Link Report for Thurs. 6/4 -- Wild, Wild Win for Brevard

[Mass Haas]

Final: Brevard County 7, Sarasota (Reds) 6, 14 innings

 

Brevard County Box Score

Lee Haydel's RBI ground-rule double in the 14th and Roque Mercedes' subsequent save make a winner of catcher Brett Whiteside, who tossed three scoreless innings, facing the minimum nine batters; this team with the best record in all of minor league baseball still manages to win on a night when their amazingly effective bullpen finally falters; early on, Brandon Rapoza stranded a runner in the 2nd inning for Mark Rogers -- Rogers only faced eight batters, that pitch count adherence doesn't waiver at all, does it? Whiteside went from pitcher to catcher for the 14th inning, taking over for emergency third catcher Sergio Miranda; the Manatees stranded 16; Haydel had four hits, Steffan Wilson three, everyone saw their share of at-bats, naturally...

 

Brevard County Game Log

Four hours and 53 minutes in an 85 degree sweatbath -- now that's fun! Reliever Mark Willinsky came up big when he came on in the 6th; man on 3rd, none out in the Manatee 8th, and the next three batters strike out -- yuck; Logan Schafer's toss to Zelous Wheeler for the relay throw to the plate was huge to end the 8th -- what a game; Caleb Gindl couldn't drive in the go-ahead run in the 9th with one out and the bases loaded; a testy Rob Wooten took out his 8th inning frustrations by K'ing the side swinging in order in the bottom of the 9th; Wooten then balked in the tying run in the 10th after Eric Farris' two-out single put the 'Tees up in the top of the inning; not sure why catcher Anderson de la Rosa would have to be lifted in the 12th, paving the way for Miranda's two emergency innings behind the dish -- the Manatees had four players catch in this game; a passed ball by Whiteside on a strikeout that would have ended the game extended the drama even more...

 

Whew! Most work I'll do all season on game notes for a contest...

[Never Outhustled]

I agree with TheCrew07 about Dennis playing to shallow, especially a bad idea because he doesn't look too comfortable going back on the ball. The balls at him were smoked though.

 

Peralta seemed to lose it after the very long mid-inning delay when the ball man broke his ankle.

 

Frederickson's delivery looked out of whack from the last time I saw him. His arm was dragging through late, which makes it hard to get his power into his pitches.

 

Lawrie also dropped a ball on a possible double play. He was given the out at 2nd, because the ump had a bad angle, but Lawrie never had the ball in his glove. Not much positive in last nights game.

[jvrocksaz]

Josh Butler has not walked a batter in 10 innings covering his 2 starts at AAA but he walked 23 in 51 innings at A+

 

Hopefully he keeps up the new trend at AA if that is now where he is headed!

[BrewCrewForever]

How soon before they let Rogers pitch 4 or 5 innings? I seen his longest start of the season was 3 innings on 4/10. What kind of pitch count is he on?

[TheCrew07]

50 pitches.

 

They said it would be evaluated again at the break, I'm hoping they change their minds a bit sooner than that.

[BrewCrewForever]

50 pitches.

 

They said it would be evaluated again at the break, I'm hoping they change their minds a bit sooner than that.

Me to, I'm really pulling for Rogers. Had such high expectations when we drafted him. Those injuries really sucked, he could be up right now with Yo making a heck of a 1-2 punch. Hopefully they up that count and he can get deeper into games. Would be nice to see him continue to come along and maybe get to Huntsville by season end. I know McCalvy or Haudricourt reported he can still throw his fastball mid to high 90's. That is a very good thing.