Sat. 4/29 - 1:10 Central T-Rats Start; Mudcats Hope to Get in Two

[Jim Goulart]

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[Ro Mueller]

High-A Wisconsin trails this week's home series against Beloit 4-0, but has 21-year old Alexander Cornielle (3.38 ERA, 1.13 WHIP, 11.3 K/9 in 8 IP) taking the hill this afternoon for his 3rd start of 2023. Somebody needs to step up for the offense, which is missing Eric Brown Jr., Hendry Mendez, Ben Metzinger and Arbert Cipion. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Come on, T-Rats. Turn the tide. Get out of the funk. You've lost several extremely close games to Beloit. Tighten up the defense, heads up and disciplined at the plate. Go get 'em. 

[Ro Mueller]

Alexander Cornielle was solid again for the Rattlers, but positioned to potentially lose when RHP Gus Varland relieved with 1-on, 1-out in the 6th inning and yielded an RBI triple for a 2-1 deficit.

The offense has mustered only 4 hits through 8 innings, 3 of the infield variety. But two infield hits in that 8th inning were enough to tie the game 2-2.

LHP Russell Smith danced through some danger in the top of the 9th, and just like that, Wisconsin has a chance to walk it off in the bottom of the 9th inning.

[Joseph Zarr]

3 minutes ago, damuelle said:

Alexander Cornielle was solid again for the Rattlers, but positioned to potentially lose when RHP Gus Varland relieved with 1-on, 1-out in the 6th inning and yielded an RBI triple for a 2-1 deficit.

The offense has mustered only 4 hits through 8 innings, 3 of the infield variety. But two infield hits in that 8th inning were enough to tie the game 2-2.

LHP Russell Smith danced through some danger in the top of the 9th, and just like that, Wisconsin has a chance to walk it off in the bottom of the 9th inning.

Boy Varland is not showing what we'd expect in his first two outings. I wonder what's going on there. I went back and watched his first outing and his fastball looked uncannily flat whereas every outing at the MLB outing it had significant movement. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Manfred's man scored for Beloit in the top-half of the 10th. T-Rats trail 3-2 headed to the bottom of the half. They have a chance to get the proverbial monkey off their back. They've lost way too many close contests to these Beloit Sky Carp. It. Is. Time. 

[wiguy94]

3 minutes ago, Joseph Zarr said:

Boy Varland is not showing what we'd expect in his first two outings. I wonder what's going on there. I went back and watched his first outing and his fastball looked uncannily flat whereas every outing at the MLB outing it had significant movement. 

Definitely has not been a very productive looking rehab assignment. The lack of swing and miss and solid contact at the MLB and in this rehab assignment has me feeling a bit doubtful that he's going to stick around on the Brewers long term which is a bummer because I thought his stuff looked very good.

[Joseph Zarr]

2 minutes ago, wiguy94 said:

Definitely has not been a very productive looking rehab assignment. The lack of swing and miss and solid contact at the MLB and in this rehab assignment has me feeling a bit doubtful that he's going to stick around on the Brewers long term which is a bummer because I thought his stuff looked very good.

Let's hope it changes. I agree his stuff looked very good early but he's struggled of late. We can really only hope he gets back to that earlier impressive form. 

[wiguy94]

A walk off here would be huge for the Rattlers. Get the guys excited and some energy back into the team!

[wiguy94]

Robert Moore is in some type of funk right now. He's clearly forcing things at the plate as well. A lot of chases.

[Joseph Zarr]

1 minute ago, wiguy94 said:

Robert Moore is in some type of funk right now. He's clearly forcing things at the plate as well. A lot of chases.

He looks awful. He really does. There's no getting around it. Chasing swings. Swing is super sloppy as are his eyes and head. It literally happened out of nowhere. He went from looking like our best 2B prospect to 'What the heck is going on here?' in one week. I don't get it.

[Joseph Zarr]

OF Joe Gray Jr. walks it off with the sac fly! LET'S GO! 

Goodness, they needed this one. Big time. Also, really happy for OF Micah Bello to get that lead-off double to knock across Ward early.

[wiguy94]

6 minutes ago, Joseph Zarr said:

He looks awful. He really does. There's no getting around it. Chasing swings. Swing is super sloppy as are his eyes and head. It literally happened out of nowhere. He went from looking like our best 2B prospect to 'What the heck is going on here?' in one week. I don't get it.

He looks now how Eric Brown Jr has looked all season. I feel like these guys could just use some warm weather. That could lift everybody up quite a bit.

[Brewcrew82]

I think they should probably start repeating some guys in Carolina to start the year before sending them to Appleton in like Mid May. Brown would have been a great candidate especially after the swing change. 

[Ro Mueller]

AAA Nashville leads their home series 3-1 over Omaha and sends RHP Robert Stock (8.76 ERA, 1.87 WHIP, 8.0 K/9 in 12.1 IP) out to make his 3rd start in his 6th appearance of the season. 1B Jon Singleton looks to extend his 18-game on-base streak. 

[Ro Mueller]

Low-A Carolina’s 20-year old RHP Alexander Vallecillo (2.00 ERA, 0.89 WHIP, 13.0 K/9 in 9 IP) picks up where RHP Patricio Aquino left off in yesterday’s rain-delayed game at home against Kannapolis that was 0-0 after 2 innings. Carolina leads the series 2-1, with essentially a doubleheader today. Go Mudcats!

[Ro Mueller]

A win tonight would give the AA Shuckers a 3-2 advantage over Mississippi and they look to 24-year old LHP Adam Seminaris (8.78 ERA, 2.03 WHIP, 12.8 K/9 in 13.1 IP) to lead the way. SS Freddy Zamora (.245 AVG, .870 OPS in 56 PAs) homered twice yesterday as he proves he's healthy once again. 

[Ro Mueller]

36 minutes ago, damuelle said:

Low-A Carolina’s 20-year old RHP Alexander Vallecillo (2.00 ERA, 0.89 WHIP, 13.0 K/9 in 9 IP) picks up where RHP Patricio Aquino left off in yesterday’s rain-delayed game at home against Kannapolis that was 0-0 after 2 innings. Carolina leads the series 2-1, with essentially a doubleheader today. Go Mudcats!

After conceding a double to the first batter, Alexander Vallecillo has mowed down the next 12 hitters in a row, including 6 Ks. It's still 0-0 though, going into the bottom of the 6th inning.

[Ro Mueller]

Ugh. The Mudcats fail to cash in on a RF Jace Avina leadoff 7th inning double. They've outhit Kannapolis 5-2, but neither team has scored. Alexander Vallecillo exits after retiring 15 batters consecutively, giving way to RHP Shane Smith.

[Ro Mueller]

Big chance for the Mudcats in the bottom of the 8th inning. 2-on, 1-out for DH Luke Adams and hopefully C Matt Wood. Speedster SS Daniel Guilarte (walked) is the lead runner at 2nd base. Still 0-0.

[Ro Mueller]

6 minutes ago, damuelle said:

Big chance for the Mudcats in the bottom of the 8th inning. 2-on, 1-out for DH Luke Adams and hopefully C Matt Wood. Speedster SS Daniel Guilarte (walked) is the lead runner at 2nd base. Still 0-0.

...and Matt Wood comes through with a 2-out RBI single. Mudcats 1, Cannon Ballers 0 as they head to the 9th inning.

[Ro Mueller]

RHP Shane Smith closed out the 1-0 victory for the Mudcats. They’ve got one more game to play today.

[Ro Mueller]

After winning the opening game today, Low-A Carolina holds a 3-1 series lead over Kannapolis. Tonight, they have formidable 22-year old RHP Aidan Maldonado (2.00 ERA, 0.78 WHIP, 9.0 K/9 in 9 IP) on the mound. 19-year old SS Daniel Guilarte has a 9-game hitting streak and 22-game on-base streak (including 5 games last year). 

[wiguy94]

Man Robert Stock has had a really rough start to the season. Basically getting shelled in every outing. They've let him start and pitch out of the pen. Not sure what is next for him at this point.

[Joseph Zarr]

1 hour ago, wiguy94 said:

Man Robert Stock has had a really rough start to the season. Basically getting shelled in every outing. They've let him start and pitch out of the pen. Not sure what is next for him at this point.

On the flipside is RHP Pedro Fernandez who has thrived in essentially every role given. But, yeah, Stock has looked and sounded extremely hittable since his first outing in Memphis.