Link Report for Tuesday 7/5

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Tuesday's Daily Menu:

 

All times are Central

 

Colorado Springs: RHP Tyler Cravy at Oklahoma City (Dodgers), 6:30 PM pre-game, 7:05 gametime

 

Free Live Audio Link

 

Dan Karcher, the longtime play-by-play voice of the Sky Sox is on Twitter @SkySoxKarch; joining him this season is Dan Acheson (@Dan_Acheson)

 

MiLB.TV -- for subscribers; all Colorado Springs games, home and away, will be available to watch via MiLB.TV's $49.99 season-long package ($12.99 to pay for a single month). The audio feed is from the home team. The video of each game is archived online, which is a nice feature. All MiLB.TV details available at the link.

 

NOTE: Notice that on MiLB.TV's page, you can click on "Filter", then "Milwaukee Brewers", and you'll see just the Crew's organizational TV lineup.

 

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Biloxi: RHP Taylor Jungmann at home vs. Jacksonville (Marlins), 6:50 PM pre-game, 7:10 gametime

 

Free Live Audio Link

 

Chris Harris is the play-by-play voice of the Shuckers. Follow Chris on Twitter @CHarris731. We'll be linking to his fantastic "Shuck Dynasty" blog. Thaddeus Krzus (@Shucks1stIntern) joins Chris often. All games, home and away, are scheduled to be radio broadcast.

 

MiLB.TV - Eight of the ten Southern League teams telecast their home games, and Biloxi is among them.

 

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Brevard County: TBD at home vs. Dunedin (Blue Jays), 5:35 PM gametime

 

Sorry, no audio is available for this series...

 

Unfortunately, the Manatees have dropped their broadcast coverage for 2016.

 

No Florida State League games are available via MiLB.TV. Ten of the 12 Florida State League teams provide audio (some only for home games), we'll do our best to let you know when an opponent's audio is going to be available.

 

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Wisconsin: RHP Marcos Diplan at Cedar Rapids (Twins), 6:15 PM pre-game, 6:35 gametime

 

Free Live Audio Link

 

Chris Mehring is back to do his customary fantastic work as the Voice of the Rattlers. Follow him on Twitter @CMehring; we'll link to Chris' infamous blog often -- Rattler Radio.

 

MiLB.TV - Eight of the 16 Midwest League teams telecast their home games, and Wisconsin, once again, is among them. We'll let you know when a road TV feed is available.

 

NOTE: Thirty-nine (!) of the Rattlers' 70 home games will be broadcast on local TV this season. Time Warner Cable SportsChannel (10) and WACY-TV My NEW32 (29) will split duties. We'll let you know when and who, and remember to refer to the Rattlers' full TV schedule (scroll to bottom of link) so you can coordinate your DVR activity.

 

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Helena: RHP Scott Serigstad at Billings (Reds), 7:50 PM pre-game, 8:05 gametime

 

Free Live Audio Link

 

We welcome and look forward to hearing first-year Voice of the H-Crew Craig Durham ([b@CraigMDurham[/b] on Twitter).

 

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Arizona Rookie (Maryvale): at the Reds' complex in Goodyear, 9:00 PM gametime; never audio for games in this league

 

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DSL Brewers: at the DSL Tigers, 9:30 AM, although game data won't be available until later in the day

 

We'll link to this Dominican Summer League Brewers' thread as part of the Daily Menu all season to assist you with your familiarity with these young men.

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Follow Tuesday's action as it happens with box score / game log links:

 

Colorado Springs

 

Biloxi

 

Brevard County

 

Wisconsin

 

Helena

 

Maryvale

 

DSL Brewers

 

MiLB.com feature -- organizational scoreboard, Brewers

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Look for these just prior to the respective game times --

 

Colorado Springs Media Notes - Linked on the Sky Sox official blog

 

Biloxi Media Notes - Linked on the Shuck Dynasty blog

 

Wisconsin Media Notes - Linked on the Rattler Radio blog

 

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STANDINGS:

 

AAA - Pacific Coast League American Northern Division

 

AA - Southern League South Division

 

High-A - Florida State League North Division

 

A - Midwest League Western Division

 

Pioneer League North Division

 

Arizona League Central Division

 

Dominican Summer League San Pedro Division

 

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Sortable individual stat pages:

 

Colorado Springs

 

Biloxi

 

Brevard County

 

Wisconsin

 

Helena

 

Maryvale

 

DSL Brewers

 

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Weather.com:

 

Oklahoma City, OK

 

Biloxi, MS

 

Viera, FL

 

Cedar Rapids, IA

 

Billings, MT

 

Goodyear, AZ

 

San Pedro de Macoris, DR

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Via Brad at Miller Park Prospects -- Who's Hot

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Monday's game --

 

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Rough day for Luis Benitez with the DSL Brewers. He gave up 6 runs while retiring none and gave up 2 HR.

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Look for these just prior to the respective game times --

 

Wisconsin Media Notes - Linked on the Rattler Radio blog

 

This includes Monday's pregame interview with Manager Matt Erickson.

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Look for these just prior to the respective game times --

 

Wisconsin Media Notes - Linked on the Rattler Radio blog

 

This includes Monday's pregame interview with Manager Matt Erickson.

 

Included are injury updates on RHP Conor Harber (possible shoulder, may make next start) and Trent Clark and his hamstring situation...

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Tyrone Taylor swinging hot stick for Shuckers

Taylor is nine-of-24 over the last five games

California native was a 2nd round pick in 2012 by Brewers

Taylor moving closer to .260 average he had in 2015

Patrick Magee, Biloxi Sun-Herald

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Final: DSL Tigers 17, DSL Brewers 6, completed early, bottom of the 8th, rain

 

Since a long-ago four-game win streak, the D-Crew has lost nine of ten...

 

DSL Brewers Box Score

 

Brewer pitchers hit six batters, walked six others, and oh yeah, allowed 21 hits. All that was in just 7.2 innings, due to the rain.

 

Amazing restraint by Tigers pitchers, no HBP's back the other way.

 

DSL Brewers Game Log

 

CF Jesus Lujano earns a mention for a 3-for-4 morning (double, two runs, two RBI, outfield assist).

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Congratulations to Corey Ray on his first professional hit. Dunedin brought in LHP Jose Fernandez to face Ray in the 8th inning. Corey responded by hitting a line drive to left field.

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Another nice night for Diplan. Jungmann may be headed to DSL at this rate...

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59 pitches 23 strikes......yikes

 

Taylor Jungmann has walked 6 through 3 innings, but just allowed 1 run on 2 hits, 2 K's. So far 59 pitches and 23 strikes. Suns lead 1-0, B3

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Rattlers win 6-2 over Kernels

Diplan tosses five scoreless innings; Ghelfi with three hits and three runs scored

By Chris Mehring / Wisconsin Timber Rattlers

 

Wisconsin Boxscore

Marcos Diplan is a fascinating study in "effectively wild", he rarely has a completely dominating game, always too many hits or walks, but often ends up with a spectacular result on the whole. Over the years I've talked quite a bit about "quality strikes", like with Jungmann and Medeiros for example, and I concede people may believe that I'm being overly hateful, but I'm truly of the mind set that if you aren't able to hit spots MLB hitters will eventually figure you out. Pitchers like that who lack control with a couple of plus secondary pitches (K-Rod would be an example), can still have success in limited roles, but if you aren't able to hit spots you aren't a MLB starting pitcher. Of course I know there are some extremely talented pitchers who couldn't locate and had decent careers such as Edwin Jackson, but those players are few and far between, and I don't base my assessments off of extreme cases in either direction. Certainly pitchers in A ball have plenty of time to refine their control and command however I'm going to remain a skeptic about any pitcher until he can put up back to back statistically proper seasons and have legitimate stuff to go with it.

 

Nate Griep is easily my favorite reliever below AA, 'nuff said.

 

Isan Diaz (2-4,HR,2B) has been downright beastly of late, the double and homer came in his first 2 ABs. Mitch Ghelfi (3-4,2 2B) has been on fire as well hitting in 8 of his 10 last games. Brandon Diaz was dropped all the way to the 9th spot and responded with a 2B, it would be nice to see him get going and finish the year strong.

 

Wisconsin Recap

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Miscues cost Shuckers in 4-1 loss to Suns

Garrett Cooper sees 25-game on-base and 12-game hitting streak come to an end

Biloxi Shuckers

 

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Tyrone Taylor was 2-for-4 and extended his hitting streak to a season-high six games. (M.K. Krebs)

 

Biloxi Boxscore

Well I discussed Taylor Jungmann's control in my WI post, and of course that was before I looked at this boxscore, and truthfully before I even knew he was starting today, so *sigh*. I don't really have anything to add regarding Jungmann than I've already said numerous times in the past, it's just too bad really. Brett Lee has had a very rough 2016 campaign to this point.

 

On the good news side of things Tyrone Taylor remains hot and tallied an outfield assist while Javier Betancourt jumped back over the Mendoza line.

 

Jacob Nottingham (0-4. 4 SOs) had a miserable game on both ends with 2 errors, he's up to 11 on the season in addition to 16 passed balls. His CS% is also <30%, bottom line he's just not strong defensively so he's going to have to provide most of his value with the bat.

 

Biloxi Recap

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Final: Dunedin 6, Brevard County 1

 

Ray Earns First Pro Hit in Loss to Dunedin

By Donald Rieber, Jr., 27 Outs Baseball

 

A couple of nice photos of Corey Ray available at the game story link.

 

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Brevard County Box Score

 

Over 5.2 innings pitched Jon Perrin gave up 7 hits, 6 runs (only 3 earned runs however), and 2 walks. Perrin did strikeout 6 and now has 96 strikeouts total in his 92.2 innings between low-A and high-A this year.

 

Zach Hirsch appeared in his first game since June 24th and pitched 2.1 innings without allowing a baserunner. Hirsch has put together some solid numbers with Brevard County including a 1.09 WHIP over 43.0 innings and has recorded 35 strikeouts to just 8 walks.

 

Dustin DeMuth went 2-for-4 for the second game in a row.

 

Story of the game from the Manatees side was Corey Ray's first professional hit, but he also made his debut in center field. He was the only Sea Cow outfielder without an error as both RF Clint Coulter and LF Omar Garcia committed fielding blunders.

 

Brevard County Game Log

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VIDEO via WLOX: From Biloxi's sloppy loss, though the errors were left on the cutting room floor here

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Suns take advantage of rough night for Shuckers, 4-1

Patrick Magee, Biloxi Sun-Herald

 

BILOXI – Tuesday night's game is one the Shuckers would like to soon forget.

 

The Jacksonville Suns took advantage of four errors and eight walks issued by Biloxi pitchers in a 4-1 victory at MGM Park before a crowd of 1,865.

 

The win evened the five-game series at 1-1 after Biloxi won the opener 5-1 on Monday night.

 

Biloxi had been playing clean ball of late, but that proved to not be the case Tuesday.

 

“It's just one of those days that the defense let us down,” Shuckers manager Mike Guerrero said. “That hasn't been happening much. We'll come back and get it tomorrow.”

 

The Shuckers dropped to 5-7 in the second half in the Southern League South, one game behind first-place Mobile. The Suns also stand at 5-7.

 

Shuckers starting pitcher Taylor Jungmann is trying to work his way back to the big leagues after a successful stint with the Milwaukee Brewers last season, but his control issues came to light again Tuesday.

 

The right-hander struggled badly to find the plate early in the game, walking six in the first three innings. He managed to settle down in the fourth and fifth, limiting Jacksonville to a pair of runs (one earned) on three hits.

 

Jungmann (0-1) walked six and struck out four in five innings. He threw 85 pitches, 41 strikes.

 

“He's got to get his feel back out there,” Guerrero said. “It's his second outing after a break. He's just on his way back. We're trying to build him up because he's got to get a feel back for the strike zone where he wants to throw the fastball, breaking ball and in any count, pitching in and out. Once he finds his release point, he's going to be fine.”

 

Garrett Cooper's 12-game hitting streak came to a close along with his run of reaching base in 25 consecutive contests, a Biloxi club record.

 

Shuckers catcher Jacob Nottingham committed a pair of throwing errors. Second baseman Javier Betancourt and third baseman Gabriel Noriega both added errors of their own.

 

Betancourt had a nice night at the plate as he continues to work his way back from his mid-season struggles. He finished 2-for-3 with a pair of doubles, knocking in the lone run of the game for the Shuckers in the third inning.

 

“I've been working so hard,” Betancourt said. “It's just kind of paying off right now. I feel pretty happy that I can see the ball. I'm making good contact right now, but I'm still working.”

 

Tyrone Taylor continued his hot hitting for Biloxi, going 2-for-4 to push his hitting streak to six games.

 

Of the four men who scored for Jacksonville Tuesday night, three reached base on walks and the fourth got on base in the fifth on a throwing error by Noriega.

 

Jacksonville received a nice start from Patrick Johnson, who allowed one run on four hits in six innings. He struck out six and walked none to improve to 4-4.

 

Center fielder Yefri Perez was the lone Sun with multiple hits, going 2-for-5 with a run scored.

 

The Shuckers will host the Suns at 7:10 p.m. on Wednesday in game three of the series. Left-hander Wei-Chung Wang, who has been Biloxi's most consistent starter with a 3-3 mark and 3.75 ERA, will start the game. The Suns will go with left-hander Eric Jokish (0-0, 0.00).

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VIDEO via KCRG - Brief highlights from the Wisconsin win

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Final: Oklahoma City 6, Colorado Springs 5

 

Sky Sox Suffer 6-5 Walk-Off Loss To OKC

Sky Sox come back to tie, but Dodgers walk-off to win

By Aaron Cheris / Colorado Springs Sky Sox

 

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Crud.

 

 

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Via NewsOK.com --

 

Zach Walters rarely eats sugar on a game day, but for some reason he felt like Tuesday was a good day to change his routine.

 

Six blueberry donuts and a stomach ache actually turned into a good thing.

 

Walters hit a walk-off home run with two outs in the ninth to lift the Oklahoma City Dodgers to a 6-5 win over Colorado Springs at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark for a sixth straight victory, completing an impressive four-hit night at the plate.

 

“Honestly, my stomach was hurting me,” Walters said. “Anything I could do to help today. I just wanted to stay simple today. It was a good day.

 

“But I don't want to eat that many donuts again because my stomach still hurts.”

 

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Zach Walters of the Oklahoma City Dodgers makes it back to third base beside Nate Orf of the Colorado Springs Sky Sox in the third inning of Tuesday night's game at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark. [Photo by Bryan Terry, The Oklahoman]

 

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Colorado Springs Box Score

 

Encouraging, Corey Knebel; well, they moved Orlando Arcia out of the three-hole like we suggested, slotting Josmil Pinto in, but Arcia remains in freefall and committed error #11...

 

Colorado Springs Game Log

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Real life beckons again, details on a crushing Helena loss and a Maryvale win later this AM, thanks again for your patience.

 

Oh, and a Josh Hader feature coming up as well...

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Final: Billings 3, Helena 2, 11 innings

 

Five Errors Cost Brewers in Billings

Losing Streak Reaches Six Games

By Craig Durham / Helena Brewers

 

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In addition to Craig's suggested write-up read above, there's this recap on the road game via the Helena Independent Record --

 

On Monday, there was seemingly nothing the Helena Brewers could do to stem the Billings Mustangs’ offensive assault.

 

The home team thrilled the home fans with an incredible 20 runs in handing the Brewers their fifth consecutive loss.

 

On Tuesday, however, runs were far tougher to come by but the Mustangs (11-7) still managed to grind out a 3-2, 11-inning victory at Dehler Park in Billings. It was the first extra-inning contest of the season for the Brewers.

 

The heartbreaker came in a game where Helena three times escaped a bases-loaded inning and held a one-run lead from the fourth to the bottom of the ninth. In the end, it was their own mistakes -- the visitors recorded two of their five errors in the bottom of the 11th -- that cost the Brewers (8-10) and pushed their skid to six games.

 

After being sat down in order in the top of the 11th, Helena saw the Mustangs put runners on first and second in the bottom of the frame with those two errors. With no outs, the runners advanced to second and third on a wild pitch.

 

The game was then ended when Billings’ Daniel Sweet laced a liner into left field, driving in the winning run.

 

The Mustangs struck first in the game’s opening minutes, plating one with an RBI single to center in the bottom of the first. But that was the last scoring folks at Dehler would see until the fourth inning.

 

After Lucas Erceg grounded out to start the inning, Wes Wilson hammered his first triple of the season into center field. He came home when Ronnie Gideon followed with a double to left, tying the game at one run apiece. It didn’t stay deadlocked long, however. After a Yerald Martinez strikeout, Demi Orimoloye connected on the second triple of the frame, scoring Gideon and putting the visitors in front.

 

Helena was in a good spot to pad the lead a bit in the ninth, where after a pair of walks sandwiched around a wild pitch, the Brewers had runners on first and second. But a ground-out ended the inning.

 

In the bottom half of the ninth, lead-off hitter Colby Wright walked and was pushed to second with a sacrifice bunt.

 

Hector Vargas was able to reach first on a throwing error, giving Billings runners on the corners with just one out and a shot to right tied the game at 2.

 

Colton Cross relieved Shawn Clowers after a walk loaded the bases and got out of the inning with back-to-back strikeouts, sending it to extras.

 

Helena will attempt to snap their losing streak in the series finale at Billings, set for Wednesday, before returning home for a two-game set with Missoula and a trio of games against the Mustangs.

 

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VIDEO via KXLH (go to the 01:15 minute mark) - Brewer early game highlights, and not a bad representation of Demi's last name, surely Chris Mehring is preparing for next spring

 

Also, check out the odd foul ball - no wait, it's fair, play...

 

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Helena Box Score

 

10th round LHP Blake Fox of Rice has yet to make his pro debut with Helena.

 

Helena Game Log

 

The downfall --

 

Billings Bottom of the 11th

 

Cassidy Brown reaches on a fielding error by third baseman Weston Wilson.

Hector Vargas hits a sacrifice bunt. Fielding error by catcher Cooper Hummel. Cassidy Brown to 2nd. Hector Vargas to 1st.

With Alejo Lopez batting, wild pitch by Colton Cross, Cassidy Brown to 3rd. Hector Vargas to 2nd.

Alejo Lopez strikes out swinging.

Daniel Sweet singles on a line drive to left fielder Demi Orimoloye. Cassidy Brown scores. Hector Vargas to 3rd.

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Today's Baseball America Prospect Report includes Isan Diaz...

 

Isan Diaz, ss, Brewers. Diaz, who hit a career-high 13 homers last year, hit his ninth Tuesday to back Marcos Diplan in low Class A Wisconsin’s 6-2 win at Cedar Rapids (Twins). Diaz, acquired in the deal that sent Jean Segura to Arizona, makes plenty of hard contact despite his average size thanks to an uncanny ability to find the barrel consistently.

Hard contact is an apt way to explain Diaz, the ball often explodes off his bat. Looking at his splits, since June 1st Diaz is batting .330 (37-for-112) including 12 doubles, 1 triple, and 6 home runs.

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Darn, lots of losing in the Brewers' chain lately, let's see if we can fix that --

 

Final: Arizona Brewers 6, Arizona Reds 4, ten innings

 

Weather: 105 degrees, clear.

Wind: 11 mph, Out to CF.

 

Whew! Two in the 9th to tie, two in the 10th to win...

 

AZL Brewers Top of the 9th

 

Pitching Change: Connor Bennett replaces Aaron Fossas.

Nic Pierre strikes out swinging.

Nick Roscetti reaches on a fielding error by second baseman Emmanuel Cruz.

Trey York walks. Nick Roscetti to 2nd.

Jay Feliciano singles on a line drive to right fielder Raul Wallace. Nick Roscetti to 3rd. Trey York to 2nd.

Nick Cain singles on a fly ball to center fielder Michael Beltre. Nick Roscetti scores. Trey York scores. Jay Feliciano to 2nd.

Nicol Valderrey grounds into a double play, shortstop Francis Azcona to first baseman Bruce Yari. Nick Cain out at 2nd.

 

AZL Brewers Top of the 10th

 

Pitching Change: Jarrett Freeland replaces Connor Bennett.

Zach Taylor singles on a line drive to right fielder Raul Wallace.

Offensive Substitution: Pinch-runner Ignacio Otano replaces Zach Taylor.

Yoel Vasquez out on a sacrifice bunt, pitcher Jarrett Freeland to first baseman Bruce Yari. Ignacio Otano to 2nd.

Julio Mendez doubles (3) on a fly ball to right fielder Raul Wallace. Ignacio Otano scores.

Nic Pierre singles on a fly ball to center fielder Michael Beltre. Julio Mendez to 3rd.

With Nick Roscetti batting, wild pitch by Jarrett Freeland, Julio Mendez scores. Nic Pierre to 2nd.

Nick Roscetti grounds out, third baseman Leandro Santana to first baseman Bruce Yari. Nic Pierre to 3rd.

Trey York flies out to center fielder Michael Beltre.

 

Maryvale Box Score

 

Starting RHP Nash Walters again had control problems, allowing five hits and five walks in his 3.1 innings, then rehabbers RHP Preston Gainey and LHP Mitch Lambson steadied things in the second stint back for each. The pitching MVP was RHP Matt Smith, as the 22-year-old 34th rounder out of Georgetown tossed four shutout frames down the stretch, walking none.

 

Maryvale Game Log

 

Early departure for CF Jose Gomez.

 

Great to see the A-Crew finally break out here, 20 baserunners, 14 hits including three of the extra-base variety. Among those was a home run for 3B Julio Mendez, the first of his three-year pro career.