Lehigh Valley, Reading, and Lakewood lost on the road. Nick Williams hit his 11th home run and Mitch Walding hit 2 more, his fourth in the last two games.
Clearwater rallied to tie in the 9th and win in the 11th on Grenny Cumana’s first home run of the season.
Lehigh Valley was shut out as Hoby Milner’s 19.1 scoreless inning streak came to an end.
Reading pounded out a win with 5 HR including Scott Kingery’s 17th.
Clearwater took over first place in the division behind Wilson Garcia’s grand slam.
Lakewood couldn’t protect a 4-1 lead and lost, but Will Hibbs extended his scoreless string to 28 innings in 16 appearances. Continue reading Box Score Recap – 6/1/2017
I picked a great day to return to the Complex to cover an XST game. Sixto Sanchez took the mound as the starter and pitched three innings. The day was further enhanced when Zach Green was inserted into the line up in the three hole as the DH. Continue reading XST Update: June 1, 2017
This is the fourth in a series of interviews conducted by Steve Potter.
Minor League Spot Light : Jeff Singer
Lehigh Valley won as Tom Eshelman pitched a complete game shutout.
Reading won 2 games behind Tyler Viza’s shutout bolstered by 3 HR in the first; and Andrew Pullin’s walk off HR in the 13th inning in the second.
Clearwater rallied to win, Drew Stankiewicz hit a two-out, two-run, go-ahead home run.
Lakewood managed only four hits in a loss, Darick Hall accounted for all 3 runs. Continue reading Box Score Recap – 5/31/2017
Lehigh Valley scored a run in five different innings but fell short. Cameron Perkins was proficient at the top of the order again.
Reading lost in 11 innings on a 2-run HR served up by Miguel Nunez.
Clearwater lost in regulation. Randolph had 2 more hits.
Lakewood scored in 6 different innings and won behind Ranger Suarez. Trevor Bettencourt struck out 5 in 1.2 innings. Mickey Moniak homered.
I have no updates of individual prospects, because I received another interesting submission from John Yarusinsky. It is a second mock draft that he did, and once again represents a lot of work. I appreciate this very interesting commentary and hope you enjoy it.
Thank you, John.
Lehigh Valley won again, Mark Appel pitched five shutout innings.
Reading ended its losing streak with a victory. Scott Kingery homered and Colton Murray struck out five in 2.2 innings of relief.
Lakewood pounded out 11 runs and 14 hits in a win. Henri Lartigue hit his first HR.
With the AAC championships tying up the fields at the Carpenter Complex, all of the Phillies XST games were on the road last week. The following reports and photos were forwarded to me courtesy of Mark Wylie. Thank you Mark. Continue reading XST Update: May 25th, 26th, 27th
The Phillies completed their 7-game home stand with 2 wins. They have the worst record in baseball. They are 17-31 with a .354 winning percentage.
They managed to win a game against Colorado without scoring more than 2 runs in any of the four games. They scored 10 runs in 3 games against the Reds and lost two of them.
In an unusual turn of events, starters suffered all 5 losses, relievers earned the 2 victories.
I’ve got nothing else. Here’s the open discussion thread for Phillies’ talk and other topics. Continue reading Open Discussion: Week of May 29th
