Nice little fluff piece about Jesus Montero via Jed Weisberger. Meanwhile, Jeff Sackmann did a great job breaking down the Dominican Summer League over at THT.
Oh, and reliever Brad Rulon was promoted to High-A Tampa. And Chad Jennings has a George Kontos update.
Make sure you scroll down for tonight’s game thread.
Triple-A Scranton (6-3 loss to Columbus)
Kevin Russo: 4 for 5, 1 R, 1 K, 1 CS
Ramiro Pena: 2 for 5, 1 2B, 1 RBI
Austin Jackson: 2 for 4, 2 K – 13 for his last 37 (.351)
The Duncans: both 0 for 4, 2 K
Yurendell DeCaster: 1 for 4, 1 R, 1 2B – 10 for his last 35 (.286) with five doubled & three jacks
Josh Towers: 6 IP, 10 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 0 BB, 3 K, 7-8 GB/FB – 59 of 80 pitches were strikes (73.8%)
Damaso Marte: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 K, 1 Balk, 2-1 GB/FB – 8 of 9 pitches were strikes
Amaury Sanit: 1 IP, 2 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 0 K, 2-1 GB/FB – 12 of 23 pitches were strikes (52.2%)
Double-A Trenton (4-0 win over New Hampshire)
Austin Krum & Kyle Anson: both 1 for 3, 1 RBI, 1 BB – Krum tripled … Anson doubled & scored a pair of runs
Reegie Corona: 2 for 4, 1 RBI
Chris Malec & Jesus Montero: both 1 for 4
Richie Robnett & Justin Snyder: both 0 for 4, 1 K – Snyder drove in a run
Marcos Vechionacci & James Cooper: both 0 for 3, 1 R, 1 BB – Vech K’ed twice
Jason Stephens: 3 IP, zeroes, 1 K, 8-0 GB/FB – dayum … what more could you ask for?
Kanekoa Texeira: 3 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 2 K, 4-2 GB/FB
Wilkins Arias: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 K, 0-3 GB/FB – allowed the only Fisher Cats hit of the day
Grant Duff: 1 IP, zeroes, 1 K, 1-1 GB/FB
Jose Valdez: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 0 K, 3-0 GB/FB
High-A Tampa (6-5 win over Fort Myers in 10 innings, walk-off style)
Matt Cusick, Austin Romine, David Adams & Seth Fortenberry: all 2 for 4 – Cusick was hit by a pitch, scored a run & got caught stealing … Romine triped, drew a walk & scored a run … Adams doubled twice & drove in a run … Fortenberry went deep & drove in two
Damon Sublett: 1 for 5, 1 RBI, 1 K – threw a runner out at second from CF
Brandon Laird: 1 for 4, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K, 1 E (fielding) – walk-off single
Adam Olbrychowski: 3 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 2 K, 6-1 GB/FB
Noel Castillo: 2 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K, 0-4 GB/FB – hasn’t allowed an ER since June 23rd
Phil Bartlewski: 2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K, 3-2 GB/FB
Pat Venditte: 2.2 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 2 K, 2-3 GB/FB
Jon Hovis: 0.1 IP, zeroes, 1 K
Low-A Charleston (11-10 loss to Greensboro)
Jose Pirela & Tommy Baldridge: both 2 for 4, 1 R, 1 2B – Pirela drew a walk & K’ed twice
Abe Almonte: 3 for 4, 1 R, 1 BB, 1 SB
Corban Joseph & Mitch Abeita: both 2 for 5, 1 R, 1 K – CoJo drove in two, Abeita once
Melky Mesa, Taylor Grote & Addison Maruszak: all 1 for 5 – Mesa homered & drove in two … Grote scored twice & K’ed … Maruszak drove in a run K’ed & committed a fielding error
Neall French: 1 for 4, 2 R, 1 HR, 3 RBI, 2 K
Andrew Brackman: 2.1 IP, 6 H, 7 R, 7 ER, 5 BB, 3 K, 2 WP, 1-2 GB/FB – Baseball American’s Ben Badler was at the game, and tweeted two mini-scouting reports … not good, hopefully it’s just fatigue
Dan Kapala: 2.2 IP, 5 H, 4 R, 3 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 5-2 GB/FB
Luke Prihoda: 2 IP, zeroes, 1 K, 1-4 GB/FB
Jeff Williams: 1 IP, zeroes, 1-2 GB/FB- undrafted free agent took Rulon’s spot on the roster
Short Season Staten Island was rained out. Six of their next eight regularly scheduled games are against Brooklyn, so I’m assuming they’ll play two some time soon.
Rookie GCL Yanks
Game 1 (6-0 loss to GCL Blue Jays in 7 innings) makeup of a July 1st rain out
Eduardo Sosa: 0 for 4, 1 K – threw a runner out at third from CF
Issac Harrow, Kevin Mahoney, Jose Mojica & Jhorge Liccien: all 0 for 3 – Harrow & Mahoney each K’ed twice, Liccien once … Mahoney also committed a fielding error
Kelvin DeLeon & Isaiah Brown: both 1 for 3 – Brown doubled & K’ed
Ramon Flores: 2 for 2, 1 BB
Yunior Tabares: 2 for 3
Mikey O’Brien: 5 IP, 5 H, 5 R, 4 ER, 1 BB, 4 K, 5-5 GB/FB – 17-3 K/BB ratio in 19 IP
Paul Heidler: 2 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 3 BB, 0 K, 1-4 GB/FB
Game 2 (3-2 loss to GCL Blue Jays in 9 innings, walk-off style) struck out 20 (!!!) times as a team
Eduardo Sosa: 2 for 4, 1 K, 1 E (throwing) – threw a runner ut at home from CF
Jose Toussen & Kelvin DeLeon: both 0 for 2, 2 BB, 1 K – Toussen scored a run & committed three (yes three) errors (one throwing & a pair of fielding) … both of DeLeon’s walks were intentional, and he’s now 4 for his last 20 (.200)
Kevin Mahoney & Chris Smith: both 1 for 4, 1 RBI, 3 K – Mahoney doubled … Smith hit a solo jack & committed a fielding error
Mitch Delaney, Issac Harrow & Buck Afenir: all 0 for 4 – Delaney K’ed four times while Harrow & Afenir each K’ed thrice … yikes … Afenir also committed a throwing error
Alan Horne: 1.2 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 2 K, 1 HB, 1-1 GB/FB – Chad Jennings has an update on Horne
Dan Miller: 2.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 K, 1 WP, 3-4 GB/FB
Wilton Rodriguez: 2 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 2 K, 2-2 GB/FB
Julian Arballo: 2.1 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 4 BB, 4 K, 1 HB, 2-1 GB/FB
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