Tuesday’s News & Notes
| Team | Yesterday | Today | Pitching Probables |
| Rochester | OFF DAY | vs. St. Paul, 4:05 p.m. | Adon (2-3, 6.09) and Zeuch (0-0, 14.21) vs. Dobnak (3-3, 4.33) and VS. Boushley (4-1, 4.54) |
| Harrisburg | Lost, 7-3 | OFF DAY | N/A |
| Wilmington | OFF DAY | @ Bowling Green, 7:35 p.m. | Cáceres (0-3, 5.50) vs. Davitt (3-3, 3.30) |
| Fredericksburg | OFF DAY | @ Down East, | B. Sanchez (0-1, 6.86) vs. Mendoza (1-2, 3.16) |
| FCL Nationals | Lost, 4-0 | vs. FCL Cardinals, 12 p.m. |
Rochester Red Wings, 25-23, 5th place I.L. East, 8GB
Rochester won its second straight series, 4-3, but fell a game and a half further back in the division. Thanks to the bevy of rainouts, it’s another seven-game series, with St. Paul coming to town and twinight doubleheader today.
Binghamton 7 Harrisburg 3
• Luckham (L, 2-3) 5⅔ IP,10H, 6R, 6ER, 1BB, 3K
• Tice 1⅓ IP, 0H, 0R, 0BB, 3K
• Arruda 2-4
• Crews 1-4, RBI, SB, CS
Binghamton jumped out to a 3-1 lead after two and extended it to 6-1 with a three-spot in the 6th to defeat Harrisburg, 7-3. Kyle Luckham took the brunt of the beating, giving up six runs on ten hits over five and 2/3rds while suffering his third loss. He walked one and struck out three. The Senators collected nine hits—all singles—and three walks, with J.T. Arruda leading the paper-cut brigade with two, followed by Andrew Pinckney and Robert Hassell, wite one safety and one base-on-balls apiece. Roster move: OF Lane Thomas MLB Rehab ended.
Wilmington Blue Rocks, 21-22, 6th place Sally Lg. North, 4GB
The Blue Rocks remain on the road, heading from Rome, Ga. to South Atlantic’s inland outpost (only ~550 miles to the Atlantic coast!). Last week, Wilmington fell back into last place after losing its series, 4-2.
Fredericksburg Nationals, 25-14, 2nd place C.L. North, -.005 Pct.
Fredericksburg heads back out on the road for six against the Wood Ducks after losing its first series of the year, 4-2 to Lynchburg. The FredNats are percentage points behind the Mudcats, as Carolina has yet to make up two rainouts against the Firelies from earlier this month. Miraculously, Fredericksburg and Carolina will actually play each other on June 11-16, which is not a given due to MiLB’s emhpasis on reducing travel costs at the, um, expense of competitive considerations.
FCL Marlins 4 FCL Nationals 0
• B. Romero (L, 0-1) 5IP, 6H, 3R, 2ER, 2BB, 5K
• Ogando 3IP, 3H, 1R, 0ER, 0BB, 1K
• Rombach 1-2, 2B, BB, 3-3 SBA-CS
The F-Nats barely avoided being no-hit, with Nate Rombach hitting a ground-rule to lead off the 5th in a 4-0 loss to the F-Marlins. Brayan Romero took the loss, his first, while allowing three runs on six hits and two walks. He struck out five. Rombach also drew a walk, as did Elian Soto and Carlos Tavares to account for the FCL Nationals’ four (4) baserunners.
https://x.com/granthpaulsen/status/1795456449075671070
“Nats super-prospect James Wood is going to miss at least a couple weeks with a hamstring strain from what I’m told.
Ideally he comes back quickly and picks up where he left off so that he gets a well-earned call to the major leagues soon.”
Ughh… this is such horrible timing. Even in the most optimistic scenario, where he takes two weeks to recover, and then immediately returns to OPS’ing around 1.000, he’s still 3-4 weeks away from a potential promotion, but it’s looking much more likely that it’ll be 2-3 months from now. I guess this relieves a bunch of pressure on Meneses, Gallo and Rosario.
Questions for all those that post here:
How much do you believe in Mitchell Parker’s MLB success?
Is it sustainable?
From following his MILB career, he had dominant outings, but followed by regression.
Neither Jake Irvin nor Parker were considered can’t miss MLB prospects, but they have both performed well for the Nats, with small sample sizes.
something has clicked for Parker in that he is averaging under 2 BB/9. he has never done that even for 1-2 games in the minors. his success will be dependent on maintaining that command. some regression the second time around the league will be natural and I still him as a back of the rotation starter, something I would not have said a year ago.