Rays prospects and minor leagues: RiverDogs win championship

Unfortunately, as the season winds down, pitching stats have vanished on Baseball Reference again. Also, playoff stats seem to have disappeared on MiLB.com, so you’ll have to check individual box scores to see how pitchers below Durham did.

Triple-A Durham Bulls (82-43)

Romero remains in rhythm with 5 scoreless innings
Bulls sweep doubleheader
Myers, bullpen shut out Stripers
Freitas leads rally to beat Gwinnett
Bulls hold off Stripers to sweep series

Wander Franco: 0-for-3, 1 R, 2 BB
Vidal Brujan: 1-for-13, 4 R, 2 BB, 4 K, 2-for-2 SB (.785)
Josh Lowe: 2-for-10, 1 R, 2 2B, 5 BB, 4 K, 1-for-1 SB (.918)
Taylor Walls: 1-for-5, 1 R, 1 RBI, 4 BB, 2 K, 1-for-1 SB (.859)
Miles Mastrobuoni: 3-for-10, 2 2B, 2 RBI, 3 K (.805)

Cody Reed: 2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 4 K
Tommy Romero: 5 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 5 K (3.45)
Brent Honeywell Jr.: 5 IP, 5 H, 2 ER, 3 BB, 4 K (3.97)
Tobias Myers: 6 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 8 K (4.96)
Louis Head: 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 3 K (2.20)

Double-A Montgomery Biscuits (62-55)

De Horta, Haley lead Biscuits to Game 1 win
Montgomery unable to climb out of early hole
Biscuits fall in wild slugfest
Montgomery crushes Mississippi to force decisive Game 5
Biscuits fall short in pitchers’ duel

Xavier Edwards: 9-for-20, 7 R, 1 HR, 5 RBI, 3 BB, 2 K, 1-for-2 SB (.744)
Blake Hunt: 0-for-6, 1 R, 1 BB, 1 K (.370)
Jonathan Aranda: 4-for-20, 4 R, 2 2B, 1 HR, 3 RBI, 3 BB, 5 K (.950)
Ruben Cardenas: 7-for-21, 3 R, 1 2B, 2 RBI, 2 BB, 8 K (.763)

High-A Bowling Green Hot Rods (82-36)

Hot Rods prevail in back-and-forth opener
Bradley’s strong start not enough
Bowling Green edged in pivotal Game 3
Hot Rods hang on to force Game 5

Curtis Mead: 3-for-12, 2 R, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 5 K (.814)
Alika Williams: 1-for-9, 1 R, 3 BB, 5 K (.777)
Jordan Qsar: 2-for-10, 3 R, 2 HR, 4 RBI, 2 BB, 6 K (.903)

Bowling Green’s stats don’t include Monday’s game.

Low-A Charleston RiverDogs (82-38)

RiverDogs take Game 1
Johnson’s strong starts gives Charleston 2-0 lead
RiverDogs unable to climb out of early hole
Charleston allows 8 unanswered runs
RiverDogs win inaugural Low-A East championship

Osleivis Basabe: 7-for-23, 3 R, 2 RBI, 1 BB, 3 K (.732)
Matt Dyer: 5-for-19, 6 R, 1 2B, 1 3B, 1 HR, 4 RBI, 3 BB, 8 K, 3-for-3 SB (.981)
Johan Lopez: 10-for-21, 2 R, 2 2B, 1 HR, 8 RBI, 1 BB, 4 K (.781)

Stats are from Baseball Reference.

This week’s games

Durham

Wednesday, Sept. 29 @ Norfolk 7:05 p.m. ET (MiLB.TV)
Thursday, Sept. 30 @ Norfolk 12:05 p.m. ET (MiLB.TV)
Friday, Oct. 1 @ Norfolk 7:05 p.m. ET (MiLB.TV)
Saturday, Oct. 2 @ Norfolk 7:05 p.m. ET (MiLB.TV)
Sunday, Oct. 3 @ Norfolk 1:05 p.m. ET (MiLB.TV)

Bowling Green

Tuesday, Sept. 28 vs. Greensboro 7:35 p.m. ET (MiLB.TV)

Scouting the opposition

Norfolk Tides (Baltimore)
51-74
Offense: 519 R (20th out of 20) .696 OPS (19th out of 20)
Pitching: 4.83 ERA (12th out of 20) 1.42 WHIP (13th out of 20)
Top-30 prospects: C Adley Rutschman (1), RHP Kyle Bradish (8), RHP Michael Baumann (9), LHP Kevin Smith (13), OF Kyle Stowers (17), OF Yusniel Diaz (19)

Greensboro Grasshoppers (Pittsburgh)
74-46
Offense: 723 R (2nd out of 12) .790 OPS (3rd out of 12)
Pitching: 4.67 ERA (8th out of 12) 1.36 WHIP (7th out of 12)
Top-30 prospects: RHP Quinn Priester (3), 2B Nick Gonzales (4), SS Liover Peguero (5), RHP Carmen Mlodzinski (8), RHP Michael Burrows (10)