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Team Yesterday Today Pitching Matchup
Fresno Won, 17-5 vs. Salt Lake City, 10:05 p.m. Espino (1-0, 7.00) vs. Canning (0-0, 0.90)
Harrisburg Won, 2-0 vs. Reading, 6:30 p.m. Mapes (1-0, 3.00) vs. Eshelman (0-0, 3.60)
Potomac Lost, 7-5 vs. Winston-Salem, 7:05 p.m. TBD vs. TBD
Hagerstown Lost, 3-0 @ Kannapolis, 7:00 p.m. Peguero (0-1, 4.50) Martin (1-0, 5.84)

Fresno 17 Salt Lake City 5
• Voth (W, 2-0) 5IP, 2H, 0R, BB, 5K
• Adams 1IP, 0H, 0R, 0BB, 1K
• J. Wilson 4-6, 3R, 2-2B, HR, 5RBI
• Snyder 3-5, 3R, HR, 4RBI
• Kieboom 3-3, 4R, 2B, 2BB, RBI

The Grizzlies left on 13 baserunners, but got 17 of ’em in as they had their way with the Bees again, 17-5. Austin Voth got his second win with five scoreless innings, allowing two hits and a walk while striking out five. Fresno racked up 18 hits total, led by Jacob Wilson who went 4-for-6 with a HR and five RBI, followed by Brandon Snyder’s 3-for-5 night with a HR and four RBI.

Harrisburg 2 Altoona 0
• Sharp (W, 2-1) 7IP, 4H, 0R, BB, 4K
• Condra-Bogan (H, 1) 1IP, 0H, 0R, 1BB, 1K
• Baez (SV, 1) 1IP, 0H, 0R, 1BB, 1K
• Sagdal 1-3, R, HR, 2RBI

Sterling Sharp lived up to his surname as he combined with two relievers to shut out Altoona, 2-0 and complete the three-game sweep for Harrisburg. Sharp went seven innings and gave up all four Curve hits, walked one, and set down four on strikes. Jacob Condra-Bogan and Joan Baez both walked one and struck out one while putting up a goose egg to earn the hold and the save, respectively. Ian Sagdal’s two-run HR in the 2nd was the gist of the Sens offense, which was held to five hits and no walks.

Lynchburg 7 Potomac 5
• Tetreault 6IP, 2H, 0R, BB, 5K
• McKinney (BS, 1; L, 0-1) 1IP, 2H, 4R, 4ER, 3BB, 1K, HBP
• Dunlap 2-3, R, BB, HR, RBI
• Franco 2-3, 2BB
• Corredor 2-5, R, 2B, HR, 3RBI

A 5-0 lead was too small for the P-Nats ‘pen as they coughed up three in the 7th, and four in the 8th to give the Hillcats a 7-5 gift. Jackson Tetreault turned in his first quality start with six shutout innings on two hits and a walk while fanning five. A.J. Bogucki was responsible for the first three runs let in during the 7th while Jeremy McKinney walked three and hit a batter to allow Lynchburg to score four times on just two hits in the 8th. Aldrem Corredor and Alex Dunlap both homered in Potomac’s ten-hit, four-walk offense, which left on 10 baserunners and was 2-for-10 in with RISP.

Lexington 3 Hagerstown 0
• Irvin (L, 0-1) 6IP, 3H, 1R, 0ER, BB, 6K
• Guillen 3IP, 2H, 2R, 1ER, BB, 8K, BK, HBP
• Lara 1-4, 2B
• Connell 1-3, 0K

Hagerstown errors led to two of three Lexington runs scoring in a 3-0 shutout. Jake Irvin took the loss despite just one unearned run on three hits and a walk over six innings. He struck out six. Angel Guillen fanned eight but needed 59 pitches to get through three innings. He gave up two runs (one earned) on two hits (both doubles) and a walk, balk, and a hit batsman. The Suns were held to four hits, with just one for extra bases (Gilbert Lara) and struck out 11 times, with Justin Connell the only batter not to whiff.

15 Commments

  1. Voth, Sharp, Tetreault, and Irvin combined for 18 IP, 20 Ks, and only ONE run allowed. Great starting pitching all the way around, guys.

    In six innings thus far, Austin Adams has faced 20 batters, retiring 18 of them, 12 on Ks. One got a hit, and one walked. He’s GOT to be the next man to get a shot with the big club, right?

    Perhaps he can share the flight with Carter Kieboom: .422/.536/.711. Good grief, he’d be so much better than Difo.

  2. Oops, shouldn’t pointed out that Irvin’s run was unearned. So 18 IP with NO earned runs allowed.

    Jacob Condra-Bogan also still has the 0.00 ERA at AA.

    1. Pretty special day for Nats starters, huh? I’m impressed.

      And goodness gracious, but the Grizzlies are just tearing the cover off the ball. How long can the Nats keep Carter Kieboom down? They need him.

  3. Can’t have it both ways. Either credit and start talking up Jacob Wilson, or reckon with the PCL factor and diminish CK2B. Wilson is not striking out, either.

    Sure is fun to see this starting pitching and Adams ripen.

    2. In time. Some may say that Rule 5 pick Wilson
      Was as clever a move as when the Expos found Mike Lansing in Miami Miracle back in the day …

  4. Great start for Wilson, no doubt. In a perfect world where there are no 40-man issues involved, he would have put himself ahead of Noll as the emergency non-SS utility guy. But Kieboom can play SS, at least for the limited period that Turner will be out, and it makes little sense to keep trotting Wilmer “Slap” Difo out there when a much-better-hitting option is at AAA. (Wilson has almost no pro experience at SS.)

  5. Hmm, if Difo will hit a home run every day I call him “Slap,” I guess I’ll have to start doing it every day . . .

  6. Okay, you made me look him up. Jacob Wilson is a soon to be 29 year old who spent most of his life in the Cardinals organization. We had him last year and yes, there are some teams that could use him right now in the show.
    What should the Nats do?

  7. Keep him. There is no meaningful trade value to a journeyman who takes his career to the next level. Unless it’s an Andrew Istler type deal, and he can’t even get on a roster.

    No, you keep him as depth and figure out whether to protect him by year’s end as a Muncy-type late bloomer unless injuries force the issue. He certainly has positional flexibility at a time that it appears Zimmerman is at the end of the line.

  8. One Brian Goodwin is enough for me. The Royals dumped him, the Nats could have had him back and did not bite, and now he is carving out a role for himself with the Angels.

    Maybe his attitude as a bench player soured him with Rizzo, like Shawn Kelley. But I’m of the school that we and the pundits are undervaluing some of our talent and there are players like Gott who are near the cusp that with proper coaching can contribute what we want them to.

    Wilson has paid his dues and has been humbled. But the Nationals did invite him to spring training, and they know they have something there.

    He’s in Fresno and the PCL, and May need to show up a lot more to get his chance. So let’s see how he’s doing in two months, and we’ll see what the roster construction looks like on June 15.

  9. Where is the love for this kid Jackson Tetreault, now only 22, a 7th round pick in 2017. Do you know of the 32 multi/million $ pitchers taken in the 1st and 2 rounds of the 2017 Draft. Of the 27 that played that season, Tetreault, a “Starter”, out-threw them all with a 2.58 ERA. In 2018 Low A Hagerstown, after a slow 1st half of the season, he threw to a 2.53 in the second half, was team leader with 118 Ks in 110 innings , and earned a promotion to Potomac where he got the win in the 5th game of the Mills Cup semis and clinching a team birth to the Finals. For the 2019 season in Potomac, Tetreault threw on the AA Spring Season Team, in 3 regular season starts has a 2-0 win record, throwing 16 innings in three starts, team leading 14 ks, 2 ER, team leading 1.0 whip and the team leading 1.13 ERA as of 4/20/19. This kid throws 4 pitches, 3 plus pitches, sits on 91-94 and has been up to 96/97 with the FB. Overlooked and Highly Underrated. Where’s the “LOVE”, especially from those so called “Prospect” watchers like Adam McInturff 2080 Baseball and others. Open your Eyes and get the facts!

    1. Perhaps you missed this post and its comment thread, but rest assured there are some prospect followers who like Tetreault – in Werner’s case, enough to put him in his book as one of his Top Sleepers of 2019. Therein ought to be a clue, too.

  10. up. Jacob Wilson is a soon to be 29 year old who spent most of his life in the Cardinals organization. We had him last year and yes, there are some teams that could use him right now in the show.
    What should the Nats do?

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