Monday’s News & Notes
| Team | Yesterday | Today | Pitching Probables |
| Rochester | Lost, 2-0 | OFF DAY | N/A |
| Harrisburg | Won, 5-4 (10 inn.) | OFF DAY | N/A |
| Wilmington | Lost, 10-7 | OFF DAY | N/A |
| Fredericksburg | Won, 6-5 (10 inn.) | OFF DAY | N/A |
Buffalo 2 Rochester 0
• Alvarez (L, 0-3) 5IP, 2H, 1R, 0ER, 4BB, 4K
• Sinclair 1⅔ IP, 3H, 0R, 1BB, 1K, HBP, 1-1 IR-S
• Knizer 3-4
• Hassell 2-4
Rochester outhit Buffalo, 8-5 but still lost, 2-0. It was the fourth whitewashing in 26 games. Andrew Alvarez allowed one unearned run on two hits and four walks. He struck out four while losing for the third time. All eight Red Wings hits were singles, with Andrew Knizer leading the way with three, followed by Robert Hassell with two.
Harrisburg 5 Erie 4 (10 inn.)
• Soroka 4⅓ IP, 4H, 2R, 2ER, 4BB, 1K, HR
• Peterson (W, 1-0) 2IP, 1H, 0R, 0BB, 1K
• Lile 3-5, 2R, RBI
• Wallace 2-4, R, HR, BB, 2RBI
• Schnell 2-4, BB, RBI
The Senators rallied from a 4-1 deficit with one in the 8th and two in the 9th, then walked off the SeaWolves in the 10th for a 5-4 win. Michael Soroka made his second rehab start and gave up two runs on four hits (one HR) over four and a 1/3rd innings. He walked four and struck out one. Todd Peterson kept Erie off the board in both the 9th and the 10th to earn the win. Daylen Lile went 3-for-5 with an 9th-inning RBI while Nick Schnell drove him in with the second of his two singles to tie the game. A walk, a sacrifice, an intentional walk, and an unintentional walk drawn by Jeremy De La Rosa pushed across the game-winning run in the 10th.
Aberdeen 10 Wilmington 7
• Clemmey 2⅔ IP, 6H, 6R, 6ER, 3BB, 5K, PO @ 1B, 71-42 PIT-K
• Glavine 2⅓ IP, 2H, 0R, 0BB, 2K, 3-2 IR-S
• Jimenez 1⅔ IP, 2H, 2R, 2ER, 3BB, 1K
• Cruz 2-4, 2R, E
• White 2-5, RBI, OF assist @ 2B
• Boisserie 2-5, E
Wilmington battled back from down 6-2 and 7-6 but had no answer for Aberdeen as the IronBirds scored in each of the last three innings to win the series finale, 10-7. Alex Clemmey labored through two and 2/3rd innings, putting on nine men on with six coming around to score, with 71 pitches thrown, 42 for strikes. The loss went to Yeuris Jimenez, who allowed two run on two hits and two walks over an inning and 2/3rds. Armando Cruz, T.J. White, and Branden Boisserie each had two singles in the Blue Rocks’ 11-hit parade.
Fredericksburg 6 Charleston 5 (10 inn.)
• Garcia 4⅔ IP, 4H, 3R, 3ER, 4BB, 2K, HBP, 2PO @ 1B
• Amaral (W, 1-0) 1IP, 0H, 0R, 0BB, 0K
• Ochoa 1-3, R, BB
• Tavares 1-3, R, BB, 2RBI
• Nunez 1-3, BB
The FredNats won an ugly one Sunday Afternoon in Woodbridge.
I’m glad you brought up the amateurishness of Fburg’s play, but it was systemic yesterday. Across 4 games, Nats teams committed 10 errors. But it wasn’t just the fielders, the pitchers struggled handling the ball too. Nats pitchers issued 25(!!!) walks (by comparison Nats batters only walked 12 times).
It really feels like a reversion to the putrid performances of 2022-2023. 2024 was defined by pitching breakouts, but this season who even are the standout pitchers so far this season? Jackson Kent has been quite good, but after that you’ve got Susana who’s been inconsistent, but on the whole good. And then after that a bunch of stinkers or relievers, excelling while being 2-3 years too old for their levels.
A silver lining is that this year may be the year of the bat. While there aren’t any Wood-ian performances early this season, there’s a lot to like about what House, Lile, Lomavita, and to a lesser extent Ross, Morales, Lipscomb have been doing.
Since I seem to routinely miss these sorts of updates, has there been any recent news on Sykora, Bennett, Dickerson or Petersen?
I presume Dickerson isn’t injured, and will just start the season in the FCL, but has this been confirmed? One would think that he being old for a HS pick (a few weeks shy of his 19th birthday when he was drafted), and for his signing bonus (record bonus for a player outside the first round) that he’d be a bit more advanced than his HS peers, many of whom anyway start their careers by skipping the FCL. Given that players routinely disappear with no explanation (see Morales’ nice 10 day vacation), I won’t write off it being an injury unless someone from the org has says it isn’t.
Yoyo told me that he was sick
Paul, you’re consistently a better source of information than the people who are paid to cover these things. Thanks!
it helps that I sit in the front row at the first base bag
During Spring Training, the Nats estimated that Sykora would return to pitch in the minors in mid-May. Haven’t heard a thing since (other than he was long-tossing in February and March). Guess we can start worrying if Sykora doesn’t pop up in the next couple of weeks.
The Florida Complex League starts THIS SATURDAY: Nats play the Astros (of course) at 10 am. So, guessing Dickerson debuts in 5 days.