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Games Played on 7/26/2012
Minor League Player of the Day: James Allen threw 7 shutout innings. From Tom Nichols on Allen’s great game:
Allen retired the first 14 batters he faced and did not allow a hit until the sixth inning. He did not allow a runner past first base and faced only one batter over the minimum, retiring 20 of the 22 hitters over seven scoreless innings.
Cody Puckett was 1-for-3 with a walk and a 3-run homerun. Neftali Soto went 2-for-4 with a walk, a double, a run scored and 2 RBI. Henry Rodriguez was 2-for-5 with a double and a run scored. Didi Gregorius extended his modest hit streak to six games with a double.
Todd Redmond (5.1ip, 5r, 9h, 1bb, 8k) was 2-for-2 at the plate, but not as consistently good on the mound.
Daniel Corcino (6ip, 2r, 5h, 1bb, 5k) gave up just 2 runs over 6 inning, notching his 6th quality start in his last 8 games.
Donald Lutz was 3-for-4 with a double and a solo homerun. Billy Hamilton extended his AA on-base streak to all 14 games he’s played for Pensacola. Hamilton went 1-for-3 with a walk, but didn’t attempt any base thievery.
High A
San Jose 7 – Bakersfield 1
You wouldn’t guess it by just looking at the score, but Blaze starter Daniel Renken tossed 7 shutout innings. Renken didn’t walk a batter, gave up just 4 hits and struck out 3. All 7 San Jose runs were scored off the bullpen in the 8th and 9th innings.
Devin Lohman was 2-for-4 with a double and scored the lone Bakersfield run.
Low A
Dayton 3 – Great Lakes 2
James Allen threw seven innings of 1-hit, shutout baseball. He walked just one batter and struck out 2.
Ryan Wright was 2-for-4 with a run scored.
Rookie
Billings had the day off.
Adam Matthews was 2-for-4 and the only Reds player with more than 1 hit.
2012 first round pick Nick Travieso made his second professional start, allowing just 1 solo homerun as the only hit in 2 innings of work. He struck out two.
Three quick thoughts…
1.) I keep saying this by Ryan Wright is wasting his time at Low A. Put him on a plane to Sunny California already.
2.) What the… (Todd Redmond)
3.) James Allen, you’ve reached my radar today. 0.907 WHIP, 7.8 SO/BB, 1.28 ERA, 0 HR allowed in 22 innings in 2011 at rook-ball. Are you kidding me? (His stats over 78.2 innings in 2012 are decent, and he’s sporting a 1.157 WHIP.)
Allen is an interesting, low-level pitching prospect. He pitched 28 innings over 22 games for Billings in 2011, all in relief, with 7 saves, 39 SO and only 5 BB. His first 5 appearance this year at Dayton were all in relief, but they were spaced out from 4-6 days apart and gradually extended out to 5 innings, then he made 5 straight starts. His first three starts produced less than optimal results (4-5 innings with 2-5 ER per game) but his last two starts have been simply outstanding (14 innings with 9 SO, 5 H, 1 BB and just 1 ER). It looks like he may be coming into his own as a starter this year in Dayton.
Nice to see a good game for Lutz. After a solid start in A+ this year (.265/.325/.561), he hasn’t had many good games since coming off the DL and being promoted to AA.
Even though its still a very small sample size, the error rate for both Gregorius and Hamilton has gone down with their respective promotions to AAA & AA.