George Kontos has been promoted to Triple-A Scranton, but it’s still unclear when he’ll make his first start. Chad Jennings also spoke to Nardi Contreras about some of the Yanks’ injured minor league pitchers. Check it out.
Oh, and here’s your chance to own Mark Melancon’s first professional jersey.
Triple-A Scranton (11-7 win over Norfolk)
Doug Bernier: 2 for 4, 3 R, 1 3B, 3 RBI, 1 K, 1 HBP – had been in a 3 for 28 (.107) skid coming into the game
John Rodriguez & Shelley Duncan: both 1 for 5, 1 K – J-Rod doubled & drove in a pair of runs … Shelley swiped a bag and scored a run
Todd Linden: 4 for 5, 2 2B, 4 RBI, 1 SB – broke the game open with a 3 run double in the bottom of the 8th … he also threw a runner out at the plate from RF … hit streak is up to 18 games
Juan Miranda: 0 for 4, 1 R, 1 BB, 2 K
Austin Jackson: 3 for 4, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 SB – gave the team the lead in the bottom of the 7th with an RBI double … he also threw a runner out at third from CF
Chris Malec: 1 for 4, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 K
Chris Stewart: 0 for 1, 3 R, 2 BB, 1 HBP – one my favorite lines of the year
Luis Nunez: 2 for 4, 2 R, 1 K
Eric Hacker: 6 IP, 8 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 2 BB, 1 K, 1 HB, 9-5 GB/FB – 58 of 101 pitches were strikes (57.4%)
Eric Wordekemper: 1.1 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 1-2 GB/FB – 18 of 26 pitches were strikes (69.2%) … blew the lead in the top of the 7th when he served up a 2 run jimmy jack
Brett Tomko: 1.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 3 K, 0-2 GB/FB – 20 of 32 pitches were strikes (62.5%)
Double-A Trenton (5-3 win over New Britain)
Eduardo Nunez: 2 for 4, 2 R, 1 BB, 1 CS – 7 for his last 12 (.583)
Reegie Corona: 1 for 2, 1 R, 3 BB
Colin Curtis: 0 for 3, 1 BB, 1 K, 1 HBP
Marcos Vechionacci & Seth Fortenberry: both 1 for 4, 1 2B – Vech scored a run & drove in 3 runs … Fortenberry drew a walk & K’ed
Kyle Anson: 1 for 5, 1 RBI, 1 K
Justin Snyder: 1 for 3, 1 R, 1 BB – jacks his avg up to .161
Wilkins Arias: 4 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 2 K, 2 WP, 5-5 GB/FB – started in place of Kontos
Kanekoa Texeira: 3.2 IP, 5 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 3 K, 5-3 GB/FB
Amaury Sanit: 1.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 1-2 GB/FB – holding righties to an .067 avg on the year
High-A Tampa (6-4 loss to Dunedin)
Jack Rye, Austin Romine & Tommy Baldridge: all 2 for 4, 1 K – Rye doubled, drew a walk, stole a base & scored … Romine drove in a run … Baldridge scored once
Emerson Landoni: 0 for 5, 1 K
Jesus Montero: 1 for 4, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 K, 1 PB – allowed a stolen base, but it was the guy’s 18th frickin’ steal of the season
Damon Sublett: 1 for 3, 2 R, 1 BB, 1 SB
Brandon Laird: 1 for 4, 1 R, 1 HR, 2 RBI – hitting just .213-.272-.333 this year after hitting .273-.334-.498 last year
Mitch Hilligoss: 4 for 4, 1 CS – Hit Streak is hittin’ .353 so far
Wilkins DeLaRosa: 5 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 7 K, 1 WP, 6-2 GB/FB – 17-4 K/BB ratio in 14 WP
Adam Olbrychowski: 2 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 2-2 GB/FB
Craig Heyer: 2 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 2 K, 2 WP, 1-3 GB/FB – dueces wild
Low-A Charleston (9-0 loss to Greeneville) they were shut down by the Red Sox’s 2008 first rounder
David Adams: 2 for 4, 1 2B
Everyone else: combined 0 for 24, 3 BB, 6 K – Ray Kruml & Chase Weems each K’ed twice … Taylor Grote K’ed & threw a runner out at 2nd from LF … Dan Brewer drew a pair of walks & swiped 2 bases … Melky Mesa drew a walk
David Phelps: 4.2 IP, 10 H, 8 R, 7 ER, 2 BB, 2 K, 6-5 GB/FB, 1 E (pickoff) – how unfortunate
Dan Kapala: 3 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 0 K, 1 WP, 3-6 GB/FB
Brad Rulon: 1.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K, 1-1 GB/FB
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