Thursday’s News & Notes
| Team | Yesterday | Today | Pitching Probables |
| Rochester | Lost, 7-3 | @ Syracuse, 6:35 p.m. | Sharp (1-1, 5.25) vs. Adleman (0-0, 5.06) |
| Harrisburg | Lost, 7-1 | vs. Altoona, 6:30 p.m. | Herrera (3-2, 4.17) vs. Burrows (2-0, 2.27) |
| Wilmington | Won, 2-1 (10 inn.) |
@ Aberdeen, 7:05 p.m. | Cate (2-2, 5.74) vs. Tavera (1-1, 3.21) |
| Fredericksburg | Lost, 8-1 | vs. Salem, 7:05 p.m. | Theophile (3-1, 1.66) vs. Uberstine (2-0, 4.31) |
Syracuse 7 Rochester 3
• Abbott (L, 0-2) 2⅓ IP, 5H, 4R, 4ER, BB, 2K, HR
• Baldonado 1IP, 0H, 0R, 0BB, 2K
• Noll 2-4, R, HR, 3RBI
• Alf. Rodriguez 2-4, 2B
The S-Mets got three in the 1st and one in the 2nd to frame Cory Abbott and clip the Red Wings, 7-3. Abbott allowed five hits (one HR) and a walk over his two and 1/3rd innings pitched. He struck out two while taking his second loss. Jake Noll broke up the shutout bid with an Earl Weaver special in the 8th while going 2-for-4, a mark matched by Alfredo Rodriguez and Joey Meneses. Rochester finished with nine hits, one in seven RISP chances.
Altoona 7 Harrisburg 1
• Fuentes 5IP, 6H, R, ER, 2BB, 4K
• Troop (L, 3-1) 2IP, 4H, 3R, 3ER, 0BB, 2K, HR
• W. Garcia 3-4, 2B, RBI
• Connell 1-3, SAC
Altoona broke a 1-1 deadlock with a three-run HR in the 6th and put the game away with another three runs in the 9th to hand Harrisburg its fourth straight loss, 7-1. Steven Fuentes turned in five innings of one-run ball on six hits and two walks while fanning four. The loss went to Alex Troop, who gave up the aforementioned big fly and four hits total over two innings. Wilson Garcia singled twice and doubled once while the rest of the Senators went 3-for-28.
Wilmington 2 Aberdeen 1 (10 inn.)
• Irvin 4IP, 3H, R, ER, 3BB, 3K, WP
• Brzykcy (W, 6-0) 2IP, 1H, 0R, 0BB, 4K
• Yankosky (SV, 2) 1IP, 0H, 0R, 0BB, 1K
• Meregildo 2-4
• Jo. Sánchez 0-2, BB, SF, RBI
The Blue Rocks mustered just four hits but got enough pitching to prevail in extras, 2-1. Jake Irvin went his customary four innings, allowing the lone Aberdeen run on three hits and three walks while striking out three. Four relievers combined for six shutout innings, with Zach Brzykcy winning his 6th game in relief and Tyle Yankosky earning his second save. Kevin Strohschein singled in the 10th to move over the free runner while José Sánchez drove him in with a sacrifice fly. Omar Meregildo led the Wilmington hit column with two singles while Cole Daily drew three of the seven Blue Rocks walks.
Salem 8 Fredericksburg 1
• Denaburg (L, 0-1) 2+ IP, 4H, 4R, 4ER, 4BB, 1K, WP
• B. Peña 2IP, 1H, 1R, 1ER, 0BB, 1K, HR, 3-0 IR-S
• Infante 3-4, 2B
• Rivero 2-4, 2RBI
Mason Denaburg’s 2020’s debut was marred by walks and long counts as the FredNats were manhandled by the Red Sox, 8-1 to lose their third straight game. The Nats’ 2018 1st Rd. pick walked four and gave up four runs on four hits over two-plus innings. He threw 52 pitches, 26 for strikes. Bryan Peña wriggled out of a bases-loaded with no outs jam in the 3rd but the Fredericksburg offense did not respond, racking up nine hits but just two in 11 scoring chances. Since hitting their season apex at 17-9 after a doubleheader sweep on May 8, the FredNats have gone 3-11 in the won-loss column to drop to 20-20. Perhaps not coincidentally, Fredericksburg is 19-134 with RISP over those 14 games.
FRED could use a masher like Frizzel to provide the occasional
Big fly or bases clearing clutch double .
Matt Frazier killing the Sens this series
Luke I am not psychic just a good hunch or just rooting for A2!!!
Cue Mork’s arrrrrrrrr rrrrrr!
Pal Joey should see DC later this summer …
We will take 5 IP from
Cate like that !
It’s not just Fredericksburg that have fallen off a cliff. The whole system has reverted to its past performance level over the past week or so.
Rochester are 3-5 over their last 8, and Harrisburg 2-6. Only Wilmington are still playing decent ball, going 5-3.
Thanks Luke, for the numbers on the FredNats. I was wondering as they went from the ’27 Yankees to the ’61 Mets do mostly to a historically bad RISP.
Sure is dumb that Jeremy DeLaRosa and Viandel Pena are still in Low A.
Look forward to seeing Denaburg progress, it’s not too late as he is 22.
Brzykcy and Yankowski still dominating at Wilmington. There are OG’s at Harrisburg they could easily replace. Or replace Matt Cronin when the f.o. wakes up long enough to move him to Rochester.
Let’s see what Arias does in the 5 hole, Lisson.
He needs to get raking .
There’s still something wrong with TJ White. He was on fire before he mysteriously stopped playing for about 10 days at the end of April. He was batting .302/.388/.535 with a 33% K%.
Since returning… I’m not sure there’s a charitable way to describe it, so I’ll just post the stats: .075/.119/.100 with a 60% K%, and it’s only getting worse. He’s hitless and walkless in his past 19 AB with 11 K.
Agree on White. It almost seems like the only advice he’s getting is “power through it, kid.” This is more than just the league figuring him out.
Or it could be that his switch-hitting days may need to come to an end. I wouldn’t have him give it up just yet but the splits are pretty ugly.
Luke so much for the next poor mans Devon White
Meanwhile Watson adds more bullpen help for some overtaxed pen in AJ Candelario off the Marlins fish pile
Any word on Garcia’s wrist injury?
Can we expect the best draft class ever for Nats in this 2022 5 slot with the crop to choose from ?
At least Nats snagged the best 5 tool Latin OF earlier .
And now we have Luis Garcia with the wrist issue.
After getting clobbered in his first start of the season, Fuentes has been pretty darn good. Or at least his results at limiting runs have been good. Secondary stats raise some questions, as he’s surrendering almost a hit an inning, his K/9 is way down from last season (at AA, down three K’s per nine), walk rate is up, and FIP argues that he should be giving up a run more a game. However, BABIP says that he’s been on the unlucky side of hits falling. He does have his ground ball rate back up to where it was when he was previously good.
Jake Irvin, who is actually three months older than Fuentes (who seems like he has been around forever), is looking ready for promotion. He’s got a 1.73 ERA, 1.04 WHIP, .204 BA against, 9.0 K/9. The only outlier is that his xFIP 4.11, two and a half runs more than he’s actually allowing. Anyway, stats plus age argue that he should be getting a look at AA soon, even though he’s relatively inexperienced as a pro pitcher. He’s Rule 5 eligible, so they need a good read on him this year.
Indeed KW on Irwin
For the record, Keith Law says Irvin’s type of delivery will always make him injury prone. I don’t know about these things, just passing it on.
Of course, they said the same thing was said of Max Scherzer.
Garcia is playing tonight (whew). I was worried we were going to hear about a surgery on the hamate bone or something like that.
So Alou2Alu summoned a home run from Arias tonight in his post above. Congratulations.