Heathcott & Sanchez team up in Trenton’s win

That video above is Low-A Charleston SS Cito Culver making a ridiculous play in the hole on a ball that deflected off the third baseman’s glove in last night’s game. It was number two on SportsCenter’s top ten plays last night. Pretty awesome.

Triple-A Scranton (6-2 loss to Buffalo)

• CF Melky Mesa: 2-3, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 K, 1 HBP — 10-for-27 (.370) since being sent down
• C J.R. Murphy: 1-4, 1 2B, 1 RBI — 26 doubles and nine homers in 92 games this year after 26 doubles and nine homers in 110 games last year
• RF Adonis Garcia: 2-4, 1 R, 1 2B
• LF Ronnie Mustelier: 0-3, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K
• RHP Jim Miller: 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 3 K, 3/1 GB/FB — 29 of 47 pitches were strikes (62%) … 80/23 K/BB in 55.2 innings … had to make the spot start because they’re short an arm with RHP Michael Pineda on the DL
• RHP Mark Montgomery: 1 IP, 2 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 2 K, 1/0 GB/FB — 11 of 19 pitches were strikes (58%)
• RHP Sam Demel: 1.2 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 4 K — 24 of 41 pitches were strikes (59%) … 54/18 K/BB in 42 innings

Double-A Trenton (3-2 win over Akron in 13 innings, walk-off style)

• LF Ramon Flores: 1-5, 1 K
• CF Slade Heathcott: 2-5, 3 R, 1 2B, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K — scored the winning run on a walk-off throwing error
• C Gary Sanchez: 2-6, 1 2B,, 2 K — has a hit in all five games here, including four doubles
• RHP Zach Nuding: 3.1 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 4 K, 3/0 GB/FB — 37 of 57 pitches were strikes (65%)
• RHP Danny Burawa: 2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 K, 4/2 GB/FB — 16 of 24 pitches were strikes (67%) … two earned runs allowed in his last 27.2 innings dating back to June 11th (0.65 ERA)

High-A Tampa (6-3 loss to Daytona)

• CF Mason Williams, 2B Rob Refsnyder & 3B Peter O’Brien: all 0-4 — Williams struck out … Refsnyder walked and whiffed … O’Brien walked and struck out twice
• LF Ben Gamel: 1-3, 1 RBI, 2 BB, 1 K —
• RHP Rafael DePaula: 4 IP, 4 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 3 BB, 4 K, 1 HB, 4/4 GB/FB — 40/22 K/BB in 36 innings since the promotion

Low-A Charleston (8-5 loss to Rome)

• CF Jake Cave: 1-5, 2 K
• 2B Angelo Gumbs: 0-5, 1 K
• 1B Greg Bird: 2-4, 2 R, 2 2B — hitting .284/.414/.504 on the year
• SS Cito Culver: 1-4, 2 K
• LHP Evan Rutckyj: 5.1 IP, 6 H, 6 R, 6 ER, 3 BB, 5 K, 1 HB, 6/3 GB/FB — 54 of 94 pitches were strikes (57%)

Short Season Staten Island (1-0 win over Lowell)

• CF Michael O’Neill: 1-4, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 2 K — 65 strikeouts are already the 20th most in the system this year … out of 174 players (including the DSL)!
• 3B Eric Jagielo: 0-3, 1 BB, 1 K
• LF Brandon Thomas: 1-2, 1 3B, 1 BB, 1 K, 1 SB
• RHP Dillon McNamara: 3 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 5/1 GB/FB
• RHP Stefan Lopez: 3 IP, zeroes, 6 K, 2/0 GB/FB — now that’s a save … 32/7 K/BB in 26.1 innings

Rookie GCL Yanks1 (5-2 loss to GCL Pirates)

• SS Tyler Wade: 1-4, 1 2B, 1 K — back-to-back games with a double, which is notable because he has only five extra-base hits (all doubles) in 33 games
• 2B Gosuke Katoh: 0-4, 1 K
• LF Dustin Fowler: 3-4, 1 R, 2 2B, 1 3B, 1 RBI
• 3B Chris Tamarez: 1-3, 1 BB, 1 K
• RF Austin Aune: 2-4, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 CS — no strikeouts? no strikeouts!

Rookie GCL Yanks2 (10-4 win over GCL Tigers)

• SS Abi Avelino: 2-4, 3 R, 1 BB, 1 SB — 22 steals in 26 chances after going 20-for-22 in the Dominican Summer League last year
• DH Luis Torrens: 1-3, 1 R, 1 RBI, 2 BB — 9-for-26 (.346) during his seven-game hitting streak
• LF Nathan Mikolas: 0-3, 1 R, 2 RBI
• 2B Jose Javier: 3-4, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 SB
• 3B Drew Bridges: 2-4, 1 R, 1 2B, 2 RBI, 1 K, 1 SB, 1 E (throwing)
• LHP Omar Luis: 4 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 5 K, 4/1 GB/FB — 22/20 K/BB in 16.2 innings for the $4M man