Wednesday’s News & Notes
| Rochester | Won, 3-2 (6 inn.) |
@ Syracuse, 6:35pm | Perales (0-3, 4.35) vs. Wenninger (2-1, 1.61) |
| Harrisburg | Lost, 10-6 | vs. Erie, 11am | Kent (1-0, 2.70) vs. Lockhart (1-0, 0.00) |
| Wilmington | Won, 14-8 | @ Hub City, 6:35pm | Randall (2-1, 2.70) vs. Pence (0-1, 3.10) |
| Fredericksburg | Lost, 4-3 | @ Hill City, 6:30pm | Conradt (1-1, 6.10) vs. Keljo (0-0, 1.26) |
| FCL Nationals | Postponed | OFF DAY |
Rochester 3 Syracuse 2 (6 inn.)
• Dubin 1IP, 2H, 1R, 1ER, 1BB, 2K
• Cornelio (W, 3-1) 4⅔ IP, 3H, 1R, 1ER, 2BB, 5K
• Penrod (SV, 1) ⅓ IP, 0H, 0R, 0BB, 0K
• Hassell 1-2, RBI, SB
• Chaparro 1-3, R, RBI
Red Wings put up three in the 4th and got an assist from the rain as they edged the S-Mets, 3-2 in six innings. Shawn Dubin was the opener was was dinged for a run on two hits and a walk in his lone inning pitched. Riley Cornelio came on in the 2nd and gave up the second Syracuse run over the next four and 2/3rds omn three hits and two walks while striking out five. That turned out to be the win while Zach Penrod was credited for a save for getting the last out of the 6th. Robert Hassell made his first appearance since April 26 and had an RBI single as did Andrés Chapparro as Rochester squeezed three runs out of four singles, two walks, and a hit batsman.
Erie 10 Harrisburg 4
• D. Garcia 4⅔ IP, 4H, 2R, 1ER, 3BB, 3K, HBP
• Gaston (L, 1-3) ⅔ IP, 2H, 4R, 4ER, 1BB, 2K, HBP
• Thomas 2-4, R, HR, 2RBI
• Pineda 2-4, R, 2B, OF assist @ 2B
• King 1E (8), Lomavita 2E (9)
Harrisburg ralied from deficits of 2-0 and 3-2 to take a 4-3 lead after four. Alas, a run in the 6th tied the game and the wheels came off the bus in the 8th as the Seawolves sent ten men to the plate in the 8th and six of ’em came ’round to score to hand the Sens a 10-4 loss. Davian Garcia didn’t make it out of the 5th as he was lifted with two outs and two runs let in on two hits, a walk, and an HBP. He struck out two. Sandy Gaston gave up four runs for the second straight appearance to lose for the third time. Johnathon Thomas singled and homered while Leandro Pienda had a safety and a two-bagger to lead the Harrisburg offense. Roster moves: OF Elijah Nunez promoted from Wilmington.
Wilmington 14 Hub City 8
• Polanco 3IP, 6H, 7R, 7ER, 3BB, 5K, HR, WP
• Montero (W, 3-0) 1IP, 0H, 0R, 0BB, 1K
• Fitz-Gerald 2-3, 4R, 3BB, 3B, HR, RBI
• R. Diaz 2-4, 2R, BB, 2RBI, SB(5)
• Green 2-5, R, HR, 3RBI, 2K
• Banks 1-3, 2BB, SB, E
The Blue Rocks rallied from a 7-1 deficit with five in the 4th and two in the 7th before putting the game away with another five-run outurst in the 8th. Bryan Polanco dug the seven-run hole over the first three innings with six hits (one HR) and three walks. Euri Montero was the pitcher of record when Wilmmington took the 8-7 lead and got the win. Devin Fitz-Geralsn tripled, homered, and walked three times while Randal Diaz reached base three times on a pair of singles and a walk to lead the Blue Rocks’ ten-hit, ten-walk offense. For those wondering, Ronny Cruz was hit in the face with a catcher’s pickoff throw while diving back to first.
Hill City 4 Fredericksburg 3
• Sime 2⅓ IP, 3H, 3R, 2ER, 3BB, 3K, 60-35 PIT-K
• Sullivan 3IP, 1H, 0R, 0BB, 2K
• Beck (L, 0-2) 4BF, 1H, 1R, 1ER, 2BB, 0K, HBP
• Cabrera 1-2, 2R, 2BB, SF, HR, 2RBI, SB(15)
• Willits 2-5, R, CS
Fredericksburg battled back from a 3-1 deficit to tie it at 3-3 in the 8th, but were walked off an inning later for a 4-3 loss to Hill City. Miguel Sime Jr. needed 60 pitches to get seven outs and was knocked for three runs (two earned) on three hits and three walks. Jared Beck loaded the bases on two walks and a hit batsman before giving up the game-winner to the fourth batter he faced. Yeremy Cabrera walked twice, homered, hit a sac fly, and stole his 15th base while Eli Willits and Luke Dickerson both went 2-for-5 on a night where the FredNats had zero hits in 10 RISP chances and left on ten baserunners. Roster moves: LHPs Ben Moore, Bryant Olson placed on the 7-Day I.L.
FCL Cardinals vs. FCL Nationals – PPD
The F-Nats were postponed again with no explanation or information about the makeup date on the FCL website, though it’s the same bat-time, same bat-channel on the 11th for the two teams. Roster moves: RHPs Colby Frieda, Baron Stuart assigned from Washington.
Lomavita had another catcher’s interference and he air mailed a throw into center field. King seems to want to field almost everything with just his glove hand. His error last night was on a throw to first. That’s a lot of errors for these two only a month into the season.
LM was that air mailed or FED EXd
What’s with Jonathan Thomas who has upped his game embracing his role as spelled out by Senior DD
Randall is like really the quiet up comer arm in chain
Nunez joins Thomas in DDs Felipe Alou small ball offense
Cruz nailed in the face
What a cosmic moon over head
The young Turks delicately doing a gradual spring farm barn cleaning …
Does Elijah Green leading the Nats minor-leaguers in HRs mean anything?
Pulchard : did Morgan anna the kissing bandit bring anything more to baseball than just distraction. ?
I once met her in my travels and she slowed me to rest my head in her
“ valley “
I don’t think so. Whether by instruction or Green just YOLO-ing it, he’s reaching newfound power, at the expense of everything that actually matters being a batter. (Though I’d be curious to know if the coaches have encouraged him to double-down on his worst tendencies)
In other years, this might’ve been more noteworthy (for example in 2024, we had exactly one player hit more than 20 HR, MILFA, Travis Blankenhorn, and only 2 the year before that, Blankenhorn again and James Wood), but there’s 3 guys right behind Green’s 7 HR, with 6 HR (Cruz, Cabrera and Wallace) who are displaying even better power than Green (Wallace has the exact same .250 ISO as Green, but Cruz’s ISO is .273 and Cabrera’s is a remarkable .323!). As we’re a bit short of the 20% of the season mark, all 4 guys are on pace for well around 30 HR, and Chaparro, Morales and King (at 5 HR), and even White, Crews, Pinckney, Petersen, Petry, Walsh, Fitz-Gerald, Jones and James (at 4 HR) are also very much in the mix to reach 20+ too.
It’s quite a quick turnaround in the power department. Just goes to show how sub-standard the coaching was that it could be “fixed” so quickly, which I’m quite surprised about. I’d have thought the coaching might’ve had much more permanent damage to many guys (kind of like Green, though it’s a bit of a chicken-or-egg situation; did the lousy coaches make Green one of the worst contact hitters in minor league baseball history or were the lousy coaches unable to fix Green from being the worst contact hitters?)
Just for the record, I will note that Rochester went 2-3 with RISP yesterday. Somehow the team struggling with RISP in a game seems to be much more noteworthy than when they don’t.
Help! send bullpen help, they blew it again this afternoon
Jackson Rutledge DFA