The Herd:
Slowly but steadily, Nick Evans' bat is coming alive for the Buffalo Bisons.
Evans singled home a first-inning run to extend his hitting streak to seven games on this road trip as the Herd edged the Indianapolis Indians, 2-1, on Sunday afternoon before 7,511 at Victory Field.
Evans' season average of .157 still is well below the Mendoza line, but he is 8 for 28 (.286) on the road trip that ends at 7 Monday night
Evans was 1 for 5 on Sunday. Five of his eight hits on the trip have been for extra bases.
After Brian Bixler led off the bottom of the first inning with a home run to right against starter Tobi Stoner (3-4), the Bisons pushed across the winning run in the third against losing pitcher Ian Snell (2-2).
Monday, July 27 at Altoona 7:05 pm LHP Eric Niesen (1-5, 7.36) vs. RHP Michael Crotta (4-6, 5.12)
Tuesday, July 28 at Altoona 7:05 pm RHP Brad Holt (2-3, 5.45) vs. RHP Derek Hankins (2-3, 4.50)
Wednesday, July 29 at Altoona 7:05 pm RHP Eric Brown (4-12, 6.73) vs. LHP Daniel Moskos (7-8, 3.90)
Thursday, July 30 at Altoona 7:05 pm RHP Jake Ruckle (1-2, 7.50) vs. LHP Kyle Bloom (4-5, 3.54)
Lucy:
I think people are seriously overrating Adrian Cardenas' hitting ability. Personally, I believe Reese Havens to be a better MI prospect. Havens plays better defense, and has much more potential with the bat than Cardenas. In my opinion, Havens can be a poor man's Chase Utley at 2B by hitting close to .300 with 20 HRs. Cardenas on the other hand, will be a .280-.290 hitter with 5-10 HRs. Why are people so in love with this guy? Sure he is doing well in AA, but it is an extremely hitter friendly league and his BAPIP is ridiculously high at .389. Furthermore, Cardenas' ISOP in the hitter friendly Texas League is only .130, whereas Havens in the tough FSL is a healthy .193 ISOP. Havens has also been quite unlucky with a .258 BAPIP. In the end, Cardenas gets too much love, and Havens not enough.
http://www.minorleagueball.com/2009/7/25/962704/reese-havens-adrian-cardenas
Clones:
The Brooklyn Cyclones (25-11) completed a sweep of the Staten Island Yankees (19-17) with a 10-9 slugfest win over their cross-river rivals.Brooklyn plated four runs in the top of the first inning to set the tone for the high-scoring game. The Cyclones notched a total of 10 hits to go with their 10 runs, and three Brooklyn players -- Dock Doyle, Sam Honeck, and Tyler Vaughn -- recorded multi-hit games.LF Nick Santomauro continued his hot hitting by belting a solo home run in the fifth inning, his third of the season, and his second in as many games. Santomauro (pictured, by George Napolitano) has hit .471 (8-for-17) in his last five games, and raised his season average to .263.Seven Cyclones recorded RBI in the game, and seven crossed the plate to score runs.Brooklyn's starter, Brandon Moore, was hit hard for the first time all season, surrendering five earned runs in 4.1 innings. His ERA on the year now stands at 2.18.The Cyclones return home on Monday, July 27th to take on division-rival Aberdeen Ironbirds on Italian Heritage Night. The team will be wearing special Italian Heritage jerseys, and the evening's entertainment will be Italian-themed. The game is presented by Local 926.
Sunday night, the Kingsport Mets suffered their sixth consecutive home loss, falling to the Elizabethton Twins by a 6-3 margin in 11 innings.
Kingsport now holds a disproportionate 4-14 record in home games at Hunter Wright Stadium. And, with a 10-22 cumulative mark in the Appalachian League, the K-Mets are one of three New York Mets minor-league affiliates mired in last place.
First-year K-Mets manager Mike DiFelice seems determined not to let the nightly setbacks affect his team’s mind-set.
“We’ve got a lot of games left to play and the thing we don’t want here is to have our guys lay down,” he said after Sunday’s loss. “This is, for a lot of them, this will be the end of their career. For a lot of them, it’s an opportunity to show what they can do. We want them to continue to come out here and play hard baseball
The Mets rank seventh in the majors with an average home attendance of 39,209. That puts them at just over 93 percent capacity for the season, but only because Citi Field (41,800 capacity) is so much smaller than Shea (57,354).
With high ticket prices and a struggling Mets team, Citi Field may house more empty seats as the season drags on.According to CNBC, Mets home attendance is down 22 percent from where it was at the 2008 All-Star break, the biggest such decrease in the majors.
Team executives have said the Mets are fortunate to have the drawing power of a new venue in a difficult economy. But even they said the new ballpark bump can only last so long when the team is playing poorly.
Now one of them–Dominican shortstop Alvaro Aristy–has been suspended for 50 games after testing positive for a metabolite of Nandrolone. The Padres gave Aristy $1 million last year.
Aristy, now 17, is the highest-profile prospect in the Dominican Summer League who has ever received a suspension after testing positive for steroids. When Aristy signed, international scouts said he was a glove-first player who had a ways to go at the plate. In 30 DSL games this summer, Aristy hit .183/.326/.279 with 22 walks, 35 strikeouts and five extra-base hits.
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