Batter's Box Interactive Magazine

The farm affiliates had another difficult day, going 1-3, with only those tough 'Nuts of Lansing coming out on top.

Louisville 8 @ Syracuse 2 Box

Ryan Roberts' 1st inning homer, his first triple A shot, got the Chiefs off on the right foot, but that was all the good news. Casey Janssen gave up 9 hits, including 2 homers, and 6 earned runs in 5 innings of work. He did walk nobody and punch out 4, but it was small consolation on this day. Dustin McGowan did better, allowing a 2 run homer in 3 innings of work, but otherwise walked 1 and struck out 3. James Baldwin finished up. Wayne Lydon hit a late inning homer to complete the scoring for Syracuse.

New Hampshire 0 @ Connecticut 2 Box

Ismael Ramirez gave the Fisher Cats a fine start, but the offence was, to quote the poet, as dead as heaven on a Saturday night. Singles by Adam Lind, Chip Cannon and Vito Chiavaralloti and no walks was all. Ramirez was solid, going 7 innings and allowing 2 runs, 1 unearned on 7 hits and 1 walk with 7 strikeouts. Ryan Houston set the side down in order in the eighth, with one punchout.

Vince Perkins was picked up by the Brewers, after being removed from the 40 man roster recently.

Dunedin 4 @ Lakeland 6 Box

The D'Jays came back from a 4-1 deficit to tie the game in the top of the 7th, but Tiger runs in the 7th and 8th put the game on ice. Dunedin was done in by an inability to cash baserunners. With 13 singles and 4 walks, the Jays could have scored more runs, but two double plays and a runner thrown out at the plate were key. It was a good day for Ryans: Patterson went 3-4 with a walk, while Klosterman went 3-4 with no walk. Eric Nielsen went 2-3 with 2 walks, and Juan Peralta went 2-5 with runs scored. Starter Eric Fowler wasn't fooling anyone. He was touched for 3 earned runs in 1.1 innings of work on 4 hits, 2 walks and no strikeouts. The relief was serviceable, but not good enough to secure the W.

Lansing 10 @ Dayton 4 Box

The Lugnuts scored 4 in the 4th and 1 in the 6th and that was more than enough for starter Kristian Bell. Bell moved to 2-0 on the young season with 5 innings of brilliant shutout pitching, 2 hits, 1 walk and 8 strikeouts. The offence was firing on all cylinders with 14 hits and 5 walks. It was a group effort, with Emmanuel Sena, Chris Gutierrez, Cory Patton, Josh Bell, David Hicks and Yuber Rodriguez each contributing 2 safeties. Hicks and Gutierrez each reached base twice, while Patton drove in 3, including the first 2 runs of the game with a triple. A 20 mph wind was blowing out to centerfield making Bell's performance all the more impressive. Jordan Timm, Aaron Tressler, and Paul Phillips (who pitched a scoreless ninth with 2 strikeouts) finished up the game for the Lugnuts.

3 star selection

3rd star-Ismael Ramirez

2nd star-Ryan Patterson

1st star-Kristian Bell

Posted by Mike Green on Thursday, April 13 2006 @ 07:00 AM EDT.

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Gerry - Thursday, April 13 2006 @ 08:27 AM EDT (#145057) #

Janssen was being hit early in the count. Both home runs were on the second pitch, two of the three doubles were on the first pitch, the two singles were on the second pitch, but first strike.

Janssen has only 43 innings aboive A ball and he has to learn how to pitch to AAA hitters. Like Banks he has to learn to pitch down more and to the corners more, at AAA you can catch too much of the plate. In this respect Banks might be ahead of Janssen, his year and a half at AA will help him out at AAA.

Mike Green - Thursday, April 13 2006 @ 11:04 AM EDT (#145068) #

Good points, Gerry. There is no way to learn but through trial. Janssen was aggressively promoted to triple A. This is absolutely fine, in my view, provided he gets a good chance to learn the ropes there, at least 20 starts or so. He's still missing bats and not walking people; I take that as a good sign.

kpataky - Thursday, April 13 2006 @ 02:54 PM EDT (#145095) #

I was at the Fisher Cats game in Norwich yesterday - and can offer these comments.

Ramirez looked to be pitching well enough. He just didn't get any run support. The only runs he gave up in the game came in the third inning. Randy Walter started it all with a double and then Ramirez walked Clay Timpner to put runners on first and second. Next up was Derin McMains, who singled to right, scoring Walter. Ron Davenport fielded the single as Timpner was hitting the second base bag. Davenport's throw would have been a perfect line drive throw in the air right to the third base bag - the only problem was that it hit Timpner square in the back as he began his slide. When the ball skipped into foul territory, Timpner scored the second run.

It seemed like the guys really wanted to get out of there and get back "home". They all seemed to be swinging at the first pitch. Begg knew this and was mixing his pitches, so no one could guess what was coming. Lots of New Hampshire ground outs and both pitchers had low pitch counts.

Ducey - Thursday, April 13 2006 @ 03:25 PM EDT (#145099) #

Baseball America says:

" Blue Jays lefthander Ricky Romero began the season on the disabled list with elbow stiffness. He threw a pain-free side session Wednesday and is expected to make his debut for High Class A Dunedin in the next week to 10 days."

Mike Green - Friday, April 14 2006 @ 12:27 AM EDT (#145134) #

The bats were booming from the big club through to Lansing in an organizational sweep tonight.

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