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Thursday’s News & Notes

Team Yesterday Today Pitching Probables
Rochester Lost, 10-5 vs. Lehigh Valley, 6:05 p.m. T. Romero (5-5, 5.20) vs. Plassmeyer (2-4, 5.62)
Harrisburg Lost, 7-4 vs. Bowie, 6:30 p.m. Ward (0-2, 3.60) or Luckham (AA debut)
M. Cuevas (3-8, 5.44) vs. Gillespie (7-4, 3.71)

Lehigh Valley 10 Rochester 5
• Parker 3+ IP, 4H, 5R, 5ER, 4BB, 3K, HR
• Mengden 2IP, 2H, 0R, 2BB, 3K, 1-1 IR-S
• Knowles (L, 0-1) 1+ IP, 2H, 3R, 3ER, 1BB, 1K
• Tostado 2-3, R, BB
• Rutherford 2-4, 2B, 2RBI
• Dunn 2-4

It was a rough night of AAA debuts for Mitchell Parker and Lucas Knowles as the IronPigs smelted the Red Wings, 10-5. Parker made the start and went three-plus innings, allowing five runs on four hits (one HR) and four walks. He struck out three. Knowles took the loss as he put the first three batters he faced in the 7th on base and all three scored, “thanks” to José Mujica. Blake Rutherford singled, doubled, and drove in two while Jack Dunn and Frankie Tostado both singled twice to lead the Rochester offense. Roster moves: RHP Jackson Rutledge recalled to Washington; RHP Mason Thompson optioned from Washington; LHP Mitchell Parker reassigned from Harrisburg.

Bowie 7 Harrisburg 4
• Alvarez (L, 0-3) 4IP, 6H, 4R, 4ER, 1BB, 4K, 2HR
• Ruotolo 1IP, 0H, 0R, 0BB, 0K
• Hassell 1-4, R, BB, HR, RBI
• Wood 1-3, R, BB

Bowie and Harrisburg traded crooked numbers in the 1st before the BaySox opened up a three-run lead that they held for a 7-4 win over the Senators. Andrew Alvarez lost for the third time in five AA starts, letting in four runs on six hits (two HR) and a walk while striking out four. Robert Hassell hit his 8th HR while James Wood reached base twice on a single and a walk to pace the Sens offense. Roster moves: RHP Kyle Luckham reassigned from Wilmington.




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  1. Time to play the Dirty Harry line at Sens game :
    You feel Lucky punk ? We’ll do yah ??
    Lol!

  3. Which first rounder’s MLB debut was worse? Cavalli or Rutledge?

    Cavalli: 4.1 IP, 6 H, 2 BB, 3 HBP, 6 K, 7 ER, 14.54 ERA
    Rutledge: 3.2 IP, 10 H, 1 BB, 2 K, 1 WP, 7 ER, 17.18 ERA

    Let’s just hope that Rutledge, unlike Cavalli, will get a chance for a second start…

  4. Thompson’s demotion has been a long time coming. After starting the season extremely well (1.80 ERA through his first 12 games, and a 3.66 ERA through June), he’s completely fallen apart in the 2nd half. Since July 1st, he has a 10.43 ERA, 2.38 WHIP through 18 games. Most concerningly is that his strikeouts have almost completely disappeared. Through his first 3 months, he was striking out almost 1 per inning (36 K in 39 IP), but in the past three months, he’s only struck out 8 in 14.2 IP. A potential silver lining is that he’s been really unlucky. Over the past three months, he has a .450 BABIP and only allowed one HR (and only 8 XBH in total of the 28 allowed). So there’s some downright bad luck, but still no reliever will succeed striking out about 5 per 9 IP…

  5. There’s been several false dawns before in the season, but Hassell is now gone 7 for 13 over his past 3 games, and is hitting .279/.354/.372 in September. Not great, but potentially encouraging. But I made an almost identical post in early August, then he went 5 for 44 over the past 2 weeks of August…

    With his mini “hot streak”, Hassell seems to me the most logical AFL candidate. Especially because his appearance there last season was cut short by the wrist injury in his 2nd game.

    1. Cuevas just couldn’t figure out Basillo and Beavers on the 14 th.
      Listening to the classic tune dedicated to Bill Evans who passed on a previous 9-15 . The Pat Methany / Lyle Mays song used in the old film with Kevin Costner Fandango .

  7. At Harrisburg tonight, quite the 1st inning:
    Hassell BB
    Crews BB
    Woods RBI single
    House 1st pitch HR against the scoreboard!

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