On a day that saw the Astros add two more young players to the minor league mix in Forrest Whitley and Ronnie Dawson, the Houston minor league system played to a split of its four games with the opposition.
AAA Fresno Grizzlies: LOST 12-10 to the Salt Lake City Bees (LAA)
This was a wild game. Tommy Shirley got bombed out of the game, lasting just two and a third innings and putting his team in a big hole - by the bottom of the fourth inning, the Grizzlies were down 9-1, and all the runs were Shirley's - before the Grizzlies could really begin to close the gap.