Durham 4, Buffalo 3. Ben Hendrickson improved to 5-4, holding Buffalo to 3 runs in 6.2 innings...Scott Dohmann struck out 5 in 2 perfect innings for the save...Dan Johnson was 3-4 with an RBI to improve his average to .292...Chris Richard's 3-run home run, his 11th, gave the Bulls the lead for good in the 5th inning...Reid Brignac and Joel Guzman combined to go 0-7 with 3 strike outs. Brignac walked once.

Montgomery 9, Mobile 7. James Houser cruised through the first 5 innings, allowing only 2 singles, until the defense let him down in the 6th when 3 hits and 2 errors led to 5 runs...Ryan Reid struck out 2 in the 9th for his 2nd save...Gabriel Martinez was 2-5 and hit his 10th home run...Chris Nowak was 3-4, scoring 3 times.

West 9, East 3 (FSL ALL-Star game). Four members of the Vero Beach D-Rays started for the East squad, including starting pitcher Ryan Morse, who gave up 2 runs (1 earned) in 1 inning of work...Heath Rollins also pitched 1 inning, giving up 3 hits and 1 run...Cesar Suarez, a third baseman, started at short, JT Hall was the DH and Garrett Groce started in right field. The three went a combined 0-10. Suarez drove in a run with a ground out...Jeremy Hellickson likely would have started but was held out with a blister on his throwing hand.

Columbus v Rome (ppd.)

NOTES FROM DOWN ON THE FARM...

• JT Hall won the FSL All-Star game home run derby. [TCPalm]
  

Columbus 5, Durham 2. We admit we took a double-take when we saw the Bulls were playing Columbus. We momentarily forgot about the Columbus Clippers the former AAA affiliate of the Yankees. They are now the AAA affiliate of the Washington Nationals and not the low-A affiliate of the Devil Rays...the Columbus Catfish. Jeff Niemann was not his usual dominating self. He worked 5 innings and gave up 4 hits and 2 walks that led to 3 runs. He struck out 4. His ERA is now 3.00 on the season. No Bulls had more than one hit and Justin Ruggiano had the only extra-base hit, a double.

Birmingham 10, Montgomery 1. Derek Feldkamp's line looked an awful lot like Niemann's. 5 innings, 5 hits, 3 walks, 3 runs. But the bullpen had a meltdown and gave up 7 runs over the last 3 innings. Reid Brignac returned to action after missing two games and went 1-4. Evan Longoria was 0-2 with 2 walks.

Daytona 5, Vero Beach 4. Jake McGee posted his best start of the young season. In 5.2 scoreless innings he struck out 9 and gave up only 2 hits and 1 walk. On the season he has 19 strikeouts in 14.2 innings and a 0.61 ERA. The left hander will not be in Vero Beach all season. He probably shouldn't be there now.

Columbus 5, Augusta 1. Another lefty, Ryan Morse, is making the Devil Rays look like geniuses for selecting him in the 13th round of the 2005 draft. Last night he worked 6 innings and gave up only his 2 earned run in three starts. On the season he has given up only 11 hits and 2 walks in 18 innings. In 16 career starts, over three levels, he is 8-5 with a 2.44 ERA.

NOTES FROM DOWN ON THE FARM...

• Reid Brignac missed the last two games with a tweaked hamstring. We had previously reported that he was pulled from Saturday's game because he fouled a ball off his foot.
• The Catfish victory over Augusta ended the GreenJacket's 12-game winning streak, and gave them their first loss. Green Jackets? What is their mascot? A Tiger or a 2-iron?