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Monday’s News & Notes

Team Yesterday Today Pitching Probables
Rochester Lost, 8-7 OFF DAY N/A
Harrisburg Won, 7-0 OFF DAY N/A
Wilmington Lost, 13-3 OFF DAY N/A
Fredericksburg Postponed OFF DAY N/A
DSL Nationals OFF DAY @ DSL Twins, 11am

Scranton/Wilkes-Barre 8 Rochester 7
• Solesky 4IP, 8H, 6R, 6ER, 2BB, 4K, 2HR
• Thompson (BS, 1; L, 0-1) ⅔ IP, 2H, 2R, 2ER, 1BB, 1K, HR
• Baker 3-5, SB(20)
• Schnell 2-4, 2R, BB, HR, 3RBI
• Morales 2-4, 2R, BB, RBI

Rochester battled back from down 6-1 to take a 7-6 lead but the bullpen wasn’t up to the task of holding the lead to lose, 8-7. Chase Solesky gave up two three-run HRs and eight hits total while walking two and striking out four over the first four innings. Mason Thompson took the loss on a walk followed by a homer in the 7th. The Red Wings got the tying run on in each of its last three times at bat but left all three on for a total of eleven. Rochester homered twice (Andrés Chapparro, Nick Schnell) in a ten-hit, seven-walk offense. Roster moves: IF José Tena recalled to Washington.

Harrisburg 7 Akron 0
• Cornelio 5IP, 2H, 0R, 1BB, 1K
• Sinclair 2IP, 0H, 0R, 2BB, 0K
• C. De La Cruz 2-4, R, HR(10), 2RBI
• Suggs 2-4, R, 2B, 2RBI
• Witt 2-4, 2R, 2B

Four Senators pitchers combined to shut out the RubberDucks, 7-0 on three hits and take the series, 4-2. Riley Cornelio allowed the first two Akron hits and walked one to win his fourth AA game in ten starts. Harrisburg had crooked numbers in the 2nd, 7th, and 8th as they marched to an 11-hit parade, led by Carlos De La Cruz with a single and his tenth HR, followed by Matt Suggs and Paul Witt who both went 2-for-4 with a double. Phillip Glasser also went deep with his fourth longball of the year.

Jersey Shore 13 Wilmington 3
• Y. Tejeda (L, 0-1) 3⅓ IP, 4H, 5R, 5ER, 3BB, 2K, HR
• Bollenbacher 2IP, 0H, 0R, 0BB, 1K
• Lomavita 2-4, PB(6), E(17)
• Ross 3-3, 2R, BB, 3B
• 1-8 RISP, 9 LOB

Wilmington led this one briefly at 2-1 but couldn’t keep Jersey Shore off the board as the BlueClaws scored in five straight “ups” to smash the Blue Rocks, 13-3. Yoel Tejeda was knocked from the box in the 4th with five runs allowed on four hits (one HR) and three walks to lose his High-A debut. Three relievers threw in-game BP for eight runs before Matt Bollencbacher put up zeroes in the 7th and 8th. Jackson Ross reached base four times on a triple, two singles, and a walk while Chad Lomavita and Jared McKenzier both singled twice to pace the Wilmington offense.



Fayetteville vs. Fredericksburg – PPD
The series finale between the FredNats and the Woodpeckers was rained out. They’ll make it up next month at an undetermined date when Fayetteville returns to Fredericksburg from August 19 to August 24. Roster moves: Released – OF Francesco Barbieri, IF Kelvin Diaz; Activated from the I.L. – C Jose Colmenares; Reassigned from the FCL – RHP Victor Farias, IF Angel Feliz, LHPs Tommy Kane and Bryant Olson.

DSL Nationals, 17-22, T6th place, DSL South, 10GB
The DSL Nationals are in the midst of a four-game losing streak that’s dropped them into the DSL South cellar and a double-digit games behind. There’s no mystery as to why: The run differential is now -53. This week, it’s road games today, Thursday, and Friday and home games tomorrow and Saturday.

11 Commments

  1. Is Ross store a corporate sponser on each affiliate Joe Ross plays on?
    Good luck , Tena!
    Ne Farias and Citizen Kane in the FRED fold
    Put Tommy to work .
    Play Pinball Wizard for him

    2. Oh no Travis !!! Wailing and bashing of teeth now
      Add a year to the rebuild
      But don’t trade Gore to the Cubs

      1. I’ve said this repeatedly that this org simply does not know how to keep its pitchers healthy.

        Literally every single one of our top pitching prospects over the past decade has had TJ. This is beyond normal and downright frightening.

        And please don’t tell me every other team goes through this. No way as many as the Nats.

        There is something fundamentally wrong with their throwing programs and/ or pitcher strength and training regimens.

        I pray that whoever the new GM is sees this too and finally makes the necessary changes

        Unreal…and you just know Susanna is not far behind with a d surgery if his own.

        ***end rant

  2. Caleb Lomavita continues his historic campaign of defensive futility:

    17 errors in 57 games as a catcher

    Three are 14 MLB catchers that have caught 70 or more MLB games. None has more than 7 errors.

    Thought/hoped when Lomavita was racking the errors early on that it was a just a outlier spike that would moderate as the season continued. It hasn’t. Also, Lomavita his given up 96 steals in 57 games (25% CS rate) which is dreadful.

    Realize that Lomavita is having a solid offensive season (particularly considering that he plays half his games in Wilmington), but without radical improvement, Lomavita will have to change positions.

    1. Not disagreeing with your read of Lomavita’s seemingly historic error rate, but 25% CS% isn’t dreadful. In fact, it’s a bit above average. In the Sally League this year, runners are 1798 for 2259, or 79.6% successful. Lomavita’s 75.9% CS% doesn’t suggest he’s a whiz though, and the 17 errors are an eyesore.

  3. After all the hype that was made when we drafted him, looks like we are back to square one on finding a catcher

    Given the failure that has been Ruiz and the once again lack of true catching talent in the system, I’m starting to warm up to the idea of using Gore as a trade chip to bring in one.

    We can’t go another year like this

  5. Through a trade, the Nats ideally would find a solid defensive catcher, who can switch hit and run a little bit… Like… um Drew Millas. 😉

  6. I shake my head (as I’m sure the Nats do as well) because every pre-draft eval about Lomavita last year was that he was solid defensively.

    Of course now the questions fall on the development team. Do we not have anyone in the organizing who can fine-tune a guy who supposedly was a decent defensive catcher not too long ago?

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