Batter's Box Interactive Magazine

Today the farm went 4-2, with two rainouts for Dunedin. Ricky Romero had a fantastic start for Buffalo versus a veteran Scranton W/B lineup. Marcus Stroman had another quality start by the books for NH in an game that went into extra innings. DJ Davis lead the Bluefield attack in which they scored 9 runs.

Buffalo 7 – Scranton/WB 1

Ricky Romero had a fantastic start today versus a veteran RailRiders team full of ex-major leaguers. Ricky pitched 8 innings, giving up 4 hits, one earned run, along with one walk, and four strikeouts.

Sean Ochinko hit his third home run since his promotion to Buffalo. Jimy Negrych was 1-2, with two rbi’s and two walks.

New Hampshire 7 – Reading 5 (12 Innings)

Marcus Stroman had a quality start by the book, but was not as sharp as one would hope. Marcus Stroman pitched 6 innings giving up 4 hits, 2 earned runs, with 2 walks, and 5 strikeouts. But the scary part of Marcus’s start was his 3groundouts – 8 flyouts, to go along with his already high 1.4 HR/9.

The Fisher-Cats offense was tremendous today with 14 hits, 4 walks which totaled 7 runs. Adam Loewen, and Kevin Nolan each had a home run with two hits. Brad Glenn had two home runs as well, including one in the 12th inning which gave NH the lead.

Dunedin 1 – St Lucie 1 (Suspended after 3 Innings)

Vancouver 0 – Boise 3

Colton Turner had a fantastic start, but wasn’t enough as Vancouver didn’t score any runs today. Colton’s line today consisted of 6 innings, 6 hits, one earned run, one walk, and five strikeouts.

Vancouver had 8 hits and 2 walks today, but unfortunately they didn’t score any runs. LB Danzler had three hits, including a double and Brenden Kalfus had two hits including a walk.

Bluefield 9 – Pulaski 2

Bluefield scored 9 runs on 10 hits and 5 walks today versus Pulaski. DJ Davis had another monster game today for Bluefield, as he scored three runs, with two home runs, and a walk. Dawel Lugo had two hits as well in the game contributing to the offensive attack.

Today Chase DeJong started, while Canadian Shane Dawson came out of the pen in the 5th inning for the piggybacking duo. Chase pitched 4 innings, giving up 2 earned runs, on 5 hits, with 3 walks, and 3 strikeouts. Shane Dawson pitched 4 scoreless innings giving up 2 hits, along no walks and 9 strikeouts.

Three Stars

3-Ricky Romero

2-Brad Glenn

1-DJ Davis

Posted by tercet on Sunday, July 14 2013 @ 11:14 PM EDT.

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Mike Green - Monday, July 15 2013 @ 10:22 AM EDT (#276517) #

It's nice to see D.J. Davis controlling the strike zone to a significant degree (8 walks and 9 strikeouts in his last 10 games) and hitting for power. He will be turning 19 in 9 days, and he's in the Appy League.

It looks like he's headed for Lansing to being 2014.

Lylemcr - Monday, July 15 2013 @ 10:32 AM EDT (#276519) #

Good to see Ricky playing well.

tercet - Monday, July 15 2013 @ 03:27 PM EDT (#276528) #

So am I the only one slightly worried about Stroman's flyball and HR rate?

Mike Green - Monday, July 15 2013 @ 04:00 PM EDT (#276529) #

As a RH fly-ball pitcher in New Hampshire, it would be normal to give up more home runs than usual due to the short distance to the RF fence. Obviously it would be better if he were getting more ground balls than he is, but he's still a good pitching prospect.

ramone - Monday, July 15 2013 @ 07:55 PM EDT (#276533) #

I listened to the Dunedin double header today, Hutch was 89-93 with little control in his first rehab start (to be expected) and Santos couldn't even get through an inning, he hit 90 a couple times on the fastball, play by play guy said 84 on a fastball to the last batter, only outs were 2 fly balls, one was a leaping catch to rob a homerun.

scottt - Monday, July 15 2013 @ 09:35 PM EDT (#276534) #

Not too concerned about Santos right now. There's no room for him.

Would be nice to have Ricky back. Rogers probably gets a good look in the second half. No noticeable split so far, but he's walking left handed batters at a high rate.

sam - Monday, July 15 2013 @ 10:21 PM EDT (#276535) #

ramone,

If those velo readings are true, that could be a real sign there is something wrong with Santos and we would unlikely see him for the rest of 2013.

John Northey - Monday, July 15 2013 @ 11:03 PM EDT (#276536) #

Just glad Santos didn't cost too much - just Nestor Molina who really regressed once in Chicago's system. He had 10.2 K/9 his last year here (A+/AA) but 6.3 last year and 8.3 this year. In truth his numbers outside of ERA look fairly good this year (5.51 ERA but 0.6 HR/9 2.2 BB/9 and 8.3 K/9) but the injury bug has hit him hard (just 5 games, all starts, so far). Santos has one more year before the options kick in, $3.75 mil next year then the Jays have to decide if he is worth $6 mil/$8 mil/$8.75 mil for the next 3 years or if they'd rather buy him out for $750k. Right now I suspect he'll just be let go and forgotten about.

bpoz - Tuesday, July 16 2013 @ 10:51 AM EDT (#276548) #

I cannot believe how much bad luck we are having with injuries and poor performance.

I hope our luck will change soon.

PeteMoss - Tuesday, July 16 2013 @ 02:28 PM EDT (#276560) #

Strikeout pitchers tend to be flyball guys... you look at the MLB pitchers with the highest flyball rates and you get guys like Matt Cain, Shelby Miller, etc. Obviously it isn't all roses - Phil Hughes and Ian Kennedy are up there. But the ground balls are more important if you're not getting strikeouts.

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