Tue. 5/14 - Woessner Hopes to Find His Way; Shuckers & Mudcats Postponed

[Jim Goulart]

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[Jim Goulart]

Via the Mudcats:

Mudcats and Wood Ducks Postponed Tuesday

Tuesday's game between Carolina and Down East was postponed.

KINSTON, N.C. - Tonight’s game between the Carolina Mudcats and Down East Wood Ducks has been postponed due to inclement weather at Grainger Stadium in Kinston, N.C. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader, featuring two seven-inning games, on Thursday, May 16 beginning at 5:00 p.m.

[Joseph Zarr]

Another week. Another Mudcats game postponed during my report duties (sighs). Another week. Another prayer to the baseball gods the Shuckers season-long slumps throughout the line-up turn a corner to greener pastures where balls drop for hits. Thanks be to gahd. Let's get some 'W's.

*Note:

Obviously not this Shucker. Muh man.

 

[Jim Goulart]

Biloxi Press Release:

SHUCKERS, M-BRAVES POSTPONED ON TUESDAY AT TRUSTMARK PARK
Game to be made up as part of a doubleheader on Wednesday, May 15

PEARL, MS – The Biloxi Shuckers and Mississippi Braves were postponed due to unplayable field conditions at Trustmark Park on Tuesday night. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader on Wednesday, May 15 starting at 5:05 PM Central. 

[Ro Mueller]

We’ve got RHP Tyler Woessner and the Sounds at Marlins’ affiliate Jacksonville this week. Nashville welcomes Wes Clarke and Freddy Zamora to AAA ball. 

[Joseph Zarr]

We just wrapped up the National Anthem in Jacksonville so we should be batting in the top of the 1st very shortly.

[Joseph Zarr]

Woessner opens with a 2-2 breaking ball K on the inner stripe. He started the opening AB 0-2. He opened batter number two with a strike. Worked to a 1-2 count. And threw two balls in the dirt. 3-2 count. Walk. Low. Certainly lacking polish in his arsenal but giving glimpses of dominance. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Woessner with a clean inning. BUT, not a pretty inning. He is lacking any type of consistency in the zone. He got away with a 3-0 heater belt high that landed 6' from the RF wall on the warning track. He continues to struggle with the fine-tuned location of his arsenal. 

[Joseph Zarr]

What is NOT to love with this face. My baseball gods this man is meant to adorn the Jumbotron. Let's go, Mr. Clarke!

[Joseph Zarr]

Clarke is behind the heater. But he's battling. 7-pitch strikeout. He swings and misses at an outside cutter at his knees. Also behind a touch on that swing. Hicklen comes to the dish and shows Clarke how it's done with a first pitch line drive single to CF. Hernandez grounds into a first pitch DP to 2B. Classic 4-6-3.

[Ro Mueller]

High-A Wisconsin hosts Marlins’ affiliate Beloit this week. RHP Patricio Aquino starts tonight’s opening game. SS Gregory Barrios and Dylan O’Rae lead the Midwest League in doubles and stolen bases, respectively. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Woessner's 2nd inning:

• 2-2 (started 0-2) pop-up to Capra at 3rd. 
• Starts 0-2 to nemesis Griffin Conine and gets the K - his third - looking on the outer stripe. Gorgeous pitch.
• First pitch line drive single to RF
• Gets a 1-1 chopper to Hernandez at 2B

Scoreless after two frames.

 

[Joseph Zarr]

Three up and three down for the Sounds in the 3rd. Roller pop up to 1B foul territory on the first pitch. Haase and Zamora groundouts.

 

[Joseph Zarr]

Woessner scuffled through a clean first. He's been fantastic since. You love to see it. Just got his 4th K trhough 2 1/3 IP on a gorgeous sinking curve into the dirt. Three pitch K to open the bottom of the 3rd. Now 0-2 to the 2nd batter - ol friend OF Jonathan Davis. AND, he gets the K on a gorgeous outside cutter. 5 K through 2 2/3 IP. Whewwww baby. Let's go!

[Joseph Zarr]

AND, we're just about to get underway in Wisconsin. Let's slap some Sky Carp in the gills!

[Joseph Zarr]

Aquino, sporting a new look hair-do - much longer than we've seen), strikes out the first batter on three pitches.

Woessner gets Mesa Jr. to 3-2 and induces a pop fly to shallow RF where Hicklen easily corrals it. On to the fourth. It's a snoozer in Jacksonville so far. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Capra with a first pitch single to CF. 

Aquino sees a fairly nice off-speed pitch down and in somehow golfed to the RF wall in a looping liner that stayed fair and then snuck itself into the corner. Nice piece of hitting. He then gives up an RBI double under the diving Adams who, frankly, short-armed the dive. Not an easy play. BUT, Adams didn't have the best dive either. 

AND, Isaac Collins hits a gap double to deep Right CF and drives in Capra. It's 1-0 Sounds. Yeah baby!

[Joseph Zarr]

Jadher Areinamo: amazing defensive player. My goodness. He absolutely saved Aquino from further damage with a gorgeous snagged liner on a hanging pitch (belt level and slightly in) and doubles off the runner on 2B. Just an incredible play. Whewwww. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Black rips a very hardit liner to 2B that short-hops and caroms over the glove to the OF grass. He then takes 2B on a clean steal. Men on 2nd and 3rd now. Nobody down. Clarke in a 2-0 count. 

[Joseph Zarr]

THIS is what I am talking about with the inconsistencies with ABS. NO way is that a strike. No movement from the catcher's mitt here. This is exactly where he catches that ball. Clarke checks cleanly from that position. Called strike. I see this way too often. Just salty on this stuff. Not a reliable or accurate system. That ball is 3-6" outside the zone beyond the upper corner.

[Joseph Zarr]

Clarke bravely fouls another high outside pitch. He then takes the 7-pitch walk low and in. Great AB. He walked twice. I don't care what ABS says.

[Joseph Zarr]

HEY NOW! Adams rips an 0-2 heater to the wall in LF (likely played poorly as the LF'er took a poor angle) and Estevez aggressively sends Barrios. The throw beat him on a good relay but it was fast and on a low skip. The catcher couldn't hold it. Barrios scores. 1-1. Adams' 5th dub. Wood then crushes a 1-1 pitch over the RF wall! WOOT WOOT! 3-1 T-Rats baby. Glad to be back home after a rough Quad Cities series! Heck yes! 0-14 in QC but only K'd once. Putting the ball in play but it wasn't landing. 3 straight 2-out hits.

They have now scored 37 1st inning runs in 34 games. Chew on that, Wisconsin! Yeah baby!

[Joseph Zarr]

Hicklen sac fly. Double steal. Black with his 2nd SB of the inning. Clarke (notorious speedster) takes 2nd in the process. Men on 2nd and 3rd. 2-0 Sounds. One down. 

 

[Joseph Zarr]

Hernandez K's looking on a 2-2 high heater. Top of the zone. Two down. Roller to the dish. 

Areinamo singled weakly to 2B. Stole 2nd on one of the worst slides you'll ever see - but, hey it worked! LOL. Hall walks. Men on 1st and 2nd. Still two down.

[Joseph Zarr]

Roller pops up again - this time in shallow RF grass on an inside pitch (likely a ball). It will be 2-0 Sounds headed to the bottom half. 

Areinamo scores on a Rodriguez line drive single (Man is he hot). Fernandez then grounds out sharply to SS. 4-1 T-Rats and we are on to the 2nd frame. Yowza. Quite an answer that bottom half.