Sat. 7/20 - Two Mudcats Games Planned

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Russel Smith 3 up, 3 down with 2 K. 10 pitches. Should be able to pitch the 8th as well. Shuckers up to bat to try to extend the 12-1 lead.

Manfredi gives up a hit, trying to strand the runner in the bottom of 7, and he gets the third out. On to 8th inning, 3-0 TRats lead.

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Shuckers pouring it on. Bases loaded and D. Miller 105 EV double to right field. The EBJ sac fly (4th RBI for him), and a new record for runs this season for the team.

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Manfredi gets the first out in the 8th, A. Rund on now. Still 3-0 game.

‘Shuckers now up to 16-1

[biedergb]

And Rund gets him out.  On to the ninth. Of note Manfredi 2.1 IP in relief, and 5 of the 7 outs were Ks. One hit, no walks.  Solid outings by the ‘23 draftees Kuener / Manfredi.

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Trats with an insurance run. Double, sac fly then T. Hall rips a single to right. Ninth inning now and Rund will hope to close it out.

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Shuckers set a record 19 run. Woo hoo

TRats unraveling. 4-1 after a single, double with a rare error to Areinamo (I’ll watch again as I thought it was Garcia), the a HBP.  Two on tying run up bottom 9.

[biedergb]

It was EBJ 3 run home run that set the team record. His second HR tonight I think.

Meanwhile in Cedar Rapids, crazy stuff. As above runner on 2nd and now 2 out. Rund gives up a massive hit that hit the top of the wall, and came back into the field. 2 runs score the batter at second,  just missed the home run by absolutely inches (like 1-2 in.). Vargas gets hurt on his attempt to catch it. Exits the game and Valero comes into LF. But he was the PR for the DH. So no DH now for TRats if it goes to extra innings.

Rund says “no worries”, and strikes out the next batter.

Tayden Hall with the GWRBI as he brought in the 4th run in the top of the inning. Phew. 4-3 TRats win!

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Biloxi now with a winning record at 44-43.

So all affiliates with winning records won.

The lone affiliate with a losing record lost.

[CheeseheadInQC]

How absurd of a day could this have been for the pitchers from the 2023 draft class if Johnson had pitched better? 1 run in 17 1/3 innings with 19 strikeouts for Wichrowski, Kuehner, Manfredi and Knoth. 

[wiguy94]

EBJ also had an absolute circus catch in foul territory in the top of the 8th inning. 3:50:20 for those with MiLB.tv who want to see it. Really hope this good start to July means EBJ has a big 2nd half coming. He's such an athletic player. If he can even hit at a decent level he could be a great utility infielder.

[wiguy94]

2 minutes ago, wiguy94 said:

EBJ also had an absolute circus catch in foul territory in the top of the 8th inning. 3:50:20 for those with MiLB.tv who want to see it. Really hope this good start to July means EBJ has a big 2nd half coming. He's such an athletic player. If he can even hit at a decent level he could be a great utility infielder.

Nevermind it was posted on twitter so everyone can see it. What a game from EBJ!

 

[CheeseheadInQC]

42 minutes ago, CheeseheadInQC said:

How absurd of a day could this have been for the pitchers from the 2023 draft class if Johnson had pitched better? 1 run in 17 1/3 innings with 19 strikeouts for Wichrowski, Kuehner, Manfredi and Knoth. 

One more stat: Wichrowski, Kuehner and Manfredi cost so little against the Brewers' bonus pool that you could toss Craig Yoho on and still not get to the slot value for the final pick in the 10th round.

[Jake McKibbin]

Also a 2.78 ERA and 3.37 FIP to right handers, so despite the aggressive promotion hes done really well against same side hitters

If the platoon disadvantage can even put, and the Brewers may need to develop a pitch that can get whiffs against lefties to do it, we have something here.

[brewers4eric]

There were allot of Brewer fans in Cedar Rapids last night for the T-Rats game.  Kuehner was solid, he had a bit of trouble controlling his off-speed pitches but he was in control of the game.  Manfredi was hitting 95 on the stadium gun and was filling up the strike zone, the Cedar Rapids batters looked outmatched against him.  Rund has some deception in his delivery with the arm slot he uses but gave up allot of hard contact in his last inning. 

Hall was clutch at the plate, he split the outfield gaps twice.  Arienamo has a ton of movement in his swing, he spins the bat like a Hideo Nomo windup as he gets ready and I'm not sure how he's going to time anything.  Vargas went into the wall in the 9th trying to preserve the win and sprawled on the warning track for a few minutes before he was helped off the field.  There was plenty of speculation that that ball had hit the top of the wall for a game tying homer.   

[LouisEly]

17 hours ago, CheeseheadInQC said:

One more stat: Wichrowski, Kuehner and Manfredi cost so little against the Brewers' bonus pool that you could toss Craig Yoho on and still not get to the slot value for the final pick in the 10th round.

Close, but not quite.  Wichrowski was $100K, Kuehner $72K, Manfredi $27.5K, and the final pick in the 10th round slot value was $165k.

[CheeseheadInQC]

1 minute ago, LouisEly said:

Close, but not quite.  Wichrowski was $100K, Kuehner $72K, Manfredi $27.5K, and the final pick in the 10th round slot value was $165k.

Wichrowski counted 0 toward the bonus pool because he was after the 10th round and below $150,000.