Yankee farmhands will be assigned to the Phoenix Desert Dogs of the Arizona Fall League this season, and their manager will be none other than Don Mattingly. Rosters won’t be released for a while. Hard to believe we’re talking about the AzFL already, where does the time go?
Triple-A Scranton (8-6 loss to Norfolk)
Kevin Russo, LF: 3 for 5, 1 R, 2 RBI – threw a runner out at second … 11 for his last 36 (.306)
Eric Bruntlett, 3B: 1 for 3, 1 2B, 2 RBI, 1 BB
Eduardo Nunez, SS: 0 for 5
Chad Tracy, 1B: 2 for 4, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 BB – mashin’
Jesus Montero, C: 0 for 4, 1 R, 1 BB, 2 K, 1 PB – it was a ten pitch walk
Jorge Vazquez, DH & Reegie Corona, 2B: both 2 for 5 – JoVa scored a run & K’ed … Corona stole two bases
Chad Huffman, RF: 3 for 5, 1 R, 2 RBI
Reid Gorecki, CF: 1 for 4, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 BB, 1 K
David Phelps: 3 IP, 7 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 2 BB, 2 K, 3-3 GB/FB – 39 of 69 pitches were strikes (56.5%) … I suspect the Yanks will look to some of their minor league starters for bullpen help down the stretch, and he’s not helping his cause
The Ghost of Kei Igawa: 3 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 2 K, 3-2 GB/FB – 34 of 51 pitches were strikes (66.7%) … he’s thrown just 9.1 IP in the last 30 days
Mark Melancon: 1 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 0 K, 2-1 GB/FB – 18 of his 33 pitches were strikes (54.5%) … he’s broke’d, hopefully not permanently
Zack Segovia: 2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 0-4 GB/FB – 20 of his30 pitches were strikes
Double-A Trenton (3-2 win over New Britain, walk-off style)
Austin Krum, CF: 1 for 4, 1 K
Dan Brewer, LF: 0 for 4, 3 K
Austin Romine, C: 2 for 4, 1 R, 1 K – three for eight since his little organization mandated rest
Brandon Laird, 3B: 0 for 3, 1 R, 1 BB, 1 K, 1 E (fielding) – ends his streak of five consecutive two hit games
Marcos Vechionacci, 1B & Justin Snyder, DH: both 2 for 3 – Vech doubled, drove in a run, came around to score, walked & K’ed
Matt Cusick, 2B: 0 for 3, 1 BB – was walked intentionally with no outs in the bottom of the 9th to load the bases and create the force at any base
Edwar Gonzalez, RF: 0 for 3, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 2 K – drew a bases loaded walk to tie the game after Cusick was put on
Luis Nunez, SS: 0 for 3, 1 RBI, 1 BB – drew a bases loaded walk-off walk to end things after Edwar tied it up
D.J. Mitchell: 7 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 6 K, 1 WP, 11-4 GB/FB – finally starting to get the hang of this AA thing, but you gotta be careful with big second halves … all the good players at a given level have been promoted by now
Cory Arbiso: 1 IP, 2 H, zeroes, 1-1 GB/FB
Kevin Whelan: 1 IP, zeroes, 2 K, 0-1 GB/FB
High-A Tampa (3-0 win over Charlotte) faced one of the very best LHP prospects in the game
Ray Kruml, LF: 1 for 4, 1 RBI, 2 K
Jose Pirela, SS, Corban Joseph, 2B & Melky Mesa, CF: all 0 for 3 – Pirela drove in a run & K’ed twice … Mesa also K’ed twice
Bradley Suttle, 3B: 0 for 4, 2 K
Zoilo Almonte, RF: 1 for 3, 1 R, 1 3B, 1 K
Mitch Abeita, C: 2 for 3, 1 R , 1 RBI
Dellin Betances: 6 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 5 K, 5-7 GB/FB – 57 K in 51 IP
Pat Venditte: 2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 4 K, 1-1 GB/FB – 66 K in 54 IP
Jon Ortiz: 1 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 2-0 GB/FB
Low-A Charleston (10-6 win over Greenville)
Slade Heathcott, CF: 2 for 4, 1 R, 1 2B, 3 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K – 14 for his last 39 (.359) … he’s been en fuego this month (.311)
J.R. Murphy, C: 2 for 5, 1 RBI, 1 K
Jimmy Paredes, 2B: 0 for 5 – couldn’t get in on the fun
Rob Lyerly, 1B: 1 for 4, 2 R, 1 2B, 1 BB, 1 K
Luke Murton, DH: 1 for 5, 1 R, 2 K
Neil Medchill, LF: 2 for 3, 3 R, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K – nine for his last 27
DeAngelo Mack, RF, Kelvin Castro, SS & Emerson Landoni, 2B: all 2 for 4 – Mack doubled, tripled, scored twice & drove in three … Castro tripled, drove in a run & committed a throwing error … Landoni plated a run, stole a base, came around to score & K’ed
Sean Black: 6 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 7 K, 6-4 GB/FB
Gabriel Tatis: 1 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 2 WP, 0-2 GB/FB
Kelvin Perez: 2 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 3 K, 1-2 GB/FB – allowed two solo homers … he’d allowed four homers total coming into this game
Short Season Staten Island (1-0 win over Connecticut) the opposing starter must have been thrilled with his one run complete game loss
Eduardo Sosa, CF: 0 for 4, 2 K – four walks and four strikeouts in his last four games
Casey Stevenson, 2B: 2 for 4, 1 R, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 2 K – only run they would need … got picked off first later in the game
Kevin Mahoney, 1B: 0 for 2, 1 BB
Kelvin DeLeon, RF, Jose Mojica, SS, Garrison Lassiter, 3B & Shane Brown, LF: all 1 for 3 – Mojica K’ed … Lassiter got picked off first … Brown doubled
Kyle Roller, DH & Francisco Arcia, C: both 0 for 3 – Roller K’ed
Mikey O’Brien: 6 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 3 K, 10-3 GB/FB – that’s my boy
Matt Jernstad: 1 IP, 1 H, zeroes, 0-3 GB/FB
Preston Claiborne: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 K
Chase Whitley: 1 IP, zeroes, 3 K – gotta love the six straight strikeouts to end it
Rookie GCL Yanks (8-1 win over GCL Tigers)
Damon Sublett, CF: 0 for 4, 1 BB, 1 K – hitless in 12 at-bats since coming back
Robby Hammock, C: 1 for 3, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 K, 1 SB – caught five full innings
Jhorge Liccien, C: 0 for 2
Cito Culver, SS: 1 for 5, 1 RBI, 1 K – picked up at least one hit in five of his last six games
Ramon Flores, 1B: 4 for 5, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 3B, 1 RBI, 1 SB – 14 for his last 35 (.400) with seven walks and five strikeouts
Anderson Felix, 2B: 1 for 3, 1 R, 1 RBI, 2 BB, 1 SB
Kelvin Duran, RF: 1 for 5, 3 K
Jose Rosario, DH: 0 for 3, 2 R, 1 BB, 2 K, 1 SB, 1 HBP
Fu-Lin Kuo, 3B: 0 for 3, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 K, 1 HBP
Judd Golsan LF: 0 for 1, 2 R, 3 BB, 1 SB, 1 CS – he had five walks all season coming into this game
Dustin Hobbs: 3.2 IP, 5 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 1 HB, 4-2 GB/FB, 1 E (pickoff)
Justo Arias: 0.1 IP, zeroes, 1-0 GB/FB
Brett Gerritse: 5 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 4 K, 1 HB, 9-2 GB/FB – 43-16 K/BB ratio in 42.1 IP career
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