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River Ave. Blues ยป Laird goes deep twice in win over Erie

Laird goes deep twice in win over Erie

June 24, 2010 by Mike 77 Comments

Yankees promote Andrew Brackman to Double-A
Behind the plate, a conundrum

Zoilo Almonte and Ray Kruml were promoted to High-A Tampa at the expense of Francisco Santana of Neil Medchill, who were sent to Low-A Charleston. Meanwhile, NoMaas checked in with Brett Marshall following his first start since Tommy John surgery. He said he was throwing 93-95 on Monday, and will likely head to Charleston after his start on Saturday. Oh, and Juan Miranda is on the disabled list.

Triple-A Scranton (5-1 win over Pawtucket)
Justin Christian, LF: 2 for 3, 1 BB, 1 SB – threw a runner out at the plate
Reid Gorecki, CF & Greg Golson, RF: both 0 for 3 – Gorecki drew a walk & drove in a run
Eduardo Nunez, SS: 2 for 4, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 K – 14 for his last 42 (.333)
Jorge Vazquez, 1B & Rene Rivera, DH: both 1 for 4 – JoVa drove in a run … Rivera crossed the plate once & K’ed twice
Jesus Montero, C: 1 for 4
Reegie Corona, 2B: 2 for 4, 2 R, 1 HR, 2 RBI – now has five homers, one more than Montero
Eric Bruntlett, 3B: 1 for 3, 1 R, 1 2B
Tim Redding: 6.2 IP, 7 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 2 K, 11-5 GB/FB – 72 of 106 pitches were strikes (67.9%)
Zack Segovia: 2.1 IP, zeroes, 2-5 GB/FB – 20 of his 31 pitches were strikes (64.5%)

Double-A Trenton (11-2 win over Erie)
Dan Brewer, LF: 1 for 4, 2 R, 1 BB, 2 K – 11 for his last 37 (.297), but it feels like more
Austin Krum, CF & Marcos Vechionacci, 1B: both 0 for 3 – Krum drove in a run, walked twice & scored a run … Vech walked
Austin Romine, DH: 2 for 4, 2 R, 2 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K – third straight 2-for-4 game … now 9 for his last 21 (.429)
Brandon Laird, 3B: 3 for 5, 2 R, 2 HR, 7 RBI, 1 K – hit a three run homer & a grand slam … amazingly, it’s his second time he’s done that season … he’s up to 76 RBI already, 21 more than anyone else in the Eastern League and the most in affiliated baseball at any level (Mike Moustakas is second with 66) … he needs 25 more steaks to break the franchise’s single season record … RBI’s don’t tell us anything about his skills or serve any analytical purpose, but that’s an absurd total
Matt Cusick, 2B: 0 for 5
Jose Gil, C: 1 for 4, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 BB
Justin Nunez, SS & Justin Snyder, RF: both 1 for 3, 1 BB, 1 K – Nunez scored one run, Snyder two
Hector Noesi: 7 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 3 BB, 10 K, 4-6 GB/FB – picked a runner off second … one of the walks was intentional … that’s at least his third double digit strikeout game of the season, but it could be more and I’m just forgetting … 97-15 K/BB ratio in 88 IP
Tim Norton & Wilkins Arias: both 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 4 K, 0-1 GB/FB – Arias committed an error when he missed a catch

High-A Tampa (5-2 win over Clearwater)
Ray Kruml, LF: 0 for 4, 1 BB, 1 K
Jose Pirela, SS: 3 for 3, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 CS
Corban Joseph, 2B, Bradley Suttle, 3B, Mitch Abeita, C & Walt Ibarra, 3B: all 1 for 3 – CoJo walked, scored a run & K’ed … Suttle doubled, drove in a run, walked & K’ed … Abeita drew a walk … Ibarra homered, drove in two, K’ed & committed a fielding error
Melky Mesa, CF: 0 for 3, 1 BB, 1 K
Zoilo Almonte, RF: 1 for 2, 1 R, 1 RBI, 2 BB, 1 SB – nice High-A debut
Trent Lockwood, 1B: 2 for 3, 1 R
Myron Leslie, 1B: 0 for 1 – pinch hit for Lockwood in the 7th inning with the bases loaded for some reason, and promptly GIDP’d
Schaeffer Hall: 6 IP, 7 H, 2 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 6 K, 10-2 GB/FB – mighty fine night
Trenton Lare: 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K, 3-2 GB/FB
Jon Ortiz: 1 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 0-2 GB/FB

Low-A Charleston (7-6 loss to Greenville)
Slade Heathcott, CF: 1 for 4, 1 R, 1 BB
J.R. Murphy, DH: 2 for 5, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 K – ten for his last 26 (.385)
Jimmy Paredes, 2B, Rob Lyerly, 1B & Kyle Higashioka, C: all 1 for 4 – Paredes doubled, stole a bag, drove in a run, scored twice & committed both a throwing and fielding error … Lyerly K’ed twice & got picked off first… Higashioka hit a solo jack & K’ed
Neil Medchill, LF: 2 for 3, 2 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K, 1 SB
DeAngelo Mack, RF: 0 for 3, 1 BB, 1 K, 1 CS
Emerson Landoni, SS: 0 for 1, 1 R, 3 BB, 1 K, 2 SB, 1 CS
Jairo Heredia: 3 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 3 BB, 1 K, 2-5 GB/FB
Francisco Gil: 3 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K, 1-6 GB/FB
Ronny Marte: 0 IP, 4 H, 4 R, 3 ER, 0 BB, 0 K, 1 E (throwing) – eek
Ryan Acosta: 3 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 3 K, 1 WP, 5-1 GB/FB

Short Season Staten Island (8-5 loss to Aberdeen)
Eduardo Sosa, CF: 2 for 5, 1 2B, 1 3B, 3 RBI – threw a runner out at third
Casey Stevenson, 2B: 0 for 5, 1 E (fielding)
Shane Brown, LF: 1 for 5, 1 K
Kyle Roller, DH: 0 for 2, 1 R, 2 BB – hard to believe he’s just two for 14 so far (.143)
Kelvin DeLeon, RF & Carlos Urena, 1B: both 1 for 4 – DeLeon scored a run & K’ed … Urena drove in two
Jose Mojica, SS: 2 for 4
Garrison Lassiter, 3B: 0 for 3, 1 R, 1 BB, 1 K – good to see him be remotely productive here … he’s was beyond awful with Charleston
Jeff Farnham, C: 3 for 4, 2 R
Sam Elam: 3.2 IP, 6 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 4 BB, 3 K, 1 WP, 2 HB, 4-2 GB/FB – picked a runner off first … going to be a long summer if he’s really in the rotation full-time
Matt Jernstad: 4.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 6 K, 3-3 GB/FB – no idea who this guy is (undrafted free agent?), but nice job
Preston Claiborne: 1 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 1 K

Rookie GCL Yanks (6-5 win over GCL Tigers)
Anderson Felix, 2B: 3 for 5, 3 R, 1 2B, 1 3B – he’s doubled in all four games he’s played … hitting .500/.550/.833
Fu-Lin Kuo, 3B: 2 for 5, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 E (fielding)
Ramon Flores, 1B: 3 for 5, 1 R, 1 2B, 3 RBI – .500/.579/.688 with the GCL squad … .400/.455/.500 in 30 at-bats split between GCL & Tampa this year
Henry Pena, RF & Jhorge Liccien, C: both 0 for 4 – Pena K’ed twice, Liccien once … Liccien also committed a throwing error
Jose Toussen, SS: 0 for 3, 1 BB, 1 E (fielding) – Cito Culver should get into games pretty soon … end of next week the latest
Kyle Perkins, DH: 0 for 2, 2 BB – they signed him out of Australia back in early 2008 … he’s still just 18-years-old
Nathan Aron, LF: 0 for 3 – signed him out Australia a few years ago too
Judd Golsan, CF: 1 for 4, 1 R, 2 K
Brett Gerritse: 5 IP, 7 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 5 K, 7-3 GB/FB – he’s a guy to keep an eye on
Mariel Checo: 2.2 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 2 K, 1 HB, 3-3 GB/FB
Joel Marte: 1.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K, 0-2 GB/FB

Yankees promote Andrew Brackman to Double-A
Behind the plate, a conundrum

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