DotF: Bird returns in Tampa’s comeback win

Here is tonight’s game thread.

Both 1B Greg Bird (back) and IF Anderson Feliz (unknown) were activated off the DL and added to the High-A Tampa roster, the team announced. Hooray for that.

Triple-A Scranton (3-1 win over Indianapolis)

• 1B Ramon Flores: 0-3, 1 RBI, 1 K — played 23 games at first in 2011 but this is only the third since
• SS Dean Anna: 1-3, 1 R, 1 BB, 1 K
• LF Zoilo Almonte: 1-3, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 K, 1 HBP
• RF Adonis Garcia: 2-4, 1 K, 1 SB — 12 hits in his last 30 at-bats (40%)
• RHP Brian Gordon: 7 IP, 7 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 3 K, 8/6 GB/FB — 55 of 85 pitches were strikes (65%)
• RHP Jose Ramirez: 1 IP, zeroes, 1 K, 1 HB, 0/1 GB/FB — seven of his 13 pitches were strikes (54%) … season debut after being sidelined by an oblique problem … the team has moved him to the bullpen permanently, remember
• RHP Matt Daley: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K, 1/0 GB/FB — nine of 15 pitches were strikes (60%)

Double-A Trenton (6-4 win over New Britain in 12 innings)

• CF Mason Williams: 1-5, 2 K
• LF Ben Gamel & 3B Rob Segedin: both 0-5 — Segedin struck out
• C Gary Sanchez: 1-5, 1 R, 2 K, 1 E (catcher interference)
• 1B Kyle Roller: 2-4, 2 R, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 1 K — 15-for-38 (.395) in his last ten games, and that’s his ninth homer in only 20 games
• 2B Rob Refsnyder: 1-5, 1 R, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 2 K
• LHP Jeremy Bleich: 6 IP, 6 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 3 BB, 3 K, 6/6 GB/FB — 56 of 94 pitches were strikes (60%), plus he picked a runner off first
• RHP Branden Pinder: 2 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 3 K, 3/0 GB/FB — 27 of 40 pitches were strikes (68%) … blew the save in the bottom of the ninth
• RHP Jairo Heredia: 3 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 6 K, 1/2 GB/FB — 34 of 50 pitches were strikes (68%), though the walk was intentional … that’s quality long relief right there

High-A Tampa (2-4 win over Lakeland)

• CF Jake Cave: 1-4, 1 K
• DH Dante Bichette Jr.: 1-4, 1 2B
• 1B Greg Bird: 1-4, 1 R, 1 RBI — first game of the season after being sidelined by a back problem
• RF Peter O’Brien: 1-4, 1 R, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 1 K — homer number ten on the season
• 3B Eric Jagielo: 2-4, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 HR, 1 RBI — went back-to-back with O’Brien in the eighth for the come from behind win
• 2B Angelo Gumbs: 1-2, 1 BB
• SS Cito Culver: 0-3, 1 K — down to .209/.262/.252 on the year
• LHP Eric Wooten: 7 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 6 K, 7/3 GB/FB

Low-A Charleston (5-4 loss to Rome)

• DH Abi Avelino: 4-4, 2 2B, 1 RBI — got picked off first twice … 8-for-16 (.500) with four doubles in his last four games
• SS Tyler Wade: 0-4, 3 K — 4-for-28 (.143) with eleven strikeouts in his last seven games
• 3B Miguel Andujar: 0-3, 1 BB, 2 K
• 1B Mike Ford: 2-4, 2 R, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 1 K
• RF Michael O’Neill: 1-3, 1 2B, 1 K — ejected for arguing balls and strikes in the seventh
• RF Aaron Judge: — replaced O’Neill
• 2B Gosuke Katoh: 0-4, 1 K — down to .200/.327/.325 with a 36.7% strikeout rate
• RHP Rookie Davis: 4 IP, 5 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 5 BB, 0 K, 7/4 GB/FB — ewww
• RHP Jaron Long: 4 IP, 6 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 2 K, 6/2 GB/FB