THIS & THAT

Chris Flexen had quite the week in the Class A Florida State League, going 2-0 with victories against Charlotte (Port Charlotte) and Fort Myers.

The St. Lucie (Port St. Lucie, Fla.) right-hander threw one-hit ball over 61⁄3 scoreless innings against Charlotte and followed that with a seven-inning, complete-game shutout of the Miracle (also a one-hitter) to extend his scoreless-inning streak to 15.

Flexen, a 14th-round pick by the New York Mets in 2012, has gone 20-16 with a 3.52 ERA in 53 games (49 starts) since he left Newark Memorial High School in California. He is 4-5 this season.

The Class AAA Pacific Coast League had two games end in ties on Memorial Day.

The Tacoma (Wash.) Rainiers and New Orleans Zephyrs ended 2-2 when rain halted play in the sixth inning in Louisiana. The Rainiers had to catch a flight back to the West Coast and didn’t have time to wait out the rain.

Later that afternoon, the Fresno Grizzlies and the Colorado Springs Sky Sox played to a 6-6 tie in California. The game was halted after 10 innings because both teams had to take commercial flights and league rules place a 31⁄ 2- hour time limit on games when a travel curfew is involved.

The games were the first ties in the Pacific Coast League in 20 years. Colorado, which got rained out the following day in Omaha, played in the league’s last tie Aug. 29, 1996, against Calgary.

El Paso outfielder Alex Dickerson was the hottest hitter in the minors in May.

The 2011 third-round pick hit .460 (29-for-63) with a 1.257 onbase-plus-slugging percentage. He had hit .364 in April, and his season average was a minor leagueleading .414 through June 4, the day he went 4-for-5 against Fresno.

Dickerson also has had an impressive line as a pinch-hitter: four hits in five at-bats with a home run and seven RBI and two walks.