DotF: Sanchez goes deep in first minor league rehab game

RHP Dillon Tate was officially placed on the Double-A Trenton disabled list today, the team announced. He’s out with a supposedly minor quad injury suffered while shagging fly balls during batting practice last week. The hope was Tate wouldn’t even miss a start, but I guess that’s not the case.

2018 Futures Game (USA 10, World 6)

• LHP Justus Sheffield: 1.1 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 1 HR, 0/1 GB/FB — 13 of 20 pitches were strikes … struck out Padres 2B Luis Urias and gave up a solo homer to Royals OF Seuly Matias, a 19-year-old who leads the minors with 26 homers in 74 Low-A games (he also has a 36.3% strikeout rate)

Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (3-1 win over Rochester) they faced a rehabbing Ervin Santana

• CF Billy McKinney: 1-4, 1 R, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 2 K — he took Santana deep … fourth homer in his last 15 games
• DH Brandon Drury: 0-2, 1 R, 1 BB, 2 K
• 1B Tyler Austin: 1-4, 1 K
• C Gary Sanchez: 1-3, 1 R, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 2 K — he took Santana deep … here’s video of the homer … played seven innings in his first rehab game as scheduled … he’s scheduled to DH tomorrow, rest Tuesday, catch nine innings Wednesday, rest Thursday, then rejoin the Yankees on Friday as long as everything goes well this week
  
• SS Abi Avelino: 1-3, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 BB
• RHP Luis Cessa: 7 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 5 K, 1 WP, 7/6 GB/FB — 60 of 88 pitches were strikes (68%) … somehow this is only his fourth Triple-A outing of the season, if you can believe that
• RHP Gio Gallegos: 2 IP, zeroes, 1 K, 4/0 GB/FB — 16 of 25 pitches were strikes (64%)

Double-A Trenton Thunder (4-3 loss to Richmond)

• LF Devyn Bolasky: 3-5, 1 K — 10-for-19 (.526) in his last four games … organizational utility guy is hitting .407/.456/.487 in 29 games this year
• CF Trey Amburgey: 1-4, 1 R, 1 K
• SS Gosuke Katoh: 0-3, 1 R, 1 BB, 2 K
• RHP Trevor Stephan: 5.1 IP, 6 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 4 K, 1 HBP, 2/5 GB/FB — 54 of 86 pitches were strikes (63%) … nice rebound after three straight rough outings
• LHP Phil Diehl: 2 IP, zeroes, 3 K, 1/2 GB/FB — 21 of 27 pitches were strikes (78%) … just up from Tampa … 82/12 K/BB in 50.2 innings this year

High-A Tampa Tarpons (5-4 loss to Dunedin)

• SS Diego Castillo: 1-4 , 1 R, 1 E (fielding)
• DH Brandon Wagner: 0-1, 1 R, 3 BB — 26.5 K% and 12.5 BB% this year after 26.4 K% and 13.0 BB% last year … freaky consistent
• RF Isiah Gilliam: 1-4, 1 RBI, 1 K
• LHP Dalton Lehnen: 5 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 4 BB, 3 K, 2 WP, 6/4 GB/FB — 53 of 101 pitches were strikes (52%)

Low-A Charleston RiverDogs (8-7 loss to Hickory)

• 2B Wilkerman Garcia: 1-4, 1 R, 2 RBI
• SS Oswaldo Cabrera: 1-4, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 K
• RF Leonardo Molina: 0-3, 1 BB, 1 K
• RHP Alex Mauricio: 4.2 IP, 9 H, 6 R, 6 ER, 3 BB, 6 K, 3 WP, 4/2 GB/FB — 56 of 96 pitches were strikes (58%) … last year’s 27th rounder is just up from Staten Island

Short Season Staten Island Yankees (3-2 win over West Virginia)

• CF Brandon Lockridge: 1-2, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K — 5-for-16 (.313) with two walks and two strikeouts in five games since coming up fro the GCL
• DH Kyle Gray: 0-2, 2 BB, 1 CS
• 2B Jesus Bastidas: 0-3, 1 K, 1 E (fielding)
• RHP Shawn Semple: 5 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 7 K, 1 WP, 6/1 GB/FB — 52 of 72 pitches were strikes (72%) … last year’s 11th rounder has a 25/3 K/BB in 22.1 innings this year

Rookie Pulaski Yankees (3-0 loss to Princeton)

• SS Oswald Peraza: 0-3, 1 K, 1 HBP
• 2B Ezequiel Duran: 2-4, 1 2B, 1 K — had been in a 2-for-19 (.105) skid
• CF Everson Pereira: 0-3, 1 BB, 1 K
• 3B Nelson Gomez: 1-4, 1 2B, 1 K
• RHP Pedro Espinola: 6 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 11 K, 6/2 GB/FB — 61 of 87 pitches were strikes (70%) … had a 10/11 K/BB in 11 innings prior to this game
• RHP Marcus Evey: 2.1 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 0 BB, 4 K, 1/1 GB/FB — 38 of 45 pitches were strikes (84%) … 25/3 K/BB in 13.1 inning for this year’s 20th rounder

The two Rookie GCL Yankees affiliates had their regular Sunday off-day.