51s’ d’Arnaud, Gose to play in Futures Game

51s teammates Travis d'Arnaud and Anthony Gose will represent the United States in the 14th annual All-Star Futures Game next month, it was announced Thursday.

The game, scheduled for July 8 at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., pits a 25-player U.S. team against a 25-player World squad.

D'Arnaud, a catcher ranked by MLB.com as the Toronto Blue Jays' No. 1 prospect, is batting .330 this season with 15 home runs, 20 doubles and 49 RBIs. His homer total ranks third in the Pacific Coast League.

Gose, a center fielder and No. 2-ranked Blue Jays prospect, has rebounded from batting .216 in April to get his average up to .294. He has three home runs, 35 RBIs, 63 runs and 14 doubles and leads the PCL in triples with nine and stolen bases with 26 in 31 attempts.

Also Thursday, d'Arnaud was named the Topps PCL Player of the Month for May, when he batted .367 and had hits in 22 of 25 games. He tied for the league lead in home runs (10) and extra-base hits (20) in the month and ranked in the top five in slugging percentage (.734), on-base plus slugging (1.144) and runs (25).

In the 51s game Thursday at Tucson, Ariz., Las Vegas starter Scott Richmond took a no-hitter into the seventh inning of a 4-2 victory over the Tucson Padres.

Richmond (6-5), who entered with a 5.90 ERA in 15 games this season, issued one walk in each of the first four innings and hit a batter in the sixth. But the right-hander didn't permit a hit until Matt Clark's leadoff double in the seventh.

After striking out the next batter on his 99th pitch, Richmond was relieved by Evan Crawford, who worked 1 2/3 perfect innings. Tucson (23-50) got to 51s closer Jerry Gil for three consecutive two-out hits in the ninth, including Anthony Contreras' two-run single.

Travis Snider hit a two-run homer in a three-run third inning for Las Vegas (41-32). Gose finished 3-for-4 with a double and an RBI single and stole two bases.