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I have never been to Las Vegas but I hear people walk the strip to see the sights.  On Saturday there was a lot of walking off the strip, Las Vegas hitters walked ten times.  They walked three times in the first, and scored three runs, and they won the game in the tenth with the always exciting four walk inning.  The other three affiliates took the "L".  Mark Rzepczynski pitched OK but not good enough.  BJ Ryan took the loss in Dunedin and Tim Collins gave up some runs.  Lansing were never in it although Kenny Wilson stayed hot.

Sacramento 7  Las Vegas 8 - 10 innings

Las Vegas started off well with three runs in the first.  Gio Gonzalez loaded the bases on walks, a Brett Harper single scored one and an Aaron Mathews double scored two more.  Wade Miller gave up four runs, all unearned in the second.  Five singles, four of them ground balls, a walk and an error contrinuted to the four runs. The teams traded runs and the lead changed seven times in this game.  Las Vegas won the game in the tenth with an always exciting four walk inning.  In the game the 51's had eight hits and ten walks.  Brett Harper and Jason Lane had two hits each.  Bryan Bullington got the win with a shutout inning.
  

Connecticut 4  New Hampshire 2

New Hampshire were up 2-0 after two innings.  Brad Emaus homered in the first inning and Sean Shoffit singled in Adam Calderone in the second.  Marc Rzepczynski gave up four runs and took the loss but errors did not help him.  In the third inning a two out error allowed a run to score.  In the fourth a lead-off error was followed by a single and a double to score two.  A hit batter and a single added a run to make it 4-2 and there was no scoring after the fourth.  Rzepczynski pitched 5.1 innings and gave up seven hits and a walk, four runs, two earned, with five K's.  Bubbie Buzachero pitched 3.1 shutout innings in relief.

Emaus was 3-4 to bump his average to .330, Al Quintana stayed hot with two more hits.


Tampa 8  Dunedin 4

This game was tied at 4's after six innings but the Jays bullpen coughed up four runs including one off BJ Ryan, two off Tim Collins and one off Danny Farquhar.  Ryan's run was conceded on a walk, a double and a sac fly.  Collins was not his normal self, he was hit for a couple of doubles leading to the two runs.  Farquhar's run was unearned.  

Moises Sierra and Eric Thames led the Jays offense with three hits each


Beloit 8  Lansing 3

Beloit jumped out to an 8-0 lead and the lead was never really threatened.  Josh Wells pitched four innings and gave up seven runs on twelve hits.

Lansing had six hits in the game, Kenny Wilson had two hits and was hit by a pitch and had a sac fly.  He has bumped his average to .261 and is hitting .368 for May.


3 star selection

3rd star - Moises Sierra and Eric Thames
2nd star - Brad Emaus
1st star - Brett Harper - 3 rbi's

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Mike Green - Sunday, May 10 2009 @ 10:32 AM EDT (#199702) #
Kevin Gray on Zep

Jeroloman apparently has a hand injury.  He will be having an MRI shortly.

92-93 - Sunday, May 10 2009 @ 12:26 PM EDT (#199705) #
Brad Emaus is off to an extremely solid .330/.395/.539 start at AA after an impressive campaign in A last year. Any first hand reports on his defense at 2B? Is there any chance he can become a 3B and take over post-Rolen?
Sano - Sunday, May 10 2009 @ 03:03 PM EDT (#199714) #
How does Emaus project for power?

It's exciting to have some positional prospects coming up- Arencibia, Emaus, Dopirak, Cooper.  Bear in mind that many of our position players are actually at or just over 30- Barajas, Wells, Rolen, Overbay, Scutaro and Hill/Rios are 27/28.  We'll be needing some fresh blood in there the next few years.

TamRa - Sunday, May 10 2009 @ 03:29 PM EDT (#199717) #
Brad Emaus is off to an extremely solid .330/.395/.539 start at AA after an impressive campaign in A last year. Any first hand reports on his defense at 2B? Is there any chance he can become a 3B and take over post-Rolen?

I've been blowing that horn for months but I've seen nothing official to suggest the jays are thinking that. In fact, Emaus WAS a 3B before the Jays moved him to 2B...and now they are fooling with Campbell over there (which is a BAD idea IMO) instead.

Yet I've never seen a report that said his D simply wouldn't play at third.

I dunno what the deal is.

Unless....and I've seen no commentary to suggest this either but still....unless they are thinking about moving Hill and his newfound power stroke to 3B in 2011 and having one of Cambpell or Emaus take over 2B......
Gerry - Sunday, May 10 2009 @ 05:23 PM EDT (#199723) #
Fabio Castro had a good start today in AAA, 6 shutout innings.  JP Arencibia is 4-5 and needs a triple for the cycle.
jerjapan - Sunday, May 10 2009 @ 07:13 PM EDT (#199730) #
Ken Takahashi has been called up by the Mets and has three scoreless appearings, meaning he's been scored on once in 16+ innings between AAA and the bigs ... JP can find lefty relievers so easily, he's started doing it for other teams ...

Nice story though.  I felt for the guy - 40 year old makes his first trip to MLB only to get injured and released immediately in spring training.  Hope he stays in the bigs for the season.

92-93 - Sunday, May 10 2009 @ 07:50 PM EDT (#199731) #
The New Hampshire FisherCats faced top Giants prospect Tim Alderson making his AA debut for the Conn. Defenders. He went 6.2ip 0er with 10k 1bb, 7:3 gb:fb. When Alderson and Bumgarner join Lincecum, Cain, and Sanchez at the MLB level they are going to have a stacked rotation.
Mick Doherty - Tuesday, May 12 2009 @ 05:12 PM EDT (#199833) #

Does Everybody Walk In Vegas?

Great headline. But according to the greatness of balladeer Marc Cohn, it's Walkin' in Memphis ...

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