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Peoria One-Hits Mesa to Earn Play-in Berth

“In Flanders Fields,” in honor of Veterans Day
Peoria’s pitchers retired 19 batters in a row before giving up a one-out double in the bottom of the 7th. Two right-side groundouts later, the Javelinas completed the 4-0 eclipse of the Solar Sox for a seven-inning, one-hit shutout and a spot in today’s play-in game against the Desert Dogs.
Three Nationals appeared in the game:

  • Drew Millas caught and batted cleanup. He went 1-for-4 with a strikeout.
  • Yasel Antuna was the No. 9 hitter and had a single in three trips to the plate.
  • Amos Willingham lost the perfect game in the 7th but struck out one while pitching a scoreless 7th inning. He threw 14 pitches, 10 for strikes.

The winner of tonight’s game between second-place Glendale (15-13) and third-place Peoria (14-14) will play first-place Surprise (19-10) tomorrow night at Scottsdale Stadium.

2 Commments

  1. Ross Stripling and a handful of lower lower tier targeted FAs for winter roster
    Watson will probably scoop up orphan FAs like Zach Collins to stash @ AAA

  2. It’s not just that the Peoria staff has been playing Millas so regularly, they’re also batting him clean-up. They must be seeing something in him that hasn’t been evident in his regular-season stats. With the Nats DFAing Barrera yesterday (he has already passed through waivers and been outrighted to Richmond), it seems more likely that they may add Millas to the 40-man by the Tuesday deadline to protect him from the Rule 5 draft.

    The Nats have a lot of interesting decisions to make, and as of right now only one slot open on the 40-man. It would make perfect sense to DFA Antuna right now when there’s very little chance that a team would add him to their 40-man instead of one of their own valued prospects . . . except nothing the Nats have done with him has made sense. And Rizzo never admits a mistake. (Although I’m betting that he’ll sorta admit one this week by not protecting Denaburg.)

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