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Triple – A
Luis Bolivar hit his 3rd homerun of the season in the 4th inning. Bolivar went 2-5 with 3 rbis. Kevin Barker went 3-5 with 2 doubles, an rbi, and 3 runs scored. Michael Griffin, Daniel Dorn, and Drew Stubbs also had 2 hits each.
Sam Lecure started and allowed 6 runs on 7 hits and a walk in 5 innings pitched. This makes two consecutive starts by Lecure in which he has allowed 6 earned runs over the course of 5 innings.
Double – A
Todd Frazier led the Mudcats charge by going 3-4 with 3 rbis. All 3 hits were singles and Frazier raised his average to .297 on the season. Sean Henry went 3-5 with a solo homerun. The homer was Henry’s 4th of the season. Finally, Chris Heisey went 2-3 with 2 walks and 2 runs scored.
Jordan Smith improved to a perfect 4-0 on the season with the win. Smith allowed 3 runs (2 earned) on 6 hits while striking out 6. Smith’s ERA is now 2.45. He has allowed 2 or fewer earned runs in 6 of his 7 starts this season.
Class A Advanced
Yonder Alonso’s first inning solo homerun was really the only news of note in this game. For Alonso, the homerun was his 6th of the season. Jason Bour went 2-3 in the game, getting 2 of the Reds 5 hits in the contest.
Single – A
Josh Ravin received little to no offensive help and fell to 1-6 on the season with the loss. Ravin allowed 1 run on 2 hits and 5 walks while striking out 5 in 5 innings pitched.
The Dragons offense outhit Burlington 6-3 and drew 5 walks. However, Dayton left 8 runners on base in the game and hit into 3 double plays in the game.
How long can people keep ignoring what Stubbs is doing in AAA?
I was at the Bats game last night…it was my son’s first time to keep score for the whole game…and it went 12 innings. It’s amazing to me how much faster and how much more interesting a game is when you keep score. My wife and two smaller kids didn’t seem to agree…they wanted to stop the game for the fireworks, and then resume the game so they could go home.
Anyway…LeCure gave up five runs in the first, three coming off a homer to, well, our favorite centerfielder, Corey Patterson. He also gave up a solo homer to Ryan Langerhans. He struck out a bunch, but the first inning was ugly.
The Bats fought back to tie it. Kevin Barker, Louisville’s all time home run leader (they conveniently start with 1982) twice doubled high off the centerfield facade (straightaway CF is 405 ft) and added a single. He was intentionally walked in the eighth with the go ahead runs on base.
The game was lost when shortstop Luis Bolvar airmailed a throw to first that was so hard and so high and that it ricocheted all the way to the upperdeck of the stadium. That was a first for me. The Nationals, I mean Chiefs, had back to back doubles then and the game was pretty much over.
Matt Maloney was used as a pinch hitter and got his first hit of the year, a slow roller to third. The AAA team has the same problem as the big league team. Pitchers dominate over half the roster. This has to be an organizational decision…they only had about 10 position players last night. This must be addressed.