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River Ave. Blues ยป Horne, Norton both return from shoulder surgery

Horne, Norton both return from shoulder surgery

May 2, 2009 by Mike 51 Comments

Saturday night politics: The New York City Council
Roberts refuses to help as MLB digs into A-Rod

Triple-A Scranton (5-1 win over Norfolk) congrats to the pitchers for keeping Matt Wieters off base today
Doug Bernier & Luis Nunez: both 1 for 4, 1 R, 1 RBI – Bernier drew a walk … Nunez doubled
John Rodriguez: 2 for 5, 1 R, 1 RBI, 2 K
Todd Linden: 3 for 4, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K – hitting exactly .400 during his 17 game hit streak
Shelley Duncan: 0 for 3, 2 K
Chris Malec & PJ Pilittere: both 1 for 3 – Malec drove in a run & drew a walk … PJ scored a run
Austin Jackson: 1 for 2, 1 R, 1 BB, 1 K, 1 HBP – hitting .368 in his first 18 AAA games
Casey Fossum: 3.2 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 4 K, 1 WP, 4-4 GB/FB – 46 of 75 pitches were strikes (61.3%) … Yanks signed him yesterday just because they needed a warm body in SWB’s rotation, and he was on a 75 pitch limit
Jose Valdez: 2.1 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K, 3-3 GB/FB – 15 of 24 pitches were strikes (62.5%)
Steven Jackson: 3 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K, 3-3 GB/FB – 30 of 46 pitches were strikes (65.2%)

Double-A Trenton (7-6 loss to New Britain)
Eduardo Nunez: 2 for 4, 1 K – picked off first
Reegie Corona, Frankie Cervelli & Justin Snyder: all 0 for 3 – Corona drew a walk & K’ed … Cervelli walked, scored a run & K’ed … Snyder drove a run in
Marcos Vechionacci: 1 for 4, 1 R, 1 HR, 2 RBI – batted cleanup because Jorge Vazquez is out with an injury
Seth Fortenberry: 0 for 2, 1 R, 2 BB
Kevin Smith: 1 for 4, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 2 K, 1 E (fielding)
James Cooper: 1 for 4, 1 R, 1 3B, 2 RBI
Alan Horne: 3.2 IP, 6 H, 4 R, 3 ER, 4 BB, 5 K, 1 HBP, 2-4 GB/FB – season debut after having surgery to repair a partially torn rotator cuff late last season
Josh Schmidt: 1.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 0-2 GB/FB
Noel Castillo: 2 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 4 K, 1-1 GB/FB
Amaury Sanit: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 K

High-A Tampa (11-1 beat down at the hands of Dunedin)
Austin Romine: 1 for 4, 1 R, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 1 K, 2 PB – allowed two stolen bases
Everyone else: combined 0 for 25, 3 BB, 6 K – Eric Fryer, Jesus Montero & Mitch Hilligoss each drew a walk & K’ed once
Jeremy Bleich: 5.1 IP, 6 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 3 BB, 4 K, 5-7 GB/FB
Tim Norton: 1.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 K, 1 HB, 0-2 GB/FB – first game action since April 20th, 2007 because of major shoulder surgery … it’s been a long road back, let’s wish him the best
Charles Nolte: 1.1 IP, 5 H, 7 R, 7 ER, 3 BB, 1 K, 2 WP, 3-0 GB/FB – yikes
Jon Ortiz: 0.2 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 1 K, 0-1 GB/FB – already half way to last year’s total of 14 ER

Low-A Charleston (2-0 win over Greeneville)
Ray Kruml, Dan Brewer, Melky Mesa & Garrison Lassiter: all 0 for 3 – Kruml drew a walk, stole a base, scored a run & K’ed twice … Mesa & Lassiter each K’ed once
Carmen Angelini: 0 for 2, 1 R, 1 BB, 1 SB, 2 E (throwing, fielding) – picked off first … poor kid is 1 for his last 17 (.059)
David Adams: 3 for 4, 1 2B, 2 RBI, 1 K – picked off first
Brian Baisley: 1 for 4 – picked off first … what’s up with three guys getting picked off?
Taylor Grote: 1 for 2, 1 R, 1 BB, 1 K
Mitch Abeita: 1 for 3, 1 2B, 2 K
Hector Noesi: 3.2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 5 K, 1-5 GB/FB – 21-0 K/BB ratio & 0.00 ERA in 15.2 IP … who knew?
Brandon Braboy: 2.1 IP, zeroes, 4 K, 2-1 GB/FB
Ryan Flannery: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 3 K
Cory Arbiso: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 1-1 GB/FB
Pat Venditte: 1 IP, zeroes, 2 K, 0-1 GB/FB – 18-0 K/BB ratio in 10.2 IP

Saturday night politics: The New York City Council
Roberts refuses to help as MLB digs into A-Rod

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