Sat. 7/1 - Hopefully Kicking Off July in Style

[Jim Goulart]

Thread will be utilized for any minor league news Saturday, lineup updates, etc.

Organizational Scoreboard including starting pitcher info, game times, MiLB TV links, and box scores

[Ro Mueller]

DSL Brewers-1 is giving Dodgers Mega a battle, heading to their 3rd extra inning.

An error and wild pitch helped them score 2 runs in the first extra inning, then 17-year old INF Gery Holguin logged a 2-out, 2-run double to tie the game again in the second extra inning.

Fingers crossed for some pitching and luck.

[Joseph Zarr]

Oh hey, the DSL Brewers Uno y Dos were swept by the DSL Dodgers. Because, well, why not? The question I have is:

Will an ACL/DSL Brewers team actually beat a Dodgers club this summer? At this juncture, they are in serious jeopardy of being season swept which is...well, it's not a thing I like. 🥲

[Joseph Zarr]

Let's get back to a Feel Good Rembrance. INF Tyler Black. June.

 

[Joseph Zarr]

3 more SB against C Satchell Norman to zero CS. The bat continues to show it plays - 2-for-3, 2 RBI. But, in his second ACL season we are now looking at a 31 SB-to-4 CS stat line.  That's an 11% CS rate. What we might call: Not all that good.

[Ro Mueller]

Low-A Carolina sends RHP Will Childers (4.97 ERA with 10 Ks in 12.2 IP) to the hill for his 2nd start (5th appearance), as they need a win to avoid a 4-0 series deficit at Down East. 3B Luke Adams (team-leading .827 OPS; 2nd most walks in 12-team Carolina League) is back in the lineup after a day off. 

[Ro Mueller]

High-A Wisconsin is looking for a win in Quad Cities today to give them a 3-1 series lead. Starting RHP Edwin Jimenez aims to bounce back from two tough games (3.23 season ERA, but 10 ER in last 10 IP). C Darrien Miller has a 12-game on-base streak. 

[Ro Mueller]

AA Biloxi leads their home series 2-1 over Mississippi and has RHP Tobias Myers (5.21 ERA, 1.31 WHIP, 10.8 K/9 in 65.2 IP) making his 14th start (15th appearance) tonight. SS Freddy Zamora just delivered an .857 OPS in June. 

[Ro Mueller]

C Jose Sibrian’s 2nd inning solo shot gave the Mudcats their first lead since June 23rd.

RHP Will Childers pitched an excellent 5 innings (1 R, 2 H, 1 BB, 1 HBP, 4 Ks) and CF Luis Lara singled and scored in the 6th inning to restore the 1-run lead (2-1). And now SS Jadher Areinamo has an RBI single in the 7th inning for a 3-1 advantage. Go Mudcats!

[Jim Goulart]

Will be incorporated into Sunday AM's Link Report:

Final: DSL Dodgers Mega 9, DSL Brewers #1 Squad 7, ten innings (scheduled for seven)

Box Score / Game Log

It was a ghostrunner-palooza, surely the managers were pleased (or perhaps not) with the unplanned extra work over three bonus innings.

Check out the linescore within the box score - talk about matching efforts!

In the 10th, a Dodger double and subsequent wild pitches plated the final two runs of the game, as all three Brewer batters struck out swinging to end it.

Feel free to utilize the game log link to see how all six half-innings in the tail end of the game transpired.

What to make of Venezuelan rookie corner OF Brian Sanchez? LH bat, listed at 6'3", 170, turns 19 on the 4th of July. We keep waiting for the small sample bubble to burst, as it remains a tiny 43 plate appearances, but my goodness, .387/.535/.581 (1.116 OPS). Sanchez doubled, singled and walked in this one.

17-year-old infielder Gery Holguin (all four INF spots in brief career) played in 53 games in his age-16 season last summer. Sixteen games into 2023, his OPS sits at .804 (vs. .585 in 2022). A double and two singles Saturday padded his numbers to that .804 mark.

This was corner OF Argenis Aparicio's 2nd mound stint as he is being allowed to two-way it for now. Like his first effort, he tossed a scoreless inning and has yet to walk a batter (two K's).

[Ro Mueller]

AAA Nashville have a 4-game win streak and LHP Robert Gasser (4.00 ERA, 1.25 WHIP, 10.5 K/9 in 74.1 IP) gets tonight’s start in Memphis. DH/C Payton Henry (.855 OPS in 118 PAs) returns from a short suspension. 

[Ro Mueller]

RHP Quinton Low pitched an effective 3 innings of relief (1 run) and RHP Miguel Guerrero pitched a 3-up, 3-down 9th inning as Carolina held on for the 3-2 win!

[Jim Goulart]

Will be incorporated into Sunday AM's Link Report:

Final: DSL Dodgers Bautista 8, DSL Brewers #2 Squad 6, seven innings as scheduled

Box Score / Game Log

A 20-0 record! Like seriously, 20-0! It's not like the other Dodgers' entry in the league, is chump change at 13-7.

Brewers Dos scored three runs in the top of the final inning to make the final score more respectable. The tying runs were on base, 1st and second with just one out, before a popout and strikeout ended hopes. Made the Bautista Boys sweat, though!

Starting on June 10th when the season "rivalries" began, the two Brewer teams have lost to the two LA clubs each and every time, all eleven contests.

Second-year RHP Justin Caceres of Nicaragua was the most effective of the three Cerveceros pitchers, two perfect innings, three K's.

Regular notable box score filler-upper Filippo Di Turi is hoping for as many future Link Report mentions (1.3 million) as he has dollars. At this pace, he may make that quota. As the DH here, Di Turi singled three times and drove in two.

Catcher Eric Martinez clubbed his 3rd HR, pulled to left, but also committed his 4th error (throw).

[Jim Goulart]

Will be incorporated into Sunday AM's Link Report:

Final: ACL Reds 11, ACL Brewers 10

Box Score / Game Log

Not only did the Maryvale Crew score five runs in the top of the 9th, they had the tying run on 2nd base with no outs! Then look for what sadly happened via the attachment below.

How crowded is this roster? Seventeen position plyers saw action, yet five more remained on the bench (Tayden Hall played and is on rehab from Carolina). The pitching staff is much more condensed at only 13, which doesn't count rehabbing LHP Justin Wilson or yet-to-debut former position player Alberis Ferrer. Look for some of the more impressive DSL pitchers to get opportunities at stateside action.

Two 19-year-old 6'3" Dominican-born pitchers, RHP Henrison Mota and LHP Anfernny Reyes, combined for four innings of scoreless ball with eight K's among all the madness elsewhere. The 1st and 9th innings were not as successful, as the box score will show you.

I did not dig deep enough into the log to hazard a guess if any of the eight substitutions were cause for concern, but there's no mention of injury delays.

Infielder Juan Baez, who just turned 18 years old last week, but is in his 2nd season and first stateside, is already 9-for10 is SB attempts (was 17-for-23 on the island last summer).

[Ro Mueller]

Wow, Tobias Myers conceded 2 homers in the 1st inning to fall behind 4-0, but Isaac Collins and Wes Clarke have each connected in the 3rd inning. 4-4 now. Go Shuckers!

[Ro Mueller]

Jeez, lots of fireworks tonight in advance of Independence Day. Myers gave up a grand slam 4 batters into the 4th inning. Biloxi now trails 9-4.

But Ernesto Martinez (Wisconsin, 2-run shot) and Tyrone Taylor (Nashville solo homer) each knotted their games. Still early in both cases.

[Jim Goulart]

Oh, what a brutal loss for the Rattlers, bases loaded, two outs in the bottom of the 9th, Rattlers up 4-3.

Lightly hit ground ball up the middle brought shortstop Eric Brown towards second base, the ball awkwardly dinged off his glove, there was extra traffic around the bag, interference was questioned. Play was ruled a two-run single.

Chris Mehring on the online radio call for this road game is about 15 seconds ahead of the MiLB.TV video, so I knew what was coming, but yeah, what a bummer.

 

[Jim Goulart]

5 minutes ago, Mass Haas said:

Oh, what a brutal loss for the Rattlers, bases loaded, two outs in the bottom of the 9th, Rattlers up 4-3.

Lightly hit ground ball up the middle brought shortstop Eric Brown towards second base, the ball awkwardly dinged off his glove, there was extra traffic around the bag, interference was questioned. Play was ruled a two-run single.

Chris Mehring on the online radio call for this road game is about 15 seconds ahead of the MiLB.TV video, so I knew what was coming, but yeah, what a bummer.

 

Brown injured on the play, still being tended to in the Rattler bullpen down the right-field line, several minutes after the game. 

[Jim Goulart]

Still listening to Chris Mehring, who is conducting his postgame show while still monitoring the situation within his line of vision on the field.

Trainers still tending to Brown, who "appears to be in a lot of pain". Some sort of lower body injury. Like Chris also says, still way too early to speculate.

Maybe Quad Cities will provide a replay of their walkoff, but it's not a strong production effort on their Twitter. So once the game archives, we'll provide a time stamp for MiLB.TV subscribers.

[Joseph Zarr]

5 minutes ago, Mass Haas said:

Still listening to Chris Mehring, who is conducting his postgame show while still monitoring the situation within his line of vision on the field.

Trainers still tending to Brown, who "appears to be in a lot of pain". Some sort of lower body injury. Like Chris also says, still way too early to speculate.

Maybe Quad Cities will provide a replay of their walkoff, but it's not a strong production effort on their Twitter. So once the game archives, we'll provide a time stamp for MiLB.TV subscribers.

I watched it, Jim. 

Firstly, it's a play unfortunately EBJ has to make before the slide. Very very makable play in a crucial moment. He botched it entirely off the heel of his mitt. SO, the bounce OFF his glove brought him directly into the runner as he tried to corral the ricochet. He got completely upended on the play, however. That's obviously what we'll be looking at moving forward. He just can't stay out of harm's way at present. 03:52:52 of the replay is where you'll want to start.

It's definitely a left foot, ankle, leg issue there. He took the full weight of that slide directly into that left leg. Could have been a number of things that happened there. Ugh. Just ugh.

Scratch that. I just watched the replay. He actually leaps over the slide with his left leg. He takes the brunt of the slide into his right foot. The top of the player - ie helmet hits his left leg. Man, what a doozy. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Here's the still from the moment of contact. 

[Jim Goulart]

Brown is finally making his way off the field, cart not needed, as per Chris' postgame show update. Here's the game link for that time stamp Joseph provided above.

And yes, I agree, if Brown had fielded the ball cleanly, it's (probably) a game-ender and none of the injury drama happens. But yeah, just an awkward play all around.

Other than we know Brown won't play Sunday, it could take a few days before definitive word makes its way to us. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Honestly, if you watch how he pops up from that fall it looks like the majority of any damage might have been to his left arm. Specifically, the area from his wrist to his elbow. He clutches it immediately. In this freeze frame you can see he is clutching that left elbow.

Man, why are we always discussing injuries to our core young prospects. I'm about sick and tired of this in 2023. 🥲

[wiguy94]

5 minutes ago, Joseph Zarr said:

I watched it, Jim. 

Firstly, it's a play unfortunately EBJ has to make before the slide. Very very makable play in a crucial moment. He botched it entirely off the heel of his mitt. SO, the bounce OFF his glove brought him directly into the runner as he tried to corral the ricochet. He got completely upended on the play, however. That's obviously what we'll be looking at moving forward. He just can't stay out of harm's way at present. 03:52:52 of the replay is where you'll want to start.

It's definitely a left foot, ankle, leg issue there. He took the full weight of that slide directly into that left leg. Could have been a number of things that happened there. Ugh. Just ugh.

Scratch that. I just watched the replay. He actually leaps over the slide with his left leg. He takes the brunt of the slide into his right foot. The top of the player - ie helmet hits his left leg. Man, what a doozy. 

That play is a lot harder than you are making it out to be. He was full speed charging on a pitch where the runners are running on the pitch. He has to keep his head up to gauge the distance between the runner and 2B and had a fraction of a second to actually tag the base if he did corral the ball.

[Jim Goulart]

2 minutes ago, wiguy94 said:

That play is a lot harder than you are making it out to be. He was full speed charging on a pitch where the runners are running on the pitch. He has to keep his head up to gauge the distance between the runner and 2B and had a fraction of a second to actually tag the base if he did corral the ball.

Yeah, I know I'm coming off all over the place on this, but this summary of the play hits the mark.