Sun. 7/10 - Shuckers Hope to Put Two in The Win Column

[Jim Goulart]

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[Ro Mueller]

Wisconsin leads South Bend 3-2 in this week’s series and has red-hot RHP Justin Jarvis (2.23 ERA with 53 Ks over last 36 1/3 innings) raring to go for Game 6. LF Tristan Peters has hit safely in 12 of his last 13 games:

[Jim Goulart]

Wes Clarke back for the T-Rats immediately after we pointed out a two-week absence.

[Ro Mueller]

Carolina has dropped 4 games in a row in Kannapolis and has RHP Alexander Cornielle on the mound for today’s early game. Amazing 18-year old CF Jackson Chourio (.976 season OPS, with 12th home run yesterday) continues to provide the much of the team’s offense:

[Ro Mueller]

AAA Nashville has won 8 consecutive games and has solid RHP Caleb Boushley (3.01 ERA, 1.18 WHIP, 6.5 K/9 in 86 2/3 innings) on the hill for Game 6 in Columbus. DH/1B Jon Singleton has reached base in 13 straight games and homered in his last 2 games:

[Ro Mueller]

AA Biloxi and Montgomery finished off last night’s postponed extra inning game, picking up with the Shuckers leading 6-4 with 2-on and 2-out in the top half of the inning.

Well, a strikeout ended that top half, but reliever Zach Vennaro calmly got the first 2 batters out in the bottom of the 10th inning…

…before imploding with 2 singles, 2 walks and a game-ending hit-by-pitch to lose 7-6.

They’ve got a whole ‘nother game to play subsequently.

[Ro Mueller]

Jeez. Speak of the devil. In today’s early game, Carolina led 3-0 in the 8th inning on the back of Alexander Cornielle’s terrific outing (6 IP, 0 R, 3 H, 0 BB, 5 Ks).

With 2 outs in that bottom of the 8th inning, the Cannon Ballers reeled off 5 straight hits, the last a 3-run homer.

Mudcats lose 5-3.

[Ro Mueller]

The Shuckers trail their series in Montgomery 3-2 and have RHP Victor Castaneda (3.79 ERA, 1.20 WHIP, 9.6 K/9 in 59 1/3 innings) pitching Game 6 to tie things up. DH/CF Sal Frelick has hit safely in 13 of his last 14 games:

[Joseph Zarr]

16 minutes ago, damuelle said:

AA Biloxi and Montgomery finished off last night’s postponed extra inning game, picking up with the Shuckers leading 6-4 with 2-on and 2-out in the top half of the inning.

Well, a strikeout ended that top half, but reliever Zach Vennaro calmly got the first 2 batters out in the bottom of the 10th inning…

…before imploding with 2 singles, 2 walks and a game-ending hit-by-pitch to lose 7-6.

They’ve got a whole ‘nother game to play subsequently.

They went with Vennaro over Cam Robinson? And, well, fell in classic Shuckers fashion? Color me, um, not shocked. Ugh.?

[Ro Mueller]

The struggles continue, as the Timber Rattlers dropped their game to the Cubs 6-2, being outhit 9-1. CF/2B Tyler Black left the game early, after making a catch to end the 3rd inning.

[Joseph Zarr]

1 minute ago, damuelle said:

The struggles continue, as the Timber Rattlers dropped their game to the Cubs 6-2, being outhit 9-1. CF/2B Tyler Black left the game early, after making a catch to end the 3rd inning.

I call a Sunday Mulligan. Let's press the ol' Nintendo reset button and start it over again from the Top. Asterisks all around today's output and results!

[Joseph Zarr]

Let's get some feel good Caleb Boushley work and impeccable Nashville Sounds bullpen shutdown to help but some bandaids on rough bullpen work all around Low-A to High-A. We're 0-3 so far, but Nashville can give us a 6-0 sweep in Columbus (currently leading 1-0) and Biloxi can still salvage a split today. 

[Ro Mueller]

Hopefully this is a case of “better safe than sorry” - Victor Castaneda exits after throwing 41 pitches in the 1st inning. The last pitch should have gotten him out of it down 3-0, but an error made it 4-0 and extended the misery. Only 2 hard hit balls in 9 batters, with 25 strikes thrown, doesn’t suggest any major meltdown. Let’s hope he’s fine.

[Joseph Zarr]

3 minutes ago, damuelle said:

Hopefully this is a case of “better safe than sorry” - Victor Castaneda exits after throwing 41 pitches in the 1st inning. The last pitch should have gotten him out of it down 3-0, but an error made it 4-0 and extended the misery. Only 2 hard hit balls in 9 batters, with 25 strikes thrown, doesn’t suggest any major meltdown. Let’s hope he’s fine.

What we can say, regardless, is we haven't seen the same pre-injury version of Victor Castaneda since his IL return. Hopefully, he can find that previous dominant form. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Another double for Brice Turang. Let's just say, in an extremely important divisional series Brice has brought his XB game back to the ballpark. After the entire month of June filled with only singles, Brice has 3 doubles; a triple; and a HR in 34 AB's here in early July. A season of samples swings back to the celebratory side! Sounds back in front 3-2 as they eye an elusive and extremely difficult six game sweep.

[Joseph Zarr]

Ruh Roh, we got 'one of those' innings from upstart Lucas Erceg. Four hits and a three-run bomb before he was pulled for RHP Matt Hardy who got the three pitch strikeout to end the threat. This is Lucas' first real hiccup since his promotion. Let's hope the Sounds can regain their lead - they now trail 5-3 in the top of the eighth. They'll have only 5 more outs to attempt a comeback. 

[brewmann04]

Complete Goose Egg for the Whole organization 

[igor67]

I choose to highlight Frelick getting a couple of hits and raising his batting average to .300. I would love a .300 hitter in our big league lineup.

[brewmann04]

Felicano has his avg over 300 too which is a good sign.

[Joseph Zarr]

17 minutes ago, brewmann04 said:

Felicano has his avg over 300 too which is a good sign.

0.389 SLG with a 0.355 BABIP. Paired with number of years in system and questionable defense I’m ‘concerned’ with Mario in 2022. 

He still has age in his favor, obviously. And he’s a very likable young man. Like all Brewers prospects, I’m rooting for him but there are more question marks than answers as I see it in 2022. One primary would be: where did any semblance of power go?

[Neazy32]

nash walters isnt talked about much at all but i see hes got his ERA in the 4.7 range now....a month ago he was in the upper 5 range...has really been pitching well as of late

is there anything there with the former 3rd rounder which seems forever ago in 2015

[Joseph Zarr]

14 hours ago, Neazy32 said:

nash walters isnt talked about much at all but i see hes got his ERA in the 4.7 range now....a month ago he was in the upper 5 range...has really been pitching well as of late

is there anything there with the former 3rd rounder which seems forever ago in 2015

Just seeing this @Neazy32. I think what you can say about Nash is he is having his best stretch of affiliated ball. What this ultimately turns into or where he goes from here is an unknown. He has the size and the frame and he has the strikeout numbers so there is something there. He is 25 yo and his ongoing issue (which continued into this season) is he pitches to a lot of contact and that typically resulted in a lot of hits. I don't know what the organization intends for Nash and it is typically at this age whereby young men of his age become Minor League free agents. This being said, he's on a 10 game scoreless streak. That's impressive and, let me tell you, Biloxi is going to continue needing that production - their pitching has been an absolute roller coaster most of the season. 

[Jim Goulart]

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