Boy, am I ever running out of Kyle Drabek puns. What does that one even mean? It means Kyle Drabek was great, is what it means. Drabek led the farm to a 2-2 night including a couple of rainouts.
Portland 8 at Las Vegas 5
Just another Lance Broadway night in Las Vegas. You know how some guys stay in the majors based on some misguided idea by management that the player is a "gamer" or has "promise" or some such? Well, I don't know what it is about Lance Broadway that keeps him in triple-A, but he doesn't deserve to be there. The guy has allowed 247 batters to reach base this year. In 125 innings. His ERA is 7.83.
The offense didn't have a bad game, but, well, you know. Anyway, Dan Perales swung the big stick, blasting a three-run homer and also walking.
New Hampshire 6 at Trenton 0
Kyle Drabek stole the show on Monday night, pitching seven scoreless innings to earn his 14th win of the year. Now, wins and losses are dumb statistics, but I just wanted to point out that Drabek's 14-9 record put him, according to Baseball Reference's minor league leaders page, which admittedly seems to be a little behind (maybe only a day), in first place in the minor leagues for number of decisions. So there's that! No better way to cite a useless stat than by using it even more uselessly than how it was intended.
Drabek had a great start across the board: two hits, three walks, nine strikeouts, and an 8:4 GB:FB ratio. Dan Farquhar pitched two scoreless innings for the notsave.
Oh yeah, and the Fisher Cats have hitters too. Maestro Yanni singled, doubled and stole his 43rd base, Eric Thames and Adam Loewen homered, and David Cooper walked thrice.
Dunedin - cancelled
Lansing 1 at Fort Wayne 4
Lansing faced a pitcher named Matt Lollis on Monday night, and this proved to be their undoing: the offense Lollisgagged through nine innings, only scoring one run. It's the only explanation for such a poor offensive output, I think. Um, anyway, Justin Jackson singled twice, walked and stole a base. Egan Smith pitched a Quality Start™ with a 1.5 Gamewhip, but didn't get a doubleyou out of it.
Auburn 6 at Jamestown 5
Auburn got off to a fast start, scoring five runs before Jamestown could record two outs. They didn't do much the rest of the way in terms of runs, but it didn't matter; one more run is all they would need to sneak by Jamestown. That was mostly thanks to great relief work from Zach Anderson (1.2 IP, 2 H, 4 K) and Drew Permison (3 IP, 1 BB, 4 K) after starter Sam Strickland gave up all five runs in fewer than five innings.
Lots of batters had good days at the plate, including Gustavo Pierre (1-3, BB), Carlos Perez (2-5), Andy Fermin (2-5, 2B), Yudelmis Hernandez (1-3, HR), Markus Brisker (1-3, 2B, BB) and Jonathan Fernandez (3-4).
GCL Jays - postponed
DSL Jays - no game scheduled
Three Stars!
3. Dan Perales, 3-run homer, walk
2. Drew Permison, 3 shut-out innings
1. Kyle Drabek, 7 shut-out innings
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Portland 8 at Las Vegas 5
Just another Lance Broadway night in Las Vegas. You know how some guys stay in the majors based on some misguided idea by management that the player is a "gamer" or has "promise" or some such? Well, I don't know what it is about Lance Broadway that keeps him in triple-A, but he doesn't deserve to be there. The guy has allowed 247 batters to reach base this year. In 125 innings. His ERA is 7.83.
The offense didn't have a bad game, but, well, you know. Anyway, Dan Perales swung the big stick, blasting a three-run homer and also walking.
New Hampshire 6 at Trenton 0
Kyle Drabek stole the show on Monday night, pitching seven scoreless innings to earn his 14th win of the year. Now, wins and losses are dumb statistics, but I just wanted to point out that Drabek's 14-9 record put him, according to Baseball Reference's minor league leaders page, which admittedly seems to be a little behind (maybe only a day), in first place in the minor leagues for number of decisions. So there's that! No better way to cite a useless stat than by using it even more uselessly than how it was intended.
Drabek had a great start across the board: two hits, three walks, nine strikeouts, and an 8:4 GB:FB ratio. Dan Farquhar pitched two scoreless innings for the notsave.
Oh yeah, and the Fisher Cats have hitters too. Maestro Yanni singled, doubled and stole his 43rd base, Eric Thames and Adam Loewen homered, and David Cooper walked thrice.
Dunedin - cancelled
Lansing 1 at Fort Wayne 4
Lansing faced a pitcher named Matt Lollis on Monday night, and this proved to be their undoing: the offense Lollisgagged through nine innings, only scoring one run. It's the only explanation for such a poor offensive output, I think. Um, anyway, Justin Jackson singled twice, walked and stole a base. Egan Smith pitched a Quality Start™ with a 1.5 Gamewhip, but didn't get a doubleyou out of it.
Auburn 6 at Jamestown 5
Auburn got off to a fast start, scoring five runs before Jamestown could record two outs. They didn't do much the rest of the way in terms of runs, but it didn't matter; one more run is all they would need to sneak by Jamestown. That was mostly thanks to great relief work from Zach Anderson (1.2 IP, 2 H, 4 K) and Drew Permison (3 IP, 1 BB, 4 K) after starter Sam Strickland gave up all five runs in fewer than five innings.
Lots of batters had good days at the plate, including Gustavo Pierre (1-3, BB), Carlos Perez (2-5), Andy Fermin (2-5, 2B), Yudelmis Hernandez (1-3, HR), Markus Brisker (1-3, 2B, BB) and Jonathan Fernandez (3-4).
GCL Jays - postponed
DSL Jays - no game scheduled
Three Stars!
3. Dan Perales, 3-run homer, walk
2. Drew Permison, 3 shut-out innings
1. Kyle Drabek, 7 shut-out innings
Links
