Wed. 6/19 - Misiorowski Needs to Impress; T-Rats To Face Yu Darvish in Fort Wayne

[Joseph Zarr]

The Muddies have taken a 3-2 lead on a WP. Acosta then beats a DP with a head first slide as the 1B drops the ball regardless. 4-2 Muddies. Two down. Love love love to see it after the blown sac tag to 3B the last inning. Ball does not lie.

[Joseph Zarr]

Oh wait, that run never crossed. LOL. BUT, it did on the 2nd WP of the frame. Acosta moves to 3B in the process. 4-2. Two down. Man on third. Mercado in a full count.

[Joseph Zarr]

Wilken with his second poke on a fantastic liner single to LF. Out in front of an off-speed pitch he still cracked that and hit it hard into LF. May have been a classic one arm swing. Get HOT, young man!

[Joseph Zarr]

RHP Nick Merkel will replace 'The Miz' in the 7th. He'll try to keep the score 3-0.

[Joseph Zarr]

Merkel with a clean 7th. You love to see it. After a classic lean-in HBP, he gets the ground out to 3B. Wilken casually throws to O'Rae covering 2B. On to the 8th. 

Meanwhile, the Mudcats beat the Fireflies with their bench unit as RHP Braelin Rodriguez pitches a very clean 1-2-3 9th frame. He honors the two runs plated by his pesky teammates in the top half. 4-2 Mudcats 'W'. They take a 2-1 series lead. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Meanwhile, the Sounds have a 7-4 lead as we head into the bottom of the 7th. AND, hey, the good thing here is we don't have RHP Mitch White available to blow this lead. There is light at the end of the tunnel!

[Joseph Zarr]

Ernesto Martinez Jr. just absolutely rocked a two-run jack over the right CF wall. Whew baby. When Martinez hits them he hits them. The Trash Pandas announcer claims he hasn't seen a HR leave their stadium that fast in his tenure. LOL. You gotta love it. 5-0 Shuckers.

You get a look at this 421 foot rocket. My goodness:

 

[Joseph Zarr]

Mejía just ripped a rocket liner down the 3B line to score two more. Gotta feel like sweet nectar against his old team. He cashes in two free passes. It's a 9-4 Sounds lead. Let's go, baby! The Sounds have score in four of their past five innings. 

[markedman5]

So Mis is through 6 shutout innings……how does he look?

[Joseph Zarr]

RHP Tyler Woessner will come on to pitch the 8th. Interesting. 

[Joseph Zarr]

4 minutes ago, markedman5 said:

So Mis is through 6 shutout innings……how does he look?

Controlled. That's the most important thing. Only gave up one hit. NO WALKS. Lotta grounders. Nothing hit all that hard whatsoever. He started out by hitting the lead-off batter on an 0-2 pitch. LOL. I thought "Oh man, here we go again..." He threw a few fantastic sliders in there but I would opine he couldn't really find that off-speed strikeout stuff he would have liked. Heater seemed to sit 95-98 mph. I don't think I saw a 99 or 100? I could be wrong. BUT, we build from here (I HOPE!).

[Joseph Zarr]

 Woessner comes aboard. 9-4 lead. Proceeds to walk his first batter in four pitches. Like clockwork. My goodness. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Walks his next batter on a heater nowhere near the zone on a 3-2 pitch. Man, his frustrating Triple-A work absolutely continues here early.  Next pitch? Not even close at the lefty's feet. 1-0 count. 

[Joseph Zarr]

That's three walks in his 1/3 IP so far for Woessner. Man, he just continues to trend South in Nashville. They're going to call on RHP Ryan Middendorf. Woessner has hit an absolute wall in his development path. He is a completely unreliable pitcher at present. <Sad Face>. He leaves after 1/3 IP, 3 BB. Bases are juiced with one down.

[Joseph Zarr]

Middy, my man! He gets the 6-4-3 inning ending DP on a 1-1 pitch. Great dig by Owen Miller at 1B on a low one-hop throw from Collins. That's the stuff.

[Joseph Zarr]

Yeager on to try and close the 5-0 Shuckers victory for a 2-0 series lead. In a 1-2 count on the lead-off batter, he rips a heater off the top of his knee. That batter leaves. Man on 1B. He gets a K looking to get his first out. One down. Man on 1B. 

[Joseph Zarr]

K. Fly out. Weakly hit single into CF. Men on 1st and 2nd. 1-2 count. Two down. He gets the groundout to end it. Hey, the Shuckers are back to single digits under 0.500! They improve to nine games under with a 2-0 series lead. They shut out the Pandas 5-0.

[Joseph Zarr]

The ACL Crew just reclaimed the lead again. After 7 frames they cling to a 10-7 lead. The addendum: their pitching ( I know shocker) can't keep runs off the board either. They plated three two out runs via walks and an error. A summer desert special like no other.

[Joseph Zarr]

Oh they gave that lead right back. 10-10 to the bottom of the 8th. 12-10 Crew now. Bases loaded. One down. They might need five more to help their pitching staff. 😅

[Ro Mueller]

7 hours ago, snoogans8056 said:

Giving Blalock a shot before Yoho gets the call?

Blalock is on the 40-man MLB roster, so it’s easy to shuttle him back and forth - emergency long relief role, similar to what Janson Junk was doing before they shifted Junk to shorter relief work. Blalock may go right back to Biloxi within days.

[Ro Mueller]

Nice to see Bitonti and Walthier back in action for the suddenly-healthy ACL Brewers. Now if only Demetrio Nadal would be available…

[Playing Catch]

So does Misiorowski have decent fastball control? Is it just the breaking stuff that he struggles to throw for strikes?

[Joseph Zarr]

5 hours ago, Playing Catch said:

So does Misiorowski have decent fastball control? Is it just the breaking stuff that he struggles to throw for strikes?

The honest answer here is: it depends on the outing. We really don't have consistent anything at present. We have these fantastic outings like last night. But, what we don't have? A baseline of consistency with any of his pitch offerings.