Lehigh Valley crushed Durham in front of a lot of scouts.
Reading and Cole Irvin prevailed, Mitch Walding homered, as did rehabbing Howie Kendrick. Jose Taveras was promoted from Clearwater.
Clearwater wasted a fine pitching effort by Edgar Garcia.
Lakewood split a double header.
Williamsport won with Kyle Young on the mound. Colby Fitch hit his first professional home run.
The GCL Phillies couldn’t hold onto a 4-run lead. Continue reading Box Score Recap – 7/20/2017
Lehigh Valley won, Zach Eflin pitched well, Dylan Cozens got his 60th RBI.
Reading lost, Carlos Tocci raised his average to .310..
Clearwater and Lakewood were shut out.
Williamsport won by ten, Jake Scheiner had 4 RBI, Nick Maton had 4 hits.
Francisco Morales started a home game, and Ben Brown made his professional debut for the GCL Phillies. Continue reading Box Score Recap – 7/19/2017
Ranger Suarez made his second start since his promotion to the Threshers. He faced the Dunedin Blue Jays in both starts. This familiarity did not help the Blue Jays. Nor did the addition of top prospects Bo Bichette and Vlad Guerrero Jr. in the interim.
Suarez has held the Jays scoreless in ten innings. He has given up 8 hits, walked three, and struck out 17. The 21-year old lefty was particularly effective last night in Clearwater’s victory. More below. Continue reading Box Score Recap – 7/18/2017
Lakewood’s Nick Fanti no-hit Charleston and Henri Lartigue provided all the offense with his seventh HR.
Lehigh Valley beat Gwinnett with a 5-run ninth. J.P. Crawford hit his eighth home run.
Reading rushed out to a ten-run lead over New Hampshire.
The GCL Phillies rallied in the ninth only to let the game slip away in the bottom of the inning.
Clearwater and Williamsport were rained out.
Continue reading Box Score Recap – 7/17/2017
Lehigh Valley held on to beat Rochester, 4-3. Dylan Cozens hit his 22nd HR.
Reading lost to Binghamton, 7-5. Poor defense and “Bad Albert” were contributing factors.
Clearwater crushed Daytona, 13-4.
Lakewood lost to Charleston, 2-1 on a two-out, two-run HR by Blake Rutherford in the 9th.
Williamsport beat Lowell, 6-5 in 10 innings on Cole Stobbe’s walk off HR (6).
The GCL Phillies do not play on Sundays. Continue reading Box Score Recap – 7/16/2017
Seranthony Dominguez made his second rehab start with the GCL Phillies Saturday morning. He was on a pitch count and completed three innings before being replaced. He struggled a little, loading the bases in the first sandwiching his only walk with two singles. Dominguez escaped with minimal damage, inducing a sacrifice fly and a come-backer to the mound to end the inning. Continue reading Box Score Recap – 7/15/2017
Lehigh Valley (56-36) lost to Rochester, 4-1.
Zach Eflin (1-2, 3.72) pitched 6.0 innings and gave up 2 runs on 2 hits and 2 walks. He struck out four. Colton Murray (5.96) gave up 2 runs in one inning. Yacksel Rios (pitched a clean inning in his debut. Jesen Therrien (1.59) struck out 2 in one inning.
Scott Kingery (.304) and Jorge Alfaro (.249) had 2 hits each. Alfaro had the lone RBI (39) on an RBI single in the ninth inning.
Reading (51-38) lost to Binghamton, 2-1.
Ranfi Casimiro (1-2, 2.89) had trouble locating the strike zone. He gave up 2 runs on 3 hits and 5 walks in 2.2 innings. Shane Watson (4.60) relieved and stranded 2 inherited runners. He pitched 2.1 scoreless/hitless innings. Austin Davis (2.32) pitched 2.0 scoreless innings. And, Victor Arano (1.93) finished up with 3 strike outs in 2.0 innings.
Jiandido Tromp (.300) provided the offense going 3-4 with a HR (12) and the only RBI (39). Damek Tomscha went 1-4 in his AA debut.
Clearwater (48-42) lost to Bradenton, 3-1.
Franklyn Kilome lasted just five innings allowing one run on 4 hits and 4 walks. He struck out three, but had thrown 94 pitches, 50 strikes (53.2%) through those five innings. Harold Arauz (1.06) struck out 2 in 1.0 inning. Luke Leftwich (0-5, 3.08) struck out 3 in 2.0 innings, but gave up the eventual game-winning run in the seventh. Jeff Singer came into a non-save situation and gave up a run.
The Threshers had three hits. One of them was Jan Hernandez solo HR (11).
Cesar Hernandez went 0-2 with a walk in a rehab start. He is hitless in 3 appearances.
Cornelius Randolph had an outfield assist (third base).
Lakewood (50-41) beat Rome, 1-0. A second gave was postponed, rain.
Mauricio Llovera (1.90) threw the first 5.0 innings of a seven inning shutout. He allowed 2 hits, walked one, and struck out nine. Ismael Cabrera (5-5, 3.89) got the win striking out 2 in 1.0 inning. Will Hibbs (0.93) struck out 2 in a scoreless inning and picked up his 10th save.
Darick Hall’s (.271) solo HR (18) in the sixth inning proved to be the winning run.
Mickey Moniak (.268) went 1-2 with a walk.
Williamsport (12-10) beat Lowell, 4-0.
Kyle Young (4-0, 1.16) threw 5.0 shutout innings. He gave up 3 hits, walked one, and struck out four. Connor Brogdon (5.59) struck out 2 in 2.0 innings. Damon Jones picked up his first save with 4 strike outs in 2.0 innings.
Jhailyn Ortiz (.290) provided most of the offense. He went 2-4 with a double, HR (4), and 3 RBI (15). Adam Haseley (.372) went 1-3 with a double, RBI, and walk.
The Crosscutters scored in the fifth on Ortiz’ solo HR (4). They added 2 runs in the sixth on Ortiz’ 2-out, 2-run double. And tacked on a finak run in the eighth on Haseley’s RBI double.
In Kyle Young’s 4 victories, he has a cumulative 20 IP, 9 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 5 BB, 25 K, 0.70 WHIP, .132 AVG, 273 pitches/177 strikes (64.8%).
GCL Phillies (10-6) beat the GCL Blue Jays, 5-0.
Ethan Lindow made his professional debut and threw two scoreless innings. he gave up 2 hits and struck out four. His outing consisted of 27 pitches. His FB was 85-87 MPH.
Jose Jimenez (1-0, 4.05) came in and threw five, scoreless innings. He gave up 3 hits and struck out three. Jimenez’ FB was 87-89 MPH. Robinson Martinez (4.26) and Rafael Carvajal (1.29) each threw a scoreless inning. Carval struck out two, including a game-ending, swinging strike out on an off speed pitch.
The Phillies scored 2 runs in the second on a sacrifice fly by Edwin Rodriguez and an RBI double by Kipp Moore. They score 3 more in the third on a wild pitch, a Quincy Nieporte RBI double, and a Bryan Gonzalez sacrifice fly.
Simon Muzziotti (.321) went 2-4 with a run scored and 2 stolen base. Quincy Nieporte (.462) went 2-3 with 2 runs scored, a double, and RBI.
Here’s the affiliate scoreboard from MiLB.
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Lehigh Valley beat Bartolo Colon.
Reading avoided being no hit in the eighth inning.
Clearwater lost with Velasquez and Hernandez playing on rehab.
Lakewood was rained out.
Williamsport lost one game and was rained out in the other.
And, the GCL Phillies beat the Yankees by 2 touchdowns Continue reading Box Score Recap – 7/13/2017
Clearwater hit three home runs and Cesar Hernandez made a rehab start.
Lakewood won behind Sixto Sanchez’ pitching and Henri Lartigue’s three RBI.
The GCL Phillies were drubbed in Tampa, Quincy Neiporte was the batting star.
Williamsport tried to play two. Game one was suspended, game two was postponed.
Lehigh Valley and Reading are on their All Star breaks.
The GCL Phillies were unable to hold on to a seventh inning lead.
Williamsport was postponed.
Lehigh Valley and Reading are on their All Star breaks.
Clearwater and Lakewood were scheduled off.
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