Blue Jays Minor League Recap: Fisher Cats Pitch a Combined No-Hitter

Blue Jays Affiliate Overview (April 28-April 29)

Triple-A Buffalo Bisons
Series vs. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (New York Yankees): 0-1
Season Record: 13-15

Double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats 
Series vs. Binghamton Rumble Ponies (New York Mets): 3-0
Season Record: 13-8

High-A Vancouver Canadians
Series vs. Hillsboro Hops (Arizona Diamondbacks): 0-2
Season Record: 9-14

Single-A Dunedin Blue Jays
Series vs. Jupiter Hammerheads (Miami Marlins): 1-1
Season Record: 10-13

Triple-A Buffalo Bisons

• Season Record: 13-14
• Series Opponent: Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (New York Yankees)

April 28: Buffalo opened a new series on Tuesday, this one against the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, and they couldn’t have started the game any better. The Bisons jumped all over the RailRiders in the opening frame, scoring five runs before the fans were even sitting down for lunch. Riley Tirotta opened up the scoring with an RBI single to third base, plating Carlos Mendoza. Willie MacIver followed it up with a two-run single in his second game with the Blue Jays organization, following a trade from the Texas Rangers. Two more runs would score on the next play, thanks to a throwing error on the RailRiders’ third baseman Duncan Pastore. With a five-run lead already in hand, Buffalo sent a rehabbing José Berríos to the mound, and things unraveled quite fast. He coughed up a lead-off home run to Spencer Jones, then Jones got him again in the second inning with a two-run single. In the third, Berríos got tagged again, this time by a Seth Brown two-run home run. Adam Macko came into the game for Berríos in the fifth and didn't fare any better, giving up a three-run home run himself. Jones capped off a monster game for the RailRiders with another home run in the bottom of the eighth, putting the game out of reach for the Bisons. Buffalo fell 9-6 to the RailRiders in this one. 

April 29: Postponed

Double-A New Hampshire

• Season Record: 13-8
• Series vs. Binghamton Rumble Ponies (New York Mets)

April 28: Tuesday night was the beginning of a series with the Binghamton Rumble Ponies, and it was a game for the history books. Jace Bohrofen broke open a scoreless game in the fourth inning with an RBI single. Then, Eddie Micheletti Jr. added an RBI single, and Cutter Coffey roped a two-run double. Bohrofen would launch his seventh homer of the season to put New Hampshire up five and add a run on a ball-in-play error in the seventh. Bohrofen went 3-for-4 with the two RBIs, including the home run, but that wasn't the story of the night. The pitching was equal parts historic and historic. Jackson Wentworth started on the mound for New Hampshire and went 4.2 innings without allowing a hit or an earned run. Wentworth did allow four free passes, though. Next came Nate Garkow, who pitched 1.1 innings and didn't give up a hit or run, but also surrendered a walk. Irv Carter then entered the game and went two hitless innings, didn't surrender a run, but walked four as well. He added four strikeouts. Then came Kai Peterson for the ninth. After a leadoff walk, he got two flyouts that set up a matchup between him and Eli Serrano III. For history. On the second pitch of the at-bat, Serrano hit a ball to Micheletti, who caught the fly ball for the no-hitter! It came with 10 walks on the night, but who is counting, because history is history.

April 29, Game 1: In the first game of the doubleheader, the bats came alive for the Fisher Cats, who were set up nicely with a good six innings from starting pitcher Chris McElvain. He gave up just two runs in the first inning and then finished six innings with no more runs allowed. New Hampshire got on the board in the second, when Jay Harry hit a two-run double and Ismael Munguia drove in a run on a groundout. With the one-run lead, the Fisher Cats would pile on four more the next inning. Cutter Coffey cleared the bases with a three-run double, and Harry brought him home on an error by the Rumble Ponies. New Hampshire would go on and win this one 8-2. 

April 29, Game 2: Game two on the night was another comeback affair for the Fisher Cats. They began the game down three runs when Binghamton took a two-run lead in the first and added a third run in the fourth inning. Patrick Winkel drove in two runs with a double for New Hampshire in their half of the fourth inning. In the fifth, Eddie Micheletti Jr. brought home a run, and then Jay Harry knocked in two more runs to give New Hampshire the lead. In the shortened game that didn't have many hits, that is where the scoring ended, as New Hampshire won again, this time 5-3. 

High-A Vancouver 

• Season Record: 9-14
• Series vs. Hillsboro Hops (Arizona Diamondbacks)

April 28: Daniel Guerra starts have become must-watches, as the big righty had his fourth start with six strikeouts or more, with the only run he gave up being a solo shot in the second inning. Arjun Nimmala then hit a mammoth homer the inning after to give the Canadians the lead, the furthest in Nat Bailey since 2022. Peyton Williams helped expand the lead with a double and then scored on two straight balks from Junior Sanchez. The Canadians were unable to do anything else against Sanchez, as he struck out 10 Vancouver hitters. Jay Schueler, who’s been lights out in relief so far, gave up his first homer of the season after walking a batter to give up the lead. Schueler was replaced in the eighth by Eminen Flores, who was also great in relief prior to this game, but he gave up two runs himself, as he lost his command. The Canadians couldn’t get anything else going, so they lost after a good start to the game. 

April 29: After not allowing a run prior to this game, Danny Thompson Jr. proved to be mortal, giving up four runs in 3.1 innings in an uncharacteristic start. He was hurt by some bad BABIP luck, as he gave up seven hits, but he still struck out five batters. The offense once again sputtered, only getting five hits and three walks, as the team went 0-for-7 with RISP and left six runners on base. Juanmi Vasquez allowed another run, and Reece Wissinger’s Vancouver debut allowed two more runs, leading to a 7-0 loss for the Canadians.

Single-A Dunedin

• Season Record: 10-13
• Series vs Jupiter Hammerheads (Miami Marlins)

April 28: It was a tough day defensively for both teams, as the Hammerheads and the D-Jays faced off for the first time this season. Both starters pitched three or more scoreless innings, with Dylan Watts striking out a career high seven batters while also generating 17 whiffs in his first professional start. Luis Victorino came after him, and after getting a lineout, two runners got on base with a single and a walk. The Jays could have gotten out of the inning, but an unfortunate fielding error from Juan Sanchez led to an RBI single and then a grand slam, putting the Jays in a large hole. The Jays then allowed another run on a throwing error from Will Cresswell in the fifth inning, giving Victorino six unearned runs on the night. The Jays were able to answer back; this time, the Hammerheads took their turn with an error, as third baseman Emilio Barreras had one of his three errors of the game, resulting in three unearned runs. Another Barreras error gave the Jays another run in the eighth, but Mason Davenport gave up a homer in the ninth to set the lead back to three. Eric Snow brought it a run closer after Sanchez took a walk, but they couldn’t come back from the mistakes made in the fourth.

April 29: Nolan Perry’s domination continues, as although the 22-year-old didn’t have the strong stuff that he did in previous starts, he went 4.1 innings, only allowing one run. On the season, he’s at a 1.71 ERA in four games pitched. Juan Rosas drove in the first run of the game, and then the Jays took advantage of some poor defense with the bases loaded after, as starter Dameivi Tineo threw the ball away, allowing all three baserunners to score. Blaine Bullard then added another run for a five-run inning with an RBI single. A strong relief outing from Carson Myers maintained the Jays’ lead, and although the Hammerheads got a bit closer with two runs in the eighth and ninth, the Jays were able to take the win to even the series. 

Transactions

04/29/26     RHP Tomoya Kinjo assigned to DSL Blue Jays Blue.
04/28/26     Toronto Blue Jays sent RHP José Berríos on a rehab assignment to Buffalo Bisons.
04/28/26     Toronto Blue Jays optioned RHP Chase Lee to Buffalo Bisons.
04/28/26     LHP Ramon Suarez assigned to Dunedin Blue Jays from FCL Blue Jays.
04/28/26     RHP Reece Wissinger assigned to Vancouver Canadians from Dunedin Blue Jays.
04/28/26     New Hampshire Fisher Cats placed LHP Javen Coleman on the 7-day injured list.
04/28/26     2B Adrian Pinto assigned to New Hampshire Fisher Cats from Vancouver Canadians.
04/28/26     RHP Aaron Munson assigned to New Hampshire Fisher Cats from Vancouver Canadians.

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