Meadows and McGuire keep hitting

Friday's action:

-- Indianapolis beat Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, 3-2. Darren Ford and Chase d'Arnaud each went 2-4. Ivan De Jesus, Jr., went 2-3 and is now hitting .337. Andrew Lambo went 0-4 with three strikeouts.

-- Altoona shut out Akron, 4-0. Casey Sadler threw six shutout innings, allowing three hits and a walk, and striking out two. Justin Howard went 2-4 with a double and his fourth HR and Mel Rojas, Jr., also hit his fourth HR. Adalberto Santos went 2-4, Alen Hanson 1-4 with a double, and Gregory Polanco 1-3 with a walk.

-- Bradenton lost to Daytona, 9-7. Jose Osuna hit his sixth and seventh HRs and drove in four runs. Stetson Allie went 1-4 with a double, a walk and two strikeouts.

-- West Virginia pounded Lakewood, 10-1. Jason Creasy gave up one run in six innings on four hits and a walk. He fanned six. Eric Wood, who's been in an extended slump, went 3-4 with two doubles. Josh Bell, Jordan Steranka, Walker Gourley and Kawika Emsley-Pai all went 2-4 with a double. Dilson Herrera (pictured) hit his tenth HR.

-- Jamestown lost to Brooklyn, 8-1. Chad Kuhl had a rough start, giving up seven runs, six earned, in three and a third innings.

-- The GCL Pirates lost to the Yankees2, 5-3. Austin Meadows and Reese McGuire each went 2-4, with both of Meadows' hits going for two bases. He's now hitting 296/394/543. Maximo Rivera went 2-4 with a triple. Billy Roth gave up one run in three innings on three hits. He walked none and struck out four.

-- The DSL Pirates1 scored a run in the bottom of the 9th on an error, a sac bunt, a wild pitch and a single to beat the Yankees2, 2-1. Jose Regalado allowed a run on three hits in five innings. He struck out five. Dennis Hurtarte went 2-3 with two doubles.

-- The DSL Pirates2 beat the Blue Jays, 9-4. Michael De La Cruz went 1-3 with a double and a walk. Yomifer Polanco, Stephen De La Mota and Fredis Padilla all had two hits. Julio Vivas gave up one run in five innings to get the win.