The Columbus Clippers (61-56) fell at the Pawtucket Red Sox (64-53) 5-0 Monday night. Columbus’ offense was silenced by Triple-A rookie Henry Owens and the Pawtucket bullpen after the blowout win Sunday.
Tyler Cloyd (9-6, 4.03 ERA) struggled relative to the no-hitter he had in his last start. He allowed five runs in seven innings on 11 hits with one walk and two strikeouts. It was the Triple-A debut for Boston’s top pitching prospect Owens (1-0, 0.00 ERA) and he did not disappoint with five and two-third no-hit innings to start the game. He went six and two-third innings and allowed no runs on two hits with three walks, a hit batter and nine strikeouts.
The PawSox jumped out to a pair of runs on Cloyd in the fourth to end his scoreless streak at 12 and two-third innings. A single and double by Pawtucket had a pair in scoring position for Pawtucket. An RBI single by Garin Cecchini and RBI double by Deven Marrero made it 2-0 PawSox.
Cloyd allowed a pair of homers in the game and extended his dubious International League home run allow lead to 19.
The Clippers were 0-6 with runners in scoring position, left five in scoring position and stranded nine total baserunners.
The final game of the series is an afternoon game at Pawtucket Tuesday. Zach McAllister (5-0, 2.23 ERA) will be the starter for the Clippers against Chris Hernandez (4-7, 4.20 ERA) and the PawSox. First pitch is 12:05 p.m.
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