A loss at every level

Brandon Laird is your Double-A Eastern League Player of the Month for May thanks to his .339-.374-.591 batting line with nine doubles, six homers, and a cycle. Hard to believe that Laird is just the second player from the Trenton franchise to win the Player of the Month away since they started handing it out in 1997. The other guy was some scrappy little infielder named David Eckstein, who won it when Trenton was Boston’s Double-A affiliate in 1999.

Corban Joseph got some love in the Team Photo section of this week’s Prospect Hot Sheet.

Triple-A Scranton (3-2 loss to Gwinnett)
Reid Gorecki, RF: 1 for 2, 1 R, 2 BB, 1 SB – threw a runner out at first
Reegie Corona, 2B, Eduardo Nunez, SS & Greg Golson, CF: all 1 for 4 – Corona doubled, drove in a run, scored another & K’ed twice … Nunez drove in a run … Golson K’ed
Chad Huffman, LF, David Winfree, 1B & Colin Curtis, DH: all 0 for 4 – Curtis K’ed … Juan Miranda didn’t play today after being taken out of last night’s game for an unknown reason, so he might be hurt
Jesus Montero, C: 0 for 2, 2 BB, 1 K – threw one of three baserunners out trying to steal second
Romulo Sanchez: 5 IP, 6 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 4 BB, 1 K, 1 Balk, 4-6 GB/FB – 45 of his 82 pitches were strikes (54.9%)
Royce Ring: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K, 1-1 GB/FB – just nine of his 20 pitches were strikes (45%)
Boone Logan: 2 IP, zeroes, 1 K, 1-4 Gb/FB – 16 of his 24 pitches were strikes (66.7%)

Double-A Trenton (2-1 loss to Richmond) they’ve already lost more games at home in June (two) than they did the entire month of May (zero)
Dan Brewer, LF, Jorge Vazquez, DH & Edwar Gonzalez, RF: all 1 for 4 – Brewer doubled in the only run & K’ed
Everyone Else: combined 0 for 18, 1 R, 4 BB, 1 K – Austin Romine & Brandon Laird went a combined 0-for-8 … Justin Snyder drew a pair of walks & scored the team’s only run
Lance Pendleton: 4 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 3 BB, 3 K, 3-4 GB/FB – had allowed just two runs in his previous 14 IP
Ryan Pope: 3 IP, zeroes, 5 K, 1-3 GB/FB
Wilkins Arias: 1 IP, 2 H, zeroes, 2-0 GB/FB
Josh Schmidt: 1 IP, zeroes, 2 K, 0-1 GB/FB

High-A Tampa had both games of it’s doubleheader rained out. They’re going to make up the first game at some point in the future, but the second game was canceled all together. The Yanks were actually leading 6-5 in the 3rd inning when it started raining, but all those stats get washed away. Here’s the box score if you want to see who did what in that time.

Low-A Charleston (5-3 loss to Hickory)
Slade Heathcott: 2 for 4, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 BB – he’s had a hit in every game since being promoted
J.R. Murphy: 2 for 5, 1 K
Jimmy Paredes, 2B, Kyle Higashioka, DH & Kelvin Castro, SS: all 0 for 4 – Paredes got caught stealing but managed to drive in two with a sac fly & a ground out … Higashioka & Castro each K’ed twice
Luke Murton, 1B & DeAngelo Mack, LF: both 0 for 3, 1 HBP – Murton scored a run & K’ed twice
Rob Lyerly, 3B: 3 for 4, 2 2B – six doubles in his last ten games
Ray Kruml, LF: 2 for 4, 1 R, 1 SB
Jose Ramirez: 5.1 IP, 3 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 5 BB, 3 K, 1 WP, 3 HB, 3-8 GB/FB – control just wasn’t there tonight
Gabriel Tatis: 2.2 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 5-2 GB/FB
Ronny Marte: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 K, 1-0 GB/FB