Batter's Box Interactive Magazine - Dunedin Doubles Down

Dunedin won both ends of a doubleheader allowing just one run between both games. The GCL Jays supplied the only other win with two come from behind rallies.

Pawtucket 5 Syracuse 4

Ricky Romero pitched six innings and gave up all five runs with seven hits and three walks. Two of the hits were home runs. The Chiefs scored a run in the fourth, Travis Snider walked, folowed by two singles to drive him in. Syracuse got close with three runs in the eighth, Russ Adams singled, Snider reached on a fielders choice and Kevin Mellilo doubled in a run. With two outs Curtis Thigpen doubled in two runs but Wayne Lydon flew out to end the threat. Buck Coats singled to lead-off the ninth but he never moved off first base. Coats and Adams had three hits each. Snider was 1-3.

Altoona 12 New Hampshire 0

New Hampshire were outhit 18-4. Robert Ray gave up four runs on nine hits in five innings. The bullpen gave up the other eight runs. Jacob Butler was the only Fisher Cat with two hits.

Sarasota 0 Dunedin 1 - game 1

This was a zero - zero game through six and a half innings. In the bottom of the seventh, with one out, Marcos Cabral and Anthony Hatch singled. A force out put runners at first and third with two outs and then a wild pitch delivered the winning run.

Reidier Gonzalez pitched a complete game shutout with six hits allowed.

Sarasota 1 Dunedin 3 - game 2

Tied at one after two innings, Adam Calderone un-tied it with a solo home run in the third. Marcos Cabral added another solo shot in the fifth. Kenny Rodriguez pitched six innings allowing one run.

David Cooper was 0-2 and is hitless in his last three games.

Lansing 3 West Michigan 4

Chi-Hung Cheng pitched shutout ball for five innings but gave up a run in the sixth. Dan O'Brien allowed three runs in the seventh. Lansing were shutout until the ninth. Justin Jackson walked, Raul Barron singled, Manny Rodriguez tripled in both runs. With one out Kevin Ahrens walked, and Jon Baksh hit a sac fly. Johermyn Chavez singled Ahrens to second and both moved up on a strikeout my Moises Sierra, but Darin Mastroianni lined out to end the game. Jon Baksh was the only Lugnut with two hits.

Auburn 1 Batavia 5

Batavia scored in four innings and scored at least a run off all three Auburn starters. Auburn had only five hits, Luis Rivera had two and scored the run on an error.

GCL Indians 5 GCL Jays 6 - 11 innings

The Jays came back twice to win. Trailing by two heading to the bottom of the ninth the Jays got the two lead-off hitters on base, Justin McClanahan walked and Yensy Perez singled. A wild pitch moved up the runners and two ground balls tied the game. The Indians scored one in the top of the eleventh. In the bottom of the eleventh Welinton Ramirez singled, and Justin McClanahan walked. A sac bunt moved up the runners and an intentional walk loaded them up. Pinch hitter Tyler Pastornicky reached on a force attempt to tie the game and Luis Fernandez hit a sac fly for the win. Balbino Fuenmayor was the only Jay with two hits. The Jays pitchers only gave up four hits, but they walked ten.

3 star selection

3rd star - Marcos Cabral
2nd star - Kenny Rodriguez
1st star - Reidier Gonzalez

Posted by Gerry on Saturday, August 16 2008 @ 09:28 AM EDT.

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John Northey - Saturday, August 16 2008 @ 11:52 AM EDT (#190740) #

OK, Snider is just being silly. 7 games in AAA with hits in 6 of them and multiple hits in 5 of them. This is what you want to see, a kid that knows he is on the doorstep of the majors and is not knocking but pounding on the door. If only Diaz or Thigpen would start knocking rather than running away.

85bluejay - Saturday, August 16 2008 @ 12:15 PM EDT (#190742) #

Funny, when Ricky had a good start last time, all the JPhiles were posting and ready to put him in the 2005 draft hall of fame - now that he and Bret Cecil have been

lit up these posters are MIA.

Spifficus - Saturday, August 16 2008 @ 12:54 PM EDT (#190743) #

...now that he and Bret Cecil have been lit up these posters are MIA

Actually, the play-by-play reminds me of a 'bad' Halladay start where you see lots of ground balls, with more than usual finding holes (I think 5 of the 7 hits against him were ground balls). Put a couple of them on before a homer, and you pretty much have this start in a nutshell.

Not a stellar start, but that's going to happen. Encouragingly, you can still see the elements that made his previous starts successful.

TamRa - Saturday, August 16 2008 @ 07:08 PM EDT (#190758) #

Awfully early to be crowing don't cha think?

I wouldn't say Romero is in anyone's hall of fame yet so your hyperbole isn't very convincing. Certinaly the jury is out on him but crowing after one start which was ruined, essentially, by one bad pitch, sets yourself up for embarassment.

As for Cecil, it's a really bad play on your part to go after him this early.

It's going to take a LOT of underachivment before anyone is going to be ashamed of that pick.

85bluejay - Sunday, August 17 2008 @ 07:47 AM EDT (#190772) #

WillRain - you have completely misunderstood my post. I did not criticize the players in the post nor was I crowing about their disappointing performances - In fact

as a Blue Jays fan I want every jays prospect to succeed - My post was a sarcastic dig at jpiles (like yourself) who get overexcited at a single good performance

and post hyperbolic comments rather than taking a more reflective approach to the season and a prospects progress. Also my hall of fame comment was apropos

as it was mentioned by a poster following romero's 10 strikeout performance.

SO, in the future please read and understand a posting before commenting or you will risk embarrassing yourself again.

TamRa - Sunday, August 17 2008 @ 05:50 PM EDT (#190792) #

Well, IMO:

1. Taking a somewhat positive vie of JP's draft record does not make one a "JPile" and even the use of the term betrays bias on your part. One could as easilly argue an irrational anti-JP position is evident in anyone who would use the term.

2. One can recognize good work in any prospect without being a member of the JP fan club or thinking the man is without flaws as a GM or as a draft manager.

3. That said, I do have one of the most positive opinions of his draft record of anyone I have seen and even I did not proclaim Romero as the "Next Big Thing" based on one good start.

4. You included Cecil in your dig and Cecil's numbers, through the day he was promoted to AAA, are virtually identical to David Price's numbers and in quite a few more innings. so clearly praise for Cecil goes well beyond "one good start" - thus, if you want to take a sarcastic dig at people defending JP based one single good performance it's best you NOT reference Brett Cecil.

5. Let's review some of that lavis praise you remember:

Could it be that one of Ricciardi's biggest screwups wasn't really a screwup at all? After all, Romero is only 23 and we might've been a little too quick to write him off
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A very good start for Romero - the strikeouts especially - but I'm going to wait before getting too excited.
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Fellow college starters Marcum and Janssen were in AAA for their age 24 seasons and Romero will most likely start off in Syracuse next year, too. That doesn't mean you start planning parades in his honour, but it does put it in perspective a bit.

Hell man, there was more said about Russ Adams in that thread than about Romeo. NOT ONE POSTER was saying anything like what you imply. Please, by all means, direct me to the hyperbolic praise for Romero in that thread which somehow escaped my attention.

The only reasonable conclusion is obvious - you may want Jays players to succeed but you want VERY much to see universal disapproval of JP and when you don't, the knee-jerks.

The simple fact is, there is no "hyperbolic praise" for Romero in that thread, or anywhere else in recent memory on this board, there is no praise for JP that rests on the success of Romero. And your comment was borderline irrational, and on the wrong side of the border.

cascando - Sunday, August 17 2008 @ 09:00 PM EDT (#190803) #

I enjoy reading battersbox precisely because the posters here are intelligent and respectful enough to avoid jumping to unecessary conclusions and talking past one another--it's what sets this site apart from all the other blogs and message boards on the interweb. So it's extremely disappointing to read the likes of:

"The only reasonable conclusion is obvious - you may want Jays players to succeed but you want VERY much to see universal disapproval of JP and when you don't, the knee-jerks."

This kind of comment is juvenile and unecessary. Give the posters here some credit. If we want this level of argument, we know where to go.

It goes without saying that it only takes one or two impressive performances from a prospect to inflate the expectations of a certain segment of the fanbase. There is no basis to confuse that kind of comment with prospect bashing and even less reason to take it personally.

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