Melancon coughs it up late

Triple-A Scranton (5-4 loss to Lehigh Valley)
Matt Carson, Shelley Duncan & Chad Moeller: all 1 for 4 – Carson drove in a run & was hit by a pitch… Shelley drew a walk, scored a run & K’ed twice … Moeller K’ed twice
Eric Duncan & Juan Miranda: both 1 for 5, 2 K
Jason Lane: 1 for 3, 1 R, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K – nice return from spending just about a month on the DL
Ben Broussard: 3 for 4, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 K
Nick Green: 0 for 4, 3 K, 1 E (fielding) – days like this make you want to take a bat to the watercooler
Chris Basak: 2 for 4, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 2 K
The Ghost of Kei Igawa: 6.2 IP, 7 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 3 K, 8-9 GB/FB – 77 of 112 pitches were strikes (68.8%)
Steven Jackson: 1.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K
Mark Melancon: 1 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 0 K, 3-0 GB/FB – 12 of 19 pitches were strikes (63.2%) … just didn’t have it today

Double-A Trenton (9-2 win over Reading)
Reegie Corona: 1 for 6, 2 K
Frankie Cervelli: 1 for 3, 1 R, 1 2B, 2 HBP
Austin Jackson: 1 for 5, 2 K, 1 SB – 5 for his last 14 (.357) after a 4 for 30 stretch (.133)
Chris Malec: 0 for 3, 1 R, 2 BB, 1 E (fielding)
Kevin Russo & PJ Pilittere: both 2 for 5 – Russo scored a run & K’ed … PJ homered, drove in two & scored 3 runs
Cody Ehlers: 1 for 5, 1 R, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 2 K, 1 E (throwing) – homered off a guy making a ton of money to pitch (poorly) in AA
Edwar Gonzalez: 3 for 5, 2 R, 1 2B, 2 HR, 5 RBI, 1 K – that’s a good week right there
James Cooper: 0 for 4, 1 HBP
Jason Jones: 6 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 4 K, 1 Balk, 6-8 GB/FB
Jhonny Nunez: 2 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 3-2 GB/FB
Jose Valdez: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 2 K

High-A Tampa
Game 1 (1-0 win over Clearwater in 7 innings) makeup of yesterday’s rainout
Luis Nunez: 0 for 3
Hideki Matsui: 1 for 3, 1 R, 1 HR, 1 RBI – man, the Yanks could use him in the worst way right now
Eduardo Nunez: 1 for 3, 1 E (fielding)
Seth Fortenberry, Jose Gil, Tim Battle & Tom Baldridge (33): all 0 for 2 – Fortenberry K’ed twice, Gil once
Kevin Smith & Mitch Hilligoss: both 1 for 2 – Smith doubled … Hilligoss was caught stealing
Chris Garcia: 5 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 7 K, 5-2 GB/FB – now that is what you want to see out of Mr. Garcia
Mike Dunn: 1.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 2 K
Josh Schmidt: 0.2 IP, zeroes, 1 K
Game 2 (9-1 win over Clearwater in 7 innings)
Luis Nunez: 1 for 4, 1 R, 2 RBI, 1 SB
Hideki Matsui: 0 for 2, 1 BB – got his three plate appearances in and called it a day
Eduardo Nunez & Seth Fortenberry: both 2 for 4, 1 R, 1 K – Nunez drove in two
Josh Kreuzer: 3 for 4, 2 R, 1 2B, 1 RBI
Kyle Anson: 1 for 2, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K
Tom Baldridge (33): 0 for 2, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 BB – threw a runner out at the plate from RF
Mitch Hilligoss: 2 for 3, 1 RBI
Tim Battle: 1 for 4, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 K
Wilkins DeLaRosa: 6 IP, 5 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 8 K, 4-5 GB/FB – 68 hits allowed & 122 K in 101.2 IP … wowza
Phil Bartlewski: 1 IP, zeroes, 2 K – just keeps mowin’em down

Low-A Charleston (7-5 win over Lakewood)
Justin Snyder: 0 for 3, 2 BB, 1 K
Bradley Suttle: 2 for 5, 2 R, 1 2B, 2 RBI, 1 K – I have to admit, I didn’t have much faith in him coming into the year, but he’s been outstanding
Jesus Montero: 2 for 3, 2 R, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 2 BB, 1 K – the Barry Bonds of the Sally League
Austin Romine: 1 for 4, 1 2B, 2 RBI, 1 HBP – 15 for his last 44 (.341)
Brandon Laird: 0 for 5 – remember that 5 HR in 4 games binge? he’s hitting .222 since then
Austin Krum & David Williams: both 1 for 3, 1 R – Krum drew a pair of walks … Williams was hit by a pitch
Carmen Angelini: 1 for 5, 1 R
Abe Almonte: 2 for 5, 1 RBI, 2 K
Lance Pendleton: 5 IP, 9 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 5 BB, 2 K, 1 WP, 5-8 GB/FB
Craig Heyer: 1 IP, zeroes, 2 K
Stephen Artz: 1 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 1 WP
Chase Vacek: 1 IP, zeroes, 2 K
Jon Ortiz: 1 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 3 K – 79 K in 56 IP … 13.40 Kper9 since the start of ’07 … hot damn

Short Season Staten Island was rained out. This is Vermont’s last trip to the bastard boro this season, so I’m assuming they’ll make it up sometime this weekend.

Rookie GCL Yanks
Game 1 (3-2 win over GCL Braves in 7 innings) makeup of yesterday’s rainout
Corban Joseph (4) & Spencer Lucian (31): both 0 for 2, 1 BB – CoJoe K’ed once, Lucian twice
Kyle Higashioka (7): 1 for 3, 1 R, 2 K – if it wasn’t for all these doubleheaders, Chase Weems would be getting like, zero playing time
Jimmy Paredes, Kelvin Castro & Zoilo Almonte: all 1 for 3, 1 2B – Paredes drove in a run & K’ed … Castro scored a run & K’ed twice … Almonte drove in a run
Mitch Delaney (21) & Alvaro Ramirez: both 0 for 3 – Delaney K’ed twice & committed a fielding error
Francisco Rondon: 4.2 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 3 BB, 6 K, 4-3 GB/FB – picked a runner off first
Dickie Marquez: 2.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 K, 3-4 GB/FB

The box score of the second GCL game hasn’t been posted yet. Here’s the scoreboard, they’ll get it up eventually.