Loading ...Triple – A
Brian Peterson, Drew Stubbs, and Darnell McDonald each had 2 hits in the Bats win. Stubbs went 2-4 with a double, run scored, and a walk. Peterson went 2-4 with a double and a run scored. McDonald had a 2-4 game that included a homerun, his 6th of the season. Chris Valaika homered as well, his 6th of the season, in a 1-2 night with 2 walks.
Justin Lehr allowed 1 run on 5 hits and 2 walks in 8 innings pitched to record the win. Lehr struck out 4 and is now 12-3 on the season with a 3.33 earned run average.
Double – A
Carolina did not play yesterday.
Class A Advanced
Dave Sappelt went 1-3 with a solo homerun. The homer was Dave’s 3rd of the season. Kyle Day added 2 hits in 4 at-bats with a double in the win. Devin Mesoraco went 1-4 with a double, run scored, and an rbi.
Rafael Gonzalez allowed 1 run on 5 hits and 3 walks in 6 innings pitched to record the win. Gonzalez improved to 3-4 on the season with a 4.60 ERA.
Single – A
Josh Fellhauer went 2-4 with a homerun, run scored, and 2 rbis. The homerun was Fellhauer’s 2nd of the season. Carlos Mendez went 2-4 with a double, run scored, and an rbi. Cody Puckett went 2-3 with a run scored and an rbi.
Curtis Partch went 7 innings, allowing 3 runs on 6 hits and 1 walk. Partch is now 7-7 on the year with a 4.68 ERA. Mark James picked up his 2nd save of the season after throwing 1.1 scoreless innings, allowing 1 hit and 1 walk while striking out 3.
Rookie League
The game between the GCL Reds and GCL Twins was rained out.
Maurecio Pimentel went 2-3 with a stolen base while Mark Fleury went 1-3 with a homerun and 2 runs scored. The homerun was Fleury’s first of the season.
Jason Braun picked up the loss for the Mustangs in relief. Braun allowed 1 run on 3 hits and a walk in 2 innings pitched. Braun’s record dropped to 0-1 on the season and his ERA is now 7.71.
I just posted this in the Titanic Recap, but it is more fitting to this post:
I like the options on your poll question, but I’m not sure how you can leave off Justin Lehr. He leads the IL in wins and has been the stopper for the Bats who now have a 9 game lead in the IL West. After the Bats played 29 inning the last two days, Lehr pitched 8 innings of one run ball last night for the win and a much needed rest for the bullpen. Lehr is 8-1 since rejoining the Bats this season.
Stubbs also added a SB to his league leading total.
I am glad to see Valaika swinging the bat well again. He has been solid for a couple of weeks now.
He’s also 31…on a team with young pitching in the minors.
Maloney would have received my vote. Baseball Prospectus had this to say about the Reds second half opportunities, and specifically about Drew Stubbs:
“Cincinnati Reds: Losing Jay Bruce to a broken wrist, at least until late August, cinched it—playing in a bandbox, the next-to-worst offense in the league won’t overpower teams, not even with Edwin Encarnacion and Joey Votto back. So deal with it and give a good rotation something to work with by calling up Drew Stubbs (hitting well enough in Louisville that it translates to .253/.347/.349 with 26 steals) to provide Gold Glove-caliber defense in center and that dose of OBP and speed that Willy Taveras hasn’t. And take offers on Ramon Hernandez in case anybody wants a playoff-tested veteran backstop, because he’s not doing the Reds much good.”
That’s a 696 translated OPS for Stubbs to this point (using this year’s AAA numbers translated to the majors). We’ve said all year he’s the same as Taveras. Stubbs is 24, and I don’t know how much more he’ll develop at this point. I wish his power would return to some extend and that would seal the deal for me to get him here. In the meantime, he’s Taveras for a whole lot less money, but if there’s a chance he could get some power back, I’d like to see him re-develop that skill.
Oh…yeah, Hernandez went on the DL after this was written; day late and dollar short on that deal…that will cost us millions for not much less production than we were already getting…
He’s also 31…on a team with young pitching in the minors.
Yeah, I know he’s not the future, I just think he deserves some props. Plus, he’s the one who taught Homer the split-finger.
And, people were saying the same thing about Hanigan last year as a 28 yr old catcher.
2011 Opening Day Lineup?
1. Drew Stubbs cf
2. Brandon Phillips ss
3. Joey Votto 1b
4. Jay Bruce rf
5. Edwin Encarnacion 3b
6. Todd Frazier lf
7. Chris Valaika 2b
8. Ryan Hannigan c
9. Johnny Cueto or Edinson Volquez
Was that Valaika’s first professional start at 2nd base? I noticed in the boxscore the other night that he slid over to 2b in extra innings when Griffin had to pitch an inning, but I’ve never noticed him playing a full game at 2B before.
Valaika has played 14 games at 2b this year, the first year he has played 2b. He has played 351 games at shortstop