series with the Captains. “But that was a good way to go out.”
It was impressive work by Duensing, who allowed two hits and walked three while striking out six in five innings.
Duensing had a four-strikeout second inning — Makesiondon Kelkboom reached on a dropped third strike with two outs — in which he left the bases loaded. He had two runners on in the fifth, but Kelkboom was thrown out trying to steal third to derail the inning.
Duensing thought he had struck Smith out with a 2-2 fastball, but umpire Steven Rios called it a ball. The third strike came on the next pitch, and Duensing’s night of 78 pitches for 45 strikes was done.
“It was huge,” Duensing said. “I had good stuff tonight. I really wanted to get out of that inning.”
“I think, slowly, over the course of the season, as it’s unfolding, you’re seeing guys get through things,” Howell said. “Being OK with calls not going your way, or plays we should have made. Just unfortunate circumstances that are out of your control. So, instead of pitching away from contact, trying to be fine, they understand just limiting damage.
“It’s been part of their development plan. Don’t be afraid to throw different pitches in different counts. Attack hitters and control damage.”
Duensing, a sixth-round pick of the Los Angeles Angels in the 2016 Major League Baseball draft, was coming off an 0-10 season at Rookie League Orem in 2018. He had a 10.32 earned run average this season, but has a 4.11 ERA this season, with 71 strikeouts in 76 ⅔ innings.
“It’s gone really well, especially since the last season I had,” Duensing said. “This has been a very good bounce-back year, if you will. I’m really happy with how things are trending right now.”
The Captains (54-39, 14-10) weren’t going to get anything in the late innings, as they did in a 3-2 win on Saturday and a 5-2 win on Sunday. Greg Veliz, making his first appearance with the Bees, and Austin Krzeminski pitched four perfect innings to close the game.
Veliz struck out two, then Krzeminski struck out the final two hitters he faced for his third save of the season.
Morgan McCullough singles in the Bees’ first run in the second inning. (Steve Cirinna/Burlington Bees)
The Bees got all of their runs off Lake County starter Zach Draper (5-2). Morgan McCullough drove in a run with a second-inning single. Keinner Pina had an RBI in the third, and Spencer Griffin closed the scoring with an RBI single in the fifth.
“It wasn’t like the last two nights, when we got two runs and lost,” Howell said. “I was really happy to get that third run.”
ON DECK: The Bees open a three-game series at Lansing on Wednesday.
NOTES: Veliz, a 15th-round pick in this year’s draft, has struck out 17 in 12 ⅔ innings so far this season. He has not allowed a walk. … Bees shortstop Alvaro Rubalcaba went 2-for-3, raising his July batting average to .325. Right fielder Francisco Del Valle had two hits and is batting .318 for the month.
Top photo: Justin Jones smiles as he rounds the bases after his walk-off home run against Kane County earlier this season. (Steve Cirinna/Burlington Bees)
By John Bohnenkamp
The off day last Tuesday was the perfect day for Justin Jones to head down a lifetime path.
That was the day the Burlington Bees infielder asked his girlfriend, Amber Coy, to marry him.
The question was asked in the evening at Burlington’s Mosquito Park, overlooking the Mississippi River.
She said yes.
“It’s something we talked about for a long time,” Jones said. “It was really cool to take that next step.”
Jones and Coy had been together since high school in Georgia. He is in his second season with the Los Angeles Angels after signing as a free agent. She is a nursing student entering her final year at Georgia College and State University.
“It was just the timing of it,” Jones said. “It’s where my fiancée and I are at in our lives right now.”
Finding a place for the right moment, though, was a concern.
Jones played last season with the Angels’ Rookie League team in Orem, Utah. Plenty of scenic views there.
Finding something in the Midwest, in an area he had never been in before, took some work.
“I did (scout),” Jones said. “When I first arrived in Burlington. I was a little bit skeptical. I had been in Orem, it’s beautiful, you have the mountains. All I could find here at first was corn.”
He thought about the Field of Dreams in Dyersville, but that would require a bit of a drive.
“I thought that would have been super cool,” Jones said. “But the last thing I wanted to do to my now-fiancée and her mom was make them drive 2 ½ hours after the 13-hour drive (from Georgia).”
So, after asking some of the Bees’ host families and other people he met around town, Jones found the perfect spot.
The key was keeping it a secret. His parents and her parents were in on it.
Only a couple of teammates knew — Jones didn’t share the secret in the clubhouse.
“ I strategically didn’t tell them until after,” he said. “I didn’t want to hear it in the clubhouse too much. And I didn’t want to risk spoiling the surprise.”
Coy, her mom, and Jones’ parents were in Burlington to watch him play. The parents knew what was going on.
“There was (anticipation),” Jones said. “Definitely. It was something I had been planning for a while. I wanted it to be special, surprise her. It wasn’t easy.
“I did a couple of things to keep her on her toes. We went to (Crapo) park here to watch the sunrise that day. I tried to be like, ‘I don’t know if this is the right time,’ so she wasn’t super confident it was coming. We worked it out so it was just me and her in her car.”
Jones, Coy, and their families had dinner in downtown Burlington in the evening.
“Hit a few downtown spots, took some pictures,” Jones said. “The last one was the special one.
Bees team photographer Steve Cirinna was waiting for them at Mosquito Park. Jones said he wasn’t nervous while proposing, but the photos, he said, tell a different story.
“If you look at the pictures closely, my shirt is two different colors in a lot of places,” Jones said, smiling.
Jones then broke the good news to his teammates.
“I think they would have given me a harder time had I told them before,” he said. “A lot of congratulations from them, which I appreciated. A couple of them were like, ‘Man, I can’t believe you didn’t tell me.’ I had my reasons.”
Jones said a date for the wedding hasn’t been set.
“Not yet,” he said. “Baby steps.”
Jones is batting .237 with the Bees in his first full season in the minors. He’s hitting .343 in July, .364 in his last 10 games.
His biggest moment of the season has already happened.
“If you would have told me a few years ago that I would have been getting engaged in Burlington, Iowa, I would have said, ‘Where’s Burlington, Iowa?’” Jones said. “But it worked out well.”
Jordyn Adams (right) is congratulated by Bees manager Jack Howell after Sunday’s home run against Lake County. (Steve Cirinna/Burlington Bees)
BEYOND THE NUMBERS
Jordyn Adams paused for a second to watch his deep drive to left field in the fourth inning of Sunday’s 5-2 loss to Lake County. Then Adams put his head down and rounded the bases for his first home run since May 25.
Adams, the Angels’ first-round draft pick last season, has had up-and-down numbers in what will be his first full season.
But Bees manager Jack Howell said he doesn’t think about Adams’ statistics.
“I’ve never worried about Jordyn,” he said. “As I’ve told everyone, he can look like he’s struggling. And then when the game’s on the line, he comes up with a big hit.”
Howell pointed to Saturday’s 3-2 loss to Lake County, when Adams came up to lead off the 10th inning with Alvaro Rubalcaba at second base under Minor League Baseball’s extra-inning rule.
Adams pounded a ground ball up the middle that appeared to be headed into center field for a single that likely would have tied the game. Instead, Lake County’s Jose Fermin made a diving grab of the grounder and threw to first to get Adams.
“Early in the season, when he wasn’t hitting well, he still walked teams off,” Howell said. “And last night, he has his best at-bat with the game on the line. That, for me, is what I think is most impressive about him — really nut-up and have your best at-bats with the game on the line. He’s never really out of it.”
Adams, who is 19 years old, is batting .240 with five home runs and 25 runs batted in.
He struggled in April, hitting just .182, but batted .296 in May. He hit .240 in June and is hitting .244 in July.
“He’s fine. He’s young,” Howell said. “And this is going to be a very productive full season for him. Very productive, he’s really worked hard, we’ve worked with him. And we’ve tried not to beat him up. A kid like that is going to play 120-plus games in his first full season.
“He’s been smart. He’s been very good about sharing with me how he feels.”
Howell said the power numbers also aren’t a concern. He remembered when he was the minor league hitting coordinator with the Marlins in 2011, and worked with Christian Yelich, who was in Class A ball at the time. Yelich had 15 home runs that season. Yelich hit 20 home runs in his first four seasons in Major League Baseball, and now has hit 104 in his last four seasons.
“Back then, he wasn’t a 50-homer guy,” Howell said. “But you could see the power was there.”
Howell knows there is more to come with Adams this season.
“There are still four or five weeks left,” he said. “He’s still going to have a pretty darn good year, in my opinion.”
THE WEEK THAT WAS
Record: 3-3
Batting average: .235
Opponents’ batting average: .227
ERA: 3.27
Opponents’ ERA: 3.29
Notes: Justin Jones batted .412 for the week. … Alvaro Rubalcaba batted .333.
THE WEEK AHEAD
• At Lansing (6:05 p.m. Wednesday-Friday) — The Bees take their final road trip against Eastern Division teams. Lansing is 45-47 overall, 13-10 in the second half. Pitcher Eric Pardinho is ranked the No. 4 prospect in the Toronto Blue Jays organization by MLB.com. Outfielder Griffin Conine, the son of former MLB player Jeff Conine, is ranked the No. 14 prospect.
• At Great Lakes (6:05 p.m. Saturday, 1:05 p.m. Sunday, 11:05 a.m. Monday) — The Loons (55-35, 12-11), an affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers, won the first-half Eastern Division title. Infielder Jacob Amaya is ranked the Dodgers’ No. 11 prospect.
STAT PACK
Bees outfielder Nonie Williams is sixth in the Midwest League with 48 walks. … Outfielder Spencer Griffin is tied with two others for third in triples with 6. … Kyle Tyler is ninth in ERA at 3.14. … Hector Yan leads the league with 103 strikeouts. Robinson Pina is fifth with 94. … Opponents are batting .199 against Tyler, which ranks him third in the league. His 1.06 WHIP is fifth best. … Opponents are hitting .207 against Pina, which ranks him fifth.
ALUMNI REPORT
• Kevin Arias (2019) had two hits and drove in five runs in Orem’s 6-2 win over Idaho Falls on Sunday. Matt Leon (2019) struck out seven in six innings.
• Matt Thaiss (2016) hit his first MLB home run on Sunday, a two-run shot that gave the Angels a 6-3 win over Seattle. Thaiss also made a diving stop on a ground ball in Friday’s game, saving a combined no-hitter.
• Jo Adell (2018) had two home runs for Double-A Mobile in Friday’s 5-3 win over Tennessee. Adell is batting .369 with a 1.105 OPS at Mobile.
• Brandon Marsh (2018) is batting .292 at Mobile.
• Oliver Ortega (2018) has allowed just 55 hits while striking out 103 in 81 innings at High-A Inland Empire.
Photo: Burlington Bees center fielder Jordyn Adams singles to open the first inning. (Steve Cirinna/Burlington Bees)
By John Bohnenkamp
The Burlington Bees haven’t had a problem building an early lead on the Lake County Captains in the first two games of the three-game series at Community Field.
Finishing the game has been the problem.
A four-run eighth inning carried the Captains to a 5-2 win in Sunday’s Class A Midwest League game, but this game might have gotten away early when the Bees had chances to score and didn’t.
“The bottom line is the same old thing — we’re getting good pitching and we’ve gotten leads,” Bees manager Jack Howell said. “It’s that tack-on. A couple of more runs for us, and we win these games. But it’s been that way all year.”
The Bees (48-45 overall, 9-14 second half) had nine baserunners in the first three innings, but only one run scored. And after Jordyn Adams’ solo home run in the fourth, the Bees got just two walks and two singles for the rest of the game.
Bees starting pitcher Robinson Pina threw six strong innings, allowing one run on three hits. He walked two and struck out seven.
“Just great,” Howell said.
Reliever James Varela (0-1), called up from the Los Angeles Angels’ Rookie League team in Orem to provide a fresh arm, faced just four batters, striking out one, in the seventh inning. But he walked the first two hitters he faced in the eighth, ending his day.
“You want him to give you a good inning, and he did that,” Howell said. “So we send him back out for the next inning and he walks the first two guys.”
Jose Fermin’s sacrifice bunt off reliever Mayky Perez advanced both baserunners. Then Hosea Nelson hit a popup that fell between shortstop Justin Jones and left fielder Nonie Williams, and Connor Smith scored to tie the game.
Miguel Jerez followed with a bouncing single into left field to score Ruben Cardenas, then Cody Farhat’s double later in the inning drove in two more runs.
“They gave us the out with the bunt, then if we field the pop fly that’s two outs, and maybe that inning is different,” Howell said.
The Bees had a final threat in the ninth. Tim Millard singled in the ninth, then Adams singled for his third hit of the day. But Williams struck out to end the game.
Luis Araujo (2-3) was the winning pitcher.
ON DECK: The two teams conclude the series with a 6:30 p.m. game on Monday. Burlington’s Cole Duensing (5-4) will face Lake County’s Zach Draper (5-1, 2.44).
NOTES: Adams, who went 3-for-4, hit his fifth home run of the season in fourth inning. It was his first home run since May 25. … Bees pitcher Jose Soriano was placed on the injured list Sunday. Soriano, ranked the No. 11 prospect in the Angels’ organization, hasn’t pitched since June 26.
Photo: Bees pitcher Clayton Chatham tags out Lake County’s Connor Smith at the plate in the first inning. (Steve Cirinna/Burlington Bees)
By John Bohnenkamp
The perfect hitter was at the plate to start the 10th inning for the Burlington Bees.
Jordyn Adams has been a right-guy-in-the-right spot for the Bees all season. So when he got all barrel on a pitch from Lake County Captains pitcher Kyle Marman, it was exactly what manager Jack Howell wanted.
“He hit it hard, just like he always does,” Howell said.
Adams hit a hard grounder that looked like it was heading into center field with a chance to tie the game with Alvaro Rubalcaba on second. Instead, Lake County second baseman Jose Fermin made a diving grab, getting up to throw out Adams at first.
And when Nonie Williams and Spencer Griffin were called out on strikes to end the game, Lake County walked away with a 3-2 win.
“We’ve done that to teams all year,” Howell said. “It was bound to happen to us.”
The Bees (48-44 overall, 9-13 second half) are 7-4 in extra-inning games this season, the most wins in extras among Midwest League teams.
But they couldn’t add to that on a night when Lake County (53-38, 13-9) got the big hits.
Burlington built an early 2-0 lead, then the Captains tied the game with two runs in the eighth. Ruben Cardenas smacked a double off Bees pitcher Parker Joe Robinson, then he scored on Daniel Schneeman’s fourth hit of the night, a triple to right-center field. Schneeman scored when Fermin dropped a single over first baseman Connor Fitzsimons.
“They got the big hits when they needed them,” Howell said.
The Captains didn’t even need a hit to score in the 10th. Billy Wilson started the inning on second baseman, and moved to third when Bees reliever Luke Lind (3-3) was called for a balk. Wilson scored on Bo Naylor’s sacrifice fly.
The loss spoiled what was another strong pitching night for the Bees.
Clayton Chatham made his first start for the Bees, giving up four hits and striking out five in five shutout innings. Robinson was one out away from his third shutout inning before Cardenas’ double.
“I thought (Chatham) was really good, giving us five innings,” Howell said. “We wanted to get Robinson stretched out a little bit, and he gave us good innings.”
Marman (2-2) struck out five in two innings for the win.
MAITAN’S SPILL: Bees third baseman Kevin Maitan was taken out of the game for precautionary measures after tumbling over the wall chasing a foul ball down the left-field line.
Josh Rolette hit a pop fly that was headed toward the wall that juts out near the Bees’ bullpen. Maitan couldn’t make the catch and flipped over the wall.
“When you see someone go over like that, the first thing you worry about is did they hit their head,” said Howell, who quickly reached Maitan. “I could tell he was OK once I got out there.”
Maitan, ranked the No. 12 prospect in the Los Angeles Angels’ organization, finished the inning in the field, and struck out to end the Bees’ half of the seventh inning. He was replaced in the top of the eighth by Tim Millard.
“We just wanted to be careful,” Howell said. “He kind of winced a little bit when he was swinging the bat, so the trainer thought it best to get him out. He should be fine — he’ll get treatment after the game and again tomorrow.”
ON DECK: The two teams play a 2 p.m. game on Sunday.
NOTES: Schneeman, who went 4-for-4, is now batting .475 in July with 19 hits. He has a six-game hitting streak. … Bees shortstop Justin Jones had two hits to raise his July average to .355.
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