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Triple – A
I know it has already been mentioned, but it is worth mentioning again: Homer Bailey was outstanding yesterday. Bailey struck out 15 Mud Hens in 6.1 innings to improve his record to 2-2 on the season. Bailey allowed 1 run on 4 hits while walking 2 batters. He threw 118 pitches, 79 of which were strikes.
Kevin Barker had a nice day at the plate, going 3-4 with 2 homeruns, 3 runs scored, and 3 runs batted in. Norris Hopper went 2-6 in the game with a double, triple, and 4 rbis. The triple was Hopper’s 3rd of the season.
Double – A
Can anyone be more unlucky right now in the Reds farm system than Travis Wood? Wood’s ERA on the season is 0.83 in 21.2 innings pitched. His WHIP is slightly over 1.000 and opponents are batting .149 against him this season. Yet, he is 0-3 on the year! Yesterday, Wood allowed 4 runs on 4 hits and 4 walks while striking out 3 in 6 innings. Only 1 of those runs were earned thanks to 3 Carolina errors. Of course I can’t take all the blame away from Wood, he does have 13 walks to 12 strikeouts this season.
The Mudcats genereated very little offense, tallying just 4 hits in the game. Juan Francisco went 1-4 with a double, run scored, and an rbi.
Class A Advanced
Justin Tordi was a perfect 3-3 at the plate for the Reds with 3 singles, an rbi, and a run scored. Justin Reed helped in the win by going 2-4 with a double, run scored, and an rbi as well.
Reliever Enerio Del Rosario picked up his first win of the season by going 2.2 innings, allowing 1 run on 3 hits and no walks while striking out 2. The run allowed was Enerio’s first run allowed this season in 9.1 innings of relief work this season.
Single – A
Dave Sappelt, Carlos Mendez, and Humberto Sosa had 3 hits apiece and combined to go 9-14 in the game. Sappelt had a double and an rbi, Mendez had 3 singles, and Sosa had 2 doubles while scoring a run and driving in a run. Cody Pucket went 2-5 with a homerun and 2 knocked in and Tyler Stovall also went 2-5 with a homerun and 4 rbis.
Matt Fairel received plenty of run support, but needed very little. Fairel went 7 innings and allowed just 1 run on 5 hits and a walk while striking out 8. The win was Matt’s first of the season.
Homer Bailey with 118 pitches. Any comments from anyone on that?
In a single game, I don’t have an issue with that. I think they wanted to get him the record with 16 K’s (and the radio announcers think he should have had it on the last pitch of the game that was called ball 4). Next game, even if its very good, I hope he has a 100 pitch limit.
Also, Kevin Barker broke the record for most HRs for Louisville, all-time. He has played for the Redbirds, Riverbats and the Bats. The record was previously held by Brandon Larson.
Did Bailey do it on a variety of pitches or was he in fastball-only mode on Sunday?
Any full time/frontline service Left Fielder sightings down there.
Is former Padres catcher Ben Davis now Sarasota’s closer? Two saves in two games over the weekend…
He might have made it deeper into the game if Richar hadn’t screwed up a double play.
Ben Davis and Jerry Gil are both in Sarasota trying to make it to (or back to) the big leagus as pitchers. I’m not sure how fast Davis’ throws, but Gil throws 95 or 96…