Montero’s two homers lead Tampa to win

Ian Kennedy was in New York today to see the Yanks’ team doctor after feeling numbness in one of his fingers during his start last night. Guess it wasn’t a blister after all. That’s all I got at this time, hopefully he’s okay. Meanwhile, Alan Horne will start on Saturday. Not sure who it’ll be for yet.

Triple-A Scranton (6-0 loss to Lehigh Valley)
Doug Bernier, John Rodriguez, Eric Duncan & PJ Pilittere: all 0 for 3 – Bernier drew a walk & K’ed … J-Rod was hit by a pitch & K’ed … E-Dunc committed a fielding error at the hot corner … PJ K’ed
Todd Linden & Juan Miranda: both 1 for 4 – Linden doubled & K’ed twice … Miranda K’ed
Shelley Duncan: 2 for 4
Austin Jackson: 2 for 3, 1 K
Eric Hacker: 6 IP, 5 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 0 BB, 8 K, 1 Balk, 7-3 GB/FB – 65 of 102 pitches were strikes (63.7%) … gave up all 5 runs in the third, but other than that he was pretty good
JB Cox: 3 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 2 K, 6-1 GB/FB – 30 of 43 pitches were strikes (69.8%)

Double-A Trenton (2-0 win over Connecticut)
Eduardo Nunez, Jorge Vazquez & Frankie Cervelli: all 1 for 4 – Nunez was caught stealing … Vazquez drove in a run & K’ed … Cervelli K’ed
Reegie Corona: 2 for 3, 2 R, 1 BB, 1 SB
Colin Curtis: 2 for 4 – 13 game hit streak
Marcos Vechionacci: 2 for 3, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K, 1 E (throwing)
Seth Fortenberry: 0 for 4
George Kontos: 6 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 8 K, 3 WP, 6-4 GB/FB – 176 K in 172 IP at AA
Mike Dunn: 2 IP, zeroes, 1 K, 1-4 GB/FB – lowers his Kper9 to 13.88 (it was 15.82 before this game)
Amaury Sanit: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K, 1-0 GB/FB

High-A Tampa (3-1 win over Lakeland)
Austin Krum: 1 for 3, 1 RBI, 2 BB, 1 K
Eric Fryer & Matt Cusick: both 0 for 4 – Cusick K’ed twice
Jesus Montero: 2 for 4, 2 R, 2 HR, 2 RBI – hitting .371-.421-.614 in the Florida State League as a 19 year old … that’s ama-za-zing
Brandon Laird: 1 for 4, 1 K – hitting just .237-.308-.339
Austin Romine & Emerson Landoni: both 0 for 3, 1 BB – Romine scored a run
Addison Maruszack: 0 for 2, 2 BB, 1 CS
Jack Rye: 2 for 4
Wilkins DeLaRosa: 5 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 7 K, 3-3 GB/FB – 135 K in 115.2 IP over the last two years
Jason Stephens: 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 2 K, 2-2 GB/FB
Grant Duff: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 0 K
Jon Ortiz: 1 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 0 K, 1-2 GB/FB – hasn’t been as automatic this year as he was last year

Low-A Charleston (7-6 loss to Asheville, walk-off style)
Carmen Angelini: 0 for 4, 1 R, 1 BB, 1 K, 1 E (fielding) – it’s getting comical, really
Ray Kruml: 2 for 5, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 2 K, 1 E (throwing)
David Adams & Mitch Abeita: both 1 for 3, 1 R, 1 K, 1 HBP – Adams drew a walk … Abeita hit a solo homer & committed a throwing error
Brian Baisley: 2 for 5, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 HR, 4 RBI, 1 K – hard to believe that’s his first homer of the year
Taylor Grote: 0 for 5, 1 K
Melky Mesa: 2 for 4, 2 K, 1 CS
Dan Brewer: 3 for 4
David Phelps: 6.2 IP, 8 H, 5 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 5 K, 10-4 GB/FB, 1 E (pickoff)
Hector Noesi: 1.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 1-2 GB/FB
Pat Venditte: 0.2 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 K, 1-1 GB/FB – his is human after all