Thurs. 6/2 - Looking to Put Wednesday's Misery Far in The Rearview Mirror

[Jim Goulart]

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[Ro Mueller]

AAA Nashville is tied 1-1 in this week’s series in Durham, as RHP Josh Lindblom (2.89 ERA, 1.05 WHIP, 8.1 K/9 in 46 2/3 innings) makes his 10th appearance. The offense welcomes rehabbing SS Willy Adames for a few innings, along with the return of DH/OF Garrett Whitley (his first start since April 24th):

[Ro Mueller]

High-A Wisconsin is also deadlocked 1-1 in their series at home against Peoria this week, as the Timber Rattlers sit one game back of Cedar Rapids for first place. Stud LHP Brandon Knarr (1.58 ERA, 1.01 WHIP, 10.5 K/9 in 51 1/3 innings) will make his 10th start of 2022. INF/OF Ashton McGee had an absolutely miserable start to the season (.494 OPS through 105 plate appearances with 52 Ks), but is hopefully putting those dark days behind him (3-for-9 with just 2 Ks over his last 3 games):

[Ro Mueller]

Low-A Carolina dropped the first two games of their series in Lynchburg, falling into second place in the standings, one-half game behind the Hillcats. To remedy this, exciting RHP Stiven Cruz will be on the hill for his 4th start of the year. CF phenom Jackson Chourio's hitting streak is up to 8 games and on-base streak is at 16 games:

1 - Zack Raabe - DH
2 - Eduardo Garcia - SS
3 - Jackson Chourio - CF
4 - Hendry Mendez - RF
5 - Jeferson Quero - C
6 - Oswel Leones - LF
7 - Jesus Chirinos - 1B
8 - Jheremy Vargas - 2B
9 - Luis Silva - 3B
X - Stiven Cruz - P 

[Joseph Zarr]

The Mudcats strand Eduardo Garcia at second after his one out double. Chourio strikes out swinging on an outside heater and Hendry Mendez grounds out to short. On to the bottom half.

[Joseph Zarr]

Almonte stays hot with a two-out double in the top of the first and Mathias continues his dominant Triple-A form with a two-run jack for his 5th of the season. 2-0 Nashville on to the bottom half.

[Joseph Zarr]

Jheremy Vargas continues his fine series with an opposite field single scoring Oswel Leones (an opposite left field double to the wall himself). It's 1-0 Mudcats here in the top of the 2nd.

[Ro Mueller]

A painful second loss in Biloxi's series in Pensacola has the AA Shuckers holding a losing record (22-23) and sitting 1.5 games out of first place. RHP TJ Shook looks to bounce back from his last outing (6 2/3 innings, 6 runs, 7 hits, 3 walks, 2 hit-by-pitches, 5 Ks). C Jakson Reetz blasted another 2 home runs yesterday, his 12th of the season bringing him into a tie with OF Joey Wiemer (who hasn't played since exiting early on March 31st) for the team lead:

1 - Sal Frelick - CF
2 - Felix Valerio - 2B
3 - Jakson Reetz - C
4 - Thomas Dillard - 1B
5 - Tristen Lutz - RF
6 - Cam Devanney - SS
7 - Noah Campbell - DH
8 - Yeison Coca - 3B
9 - Terence Doston - LF   

[wibadgers23]

Chourio just smacked another homerun to dead center to give the Mudcats the lead in the 8th.

[Joseph Zarr]

Can I get a witnesssss?

we have Jackson Chourio and Jefferson Quero with ding dongs in the eighth inning before a delay to grab that 5-2 lead! Chourio’s 2nd in 2 days baby.

[Joseph Zarr]

Just now, wibadgers23 said:

Chourio just smacked another homerun to dead center to give the Mudcats the lead in the 8th.

He shore as heck did. Did you catch the follow-up 2-run shot from Quero? Glorious Mudcats goodness!

[Joseph Zarr]

Well, Josh Lindbolm wanted to offer condolences to his bullpen mates of last night. Josh surrenders 7 runs on 10 hits in five innings. Connor Sadzeck, not to leave an aged vet hanging, proceeds to give up back-to-back jacks to open the sixth. It’s 9-4 Durham.

[CheeseheadInQC]

Might have left him out there an inning too long, but nice bounceback start from Cruz.

[Joseph Zarr]

With the bases juiced and nobody down, and trailing 2-0, Joe Gray Jr. and Tristan Peters strike out swinging. There’ll be a pitching change and Ethan Murray will look to make the difference.

Cedar Rapids lost tonight and South Bend won. It would be a large victory if the young men can pull it out.

[Joseph Zarr]

Joey Wiemer sits again but Felix Valerio returns to the line-up. Lots of good production from the lower half of the order again for our Shuckers. This is a new trend of late and I quite like it. Yeison Coca with 2 hits and 2 RBI’s from the 9-hole. Splendid!

[Joseph Zarr]

Noah Campbell with a double and a triple to pair with home run jacks from Thomas Dillard and Cam Devanney. Shook completes six innings. Shuckers currently lead 8-3 in the eighth.

[Joseph Zarr]

Well, shucks, that’s a Tristan Lutz back-to-back ding Dong on the coat tails of Dillard’s fourth. 9-3. Man, Lutz is scorching hot right now and it is awesome to see it!

[phnxcrew]

1 hour ago, Julio Muchacho said:

Well, shucks, that’s a Tristan Lutz back-to-back ding Dong on the coat tails of Dillard’s fourth. 9-3. Man, Lutz is scorching hot right now and it is awesome to see it!

Only 23, I figured he was much older for how so many gave up on him.

[Joseph Zarr]

8 minutes ago, phnxcrew said:

Only 23, I figured he was much older for how so many gave up on him.

Yuppers. He was a high school signee. His approach at the dish right now is so confident, poised but meaningfully aggressive. He’s simply seeing that ball like a stud right now.

[Neazy32]

kinda glad i put Lutz in my top 26 prospects when most had him off...still think he has a chance to be a good major leaguer

[Joseph Zarr]

I am going to go ahead and give the salutatory (RHP) Matt Hardy appreciation post. All Matt has done since being brought back up to Nashville from Biloxi is get out of innings. It's truly great stuff he's been putting out there.

Another scoreless frame tonight with a couple strikeouts.

Overall, since being brought back to Nashville (you might recall, he started the season with Nashville and was sent to Biloxi during their inaugural Pensacola series. He was called back 5/17 when the Sounds were facing the Louisville Bats) he has pitched:

7 1/3 innings pitched for the Sounds over 5 games: 6 hits/ 1 walk/ 9 k's /0.96 WHIP/ O.160 BAA

He's looked comfortable. Calm. Methodical. And the results are showing. Great stuff! 

 

[Joseph Zarr]

17 minutes ago, Neazy32 said:

kinda glad i put Lutz in my top 26 prospects when most had him off...still think he has a chance to be a good major leaguer

Something happened when he returned from the IL on May 14th.

He had a really good opening series in Pensacola. It had me very excited and then, well, he really didn't do much of anything for the remainder of April (he went to the IL on 4/29 fwiw). When he returned, he was facing the following over his first 33 AB's through April 29th (very small sample size, but it tells you how he was trending):

0.161 BA/ 0.211 OBP/ 0.303 SLG/3 Runs/ 2 HR/ 6 RBI/ 4 BB/ 16 K's

Both HR's occurred in key spots in the above-mentioned Pensacola opening series. But, man, that was not a good start overall.

What a difference some time off can make! Since coming back he has been locked-in at the dish. He's just swinging free. He looks like a completely different player in the batters box. Let's look at his production in May til now: (near double the sample size):

0.328 BA/ 0.385 OBP/ 0.579 SLG/ 4 Doubles/ 4 HR's/18 RBI/6 BB/ 19 K's

That, my friend, is scorching hot. Man, I hope we see some form of this throughout the season.

[Neazy32]

42 minutes ago, Julio Muchacho said:

Something happened when he returned from the IL on May 14th.

He had a really good opening series in Pensacola. It had me very excited and then, well, he really didn't do much of anything for the remainder of April (he went to the IL on 4/29 fwiw). When he returned, he was facing the following over his first 33 AB's through April 29th (very small sample size, but it tells you how he was trending):

0.161 BA/ 0.211 OBP/ 0.303 SLG/3 Runs/ 2 HR/ 6 RBI/ 4 BB/ 16 K's

Both HR's occurred in key spots in the above-mentioned Pensacola opening series. But, man, that was not a good start overall.

What a difference some time off can make! Since coming back he has been locked-in at the dish. He's just swinging free. He looks like a completely different player in the batters box. Let's look at his production in May til now: (near double the sample size):

0.328 BA/ 0.385 OBP/ 0.579 SLG/ 4 Doubles/ 4 HR's/18 RBI/6 BB/ 19 K's

That, my friend, is scorching hot. Man, I hope we see some form of this throughout the season.

Absolutely....man this organization has a ton of outfield prospects at every level...Arbert Cipion is starting to look like a legit prospect...he had an awful year last year to a guy who you could now put in our top 30 prospects and nobody could really question it

[Joseph Zarr]

@Neazy32  @phnxcrew:

 

[Jim Goulart]

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