Scranton’s offensive struggles continue

Mike Ashmore says Chris Garcia will start for Double-A Trenton tomorrow with an 80-pitch or so limit. I’m setting the over/under on the number of starts he makes before coming down with another injury at 6.5.

Robert Pimpsner interviewed RHP Mikey O’Brien, who recently broke his hand and will be held back with the Rookie GCL Yanks this year.

Make sure you scroll down for tonight’s game thread.

Triple-A Scranton (4-1 loss to Columbus) they’ve scored just 15 runs in their past 11 games
Reegie Corona & The Duncans: all 0 for 4 – Corona K’ed once
Austin Jackson: 2 for 4, 1 R, 1 2B – still waiting on that first AAA homer, but remember he’s the 7th youngest player in AAA
Todd Linden: 3 for 4, 1 2B, 1 RBI – 8 for his last 19 (.421)
Chris Malec: 0 for 2, 2 BB
PJ Pilittere & Justin Leone: both 0 for 3 – Leone K’ed
Luis Nunez: 1 for 3, 1 K
The Ghost of Kei Igawa: 4 IP, 7 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 5-6 GB/FB – 52 of 72 pitches were strikes (72.2%) … made the start on three day’s rest
JB Cox: 3 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 2 K, 1 HB, 4-3 GB/FB – 25 of 39 pitches were strikes (64.1%)
Jose Valdez: 2 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 1 K, 1 WP, 3-1 GB/FB – 24 of 37 pitches were strikes (64.9%) … one of the walks was intentional

Double-A Trenton (3-1 loss to Akron)
Eduardo Nunez, Jorge Vazquez, Marcos Vechionacci, Edwar Gonzalez: all 1 for 4 – Nunez K’ed twice, the other three each K’ed once … Edwar was caught stealing
Seth Fortenberry: 2 for 4, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 K
Colin Curtis & Kevin Smith: both 0 for 4 – Curtis K’ed once, Smith thrice
Kyle Anson: 0 for 3, 1 K
Justin Snyder: 1 for 2, 1 R, 1 BB
Wilkins DeLaRosa: 6.2 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 3 BB, 5 K, 2-12 GB/FB – eek, too many fly balls
Kevin Whelan: 2.1 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 2 K, 3-1 GB/FB

High-A Tampa‘s doubleheader was postponed because of wet grounds. Tampa isn’t scheduled to go back to Brevard County until the final series of the regular season, so I’m guessing they’ll make these two games up then.

Low-A Charleston had a scheduled off day.