Nice little fluff piece about Jesus Montero via Jed Weisberger. Meanwhile, Jeff Sackmann did a great job breaking down the Dominican Summer League over at THT.
Oh, and reliever Brad Rulon was promoted to High-A Tampa. And Chad Jennings has a George Kontos update.
Make sure you scroll down for tonight’s game thread.
Triple-A Scranton (6-3 loss to Columbus)
Kevin Russo: 4 for 5, 1 R, 1 K, 1 CS
Ramiro Pena: 2 for 5, 1 2B, 1 RBI
Austin Jackson: 2 for 4, 2 K – 13 for his last 37 (.351)
The Duncans: both 0 for 4, 2 K
Yurendell DeCaster: 1 for 4, 1 R, 1 2B – 10 for his last 35 (.286) with five doubled & three jacks
Josh Towers: 6 IP, 10 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 0 BB, 3 K, 7-8 GB/FB – 59 of 80 pitches were strikes (73.8%)
Damaso Marte: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 K, 1 Balk, 2-1 GB/FB – 8 of 9 pitches were strikes
Amaury Sanit: 1 IP, 2 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 0 K, 2-1 GB/FB – 12 of 23 pitches were strikes (52.2%)