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Saturday, April 08, 2006

Minor League Schedule/Chatter: April 8

Lots of postponements already.

International League:
Indianapolis at Pawtucket is rained out.
Lousiville at Ottawa DH is rained out.
Syracuse at Rochester: Josh Banks vs Ryan Glynn
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre at Columbus (DH): Jeremy Cummings and Seung Hak-Lee for the Red Barons, Matt Childers and Jeff Carstens for the Clippers
Buffalo at Richmond: Jeremy Guthrie vs Travis Smith
Charlotte at Toledo: Charlie Haeger vs Chad Durbin
Durham at Norfolk: Jamie Shields vs Jason Scobie

Pacific Coast League:
Colorado Springs at Tacoma is rained out.
Albuquerque at Iowa: Nate Bump vs Raul Valdes
Salt Lake at Tucson: Jered Weaver vs Edgar Gonzalez (it was actually Enrique Gonzalez who started yesterday)
Nashville at Omaha (DH): Zach Jackson vs J.P. Howell, Dana Eveland vs Kyle Snyder
Round Rock at New Orleans: Jared Gothreaux vs Michael O’Connor
Memphis at Oklahoma: Randy Leek vs Edison Volquez
Fresno at Las Vegas: Matt Kinney vs Aaron Sele (old MLB pitchers home week)
Sacramenton at Portland: Shane Komine vs Seth Etherton

Eastern League:
New Hampshire and New Britain is rained out.
Portland at Connecticut is rained out.
Akron at Binghamton: Bear Bay vs Willie Collazo
Trenton at Altoona: Danny Borrell vs Matt Peterson
Erie at Harrisburg: Virgil Vazquez vs TBA
Reading at Bowie: Gio Gionzalez vs Brian Finch

Southern League:
Chattanooga at Jacksonville: Tyler Pelland vs Heath Totten
Carolina at Mobile: James Russ vs Jose Oyervidez
Huntsville at Mississippi: Corey Thurman vs Brady Endl
Tennessee at Montgomery: Steven Jackson vs Jim Magrane
West Tenn at Birmingham: Randy Wells vs Tyler Lumsden

Texas League:
Arkansas at Springfield: James Holcomb vs Stuart Pomeranz
Midland at Frisco: Ray Aguilar vs Nick Masset
San Antonio at Corpus Christi: Cesar Jimenez vs Mitch Talbot
Wichita at Tulsa: Kyle Middleton vs Juan Morillo

California League:
Visalia at San Jose (DH): Gino Gonzalez vs Anthony Moreno, Brandon Mann vs Juan Serrato
Modesto at Stockton: I assume that since last night’s game was rained out, Samuel Deduno and Michael Rogers will still be the starters.
Bakersfield vs Rancho Cucamonga: John Bannister vs Rafael Rodriguez
Inland Empire vs High Desert: TBA
Lancaster at Lake Elsinore: Greg Smith vs Brent Carter

Carolina League:
Lynchburg at Frederick (rain delay): Derek Hankins vs Luis Ramirez
Wilmington at Myrtle Beach: Gary Galvez vs Matt Harrison
Kinston at Winston-Salem: Jensen Lewis vs Carlos Torres
Potomac at Salem (DH): Ricardo Morales vs Evan Englebrook, Greg Bunn vs Chad Reineke. Game 1 is the completion of a suspended game from Friday night.

Florida State League:
Vero Beach at St. Lucie: TBA
Jupiter at Palm Beach: Jacob Marceaux vs Blake Hawksworth
Tampa at Lakeland: TBA
Brevard County at Daytona: Yovani Gallardo vs Luke Hagerty
Dunedin at Clearwater: Jesse Litsch vs James Hatch
Sarasota at Fort Myers: James Avery vs Kevin Slowey

Midwest League:
Lansing at SW Michigan: Russell Savickas vs Aaron Walker
Peoria at Wisconsin: Mike Billek vs Paul Fagan
Quad Cities at Kane County: Mark McCormick vs Jeff Gray
West Michigan at Fort Wayne: Erik Averill vs Josh Geer
Cedar Rapids at Beloit: Kelly Shearer vs Adam Hawes
Clinton at Burlington (DH): Zach Phillips vs Ryan DiPietro, J.B. Diaz vs Gilbert De La Vara
South Bend at Dayton: Ramon Sanchez vs Philippe-Alexandre Valiquette

South Atlantic League:
Lakewood at Lexington (DH): Matt Maloney vs Ryan McKeller, Carlos Carrasco vs Doug Arguello
Hagerstown at Greensboro: Jacobo Neguilis vs Ryan Tucker
Kannapolis at Rome: Ricky Brooks vs Jo-Jo Reyes
Lake County at Hickory: Ryan Edell vs Luis Munoz
Augusta at Charleston: Shairon Martis vs Edgar Soto
Columbus at Greenville: Alberto Bastardo vs Ismael Casillas
Delmarva at West Virginia: Chorye Spoone vs Will Inman
Savannah at Asheville: David Trahan vs Zach Simons

Mike Emeigh Posted: April 08, 2006 at 01:16 PM | 9 comment(s)
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   1. PhillyBooster Posted: April 08, 2006 at 06:54 PM (#1949368)
Cardinals' 2005 1st round Mark McCormick got off to a good start for Quad Cities: 6 IP, 0 R, 1 H, 7 K (but with 4 BB and a HBP).
   2. PhillyBooster Posted: April 08, 2006 at 06:57 PM (#1949375)
Also a good day for Syracuse, where John-Ford Griffin went 3 for 4 with a double and a homer, and Brandon League pitched 3 perfect relief innings.
   3. Mike Emeigh Posted: April 08, 2006 at 09:26 PM (#1949764)
Add Buffalo/Richmond, Durham/Norfolk, and Augusta/Charleston to the rainout list.
Chattanooga and Jacksonville are in a rain delay.
Wilmington and Myrtle Beach ended in the 8th with the Pelicans winning 1-0.

Lots of wet weather on the East Coast.

-- MWE
   4. Mike Emeigh Posted: April 08, 2006 at 09:46 PM (#1949796)
Charlotte and Toledo finished 9 innings scoreless. The Kinghts picked up a run in the top of the 10th, and Chad Bentz is trying to nail it down. Brian Peterson gambled trying to stretch a single to start the bottom of the 10th and was nailed on a strong throw from Darren Blakely.

Jeff Farnsworth is now in for the Knights to pitch to Ryan Raburn with two down and no one on.

-- MWE
   5. Mike Emeigh Posted: April 08, 2006 at 09:49 PM (#1949799)
Down goes Raburn, and the Knights win 1-0.

-- MWE
   6. Rafael Bellylard (p8p) Posted: April 08, 2006 at 10:29 PM (#1949884)
My wife and I went to the Tampa-Lakeland game tonight at Joker Marchant Stadium. I'm not going to go into a boxscore-like report, as anyone that wants it can get that info online.

Starting pitchers: Jeffery Marquez (Tampa) and Kevin Ardoin (Lakeland)

Neither pitcher was particularly impressive-looking. Both had good command until their last inning of work, when Ardoin walked his only batter of the night, and Marquez walked three in a row, including throwing 8 balls in a row.

The two pitchers I was most impressed with were both for Lakeland; Freddy Dolsi and Eddie Bonine. Dolsi had a plus fastball and the hitters were behind it. He walked two and struck out one in two innings, but the eight hitters he faced went K, P6, BB, 43 and 13, BB, P4 and F7.

Bonine, on the other hand, threw slow, slower and slowest. We were in the front row right behind the plate, and Bonine threw nothing but junk when he was warming up. He came in with a man on first, one out, and threw nothing but breaking pitches and a change (I hope to hell it was a change), and induced a 643 DP from SS Eduardo Nunez, who'd homered in his previous AB and would triple in his next one (and no, he wasn't the player of the game). It was the only batter Bonine faced. Bonine threw like a 37 yr old LOOGY, but will be 25 in June (and is the oldest member of the pitching staff), and a righty.

The two players that stood out for all the wrong reasons were Lakeland catcher Christopher Robinson and losing pitcher Ed Clelland. Robinson, was terrible behind the plate. Even my wife noted that a lot of balls were being deflected rather than caught. On one inside pitch, the batter bailed out, and Robinson actually moved as if he were expecting an outside pitch, and the umpire took a fastball directly on the thigh. That bruise is gonna have stitch marks. He went 1-4 with a double, but the other three balls were infield outs (including an unusual 4-1 putout at first).

Clelland gave up four hits and four runs in a inning of work. He is the only lefty on the roster.

Player of the game was Cory Ehlers, the Yankee 1B. His AB's:

2nd inning: Towering home run to right field. It's 340 down the line, 380 to the alleys and 420 to dead center. In right, there is a 30-foot scoreboard and he hit it over the scoreboard. Estimated distance (by me): 440 ft.

4th inning: Triple off the side of bullpen roof in right center. Had the ball been 2 feet higher, or hit anywhere else, it would have been his second homer of the game.

6th inning: Sharp single to right.

7th inning: With runners on 2nd and 3rd and up 6-4, two outs, and needing a double for the cycle, hit a bermuda triangle blooper between the 2B, CF and RF. He got himself caught in a rundown between 1st and 2nd long enough to allow the runner on 2nd to score. Made the score 8-4 at that point, and a good thing, as Lakeland scored 3 more later for a final of 8-7.

4-4, with 2 singles, a triple and a homer. Not a bad night.
   7. PhillyBooster Posted: April 09, 2006 at 12:26 AM (#1950193)
Gio Gonzalez pretty solid for Reading.

5 IP, 7 K, 0 R, 2 H, 2 BB.

Couple of hits for Michael Bourn.

But lose 2-1 in 11 innings.
   8. PhillyBooster Posted: April 09, 2006 at 12:30 AM (#1950213)
Lakewood lost 1-0 in 7 innings to Lexington. Twice.

Lots of good pitching performances and poor offensive performances for both teams in the doubleheader.
   9. Mike Emeigh Posted: April 09, 2006 at 04:51 PM (#1951396)
It's hard to get excited about Ehlers. He's 24 (in a week), has yet to play an inning above A-ball, and hasn't yet developed much in the way of a power stroke. He'll have to move pretty quickly to have a career.

-- MWE
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