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Minor League Update 5-5-5: Cats beaned but walk away winners

It's an express version of the minor league update tonight. The farm affiliates went 3-1, with the help of three fine starting pitching performances.



Syracuse 5 Ottawa 1

In the first BBRadio Game of the Week, the Sky Chiefs defeated the Lynx 5-1. Scott Downs threw 7 shutout innings, giving up 5 hits and no walks while striking out 4. Spike Lundberg recorded the 2 inning save, allowing a solo homer in the ninth with a 5-0 lead, and striking out 2. Anton French reached base 3 times, while Chad Mottola homered in the ninth. Aaron Hill went 1-4. Gabe Gross went hitless, but had a key baserunner kill at the plate.

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New Hampshire 1 Norwich 0

Sometimes you just have to put yourself in the other guy's shoes. Imagine that you are a Norwich Navigator fan. The game is scoreless going to the ninth. Raul Tablado walks, and then your reliever strikes out 2. He then hits Miguel Negron with a pitch, does the same to Ron Acuna and then issues a free pass to Carlo Cota for the only run of the game. Water torture would be preferable. Josh Banks started and pitched brilliantly- 7 innings of 5 hit, no walk ball with 8 strikeouts. Jamie Vermilyea pitched a perfect eighth inning with a strikeout for the win, while Lee Gronkiewicz did the same for his 7th save. Ron Davenport hit 2 doubles in the game.

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Sarasota 2 Dunedin 4

The D-Jays banged out 9 hits, and received fine pitching from starter Zach Jackson and 2 relievers to defeat the S-Sox. Clint Johnston led the parade with 3 hits, while Joey Reiman and Adam Lind each reached base twice. Jackson went 5 innings, allowing 2 unearned runs on 6 hits and 1 walk with 3 strikeouts. Justin James followed with 2 scoreless innings on 1 hit and no walks with 2 strikeouts. Brad Mumma was even better in the 8th and 9th, allowing only one hit, while striking out 4.

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Quad Cities 14 Lansing 3

The Lugs have had better nights. A.J. Wideman started and was raked for 7 earned runs in 5.1 innings. Jordy Templet and Eric Rico followed and struggled. Joey Wolfe homered early in the game, and that was the extent of it for the Lugs, who did get some work in for lesser used members of their roster.

Boxscore

3-star selection

3rd star-Brad Mumma
2nd star-Scott Downs
1st star-Josh Banks
Posted by Mike Green on Thursday, May 05 2005 @ 10:48 PM EDT.
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Lugnut Fan - Thursday, May 05 2005 @ 11:54 PM EDT (#115890) #
I have nothing to say about the Lansing game tonight except that the score doesn't indicate how one sided that game really was. Words can't describe it......This is the worst I've seen them play this year. Yates is on the hill for them tomorrow and I look for a better game.
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Mike Green - Friday, May 06 2005 @ 01:50 PM EDT (#115924) #
Chad Gaudin starts for the Chiefs in Ottawa tonight, while Mike MacDonald goes for the D-Jays against Brevard County.
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Gerry - Friday, May 06 2005 @ 02:53 PM EDT (#115926) #
http://www.gerrymcdonald.ca/starts.htm

Starting pitchers are tracked in the above link. Here is some interesting looks at the numbers...

Best start of the year, as measured by game scores:

Casey Janssen, first start of the year, April 7th, seven innings, no hits, one walk and seven K's.

That was the only no hit start by a pitcher, there have been three one hit starts:

Francisco Rosario, April 20, 6 IP
Kurt Isenberg, April 15, 6 IP
Michael MacDonald, Apr 14, 7 IP

Most hits allowed was by Davis Romero earlier this week with 11 hits in 5 IP.

The longest start of the year was Cameron Reimers in his first start on April 10th. His longest start since then was 5.2 IP.

Shortest starts at 1.1 innings belong to David Purcey and Juan Perez.

I looked at the most consistent pitchers, those with a game score over 70. Fifteen starts scored 70 or more, Josh Banks had three of them. Scott Downs and Casey Janssen had two each.

When I lower the cut-off to a game score 60 and over, there are 37 such starts. Casey Janssen leads with five, Josh Banks has four, and Scott Downs has three. Eight other pitchers had two.
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Ducey - Friday, May 06 2005 @ 03:18 PM EDT (#115927) #
BP has the Jays in the Triple Play:

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=4007

They discuss Hill, Banks, and Marcum
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Marc Hulet - Friday, May 06 2005 @ 10:40 PM EDT (#115969) #
Any idea who Emmanuel Sena (IF) and Yesson Berroa (RP) are replacing in Dunedin and why?
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StephenT - Friday, May 06 2005 @ 10:42 PM EDT (#115971) #
Gaudin in Ottawa tonight: 93 pitches (60 strikes), 7 innings, 4 runs, 5 K's, 0 walks, 1 HB, 1 loud double, 1 less-loud double, 1 quiet triple that Gross chased around, 1 pick off 1-3-6, 1 stolen base allowed, 8 groundouts, 4 flyouts, 2 popouts, no decision (SkyChiefs won 5-4).
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mendocino - Saturday, May 07 2005 @ 02:11 AM EDT (#115976) #
Scott Dragicevich name is missing from Dunedin's roster at minorleaguebaseball.com.
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Mike Green - Saturday, May 07 2005 @ 09:10 AM EDT (#115981) #
StephenT, that's a nice pitching summary on Gaudin.
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