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River Ave. Blues » DotF: GCL Yanks force Game Three in GCL Finals

DotF: GCL Yanks force Game Three in GCL Finals

August 31, 2014 by Mike 191 Comments

Sunday Night Open Thread
Fan Confidence Poll: September 1st, 2014

Just as a heads up, tomorrow will be the final DotF of the season since none of the full season affiliates nor Short Season Staten Island made the postseason. The Arizona Fall League begins in early-October.

Triple-A Scranton‘s game was suspended due to rain in the top of the eighth inning. They’ll finish it tomorrow. Here’s the box score if you can’t wait that long.

Double-A Trenton (4-2 loss to Reading)

  • RF Jake Cave: 1-4, 1 BB, 1 K
  • LF Ben Gamel: 1-5, 2 K — had been in a 4-for-37 (.108) slump
  • C Gary Sanchez: 1-3, 1 BB, 1 K, 1 E (throwing)
  • DH Greg Bird: 1-4, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 K
  • CF Mason Williams: 3-3, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 BB — great game, but a little too late to turn his season around
  • RHP Jaron Long: 6.1 IP, 9 H, 4 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 6 K, 10/0 GB/FB — 66 of 100 pitches were strikes … finishes the year with a 2.18 ERA and a 122/22 K/BB in 144.1 innings, third most in the system behind RHP Zach Nuding (153) and LHP Matt Tracy (149) … not bad at all for an undrafted free agent
  • LHP James Pazos: 2.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 K, 2/3 GB/FB — 22 of 35 pitches were strikes (63%) … finishes the year with a 75/25 K/BB in 67 innings

High-A Tampa (6-3 loss to Daytona) their season is over … they finished at 71-68, third in place in the North Division and 6.5 games back

  • DH Mark Payton: 1-4, 1 R, 1 2B — seventh rounder finishes his pro debut at .320/.418/.497 with 14 doubles, four homers, four steals, 29 walks, and 32 strikeouts in 48 games
  • SS Cito Culver: 2-4, 2 R, 1 2B, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 1 K  — finishes the season at .220/.294/.303 with 21 doubles, five homers, 12 homers, 57 walks, and 140 strikeouts in 132 games … yuck
  • 3B Mike Ford: 1-3, 1 2B, 2 RBI, 1 BB — finishes at .292/.383/.458 with 19 doubles, 13 homers, two steals, 52 walks, and 46 strikeouts in 105 games … Eric Jagielo got the last day of the season off, but his final batting line is in the sidebar
  • RF Aaron Judge: 2-3, 1 BB — finishes at .308/.419/.486 with 24 doubles, 17 homers, one steal, a system-leading 89 walks, and 131 strikeouts in 131 games … great year all around
  • LHP Caleb Smith: 3 IP, 7 H, 6 R, 6 ER, 2 BB, 1 K, 2 HB, 3/0 GB/FB — finishes the year with a 116/46 K/BB in 117.2 innings

Low-A Charleston (5-0 win over Augusta)

  • SS Tyler Wade: 0-4, 1 BB, 3 K
  • LF Michael O’Neill & DH Miguel Andujar: both 2-4, 1 R, 1 RBI — O’Neill got hit by a pitch, stole a base, and struck out twice … Andujar walked and whiffed
  • 2B Gosuke Katoh: 0-4, 2 K
  • LHP Justin Kamplain: 4 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 2 K, 1 WP, 1 HB, 3/7 GB/FB — 18th rounder finishes his pro debut with a 21/11 K/BB in 22.2 innings
  • RHP Angel Rincon: 5 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 1 K, 1 WP, 12/0 GB/FB

Short Season Staten Island (11-3 loss to Brooklyn)

  • CF Devyn Bolasky: 0-3, 2 BB, 3 K
  • 1B Connor Spencer: 1-4 — hitting streak reaches eleven on the penultimate day of the season
  • C Isaias Tejeda: 2-4, 1 R, 1 HR, 2 RBI
  • LHP Andrew Chin: 2.1 IP, 5 H, 8 R, 6 ER, 2 BB, 1 K, 5/2 GB/FB
  • RHP Jordan Cote: 4.1 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 0 BB, 5 K, 3/3 GB/FB — the team’s 2011 third rounder finishes the year with a 6.14 ERA and a 55/22 K/BB in 73.1 innings

Rookie GCL Yanks1 (6-5 win over GCL Red Sox) the best-of-three GCL Finals is now tied at one … they’ll play the decisive Game Three tomorrow

  • SS Jorge Mateo: 4-4, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 2 SB — impact leadoff hitter
  • DH Thairo Estrada: 1-5, 1 R, 1 HR, 4 RBI, 2 K — his fifth inning grand slam was the big blow
  • RF Alex Palma: 2-4, 1 2B, 1 K — 15-for-42 (.357) in his last ten games
  • 3B Drew Bridges & CF Leonardo Molina: both 0-3, 1 BB — Bridges struck out and committed a fielding error
  • RHP Luis Cedeno: 5.2 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 5 K, 1 HB, 11/2 GB/FB — 63/12 K/BB in 72 innings for the 20-year-old
  • RHP Deshorn Lake: 0.2 IP, 4 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 1 BB, 1 K, 1 WP, 1 HB, 1/0 GB/FB — nearly gave it up in the seventh
  • RHP Travis Hissong: 2.2 IP, zeroes, 4 K, 2/0 GB/FB — undrafted free agent nails down the win

The Rookie GCL Yanks2 season is over. They were eliminated in the first round of the postseason by the GCL Yanks1.

Sunday Night Open Thread
Fan Confidence Poll: September 1st, 2014

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