White coughs it up in extras
ByTriple-A Scranton (5-4 loss to Richmond in 13 innings, walk-off style)
Brett Gardner, Eric Duncan & Matt Carson: all 1 for 6 – Gardner scored a run, drove in another, walked & K’ed 4 times … Duncan K’ed twice … Carson drove in 2 runs & K’ed
JD Closser: 1 for 5, 1 R, 2 BB, 2 K, 1 CS
Alberto Gonzalez: 1 for 3, 3 BB, 1 K, 1 E (fielding) – on base 20 times in his last 7 games
Jason Christian: 2 for 5, 2 R, 1 BB
Nick Green & Bernie Castro: both 2 for 6 – Green doubled, drove in a run & K’ed – Castro stole a base & was picked off first
The Ghost of Kei Igawa: 6.1 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 4 BB, 6 K, 6-6 GB/FB – picked a runn off first, but he gave up a homer to Sal Fasano … Sal freaking Fasano
Scott Strickland: 1.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 1 K - only 8 of 22 pitches were strikes (36.4%)
Heath Phillips: 0.1 IP, zeroes
Scott Patterson: 1 IP, zeroes, 1 K
Billy Traber: 2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K, 3-2 GB/FB
David Robertson: 1 IP, zeroes, 3 K – this time last year, he was still in Charleston
Steven “don’t call me” White: 0.1 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 0 K – to make it worse, Scranton took the lead in the top half of the inning thanks to a Brett Gardner bases loaded walk … the link is for those of you that never got the reference
Double-A Trenton (3-0 loss to Connecticut)
Ramiro Pena: 2 for 5, 1 2B
Austin Jackson, Jose Tabata, PJ Pilittere & Reegie Corona: all 1 for 4 – Ajax K’ed … Tabata doubled
Colin Curtis: 1 for 3, 1 BB, 1 K
Edwar Gonzalez & Cody Ehlers: both 0 for 4 – Ehlers K’ed twice
Chris Malec: 1 for 2, 2 BB, 1 E (fielding) – personal fave is having another rock solid season
Jason Jones: 9 IP, 8 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 5 K, 15-7 GB/FB – ERA jumps up to 2.30
High-A Tampa (5-4 win over St. Lucie in 12 innings)
Eduardo Nunez & Jose Gil: both 2 for 6 – Nunez tripled, scored 2 runs & K’ed twice … Gil drove in a run & K’ed
Mitch Hilligoss, James Cooper & Seth Fortenberry: all 2 for 5 – Hilligoss was picked off second … Cooper doubled, drove in 2 runs, scored a run, walked, K’ed & threw a runner out at third from LF… Fortenberry drove in a run
Andres Perez: 2 for 4, 2 R, 1 2B, 1 BB, 1 K – singled in the winning run
Mike Dunn: 5.1 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 3 K, 9-3 GB/FB - picked a runner off first
Jose Valdez: 1.2 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 2 K
Wilkins Arias: 3 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 4 K – 47-8 K/BB ratio in 35.1 IP … who knew?
J-Hov: 2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 2 K
Low-A Charleston (4-3 win over Rome)
Abe Almonte: 1 for 5, 1 R, 2 K – 3 for his last 24
Justin Snyder: 1 for 4, 2 RBI, 2 K, 1 E (fielding)
Bradley Suttle & Jesus Montero: both 0 for 4, 1 K – Suttle is 4 for his last 29
Austin Romine & Carmen Angelini: both 1 for 3 – Romine walked & allowed a passed ball … Angelini K’ed & committed a throwing error … Angelini seems to be in a bit of a defensive rut, lots of errors lately
Brandon Laird: 2 for 3, 1 2B, 1 BB, 1 K – seems like he should have more than just 19 XBH, don’t it?
David Williams: 3 for 4, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 K
Austin Krum: 2 or 4, 1 R, 2 K
Jairo Heredia: 5 IP, 6 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 3 BB, 5 K, 1 WP, 7-3 GB/FB – first run allowed since returning from the DL … look, he has braces!
Wilkins DeLaRosa: 1.1 IP, 1 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 1 K - picked a runner off first
Jon Ortiz: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K, 1 WP - the walk was intentional
You were right about Mitch Hilligoss, damn.
Poor Jairo. I wonder what his teammates think of the braces.
So many kids have braces now growing up it really isn’t a source of ridicule anymore. I had them from the summer before 7th grade up until the second semester of my Freshman year in HS, I never had any issues with people.
Yeah, that was my time for braces too, but Jairo’s got them as an 18-year-old at A ball. Baseball players can be a vicious bunch.
You get braces when you’re 12. Not 18. But he was from another country and I’ll venture a guess in that he didn’t have dental ins.
Sal Fasano!!! Played 1b for the Yankees in “Major League”.
White has been terrible lately
Much like the Thunder offense…
the thunder offense isn’t thundering…lol
I guess Robertson’s line couldn’t get much better, unless he did it in 9 pitches
Is Malec going to get a chance to move up to AAA?
Trip A or Doub A.
It doesn’t matter for someone that talented.
I’d think he needs more at-bats in Trenton before that happened…
Good to see D Rob pitch well in back to back games. When does he get a call up because it is quite obvious that Girardi has not confidence in much off his pullben with several starters going eight innings.
Or, that he doesn’t have the same hair-trigger that Joe T had.
Moose, Ras, Andy…they were all pitching well in those games
Any word on the Christian Garcia injury?
Robertson in last 7 appearances: 12 innings, 7 hits, 23 K’s, 2 walks, 2 runs, 100% domination.
Big props for the NOFX reference.
What do we know about Malec? I’m not familiar with the guy… where is he from, what does he offer, what are his negatives?
He’s a bat control freak, puts the bat on the ball almost effortlessly. He used to be a slick, #2 hitter style middle infielder, but he changed his game last year and become more of a gap-to-gao corner infielder. Super sleeper as a utility player.
What else does Robertson need to do? Give him a couple days off and call him up!
They’re waiting to see if he can take Chris Britton out with a sniper rifle before they call him up.