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Wednesday’s News & Notes

Team Yesterday Today Pitching Probables
Rochester Won, 2-0 vs. Toledo, 11:05 a.m. Rutledge (1-0, 3.86) vs. Montero (0-0, 0.00)
Harrisburg Won, 3-2 vs. Richmond, 6:30 p.m. Cuevas (0-0, 8.31) vs. Ragsdale (0-0, 3.38)
Wilmington Won, 7-6 vs. Greenville, 6:35 p.m. Lara (1-1, 2.70) vs. Encarnacion (0-0, 12.27)
Fredericksburg Lost, 1-0 vs. Fayetteville, 12:05 p.m. B. Sanchez (0-0, 7.71) vs. Pecko (0-0, 2.84)

Rochester 2 Toledo 0
• Adon (W, 1-1) 5IP, 2H, 0R, 3BB, 6K, WP
• Barnes (SV, 1) 2IP, 1H, 0R, 1BB, 2K, WP
• Blankenhorn 3-4, R, HR, 2RBI
• Kieboom 1-2, 2BB

Two days after giving up a season-high 17 runs, five Red Wings pitchers combined to shut out the Mud Hens, 2-0 on five hits. Joan Adon led the way with five scoreless, allowing two hits and three walks while striking out six. Amos Willingham and Richard Bleier both earned holds while working the 6th and 7th while Jacob Barnes finished the game to earn his first save. Travis Blankenhorn’s two-run HR in the 3rd masked a 1-for-13 effort with RISP with 12 runners left on base. Roster moves: C Onix Vega reassigned from Harrisburg; IF Jackson Cluff placed on 7-Day I.L.

Harrisburg 3 Richmond 2
• Luckham 6IP, 4H, 2R, 2ER, 1BB, 4K, HR
• Schoff (W, 1-0) 1IP, 0H, 0R, 0BB, 2K
• Lawson 2-3, R, BB, RBI
• Pinckney 2-4, 2B
• 3-for-17 RISP, 12 LOB

Robert Hassell’s triple followed by a Dylan Crews single in the bottom of the 9th ended a 2-2 stalemate for a 3-2 walkoff win for Harrisburg. That made a winner out of Tyler Schoff, who struck out two in the top of the 9th. Kyle Luckham turned in the quality start of two runs on four hits (one HR) while walking one and striking out four over six. Cortland Lawson reached base with a walk and two singles while Andrew Pinckney singled and doubled to lead the Senators offense, which also sputtered in the clutch (3-for-17). Roster moves: C Matt Suggs reassigned from Wilmington.



Wilmington 7 Greenville 6
• Theophile 5IP, 3H, 3R, 0R, 2BB, 3K
• Zinn (W, 1-0) 1IP, 1H, 0R, 0BB, 1K
• Infante 2-3, 2R, 2BB, HR, 2RBI, E
• Lile 2-4, R, BB

SSDL though the Blue Rocks made an out as Viandel Peña two-run double in the bottom of the 9th drove Wilmington past Greenvile, 7-6. Jaren Zinn picked up the win with a scoreless 9th. Rodney Theophile got the start and let in three unearned on three hits over five innings. He walked two and struck out three. Sammy Infante led the Wilmington offense with two walks, a two-run HR ithat tied the game at 3-3, and a 9th-inning single that put the tying run into scoring position. Roster moves: C Ivan Murzi reassigned from XST.

Fayetteville 1 Fredericksburg 0
• Sullivan 5IP, 5H, 0R, 3BB, 8K, 83-54 PIT-K
• Schultz 1IP, 2H, 1R, 1ER, 0BB, 1K, HR
• Farmer 1-4, 2B
• Dugas 1-4, 2B

The FredNats’ funk continued as they were shut out, 1-0, to lose for the fourth time in five games. Liam Sullivan struck out eight and walked three while giving up five hits over five scoreless innings. Thomas Schultz wore the “L” with a solo HR allowed in the 8th to break up the Star Trek Convention on the [No Free Advertising] scoreboard. Fredericksburg threatened to tie the game in the 9th as Gavin Dugas led off the 9th with a double and took third on a balk after a Brandon Pimentel whiff. Elijah Green drew a two-out walk and was the wheels necessary to walk off with an extra-base hit but Roismar Quintana could not connect for the hit gap and instead rolled a groundout to end the game. Roster moves: LHP Gabriel Agostini, RHP Anthony Arguelles placed on 7-Day I.L.; RHPs Moises Diaz, Miguel Gomez reassignde from XST.

16 Commments

  1. Play the Subway ditty $5 footlong ..
    One would think an injury was at the root cause of Gabe crooked outing two days ago
    Can the starters all tonight warrent the Subway 5 ditty ?

    1. Good to see any offense – in this case FRED- score 11 runs ignited by so many doubles .
      Makes one think about what Uncle Lou Pinella always said : don’t look at his HR results .. look at his doubles ..

    2. Odd with all the pre game line up
      Changes
      Lara 7 Ks in 2 and a third
      Hmmm
      Cuevas sputters again

  2. After a few days of awful starts from pitching and good hitting, the affiliates flipped the script.

    Solid-to-good starts from all the SPs, and perhaps more interesting is the SPs seem to be getting stretched out. Luckham threw 89 pitches and Sullivan 83. Seems the shortened outings was just to build up stamina rather than a philosophical change.

    Don’t look now, but Elijah Green has somehow found a way to increase his otherworldly strikeout rate of 41.6% last season. His K% currently sits at 48.8%. Not sure that rebound we were hoping for is forthcoming.

    1. If it helps, one of the only players in the minors to strikeout more frequently than Green this season is Druw Jones, who went 3 picks before Green in the ’22 draft, who is putting up an impressive 60 K% in 8 games to date.

      And a reminder that player development is not linear: Jackson Holliday, the star and #1 pick of that same 2022 draft, presently the #1 prospect in baseball, is currently striking out at 52.2% in the majors, after never striking out above 21% at any level in the minors…

  3. Luckham looked good last night. The hitting with RISP was abysmal. Hassell and Crews came through when it mattered most.

  4. Theophile had them beating it into the ground all night. He got sloppy and walked two and his infielders joined in by booting two in the third for the three unearned but otherwise he was throwing free and easy. with over 20 starts in A+ over three seasons it may be time to see if his stuff plays in AA. Cuevas needs a good outing tonight on City Isle to solidify his spot in their rotation

  5. Sullivan is a college guy who is succeeding at low A, so I would expect that they move him up pretty quickly. His numbers at Georgia weren’t great, but as we know, some pitchers just need a tweak or two to find something.

    I didn’t have a chance to post yesterday, but kudos to Mitchell Parker. To get a win in Dodger Stadium in front of 42,000 against a lineup with multiple future Hall of Famers is the stuff of dreams. Whether he goes on to a decent career or not, he’ll always have Jackie Robinson Day.

  6. Nats 1st major league starts between Strasburg and Parker:
    (I only found 16, not the 17 I saw reported)

    Yunesky Maya 9/7/10 5 IP 4 ER L
    Tommy Milone 9/3/11 4.1 IP 4 ER ND
    Nate Karns 5/28/13 4.1 IP 3 ER ND
    Taylor Jordan 6/29/13 4.1 IP 1 ER L
    AJ Cole 4/28/15 2 IP 4 ER ND (the Dan Uggla game)
    Joe Ross 6/6/15 5 IP 3 ER L
    Lucas Giolito 6/28/16 4 IP 0 ER ND
    Reynaldo Lopez 7/19/16 4.2 IP 6 ER L
    Erick Fedde 7/30/17 4 IP 7 ER L
    Austin Voth 7/14/18 4.1 IP 7 ER L
    Joan Adon 10/3/21 5.1 IP 2 ER ND
    Evan Lee 6/1/22 3.2 IP 2 ER L
    Jackson Tetreault 6/14/22 4 IP 7 ER L
    Cade Cavalli 7/26/22 4.1 IP 7 ER L
    Jake Irvin 5/3/23 4.1 IP 1 ER ND
    Jackson Rutledge 9/13/23 3.2 IP 7 ER L

    1. No wonder there were no wins. Only 3 of them even qualified to be eligible for a win!

      Quite an interesting retrospective. Who’d have thought that Reynaldo Lopez would have a more successful career than Giolito? It looks like that could be the case. Lopez has been fabulous for the Braves so far (0.50 ERA in 3 starts), while Giolito is out until next summer.

      It’s also great to see Joe Ross healthy again and pitching reasonably well. He missed two entire seasons. That Brewers team has a few fun Nats alumni. Blake Perkins is playing extremely well, and Andruw Monasterio (remember him?) has also appeared for them.

      Fedde is proving that success in the Korean Baseball League doesn’t translate to MLB. If anyone didn’t catch it, he won both the league’s MVP AND Cy Young-equivalent award. An insanely dominating season. Now he’s back to the mediocre arm in Chicago that he was in DC.

  7. For what it’s worth, if you don’t think that there is scoring at a Star Trek Convention, you haven’t been to a ST convention in 40 years. And that’s all that I’ll say about that.

    1. John C : your comment made me think of the classic CSI Vegas episode we could call “ death at the Furry convention “
      I was on business in San Jose CA where at the Civic center there was a convention I cannot put the exact words together to entitle it
      Youngsters dressed up like figure with various colored hair straight outta the virtual cartoon adult swim variety .
      So glad baseball is rather tame and boring lol

      1. I’ve never seen the episode but I suspect that it’s just an excuse to make fun of people whose interests are different. I mean, is it worse for people to cosplay (dress up as) characters from their favorite TV/movie/comic book series than it is to see people cosplaying their favorite baseball players by wearing team jerseys/uniforms? So it’s not for you. That’s OK. Let people have their fun.

        And they do. Hence my note about scoring …

  8. Time and patience . Let talent hit their ceiling then move onto the next crop like
    Dating women through time
    Look at Pedro Avila . Now a reliever bound for the shores of Lake Erie .
    Yes Cuevas might have to put it all together since Lara is putting it together ( knock on wood ) at Will.

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