Sun. 5/22 - Sunday, Funday (Hopefully)

[Ro Mueller]

17 minutes ago, CheeseheadInQC said:

I'd agree, except I'm not sure he still has his prospect status if it wasn't for that injury. 

It will be interesting to see how the Brewers handle the starting rotation in Wisconsin. It seems increasingly clear that having Kelly face high-A hitters when he is on his game like he was today lands somewhere between pointless and sadistic, and Knarr clearly deserves his shot at Biloxi, too. Who replaces them, though? It feels too early for any of the youngsters. Taking into account the Brewers seem reluctant to fully stretch out Lazar do you drop Bullock down from AA? Stretch out Mort or Matulovich? Promote Brannon Jordan? Scour the Indy leagues?

Morales and Vassalotti have made the decision after the inevitable Robinson/Hasler promotions happen much easier.

Promoting 23-year old Brannon Jordan would give them a 5-man rotation (Jarvis, Smith, Lazar, Moore, Jordan), though Lazar remains limited. Be happy that guys like Guerrero, Mort and Matulovich can all throw multiple innings. Vassalotti, Tripp and Morales might as well get promoted to boost the bullpen as others move up to Biloxi.

I agree that none of the other long innings Mudcats appear ready to make the move to Wisconsin.

[Ro Mueller]

Tyler White singled in Jon Singleton (who'd walked for the 2nd time today) in the 4th inning to further tighten the game. It's Louisville 4, Nashville 3.

Nashville's defense are coming through to enable Boushley work a little further into the game, with Alex Jackson gunning down a prospective base stealer in the 4th inning and a Davis-Reyes-Mathias relay catching a runner attempting to stretch a single in the 5th inning.

[Ro Mueller]

OF Jonathan Davis remains a problem for other teams, going 2-for-3 thus far today and quickly stealing 2nd base here in the 5th inning for his 8th steal of the season in 9 attempts.

Perhaps he's emphasizing contact this year and conceding some power (just 3 extra base hits after posting double digit homers from 2016-2019), but I'll say the change looks good (18 walks vs. 18 Ks, whereas he'd historically struck out at a 2:1 ratio).

[Joseph Zarr]

1 hour ago, damuelle said:

Biloxi trails 6-1 in the 8th inning and I'm sure that Manager Guerrero will be hoping for reinforcements on Tuesday (Tyler Black call-up?; a healthy Sal Frelick, Garrett Mitchell and/or Freddy Zamora?; callups for Brandon Knarr, Antoine Kelly, Kent Hasler?).

Well, I'm going to start with the perspective of:

The guys that are already in Biloxi simply need to start playing up to a higher standard. Let's start with the errors: two more today. The current brand of Shuckers, I am sad to say, just plays a sloppy brand of baseball. Too many unforced errors. If we're being honest, too many bad unforced errors. Batting and pitching will go through highs and lows in a season - we all know this. But, you can't expect to turn the tide if you make unforced errors on the regular. That is putting your team behind the eight-ball in too many games. So, now, after 39 games they've added two more errors to their League leading total making it 48 in 39 games. That's just bad any way you look at it. AND, this is with the extremely error-prone 2022 Freddy Zamora on an extended leave. There was a point a couple weeks ago, where they had led 25 of 28 games they'd played in. And, yet, they were a 0.500 to sub 0.500 club. I don't know what current promotion is going to help hit with RISP or elevate a sudden team shift to play fundamentally sound baseball. Maybe there's a spark in there? I'm going to go the route of: The change has to come from within. 

[Ro Mueller]

Boushley came out and successfully covered the 6th inning as well, giving him 172 pitches for the week. I'd assume that's enough.

Nashville trails 4-3, with only 6 outs remaining for them in this 7-inning contest.

[Joseph Zarr]

Hendry Mendez has now reached base safely in 14 consecutive games with his single in the bottom of the fourth inning. What a run.

[Joseph Zarr]

After two walks and a lead-off double here in the 6th, Jon Singleton may see his OPS trend north of 0.900 batting 0.224. My man crush grows stronger by the day. ?

[Joseph Zarr]

Pablo Reyes! just launched a 2-run jack and it's suddenly 5-4 Sounds with one down in the bottom half of inning number 6. I've been preaching to y'all: His contact has merited more success. Have a series, Pablo! Wow.

[Ro Mueller]

Patient Jon Singleton doubles to lead off the bottom of the 6th inning, then Pablo Reyes bashes a home run to left field. Nashville leads 5-4!

[Joseph Zarr]

Yeah babyyyy:

That was a bomb. Yowza.

[Joseph Zarr]

30 minutes ago, damuelle said:

Tyler White singled in Jon Singleton (who'd walked for the 2nd time today) in the 4th inning to further tighten the game. It's Louisville 4, Nashville 3.

Nashville's defense are coming through to enable Boushley work a little further into the game, with Alex Jackson gunning down a prospective base stealer in the 4th inning and a Davis-Reyes-Mathias relay catching a runner attempting to stretch a single in the 5th inning.

Here's that nab at second base. The Nashville defense is truly a joy to watch on a highly regular basis. They make so few mistakes. This is just a fundamentally sound, easy-breezy, exemplary play a winning team makes:

 

[Joseph Zarr]

Hobie Harris locks in the save and Alex Jackson helps to that end with another throw-out at second base. A key nab as Hobie had struggled a wee bit with command until he settled in to punch out Senzel on a gorgeous splitter after a 95 mph heater had him swinging to the ground. That's a 5 games of 6 series win for Nashville. Heck yeah!

[brewmann04]

The biloxi team should be looking at Nashville to play defense.

[JackNicholson1974]

I was at that TRats game today. Kelly was unbelievably good. Like I have never seen a minor league pitcher pitch that good before.

[Jim Goulart]

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