Wednesday’s News & Notes
| Team | Yesterday | Today | Pitching Probables |
| Rochester | Won, 4-1 | @ Worcester, 12:15 p.m. | Fedde (MLB Rehab) vs. Murphy (3-2, 4.17) |
| Harrisburg | Tied, 2-2 (suspended) |
@ Altoona, 4:30 p.m. | TBD and Cate (0-3, 8.37) vs. TBD and Prieste (1-3, 2.49) |
| Wilmington | Lost, 2-1 | @ Jersey Shore, 7:05 p.m. | M. Cuevas (4-11, 4.74) vs. Marcano (1-3, 6.04) |
| Fredericksburg | Won, 10-4 | @ Lynchburg, 6:30 p.m. | Rutledge (5-6, 5.47) vs. Denholm (4-3, 4.31) |
| FCL Nationals | Lost, 3-2 | OFF DAY | |
| DSL Nationals | Won, 13-6 | vs. DSL Texas Red, 11 a.m. |
Rochester 4 Worcester 1
• Verrett (W, 6-7) 6IP, 5H, 1R, 1ER, 0BB, 5K
• Weems (SV, 13) 1IP, 0H, 0R, 1BB, 2K
• Johnson 2-4, 2B, 2RBI
• Stevenson 1-3, 2R, BB
Rochester won for the fourth time in five games, 4-1. Logan Verrett turned in his sixth quality start to win his sixth game, allowing a run on five hits and nmo walks while striking out five. A trio of relievers each put up a goose egg. Will Harris and Mason Thompson both earned a hold while Jordan Weems worked around a walk in the 9th to get his 13th save. Daniel Johnson singled, doubled, and drove in two to lead the four-hit, four-walk offense.
Roster moves: UT Jake Noll placed on 60-day I.L. (fractured finger); OF Daniel Johnson reassigned from Harrisburg; OF David Dahl released.
Harrisburg 2 Altoona 2 – SUSP.
• Reyes 6IP, 7H, 2R, 2ER, 4BB, 2K
• Cluff 1-1, R, 2BB, HR(5), RBI
• Martin 1-2, R, BB, 3B
The game was suspended with no outs and one on in the top of the 7th. They’ll finish this one this afternoon at 4:30 and play a nine-inning game afterwards.
Roster moves:OFs Robert Hassell III, Yasel Antuna promoted from Wilmington to Harrisburg.
Jersey Shore 2 Wilmington 1
• Theophile (L, 1-6) 2+ IP, 2H, 2R, 2ER, 4BB, 3K, HBP, 57-30 PIT-K
• Alvarez 3IP, 1H, 0R, 0BB, 4K, 3-1 IR-S
• Méndez 2-4, R, 2B
• V. Peña 1-3, RBI
Jersey Shore scored single runs in the 1st and 3rd and made it stand up for a 2-1 win over Wilmington. Rodney Theophile suffered again from wildness as he walked four and hit a batter over two-plus innings, needing 57 pitches to get six outs. He allowed both BlueClaws runs on two hits. Three relievers combined for six scoreless innings, with Andrew Alvarez allowing one of three inherited runners to score while getting out of the 3rd. Ricardo Méndez doubled and scored on a two-out single by Viandel Peña in the 2nd. Méndez later singled in the 4th for the third and final Wilmington hit.
Roster moves: OF Cody Wilson reassigned from Rochester; OF Justin Connell reassigned from Harrisburg.
Fredericksburg 10 Lynchburg 4
• Atencio 4IP, 3H, 1R, 1ER, 2BB, 3K
• B. Peña (W, 5-2) 1⅔ IP, 2H, 2R, 2ER, 1BB, 2K
• Lipscomb 3-5, 2R, 2B, RBI, SB
• Frizzell 2-5, 2R, HR, 3RBI
• Boisserie 2-4, 2R, BB, RBI
• J. Young 1-3, 2R, 2BB, SB
The FredNats broke open a 4-3 game with a five-run 7th as they declawed the Hillcats, 10-4 in the series opener. Miguel Atencio got the start and let in one run on three hits and two walks over four innings. Bryan Peña was the pitcher of record when Fredericksburg took the lead but gave up two runs on two hits and a walk over an inning and 2/3rds. Trey Lipscomb had his third multihit game in five games with two singles and a double while Will Frizzell extended his hit streak to six games with his fifth HR in the past 10 days.
FCL Cardinals 3 FCL Nationals 2
• Susana 3⅓ IP, 3H, 0R, 2BB, 5K
• Ogando (BS, 2; L, 3-2) 2⅔ IP, 3H, 3R, 2ER, 4BB, 0K
• Fox 2-3, BB
• Tejeda 2-4, RBI
The F-Nats dropped another 3-2 decision to the F-Cards to see their lead over the F-Mets fall to one game. Jarlin Susana made his second appearance as an F-Nat and struck out five of 14 batters faced, giving up three hits and two walks over three and a 1/3rd scoreless innings. Adrian Ogando had his second blown-save-loss in as many appearances as he allowed all three F-Cards runs on three hits and four walks over two and 2/3rds innings. Luicius Fox singled twice and walked once while Erick Tejeda went 2-for-4 with an RBI.
DSL Nationals 13 DSL Giants Orange 6
• Polanco 4IP, 3H, 4R, 2ER, 3BB, 4K, E
• R. Cuevas (W, 3-1) 1⅔ IP, 3H, 1R, 1ER, 0BB, 1K
• Mota 3-4, 4R, BB, HR, 3RBI, SB, GIDP, E
• Vaquero 2-4, 2R, RBI, SB
• Garcia 2-3, 2BB, RBI, CS
• De La Cruz 1-1, 2R, 3BB, RBI, CS
The D-Nats scored in four consecutive innings before the rains mercifully shortened this 13-6 smackdown to seven innings. Bryan Polanco muddled through the first four innings with four runs let in on three hits and three walks while striking out four. The win went to Ramon Cuevas, with a run allowed on three hits over an inning and 2/3rds. 17-y.o. Jorgelys Mota singled twice, homered, scored four times, drove in three, stole a base, jumped to the left, grounded into a double play, twisted to the right, and committed an error.
Hey , Sammy Infante .. J . Mota is coming up behind you in time . Mack daddy want you to jump jump …
Will PD F.O. Keep JR @ Fred for playoffs for extra innings vs Will and a shorter season ?
Man, I really jinxed the Call-Noll-Dahl trio! Since Sunday’s shoutout, not a single one is left on Rochester’s roster….
I was excited to see Antuna and Hassell get promotions, but why did it have to be at the expense of Justin Connell? And yet Rudy Martin is still getting regular starts in Harrisburg…
Also, I was talking a few days ago about players with inexplicably long leashes vs those with short leashes (Jaden Fein getting released after 38 games). Well, Cody Wilson is the epitome of one of these guys with nine lives. He’s been in the org for five years now and has a career line of .210/.299/.305 in 215 games. And somehow, against all logic, he has player major league baseball! I don’t know who he’s got dirt on, but he’s had an extremely interesting career.
The outing fans and brass have been waiting on
QS Picasso @ Lynchburg
Will Frizzell keeps raking. He’s now up to .379/.414/.712 in 15 games in Fburg.
Meanwhile, Elijah Green is looking every bit the player he was hyped to be, both good and bad. His stats look impressive: .333/.414/.500, but there’s a huge, massive warning sign: a 45% K%.
Any word on when we may see Jake Bennett or Riley Cornelio?
Here’s IP per season * means college plus some other league.
Cornelio
20: 14
21: 40*
22: 75
Bennett
20: 12
21: 83*
22: 117
We might not see Bennett this year. At 117 innings he’s already pitched more than anyone in the Nats minor league system. (I think the max in the Nats system is Caceras with 90)
Thanks for the intel Nattering. Yeah, we’re not seeing Bennett anytime soon. He pitched some very high leverage innings in the postseason this year
MLB.com put out their updated prospect rankings, and are a lot more bearish on our prospects than most others:
Hassell: 23
Green: 29
Wood: 35
Cavalli: 58
Abrams wasn’t ranked. I’m also really surprised House has apparently fallen completely off the list after featuring at 53 just last month!
https://www.mlb.com/prospects/top100/
Abrams wasn’t ranked because he graduated from Prospect status under MLB.com’s guidelines.
As Will noted C.j. Abrams is in that grey area where he is/isn’t still a prospect. In a week he’ll be off all of them.
The big difference in the rankings is James Wood. #13 or #35, they must be using different criteria.
KW favorite Will Frizzell is showing he doesn’t belong at Low A anymore. With 66 AB’s his OPS is 1.126 and at 23 he needs to be at a higher level.
Looking at the new Nats Top 30 there are, as usual, some knucklehead rankings.
Gerardo Carillo at #14 means nobody has looked at what he’s done in the last year.
Isreal Pineda is 22, his OPS at Harrisburg is .905 and he’s thrown out 40% of runners and MLB ranked him at 26th. Incredibly stupid.
While not a surprise, while reading the list found out Aldo Ramirez had TJ surgery in the spring, which the Nats f.o. never mentioned. We still don’t know what injury Holden Powell had.
Holden Powell had TJS. I got that from Mason Denaburg instagram. They were rehabing together with Todd Peterson and Tyler Dyson who both also had TJS
Wow, thanks for the updates. The Nats didn’t announce any of this.
Connell was hitting around .230 when he was sent down. He cursed loudly almost every time he struck out on the island. Maybe they were sending a message. Who knows.
he’s just not getting it done and has been getting the chance to play most every day. I keep watching, hoping he gets hot but nothing. the last 4 weeks have been awful
And Tommy John once pitching coach for Senators in ex- po years
Crossed fingers that Nats get some innings eaters out of several of the NCAA arms from July draft past