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Team Yesterday Today Pitching Probables
Rochester Won, 17-0 vs. Toledo, 7:05 p.m. Verrett (7-7, 3.79) vs. Br. Garcia (1-3, 3.42)
Harrisburg Lost, 8-4 @ Richmond, 6:35 p.m. Herrera (4-8, 4.69) vs. Roupp (1-0, 4.50)
Wilmington Lost, 9-1 @ Brooklyn, 7 p.m. E. Lee (0-1, 6.75 vs. Hamel (4-1, 3.46)
Fredericksburg Won, 11-9 vs. Delmarva, 7:05 p.m. Lara (3-7, 5.72) vs. Chace (1-5, 5.62)

Rochester 17 Toledo 0
• Adon (W, 1-2) 5⅓ IP, 2H, 0R, 3BB, 3K
• Weems 1IP, 0H, 0R, 0BB, 0K
• Stevenson 4-6, 3R, HR, RBI, SB
• Fox 3-5, 2R, BB, 2B(5), 3B, 3RBI
• Pineda 2-3, 3R, 2BB, 2B, HR, 5RBI
• Bank 2-4, R, BB, 2B(10), 4RBI

Four Rochester pitchers shut out Toledo on four hits while the Red Wings batters roasted the Mud Hens pitchers for 17 runs and 15 hits. Joan Adon picked up his first win in the minors with five and 1/3rd scoreless innings pitched, allowing two hits and three walks while fanning three. Rochester built a 6-0 with a pair of three-run innings in the 1st and 2nd, extended it to 10 with a four-run 6th, and then got a touchdown and an extra point in the 7th. Andrew Stevenson led the hit column with three singles and a homer while Israel Pineda doubled, homered, and drove in five in his AAA debut.
Roster moves: C Tres Barrera, RHP Mason Thompson recalled to Washington.

Richmond 8 Harrisburg 4
• Troop 5IP, 5H, 4R, 4ER, 1BB, 10K, 2HR
• Peguero (L, 2-6) 4BF, 2H, 4R, 3ER, 2BB, 0K, WP
• M. Peña 2IP, 0H, 0R, 1BB, 4K, 3-3 IR-S
• Harris 2-4, R, HR, 2RBI
• Antuna 2-4, 2-2B, RBI

The Flying Squirrels struck for four in the 7th to break a 4-4 deadlock as they doubled up the Senators, 8-4. Alex Troop continues to show signs of tiring as he gave up four runs on two home runs (that’s six over his last three starts) and five hits total over five innings. He walked one and struck out a career high of ten. Francys Peguero put on all four batters he faced to lose his sixth game. Trey Harris bookended a four-inning picket fence with a HR in the 2nd and an RBI single in the 5th while Yasel Antuna doubled twice and drove in a run to pace the Harrisburg offense. The loss eliminated the Sens from the second-half race.

Brooklyn 9 Wilmington 1
• Parker (L, 6-4) 4IP, 4H, 3R, 2ER, 3BB, 4K, WP
• Chu 1IP, 2H, 0R, 0BB, 1K
• Mendoza 1-3, 2B
• Connell 1-4, RBI

Wilmington barely avoided the shutout while their tragic number was dropped to two in a 9-1 loss to Brooklyn. Mitchell Parker lost for the fourth time as he was spun for three runs (two earned) on four hits and three walks over four innings. He struck out four. Paul Witt led off the 9th with a single, took second on a wild pitch, third on an error, and scored on an RBI groundout by Justin Connell.

Fredericksburg 11 Delmarva 9
• Caceres 4⅔ IP, 5H, 8R, 8ER, 6BB, 2K
• Collins (W, 4-2) 2⅓ IP, 2H, 0R, 0BB, 4K, 3-2 IR-S
• Lipscomb 3-5, R, SB(10), CS
• Young 2-4, R, BB, 2RBI, 2SB
• Lawson 2-5, 2R, HR, 4RBI, SB
• Frizzell 2-5, 2RBI

The FredNats continue their domination of the Shorebirds as they won a see-saw battle, 8-6 for their 12th straight win against the O’s Low-A affiliate. Bryan Caceres failed to give up fewer hits than innings pitched for the tenth straight appearance as he let in eight runs on five hits and six walks over four and 2/3rds innings. Brendan Collins let in two of three inherited runners while getting out of the 5th but turned in two scoreless. He would get the “W” as Cortland Lawson’s two-run HR broke the 8-8 stalemate. Fredericksburg marched to a 15-hit parade with Trey Lipscomb leading the way with three singles and one of six stolen bases on the night. The win reduced the FredNats’ magic number to five as they lead the C.L. North by 5½ games with ten games left to play.

23 Commments

  1. Trey Lipscomb stole only seven bases across 103 games in college. He now has 10 in 17 games as a pro. Interesting . . . He also has 22 hits across those 17 games, which is a great start to his pro career. The power that was his calling card for his senior season has yet to show up, but there looks like a lot to like in the full package.

    2. Jake Irwin has two starts to reach 100 IPs . He’s not part of the load factor management program I guess..

  2. James Wood has been MIA for Fburg’s last three games. Any word on what’s up with him? Likewise, Jeremy de la Rosa has been absent since August 27.

    I’m not sure the org can bear another top prospect getting severely injured with Cavalli, House, Henry, Rutledge and Carrillo, the Nationals’ #1, 2, 3, 6 and 7th top (JDLR being #5) picks to start the season, all suffering relatively serious injuries this season.

    Maybe in addition to an overhaul to player development, they need to look at the medical team too…

      1. Even stud horses need down time to rest the bones …think back to how Olympic Stadium fake turf wore down so many knees especially Hawk Dawson .

          1. Oops Kilome softly with his AAA Swan song pitched for red wings .
            80 IP for AAA
            A late addition to Nats farm so he’s logged his share of IP considering the 100 IP club includes Herrera , Reyes , Lara and JR .

  3. In perfect fashion, TJ White keeps his monthly boom-bust rotation in sync, starting his down month, September, with an 0 for 3. He batted an impressive .309/.380/.485 in August. But now that we’re into an odd month, he’s destined to slump.

    After a very worrying start, McKenzie already seems to have adjusted to A ball pitchers. He struck out in 11 of his first 20 plate appearances for an unsightly 55% K%, but in his past six games, he’s only struck out 5 times in 27 appearances (18.5%), while hitting an insane .462/.482/.615.

    Not sure what more Frizzell has to do to impress. His OPS in July was 1.040, was 1.114 in August and he just started where he left off in September with a 1.000 OPS.

    It’s funny that Fredericksburg has had such an entertaining offense from start to finish (albeit with a big lull in the middle), while the offense has come from an almost entirely different set of players right now as the one to start the season (composed of House, JDLR, Pena, Emiliani, and Infante). TJ White is basically the only guy still around.

    1. Still something to work on:
      Frizzell vs LHP: 136/174/227

      Only 22 AB vs LHP. He needs reps. Other than playing every day, what can you do about that?

      Sammy Infante is still in Fredericksburg. Has 17 HR, but here’s his OPS per month:
      April .900
      May .860
      June .684
      July .648
      August .369

      1. Everybody loves Raymond ( drum roll!)
        Something Rodney probably doesn’t know : there was a Belgian inventor named Zenobe – Theophile Grammy
        Watch Rodney come out of the Will bullpen after Evan Lee gets his work in .
        Lawson has wheels but maybe Tenn Vol skipper had Earl Weaver
        Tendencies believing in good pitching and the 3 run tater .

    2. They’re apparently keeping Frizzell at Fredericksburg for the playoff drive. He wouldn’t gain much by a couple of weeks at the A+ level anyway. One would think that he is one of several the organization will hope can move through two levels next season.

      It’s going to challenging, in a positive way, to rank the top 10 bats this fall. In the last few years, it has been hard to find anyone worthy beyond the top three or four guys.

      Conversely, the pitching depth really hasn’t developed. I’m still not sure what to make of mid-level guys like Troop and Parker, both of whom have flashed some promise, but as last night shows, they’re still works in progress. Does Troop get added to the 40-man and protected from Rule 5?

    4. The cool thing about TJ White is that like stepping into the Project Looking glass Portel : one sees a guy with numbers something like
      20 HR 80 ish rbis and 16-20 SB despite not being in a lineup slot with prime “ ducks on the pond “ frequency .

  4. Adon looked pretty tidy the first couple of innings, then threw 10 balls in his first 11 pitches in the third. most were not close to strikes. after a mound visit from Rafael Chaves he got a double play grounder and weak chopper to get out of the inning in four more pitches. not quite as sharp the last two innings as the first two but still an encouraging outing.

    Pineda’s season is nothing short of shocking. just goes to show that development is not always linear.

    even though it seems like baseball is a linear game ’cause of the lines and the box scores an’all — but the fact is that there’s a spacious-“non-time kind of time” to it…

    1. Pineda hit .204 in April and struck out 25 times in May. In July, even with being promoted mid-month, he only struck out six times. He somehow managed to radically improve his contact while also getting a power boost at the same time.

      I sure hope Adon can be salvaged, as they desperately need him to develop. Their overly rapid promotion of him will always be difficult to explain.

      1. I think it was as simple as he was the best available option. in 2021, for the first time he seemed to have found better command. now back to old performance. you could argue the promotion derailed him, but I don’t think so. even last night he’d hit periods of wildness. but hitting high 90’s will get you out of jams. still young enough for it to click again.

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