Minor League Highlights 5/30

by FreeZorilla on May 31, 2010 12:05 AM EDT

AAA Durham Bulls W 6-0

Coming off 8 innings of one-hit baseball, Jeremy Hellickson dominated once again. Today he allowed four hits and no walks in seven innings of shutout baseball while striking out seven. Hellickson generated 10 whiffs on 89 pitches. The Bulls did their damage via the longball as Elliot Johnson smacked a pair out of the park (5) as part of a 3-4 effort. Chris Richard extended his consecutive hit streak to eight in the 2nd inning with a home run (7) before finally being retired in his final three plate appearances. Jose Lobaton also added his third homer of the season. Dan Johnson was 0-2 with a BB and a HBP, while the slumping Desmond Jennings was given the day off.

AA Montgomery Biscuits Postponed

A+ Charlotte Stone Crabs Game 1 W 3-2

Shane Dyer allowed two unearned runs in six innings on five hits and no walks while striking out five. Eight of twelve batted outs came on the ground. Zach Quate struck out the side in the 7th to record his 6th save. Leslie Anderson was 2-4, while Tim Beckham was 1-3 with a walk. Matt Joyce was 0-1 but walked twice.

A+ Charlotte Stone Crabs Game 2 W 5-3

Nick Barnese allowed three runs in five innings on five hits and four walks, though he did strike out seven. Marquis Fleming struck out four in two innings of work while allowing just one hit to record the save. Matt Joyce and Mike Sheridan were each 3-3 with a double and a walk, while Henry Wrigley was 2-4 with his 12th double. Stephen Vogt finished 2-3 with a walk, and Tim Beckham was 0-3 with a strikeout.

A Bowling Green Hot Rods W 1-0

Jason McEachern pitched his second consecutive scoreless outing allowing four hits and four walks in six innings while striking out five. Tyler Bortnick drove in the the lone run as part of a 2-4 effort including his 15th double. Chris Murrill was 2-4 with his 19th stolen base.

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Great to see McEachern put together two good starts in a row

by sternfan1 on May 31, 2010 10:00 AM EDT reply actions

It's a little weird

He’s striking out more and like FZ said has 11 scoreless innings, but he’s walked 7 over that time which is really unusual for him.

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by Imperialism32 on May 31, 2010 11:16 AM EDT up reply actions

Are you going to preview some of the short season teams, as to who to keep an eye on as far as key prospects go?

by sternfan1 on May 31, 2010 10:01 AM EDT reply actions

I attended that double header in Dunedin.

In game one, in his first 2 ABs, Beckham saw 6 pitches striking out both times. My impression was that he was being very patient. In the first AB he let two fastballs on the outside corner go by and then swung at a breaking ball that bounced in the LH batter’s box. It was the only bad pitch he swung at all day. In the next AB, he saw 3 high inside fastballs, fouling one straight back and swinging through one right under his fists. They were all well-placed (pitchers’) pitches. His hit came with 2 strikes also, a nice line drive into CF, and it drove in the winning run.

In game 2 he hit one hard line drive that the left fielder caught near the wall in left CF. Actually, there were a lot of tremendous drives in the second game that the Dunedin OFs tracked down at the fence. Barnese did not look good at all. He made some nice pitches but was often behind in the count and was hit very hard quite often. Actually, I didn’t think Dyer was all that good either despite the results.

Leslie Anderson made a terrific play on a hard grounder right over the bag which he grabbed and beat the runner to the bag with a slide. Very flashy. His first hit was a sharp low line drive through the SS/3B hole that he stroked with 2 strikes. The other was a similar hit into RF.

Actually, the most impressive hitter on the Stone Crabs was the catcher Vogt who hit everything hard. He was robbed of an RBI in game 2 when on his long double into the LF corner scored Joyce, but the umpire called Joyce out despite the fact that he slid under the high tag. Vogt ended up at 3B on the throw home.

by bobr on May 31, 2010 12:10 PM EDT reply actions

Joyce has joined Durham :)

I am not sure if they will demote S-Rod, DL someone or just leave Joyce in AAA

Well Rafael Soriano and Joquain Benoit is very nice also.

by joeybw on May 31, 2010 4:45 PM EDT reply actions

Probably part of a string of moves incl. Shoppach's activation

Are you saying he should become fashionable or elitist or snarky or condescending? Is he supposed to adopt logical fallacies as his core technique of debate? Is he supposed to bleat religious proclamations and claim they are "proved" by statistics when they aren’t?

by Top Gun Numba 1 on May 31, 2010 7:22 PM EDT up reply actions