MMLR Player of the Day: Savannah RHSP John Gant.
Las Vegas (18-5) tramples Tacoma (10-10) 11-3.
Jacob deGrom (W, 3-0) gets the win: 5.0 IP, 2 R, 7 H, 3 BB, 2 K. (ERA 1.93)
Joel Carreno relieved: 3.0 IP, 0 R, 2 H, BB, K. (ERA 1.74)
Vic Black: 1.0 IP, R, 0 ER, H, BB, K.
Matt den Dekker: 2-4, BB, 2 RBI, R.
Andrew Brown: 1-4, HR, BB, RBI, 2 R.
Allan Dykstra: 1-4, BB, RBI.
Taylor Teagarden: 2-4, 2 HR, BB, 5 RBI, 3 R.
Game 1: Binghamton (11-7) eats up Erie (8-11) 8-1.
Matthew Bowman (W, 3-0) was solid: 5.1 IP, R, 5 H, 3 BB, 2 K. In 3 starts, Bowman’s ERA stands at 1.04.
Adam Kolarek (S, 1) was perfect for 1.2 innings.
Kyle Johnson: 3-4, HR, 2B, 3 RBI, 2 R.
Matt Clark: 2-4, HR, 3 RBI, R.
Game 2: Erie (9-11) shocks Binghamton (11-8) 6-5 with 3 in the bottom of the 7th.
Starter Darin Gorski: 5.0 IP, 3 R, 5 H, 3 BB, 6 K.
John Church: 0.2 IP, 2 H, K.
T.J. Chism: 0.0 IP, BB.
Chase Bradford: (BS, 1) (L, 1-1) 1.0 IP, 3 R, 1 ER, 2 H, 2 BB.
Darrell Ceciliani: 1-2, BB, RBI, R.
Travis Taijeron: 1-3, 2B, 2 RBI.
Xorge Carrillo: 1-3, 2B, R.
Wilfredo Tovar: 2-3.
Bradenton (13-9) trips St. Lucie (13-9) 4-3.
Domingo Tapia (L, 1-3) gave up just a little too much: 6.0 IP, 3 R, 7 H, BB, 2 K.
Paul Sewald was not his usual airtight self: 2.0 IP, R, 4 H, BB, 4 K.
Julian Hilario: 1.0 IP, 0 R, 0 H, BB, 2 K.
Brandon Nimmo is making a serious case for an early promotion to Binghamton: 3-5, RBI, 2 R, SB. Nimmo is now hitting .393.
T.J. Rivera, in his 3rd stint in St. Lucie, is doing everything right: 3-4, 2B, BB, RBI, SB. Why wasn’t he promoted to Binghamton in 2013 after his successful 23 yr old stint at St. Lucie in 2012? Rivera got his avg. up to .410 tonight.
Cam Maron: 2-4, RBI.
Eudy Pina: 2-4, 3B.
Lakewood (6-16) blanks Savannah (14-7) 3-0.
John Gant, (L, 2-1) with a superbly pitched game, takes the loss: 6.0 IP, R, 3 H, 3 BB, 10 K.
Tim Peterson: 0.2 IP, 2 R, 1 ER, 2 H, (HR) BB, K.
John Mincone: 1.1 IP, 0 R, H, 0 BB, 3 K.
Little offense this day. Savannah hit like gnats.
Patrick Biondi: 1-4, 2B.
Dominick Smith: 1-3, 2B.
Vegas team averaging 7.2 runs per game. 50 runs in past 4 games. Grandy is 15 for 120 since early in spring training. A picture in contrasts. Severe contrasts. I'd rather see Dekker out there right now instead of break-the-bank Grandy, with Dekker making peanuts and perhaps doing well in a lefty/righty platoon.
ReplyDeleteGreat for Bowman and Degrom, two rising stars.
With Grandy at $60+ million, you can bet your ass he is going to be playing every day. He has to come out of it and start hitting. I stll believe . . but I also thought Bay would eventually come around too. I am praying that their situations are not analogous.
ReplyDeleteThe entire farm system has been playing faantastic baseball, a precursor of things to come at Citifield for the years to come.
Herb -
ReplyDeleteThe sad part about minor league baseball teams... they all don't elevate to the next level at the same time against the rest of the teams in the league that would also elevate all their players at the same time.
Then, you would win again.
Success at the minor league level gets you 3-4 players a year to join 21-22 other players that were already playing major league baseball... and... you have to play against the creme of the other teams.
No minor league success guarantees anything, but, what we have seen for the last three years is going to make it a lot easier.
I hope management can see their way to Grandy playing "every day" to total 140 starts max if he does not start to hit. I think he could use a little leg pull like Lagares...miss a week, rehab against weaker pitching for a week and come back possibly with a fresh start.
ReplyDeleteGrandy's established a new Mendoza line standard - for him it is .130 - and he's back under it. He is 11 for 85 after finishing spring 5 for 44. This stretch of non-hitting is unnerving and a real drag on what is turning out to be a surprisingly good team.