Cody Asche, Sebastian Valle and Maikel Franco all went deep. A good day for David Buchanan – 7IP/1R/5H/3BB/3K. Kelly Dugan on base four times – his season OPS sits at .991. Severino Gonzalez worked another clean frame – he’s given up just one unearned run in 13 2/3 innings, allowing only six hits and two walks while striking out 15. And Roman Quinn stole home on an executed double steal, in case you see that steal of home and wonder like I did how he pulled it off.

Also of note – Reading 3B Tommy Mendonca went 5-5, including a triple, a run scored and three RBI. Brody Colvin worked a clean ninth in a Reading blow-out win. And Carlos Zambrano struck out three, walked two and gave up four hits in six scoreless innings. According to what he told @BaseballBetsy (www.baseballbetsy.com) after the game, he’s done in Clearwater. Lock up your water coolers, Pennsylvania!

Continue reading Box Score Recap – 6/2/2013 →

June 1 and DSL starts up. None of thier starting nine are jumping out as big bonus guys. Anyone remember any of those names? Jermaine Mitchell seems to have been the catalyst for a 10-9 Lehigh Valley vistory, as he was 3-3 with a HR, 2 BB and scored 4 runs. Anthony Hewitt went deep for Reading.

Word came down that Cameron Perkins hit the DL. He was hit in the hand with a pitch two nights ago. I haven’t heard a diagnosis yet. “Hurty hand”, perhaps? “Ouchy hand”, maybe?

Continue reading Box Score Recap – 6/1/2013 →

Tyson Gillies with 2 HR in one night, and 4 in his last 6 games. That’s worth watching. If his goal this season was to retool his swing for more power, and he suddenly has more power, maybe the “retool” has finally worked. We shall see.

Three hits for Carlos Tocci, two including a homerun for Brian Pointer, and a good line from Shane Watson – 5IP, 2R, 2H, 1BB, 5K – the only bad thing is one of the hits was a round-tripper. Kelly Dugan’s been on base 9 times the last three days. And once a day, he got to slow down and jog all the way. Feelin’ the flow. Workin’ it. Workin’ it.

Cam Perkins pulled from the game for pinch-runner Chris Serritella, (odd phrase, that), after being hit by a pitch on the hand. Let’s hope he’s alright.

Continue reading Box Score Recap – 5/31/2013 →

A strong start from Hoby Milner – 1R on 3H, 0BB and 7K in 7 IP. After a slow start to 2013, he’s had a really good May. His overall season numbers show K/9 of just over 9, and BB/9 at 2.3. That’s good stuff. Too many HR allowed, and his GO/AO is pretty low – flyball tendencies so far this year, not unlike 2012.

Kelly Dugan went deep for the second straight game, his fifth of the year, Roman Quinn went 2-3 with a walk and his fifth, and Leandro Castro was 2-5, including hit his fifth bomb.

Continue reading Box Score Recap – 5/30/2013 →

A mild improvement from last time for Austin Wright – he did give up 4 walks and 5 hits, but he got through 5.1 IP. He threw 73 pitches, 41 for strikes, which needs to get better. To me, he’s a candidate to go to the AFL as a starter – if he’s completely healthy, of course. He missed some time, and so would likely have some innings left under his season limit, and seeing him against some better competition probably couldn’t hurt in evaluating his ceiling as a starter. 

Cameron Rupp with another homer – he’s up to 8 on the year and his OPS for May sits just over 1.000. A bit of a clunker from Perci Garner – couldn’t get out of the fifth inning while allowing 4R, 6H, 4BB and striking out just 2. Kelly Dugan with his 4th HR – his OPS sits 20 points higher than where he finished 2012 as he gets to a pretty significant sample of around 125 PAs. The guy can rake a little bit – no doubt about it. Continue reading Box Score Recap – 5/29/2013 →

Very solid night from Yoel Mecias – 4H, 1BB, 8K in 6 scoreless innings. In the same game, Larry Greene somehow stole two bases. Wacky. (note – I couldn’t find the second one in the recap, then I realized he just stole one – it was his second of the year – I will leave my mistake here for all of you to shame me if you like).

Elsewhere, Carlos Zambrano was upstaged by Severino Gonzalez, though I bet Big Z rises through the system faster. Also, David Buchanan on the unlucky side of a pitcher’s duel in Bowie, with each team managing just 4 hits, while Leandro Castro homered and Ethan Martin was pulled after 50 lackluster pitches in a game that was suspended in Rochester. Continue reading Box Score Recap – 5/28/2013 →

I kept looking around the boxes for good stuff to talk about, and kept landing on Vance Worley. So I left that line in for us to check out. Aside from that, Lakewood pitchers shut down the Delmarva Shorebirds – Miguel Nunez allowed 1 R on 1H and 2BB in 6 IP and Jordan Guth got the three inning save. Also in that game, Roman Quinn had a triple and 3Ks. Fun.

Continue reading Box Score Recap – 5/27/2013 →

Tyson Gillies went deep for the second straight day. Zach Miner struck out 8 of the 18 men he faced. Less than impressive from Jesse Biddle. He did strike out 6, but he gave up 6 runs, (5 earned), 7 hits, 3 walks and a homerun in 4 innings. For what it’s worth, he was also 2 for 2 at the plate with his third double of the year. He’s hitting .556 on the year.

Cesar Hernandez stole his 15th base, and Roman Quinn his 24th. Both men could probably beat me in a footrace. Probably. I’m probably like a 65 runner. In that I can probably run flat out for around 65 yards without having a cardiac event. Probably.

Continue reading Box Score Recap – 5/26/2013 →

Seth Rosin good, Mario Hollands good, Maikel Franco good, Cam Perkins good. How’s that for anaylsis? I’ll try to post the graphic later today, but here’s the link and a place to discuss.

Continue reading Box Score Recap – 5/25/2013 →