Mustelier & Ortiz lead Triple-A team to win

Another day, another round of injury updates…

• RHP Jose Campos is still dealing with his “elbow discomfort” and doesn’t appear to be close to returning. An MRI showed no structural damage earlier this month. [Josh Norris]
• RHP Dellin Betances has been pitching with a cracked fingernail and it is has contributed in part to his control problems. I’m not sure we would have been able to tell anyway given his usual walk problems. [Norris]
• LHP Jeremy Bleich has resumed pitching in Extended Spring Training and is likely to come back as a reliever. The team’s highest signed draft pick in 2008 hasn’t pitched since mid-2010 due to major shoulder surgery. [Norris]
• RHP Conor Mullee threw live batting practice today for the first since having Tommy John surgery last June and everything went well. Mullee has thrown just 22 IP since being the club’s 24th round pick in 2010, but he’s one of the hardest throwers in the organization and is part of that relief pipeline the Yankees have built out of late-round draft picks in recent years. [Mullee’s Twitter]
• RHP Danny Burawa was scheduled to appear in an ExST game today, his first game action since suffering an oblique tear in camp. He impressed this spring and should head to Double-A Trenton once fully rehabbed. [Burawa’s Twitter]
• In case you missed it earlier, LHP Manny Banuelos‘ had an MRI on his sore elbow and it came back clean. The DL stint is precautionary.

Triple-A Empire State (6-2 win over Columbus)
CF Kevin Russo: 2-5, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 SB — five straight two-hit games
2B Matt Antonelli: 0-5
1B Steve Pearce & RF Brandon Laird: both 2-4, 1 R — Pearce drew a walk … Laird doubled
3B Ronnie Mustelier: 1-3, 1 2B, 1 RBI — .337/.387/.568 in 42 games this year
C Frankie Cervelli & LF Cole Garner: both 1-3, 1 RBI, 1 K — Cervelli walked twice and got hit by a pitch … Garner walked once
DH Gus Molina & SS Ramiro Pena: both 1-4, 1 RBI — Molina doubled and struck out twice … Pena whiffed once
RHP Ramon Ortiz: 8 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 4 K, 7/4 GB/FB — 66 of 91 pitches were strikes (72.5%) … two runs or less in three of his last four starts
LHP Juan Cedeno: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 1 K, 1/1 GB/FB — 11 of 21 pitches were strikes

Double-A Trenton (3-2 win over Akron)
CF Abe Almonte & 1B Luke Murton: both 1-4, 1 R — Murton doubled, drove in a run, and struck out twice
2B Corban Joseph & DH David Adams: both 1-3, 1 BB — Adams scored a run and struck out
LF Cody Johnson: 2-3, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 K — really hope he’s putting it together
3B Kevin Mahoney: 1-2, 1 RBI
C Jose Gil & SS Yadil Mujica: both 0-3, 1 K
RF Dan Brewer: 1-3, 1 K — left the game in obvious pain after colliding with Murton in the outfield … update: he dislocated his finger in the collision
LHP Vidal Nuno: 5 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 4 BB, 2 K, 6/1 GB/FB — 40 of 60 pitches were strikes (66.7%), and he was limited to five innings or 60 pitches after working out of the bullpen all year … was sitting 88 with the fastball early on
LHP Francisco Rondon: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 1 K, 1/0 GB/FB — just 11 of 24 pitches were strikes (45.8%) … picked a runner off first
RHP Preston Claiborne: 2 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 3 BB, 2 K, 1/3 GB/FB — only 18 of 37 pitches were strikes (48.6%)
LHP Lee Hyde: 1.1 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 3 K, 1 WP, 1/0 GB/FB — 17 of 22 pitches were strikes (77.3%)
RHP Ryan Flannery: 0.2 IP, zeroes, 2 K — six strikes out of nine pitches

High-A Tampa (3-2 win over Palm Beach in ten innings) they turned a 9-2-6-3-2 double play to end the bottom of the ninth, with both runners being thrown out at home … I dunno either
LF Ramon Flores: 1-4, 1 K, 1 CS
C J.R. Murphy: 1-5, 3 K — just a brutal year so far, I wonder if he’ll go to Charleston when Gary Sanchez gets promoted (probably not)
3B Rob Segedin: 1-4, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 BB — hitting streak up to 11 games
RF Neil Medchill: 2-4, 1 RBI, 2 K — was pinch-run for late, but then Jose Toussen came to the plate in the ninth and singled in the winning run … Toussen also contributed to that weird double play in the ninth
DH Kyle Higashioka: 0-4, 1 R
1B Tyson Blaser: 1-3, 1 BB, 1 K
2B Kelvin Castro & SS Jose Mojica: both 1-4, 1 R, 1 K — Castro stole two bases … Mojica doubled and drove in a run
CF Eduardo Sosa: 0-3, 1 BB, 2 K — threw a runner out the plate
RHP Caleb Cotham: 6 IP, 5 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 1 K, 10/3 GB/FB — first start since the promotion
RHP Manny Barreda: 1.1 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 3 BB, 1 K, 2/0 GB/FB
LHP Rigoberto Arrebato: 1.2 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K, 1 HB, 2/0 GB/FB
RHP Mark Montgomery: 1 IP, zeroes, 3/0 GB/FB — no strikeouts? lame

Low-A Charleston (5-3 loss to Savannah)
CF Mason Williams: 1-4, 1 R, 1 BB, 1 E (fielding)
SS Cito Culver: 1-3, 1 2B, 2 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K — got picked off first … 23 walks in 37 games after 30 walks in 69 games last year
3B Dante Bichette Jr., 2B Angelo Gumbs & RF Kelvin DeLeon: all 1-4 — DBJ walked and whiffed … Gumbs doubled, scored a run, and struck out
DH Tyler Austin: 1-5, 3 K — coming into the day second in all of minor league baseball with 30 extra-base hits
C Gary Sanchez & LF Ben Gamel: both 2-4 — Gamel struck out
1B Rey Nunez: 2-4, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 K
RHP Bryan Mitchell: 5 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 3 BB, 4 K, 4 WP, 8/2 GB/FB — pretty sure four wild pitches is a DotF record
RHP Wilton Rodriguez: 2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 K, 0/2 GB/FB
RHP Joel DeLaCruz: 1 IP, 2 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 1 K, 1 Balk, 1/1 GB/FB