Fri. 9/1 - Wow, September Already

[Ro Mueller]

Patricio Aquino pulls off the Houdini act, escaping with no runs allowed despite having the bases loaded and nobody out:

• Ground ball: 6-2 force out at home
• Liner: caught by shortstop
• Ground ball: 4-6 force out at second base.

We're headed to the bottom of the 6th inning, still tied 0-0!!

[Ro Mueller]

Still 0-0 and headed to the final scheduled inning of the day, as the Mudcats and Wood Ducks are a combined 0-for-11 with runners in scoring position.

RHP Chase Costello comes in to pitch the top of the 7th inning for Carolina.

[Ro Mueller]

1 minute ago, damuelle said:

Still 0-0 and headed to the final scheduled inning of the day, as the Mudcats and Wood Ducks are a combined 0-for-11 with runners in scoring position.

RHP Chase Costello comes in to pitch the top of the 7th inning for Carolina.

Ugh. A 9-pitch walk and single to center field start things off. C'mon Chase - find that mix and location! Next batter singles into center field as well. 1-0 Down East leads, 2 on, nobody out. Oh my.

[Ro Mueller]

2 minutes ago, damuelle said:

Ugh. A 9-pitch walk and single to center field start things off. C'mon Chase - find that mix and location! Next batter singles into center field as well. 1-0 Down East leads, 2 on, nobody out. Oh my.

A wild pitch scores a second run, double scores a third run. Down East 3, Carolina 0. Still nobody out. Mound visit. Costello stays in.

This isn't looking good, as a loss would cut Carolina's advantage to just 2 games over Lynchburg with 8 games to play in the Low-A season.

[Joseph Zarr]

2 minutes ago, damuelle said:

A wild pitch scores a second run, double scores a third run. Down East 3, Carolina 0. Still nobody out. Mound visit. Costello stays in.

This isn't looking good, as a loss would cut Carolina's advantage to just 2 games over Lynchburg with 8 games to play in the Low-A season.

Ugh. Costello has really fallen apart in the last few weeks. That's a tough pill to swallow. He was very good until this recent tailspin.

[Joseph Zarr]

I believe the Shuckers bullpen has done some sort of magic trick to grab the Mudcats previous mojo and take it for their own in their playoff push. The Shuckers Pen has been really good in this crucial road series at Tennessee. I just pray to the baseball gods this keeps up.

[Joseph Zarr]

Hey now! Another Shuckers record broken in 2023. Congrats to RHP Max Lazar for playing this part in the Shuckers lore:

 

[Joseph Zarr]

Well, Shucks (guffaw), congrats again RHP Max Lazar. You tied history the inning before on another filthy pitch:

 

[tbbrewers]

My view of Jackson’s home run. We had better seats but after my five year old grand son got a foul ball we had to go to the bounce house area.  Lol

Great night at the ball park!!

 

 

[Joseph Zarr]

 Take a look at Tony's video from above - a bit too large for embedding it (I downloaded it). Looked like a beautiful night at the Smokies stadium. Gorgeous sunset happening throughout that skyline...Chourio quiets an already quiet and sparsely attended stadium 😁 . Thanks for sharing!

 

[sveumrules]

Man, starting pitchers really showed out tonight in four out of the five games up and down the system…

Gasser: 6 IP | 1 ER | 3 H | 3 BB | 8 K

CarRod: 6 IP | 2 ER | 5 H | 1 BB | 8 K

Cornielle: 6 IP | 2 ER | 6 H | 1 BB | 9 K

Aquino: 6 IP | 0 ER | 5 H | 2 BB | 5 K

[brewmann04]

2 hours ago, damuelle said:

A wild pitch scores a second run, double scores a third run. Down East 3, Carolina 0. Still nobody out. Mound visit. Costello stays in.

This isn't looking good, as a loss would cut Carolina's advantage to just 2 games over Lynchburg with 8 games to play in the Low-A season.

It unreal how the bully ost them and Biloxi 

[wiguy94]

9 hours ago, sveumrules said:

Man, starting pitchers really showed out tonight in four out of the five games up and down the system…

Gasser: 6 IP | 1 ER | 3 H | 3 BB | 8 K

CarRod: 6 IP | 2 ER | 5 H | 1 BB | 8 K

Cornielle: 6 IP | 2 ER | 6 H | 1 BB | 9 K

Aquino: 6 IP | 0 ER | 5 H | 2 BB | 5 K

It’s funny because I don’t even think Gasser was close to the best version of himself last night. The command was not great but he still limited hard contact and racked up another quality start.

[sveumrules]

7 minutes ago, wiguy94 said:

It’s funny because I don’t even think Gasser was close to the best version of himself last night. The command was not great but he still limited hard contact and racked up another quality start.

Yeah, looks like the command has slipped some recently from the progress he made midseason…

0406-0519
38 IP | 25 BB | 14.7 BB%

0525-0716
47 IP | 7 BB | 3.5 BB%

0722-0901
40.1 IP | 14 BB | 8.2 BB%

For the season he’s at 8.5 BB% so this most recent version is probably closest to the “real” Robert.

[wiguy94]

1 hour ago, sveumrules said:

Yeah, looks like the command has slipped some recently from the progress he made midseason…

0406-0519
38 IP | 25 BB | 14.7 BB%

0525-0716
47 IP | 7 BB | 3.5 BB%

0722-0901
40.1 IP | 14 BB | 8.2 BB%

For the season he’s at 8.5 BB% so this most recent version is probably closest to the “real” Robert.

I'm not really talking BB rate. I'm more talking about how competitive his misses are. Last night the misses were not very competitive.

[wiguy94]

Also my goodness has Cornielle been much closer to what we expected from him since his brief 20-ish day stint on the IL in June.

Before IL stint - 9 G, 41 IP, 5.71 ERA, 4.12 FIP

After IL stint - 10 G, 41 IP, 4.17 ERA, 3.64 FIP 

That after stint includes his 1 game blowup on 8/3 where he went 0.1 IP with 6 ER. If you take that start out, his after numbers become pretty special.

9 G, 40.2 IP, 2.88 ERA, 3.07 FIP