NationalsProspects.com

Friday’s News & Notes

Team Yesterday Today Pitching Matchup (’19 Stats at the Level)
Rochester Lost, 5-4 (10 inn.) @ Lehigh Valley, 7:05 p.m. J. Rodriguez (1-0, 4.15) vs. Glogoski (2-2, 1.88 @ A+)
Harrisburg Won, 5-2 @ Somserset, 7:05 p.m. Sharp (5-3, 3.99) vs. Junk (0-1, 7.71)
Wilmington Lost, 5-3 vs. Aberdeen, 7:05 p.m. TBD vs. TBD
Fredericksburg Lost, 8-2 @ Lynchburg, 6:30 p.m. Parker (pro debut) vs. Wolf (0-1, 3.38 @ GCL)

Lehigh Valley 5 Rochester 4 (10 inn.)
• Braymer 5IP, 4H, 3R, 3ER, 3BB, 3K, HR
• Miller (BS, 1) 1IP, 2H, R, ER, 0BB, 0K
• Harper (L, 0-1) ⅓ IP, 1H, 1R, 0ER, 0BB, 0K
• Read 2-3, R, 2B, RBI
• Snyder 1-4, R, HR, 3RBI

The IronPigs were the Lucy to the RedWings’ Charlie Brown as they yanked the ball away for the third straight game with a 5-4 walk-off win in 10 innings. Ben Braymer returned to the starting rotation and let in the first three Lehigh Valley runs on four hits (one HR) and three walks over five innings. He struck out three. A trio of relievers put up a goose egg before Justin Miller allowed a pair of singles with a stolen base sandwich in-between to plate the tying run in the 9th. Ryne Harper took the loss with a groundout and a single in the 10th. Rochester made the most of its limited offense (four hits, three walks, one Victor Robles), led by Brandon Snyder’s Earl Weaver Special – the 34-y.o.’s 179th career big fly – and Raudy Read’s RBI double.

Harrisburg 5 Somerset 2
• Teel 5IP, 4H, 2R, 1ER, 2BB, 3K
• Klobosits (W, 1-0) 2IP, 2H, 0R, 0BB, K
• Bartow (SV, 1) 1IP, 0H, 0R, 0BB, K
• Freeman 2-4, R, 3RBI, HR, SB
• Wilson 1-3, R, 3B, CS, OF assist @ 2B
• Wiseman 1-4, R, HR, 2RBI

Harrisburg ended the organizational 0-for-2021 with a 5-2 win over Somerset. Cole Freeman (2-for-4, 3RBI) drove in the go-ahead in the 8th while Rhett Wiseman’s two-run HR in the 9th to give Frankie Bartow plenty of cushion, which the 24-y.o. didn’t need as he dispatched the Yankees on nine pitches (eight for strikes) for the save. Carson Teel was the starter and turned in five innings of two-run ball in his regular-season AA debut. He gave up four hits, walked two, and fanned three. Gabe Klobosits picked up the win with two scoreless innings following teel.

Aberdeen 5 Wilmington 3
• Cavalli 5IP, 2H, 0R, BB, 7K
• Dyson (L, 0-1) 2IP, 1H, R, ER, 2BB, 2K, HBP
• Lara 1-3, R, BB, HR, RBI
• Alu 1-3, BB

The IronBirds broke open a 1-0 game with a four-run 8th, to which the Blue Rocks could only get back three as they fell for the third straight game, 5-3. Cade Cavalli blanked the IronBirds for five innings in his pro debut, striking out seven and walking just one. He allowed just two hits. The loss went to Tyler Dyson, as he let in the first Aberdeen run to break up the Star Trek convention in the 6th. Wilmington was held to just five hits and two walks, with Gilbert Lara connecting for the sole extra-base hit – a one-out solo HR in the 8th. Roster moves: C Brady Lindsly reassigned from GCL Nationals..

Lynchburg 8 Fredricksburg 2
• P. González (L, 0-1) 3⅓ IP, 1H, 3R, 0ER, 2BB, 5K
• Bocko 2IP, 0H, 0R, 0BB, 3K
• Dieterich 1-3, R, BB, HR, RBI
• Cornell 1-3, BB, 2B

The Battle of the ‘Burgs had the same outcome, but the tightest margin as “Lynch” bested “Fredericks,” 8-2. Pedro González, the youngest pitcher on the F-Nats roster, was knocked out in the 4th with three unearned runs—Fredericksburg is dead last in the Low-A East with 11 errors and an .897 FPct.—allowed on one hit and two walks. He struck out five. Landon Dietrick walked and homered while Zach Cornell walked and doubled to pace the F-Nats offense. Roster moves: IF José Sánchez and OF Ricardo Méndez placed on the 7-Day I.L.; IF Paul Witt, OF Braian Fernandez, RHP Mason Denaburg reassigned from XST.

12 Commments

  1. On the bright side, if you squint enough, you can see that things are very gradually getting better. We only lost 3 of 4 yesterday instead of 4 of 4. We only committed 7 errors instead of 10! We got our collective ERA under 9.00 (an impressive 4.86 ERA yesterday!!).

    But what’s more encouraging is that there were several individual noteworthy actual prospect performances: Cavalli, P. Gonzalez and Teel, and a few from a few non-prospects (Wiseman, Freeman). I’ll take that as another positive!

    1. Release I got from Fredericksburg says 7-day. Considering that they haven’t bothered to take off the old league names, I’m not sure how accurate it actually is but it’s damned if I do, damned if I don’t pass it along.

      1. Joe Sanchez, as I recall, was a highly-bonused teenager from Venezuela who didn’t hit in his pro debut. Is there any rumor mill on whether he is making progress?

  3. Klobosits — pick #1,093 in the 2017 draft (36th round) — is such a great story. Teel (16th round, #491 overall) is sort of the much less heralded stats doppelgänger of Cate. We also have Bartow (11th round, #341), all looking good at the start of their AA time.

    Antuna thus far: 0 for 12 with 5 Ks. The organization certainly needs him to live up to the hype, so let’s hope connections start happening soon.

    Very good to see Cavalli live up to the hype in his first start.

  4. Denaburg just had TJ surgery last month and he won’t be doing any pitching until next year. Why was this move made?

  5. Although he’s never gotten the love, Carson Teel has really done nothing but perform since he was drafted in the sixteenth round. He’s made it up to Double-A, just turned in quite a solid start in his first taste of the level to help his team to victory, and his career MiLB stats are now 2.83 ERA, 1.14 WHIP, 3.23 K/BB. He doesn’t turn 26 until December, and I believe he’ll be R5-eligible at that time. And he’s left-handed.

    Caveat here that the evaluators usually know their stuff, and if they’re not paying attention to Teel despite his solid stats, there’s probably a reason for it. Then again, no one paid any attention to Tanner Roark until he was in D.C., and I was a charter member of the Wander Suero Fan Club long before he was showing up on any prospect lists. Kyle Finnegan and Sam Clay were never top prospects, either.

  6. How about that win for H’burg? So, the Nats affliates won’t 0 for the MILB season. In your face, Somerset!

    Realize its super-early, but the Nats minor league teams are collective 1-11 with a -56 run differential. Yikes. Hard to be that bad when teams are tanking, and we aren’t tanking.

    Cavalli’s start was encouraging.

  7. Not noted, but the F-Nats were also the victims of an immaculate inning last night. Rough.

    1. Depends on your perspective — Bill Lee always said a perfect game would be 27 outs on 27 pitches. Three outs on three pitches sounds like a bad HS team, though this season I suspect it may have already happened; just don’t have the kind of time to drill down that far.

      1. It looks like Wilmington’s hitting problems may soon be over. Lara and Rhinesmith have each hit homers on Thursday and Friday. ( Suns All Stars)

Comments are closed.