Montero returns to lineup after last night’s injury

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The Yanks resigned Humberto Sanchez, and assigned him to Double-A Trenton. They released Sanchez a week ago to clear room on the 40-man roster for Mark Melancon. These kind of release-and-resign deals aren’t all that uncommon. Teams will usually do this when they have a player they want to remove from their 40-man roster, but want to keep him in the organization without exposing him to waivers. Since Humberto is a young power arm that is cost controllable for the next six years, there’s a chance someone would have put a claim in.

Triple-A Scranton (3-1 loss to Indianapolis)
Kevin Russo: 2 for 4
John Rodriguez & Austin Jackson: both 1 for 4 – J-Rod drove in the only run & K’ed
Todd Linden: 0 for 2, 2 BB, 1 K – hit streak ends at 19 games
Shelley Duncan: 0 for 4
Juan Miranda & Chris Malec: both 1 for 3, 1 BB
Doug Bernier: 0 for 3, 1 K
Chris Stewart: 2 for 3, 1 R, 1 2B
The Ghost of Kei Igawa: 6.1 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 6 K, 5-8 GB/FB, 1 E (throwing) – 62 of 91 pitches were strikes (68.1%) … he’s up to 10 homers allowed in 27.2 IP
Jose Valdez: 0.1 IP, 1 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 4 BB, 0 K, 1-0 GB/FB – just 13 of 32 pitches were strikes (40.6%) … yikes
JB Cox: 1.1 IP, zeroes, 2 K, 1-1 GB/FB – 13 of 22 pitches were strikes (59.1%)

Double-A Trenton had their doubleheader with Bowie rained out. No official word on when these games will be made up, but they could opt to play doubleheaders tomorrow and Thursday. That’s a good way to wreck a pitching staff.

High-A Tampa (3-0 loss to Daytona)
Austin Krum: 0 for 3, 1 BB, 1 K – threw a runner out at home from CF
Addison Maruszack, Jesus Montero, Damon Sublett & Austin Romine: all 1 for 3 – Maruszack K’ed … Montero doubled, drew a walk & K’ed … Sublett tripled & walked … Romine walked
Brandon Laird & Mitch Hilligoss: both 0 for 4 – Laird K’ed
Eric Fryer: 1 for 2, 1 2B, 1 BB, 1 CS – 2 for his last 35 (.057) coming into the game
Ryan Zink: 6 IP, 9 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 3 K, 1 WP, 9-5 GB/FB – 20-4 K/BB ratio in 31.2 IP
Tim Norton: 2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 0 K, 4-2 GB/FB
Jon Hovis: 1 IP, zeroes, 2 K, 0-1 GB/FB

Low-A Charleston (9-2 loss to Greenville)
Ray Kruml: 1 for 3, 1 R, 1 BB, 2 K, 1 SB
Mitch Abeita, Brian Baisley & Melky Mesa: all 0 for 3 – Abeita K’ed once … Baisley drew a walk & K’ed twice … Mesa drew a walk & K’ed
David Adams: 1 for 4, 1 2B, 1 RBI – 15 for his last 38 (.395)
Taylor Grote: 2 for 4, 1 2B, 1 K
Dan Brewer & Walk Ibarra: both 1 for 4, 2 K – Ibarra swiped a bag & scored a run
Garrison Lassiter: 0 for 0 – left the game in the third without an at-bat for an unkown reason
Andrew Brackman: 4 IP, 2 H, 3 R, 1 ER, 3 BB, 3 K, 3 WP, 1 HB, 4-5 GB/FB – still struggling with control, but the strikeout rate is high (8.80 Kper9) and so is the GB/FB rate (2.16) … he’ll get there, don’t worry
Casey Erickson: 3 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 K, 1-4 GB/FB
Ryan Flannery: 1 IP, 8 H, 6 R, 6 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 1-1 GB/FB – my eyes, the goggles do nothing!!!
Brad Rulon: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 2-0 GB/FB