Cecil Passing AA Test

Tuesday, July 01 2008 @ 08:45 AM EDT

Contributed by: Pistol

Brett Cecil continues to pitch well in AA a year after being drafted.  So does Marc Rzepczynski who needs to be pitching, at least, in Dunedin.

The affiliates went 2-3 on the night.

Pawtucket 5 at Syracuse 2

The Chiefs were held in check by Clay Buchholz who threw 5 shutout innings.  After that they had a little more success against the pen with a string of singles and a sac fly to score 2.  But on the night the Chiefs managed no extra base hits, and only Watson had more than one hit.

Davis Romero had a rare bad start giving up all 5 runs in 4.2 innings.


New Hampshire 0 at Connecticut 1

Connecticut scored a run in the 6th off of Jean Machi, and that was enough.  The Fishercat bats were quiet with just 4 singles on the night.

Brett Cecil got the start and pitched 5 scoreless innings, allowing 5 hits, 1 walk and K'ing 5.

Cecil now has 52.5 innings in AA over 13 starts.  A look at the numbers:

He's pretty much doing everything you could possibly expect out of him.  The one area that could be better is the length of his outings.  Right now he's averaging 4 innings/start.  But prior to this year he had been a closer so it might just be a matter of stretching him out and/or not giving him too many innings this year.

Dunedin - Day off


Lansing 4 at W Michigan 0 (10 innings)

There's an odd score; the game was scoreless through 9 and then the Nuts scored 4 in the 10th.  Even more surprising is that the rally came with 2 outs and started with a bunt single by Raul Barron.  After a throwing error moved him to third Ahrens and Jaspe walked to load the bases.  Two runs scored on an error by the W Michigan shortstop and then Ebarb singled home 2 more.

Barron had 2 hits on the night and Ahrens got the only XBH above low A for the Jay affiliates with a triple.

Marc 'I don't belong in Lansing' Rzepczynski started and pitched 7 scoreless innings.  He struck out 7, walked 3, and allowed just 3 hits.  He got 9 GB outs against 4 FB outs.  Frank Gailey picked up the win with 3 scoreless innings.  He struck out 6.


Auburn 6 at Mahoning Valley 4 (11 innings)

The Doubledays banged out 14 hits in this one.  There were 6 2-hit nights for the hitters:  Nicholas, Cooper (2B), Amar, Kervin (2B), Soto and Joel Collins (2B, HR).

Joel Carreno came on in the 5th and pitched 5.1 innings.  He struck out 6, walked one and gave up 1 hit and 1 unearned run.


GCL Indians 3 at GCL Blue Jays 1

Dennis-Fortier was the only Jay with 2 hits and the only one with an XBH with a double.

Christopher Holguin started and pitched 3.2 innings allowing an unearned run.


3 Stars!:
3 - Joel Carreno
2 - Brett Cecil
1 - Marc Rzepczynski

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