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Games Played on 08/28/12
Minor League Player of the Day:: Billings LF Jesse Winker went 3-4 and hit 2 homers. His slash line is .335/.448/.482/.930 with 4 homers. He has 38 walks and 44 strikeouts. Winker has been pretty darn consistent, with OPS over .900 each month of the Billings’ season.
AAA
Not a good sign when you have as many errors as you have hits (3).
Nice start by Todd Redmond (5 IP 0 R 5 H 2 BB 2 K). Scoreless inning by Bill Bray.
Logan Ondrusek took the loss, giving up 2 runs on 4 hits in 1.1 innings. He also gave up a homer.
AA
Isaac rained the Blue Wahoos out at Mississippi.
High A
Steve Selsky went 3-4 with a double and homer, driving in 3. Dominic D’Anna went 3-5 with a double. Juan Duran went 3-5. Chris Berset went 2-4 with a homer and Theo Bowe went 2-5. Stephen Hunt hit a homer.
Another good night for the Blaze’s bullpen, with Michael Dennhardt throwing 2 one-hit, shutout innings, followed by Blaine Howell, who picked up the win with 2 no-hit innings. Andrew Brackman threw a perfect 9th.
Low A
Joey Votto‘s presence seems to have brought out the best in the Dragons offense as they exploded for 15 hits….though Joey went 0-1 with a walk. Joey struck out in his second AB.
Juan Silva went 3-4 with a double, homer, and 3 RBI. Nick O’Shea went 3-4 and Sammy Diaz went 2-5. Yorman Rodriguez went 1-4 with a homer.
Solid start for James Allen, he threw 7 innings, allowing 4 hits, 2 runs (both earned) and struck out 5. El’Hajj Muhammad threw a perfect 9th inning.
Rookie
Jesse Winker went 3-4 with 2 home runs. Carlos Sanchez went 1-4 with a homer.
Outstanding start by Joel Bender, who threw 5 shutout innings, allowing only 1 hit, 2 walks, and 3 strikeouts. The rest of the bullpen didn’t do nearly as well.
Wilfrel Estevez went 1-4 with a homer.
Luke Moran started and threw 3 shutout innings, allowing 1 hit, 1 walk, and 2 strikeouts.
Andrew Brackman back to the pen and looking like his career may not be done afterall. That is cool.
@rightsaidred: Brackman has been in the bullpen for quite a while now and despite his last two appearances (a grand total of 2.2 innings), he hasn’t performed even close to good from the bullpen against low A hitters. I think we can probably put a fork in him and declare him done.
I was disappointed that Votto was pulled in the 5th inning for a pinch hitter. I know he was only scheduled to go 5 innings, but why not let him hit again in the 5th before he was pulled. I certainly hope he wasn’t pulled because of any discomfort or worse (knock on the old wooden noggin). In the 3rd, I had to giggle at the opposing pitcher’s plight. He gets a SO of Votto, the best hitter in the universe, then viola, he gives up back to back HR to the next two batters. I’m thinking a little loss of concentration maybe?
Looking forward to watching Jesse play in Dayton next year. Wow! 18 years old and mashing.
@BloodyHo: He’s struggled his entire professional career. His numbers have never been all that great, even while working his way through the minors the first time through in the Yankee’s organization. I don’t understand what’s wrong. He’s got all the talent in the world, but just can’t seem to figure it out. I think the Reds see him as a special project. It would be a shame to see him fail.
Theer will probably be a lot of games rained out over the week/weekend as Isaac makes its way North.
I asked about the Arizona Fall League yesterday…apparently they’re making roster decisions now, because I just read a tweet from Donald Lutz that he was invited to the AFL.
Jamie Ramsey of the Reds gave the full list of participating players via twitter. He started with Billy Hamilton and added:
@Greg Dafler:
WOW!!!
One little word can speak volumes…’possibly’.