Sun. 6/25 - Misiorowski and Henderson on the Bump? Yeah, That'll Do

[Jim Goulart]

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[Ro Mueller]

RHP Logan Henderson (3.65 ERA, 1.26 WHIP, 12.4 K/9 in 24.2 IP) and Low-A Carolina aim to salvage a 3-2 series loss at home to Lynchburg. DH/C Jhonnys Cabrera plays sees his first action in 3 weeks. 

[Ro Mueller]

RHP Jacob Misiorowski (2.04 ERA, 0.81 WHIP, 13.8 K/9 in 39.2 IP) makes his second home start of the week against Lansing, with the High-A Timber Rattlers needing a win for a 3-3 series tie. DH/C Darrien Miller has been solid over his last 33 games (.827 OPS in 141 PAs). 

[Jim Goulart]

 

[Ro Mueller]

CF Sal Frelick is back atop AAA Nashville’s lineup after a Thursday injury scare, as the team must defeat Norfolk at home to forge a 3-3 series tie. RHP Jason Alexander is on the hill for his 4th minor league rehab appearance. 

[edfunderburk]

9 minutes ago, damuelle said:

CF Sal Frelick is back atop AAA Nashville’s lineup after a Thursday injury scare, as the team must defeat Norfolk at home to forge a 3-3 series tie. RHP Jason Alexander is on the hill for his 4th minor league rehab appearance. 

How has Alexander pitched in his previous three outings?

Sadly, he may be needed in Milwaukee later in the season.

 

[wiguy94]

2 minutes ago, edfunderburk said:

How has Alexander pitched in his previous three outings?

Sadly, he may be needed in Milwaukee later in the season.

Not good. Not good at all.

[Ro Mueller]

4 minutes ago, edfunderburk said:

How has Alexander pitched in his previous three outings?

Sadly, he may be needed in Milwaukee later in the season.

 

Quite badly actually, including 5 runs on 8 hits in 3 innings for Biloxi last week. I believe he’s only in Nashville for this rehab start because they’re down to 4 starting pitchers.

Gasser’s probably a better bet to play for the Brewers this year than Alexander is.

[Joseph Zarr]

1 minute ago, wiguy94 said:

Not good. Not good at all.

I second this notion. He got absolutely knocked around in that tacky Southern League showing. A few seeing eye hits early and then several deep liners. It was as they say in the DSL: '¡No Bueno!'

[Joseph Zarr]

So RHP Logan Henderson was pulled after a scoreless 1 IP - 16 pitches. Does anyone have eyes on that? 

RHP Quinton Low came on and walked 4 and gave up a 3-spot.

[Ro Mueller]

Logan Henderson exited after one inning and 16 pitches for the Mudcats, but I’m not willing to press the panic button yet as he pitched 5 days ago. Fingers crossed that this was a planned short outing. Carolina trails 3-0 in the 4th inning.

[Joseph Zarr]

This is all we have - an uncharacteristically flat heater belt high and a likely blown out call at home plate - Lipscomb looked safe to me. Henderson appears to look toward the dugout here. I am going to check in to the end of that inning to see if there was any heads up. 

[Joseph Zarr]

His inning ended after a nasty change-up to a lefty. Looked to have maybe 20" of vertical dip and probably 12-14" horizontal. Yowza. Regardless, it does indeed look like simply a planned inning today. That's what I am going with, at least.

This is the worst home record for the Mudcats at Home (13-19 coming into today's match-up) since their 2013-2014 season. There is no proverbial home cooking for these young men. They are searching for the kitchen. Low came on and walked batter numero uno on four pitches. It was that way from the get go.

[Joseph Zarr]

Low actually came on and threw 8 consecutive balls. And, they weren't even close. This is the rustiest and most inaccurate I've seen him in 2023. One of those outings.

[wiguy94]

Luis Lara with his 2nd HR of the season. Loud, loud contact for such a small body.

 

 

[Joseph Zarr]

Switch hitting, Luis Lara at that. Hard not to absolutely love this young man's game.

[Ro Mueller]

Pretty sure we just had a brawl in Nashville after 2 HBPs in one frame. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Hard not to he excited about the possible bullpen pipeline of LHP's Clayton Andrews and Darrell Thompson and a certain RHP named Abner Uribe. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Speaking of bullpen arms, I absolutely love how manager Joe Ayrault has started using RHP Brannon Jordan as his Ace up the Sleeve for literally any scenario. He'll use him in the 8th frame. he'll use him to shutdown a threat in the 3rd inning as he did today to rescue Misiorowski in a 4 H, 4 BB outing (still managed 5 K). Brannon escapes the threat and goes 2 1/3 IP, 1 H, 0 BB, 4 K notching a 'Win' in his belt. He has been one of the most pleasantly surprising performers in the entire system through the first half of the 2023 season.

[Joseph Zarr]

25 minutes ago, damuelle said:

Pretty sure we just had a brawl in Nashville after 2 HBPs in one frame. 

Watching it now. And, oh yes Sir, there was a bench clearer. Remember this: Dorrian played for the Tides last year. He took a screamer directly above his elbow - there was a discernible pop on his elbow there. He was ticked as you can imagine. He didn't charge the mound. BUT he definitely had words. The Tides' lefty (Hernandez) came at Dorrian and then Mr. Muscles C Payton Henry came sprinting in. You know Henry won't back down from anyone. So, Henry and Dorrian tossed. Hernandez tossed. The crowd was quite into it. Little chippy Sunday afternoon baby.

[Joseph Zarr]

And, a public service announcement, the last time the Shuckers were the 'Game of the Day' feature in MiLB.TV land it was rained out. Let's hope today they can play. Tune in:

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[wiguy94]

12 minutes ago, Joseph Zarr said:

Watching it now. And, oh yes Sir, there was a bench clearer. Remember this: Dorrian played for the Tides last year. He took a screamer directly above his elbow - there was a discernible pop on his elbow there. He was ticked as you can imagine. He didn't charge the mound. BUT he definitely had words. The Tides' lefty (Hernandez) came at Dorrian and then Mr. Muscles C Payton Henry came sprinting in. You know Henry won't back down from anyone. So, Henry and Dorrian tossed. Hernandez tossed. The crowd was quite into it. Little chippy Sunday afternoon baby.

Was silly of Dorrian to act that way. The bases were loaded and it was a 1-2 count. It was clearly accidental, but Dorrian for some reason decided to make a scene about it.

[Ro Mueller]

AA Biloxi can win their home series 4-2 with a win over Chattanooga tonight. RHP Christian Mejias (5.73 ERA, 1.31 WHIP, 11.5 K/9 in 59.2 IP) gets the start. C Jeferson Quero has walked in 8 straight games. 

[wiguy94]

Jeferson Quero just pulverized a baseball. 110 EV, 435ft HR

[Joseph Zarr]

19 minutes ago, wiguy94 said:

Jeferson Quero just pulverized a baseball. 110 EV, 435ft HR

Yeah, it certainly was a Moon Shot. Over the lights for crying out loud. Yowza: