Tues. 7/30 - Grab a Six Pack (of Games)

[Joseph Zarr]

30 minutes ago, sveumrules said:

Looks like Nashville is in rain delay.

Carlos Rodriguez has put up four scoreless (3 K) with a single, HBP and wild pitch - though the latter two both came bottom of four before the delay so conditions may have contributed.

It was a lead-off plunk on the lead elbow off a righty-bat. No weather was ostensibly happening - just a misfire there. He struck out the next batter on five pitches on a high outside corner breaking ball (really nice pitch). Got the fly out for the second out to Hicklen in RF. THEN the clouds arrived and the rain began to creep in. Rain picked up in intensity and that's when the pitch sailed wide and to the backstop. AND, in a nod of the cap to the camera work down the 1B side in Zebulon, we absolutely did not see that pitch sail. We were stuck in a still frame of the unsuccessful ABS challenge the pitch prior. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Wilken bomb. The Shuckers get a run back. 4-3 deficit. His 13th of the season. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Seminaris gave one back with a two out, runners on 1st and 2nd, RBI single. With runners on 2nd and 3rd, then, with two down he gets the groundout to 3rd base to end the threat. 5-3 Trash Monkeys (ok, Pandas) in the bottom of the 5th. 

[wiguy94]

Of course Cooper Pratt hits a HR and we have no way of seeing it.

[BrewerFan]

Pratt with his first HR for Appleton! 

That kid is gonna be fun to watch...

[Joseph Zarr]

7 minutes ago, wiguy94 said:

Of course Cooper Pratt hits a HR and we have no way of seeing it.

I'm telling you: Uncannily apropos for 2024 MiLB.TV in the Brewers system. Soooooo annoying! Wilken also went long. Nothing in Biloxi either. Not even a 500' bird's eye view behind home plate!

[Joseph Zarr]

We are picking back up in Gwinnett, however. The delay is over.

[wiguy94]

1 minute ago, Joseph Zarr said:

I'm telling you: Uncannily apropos for 2024 MiLB.TV in the Brewers system. Soooooo annoying! Wilken also went long. Nothing in Biloxi either. Not even a 500' bird's eye view behind home plate!

I'm frankly glad we didn't see that one because the audio was posted on twitter and it was something like 92 EV, 354ft haha

[Joseph Zarr]

Just now, wiguy94 said:

I'm frankly glad we didn't see that one because the audio was posted on twitter and it was something like 92 EV, 354ft haha

[Joseph Zarr]

Meanwhile, this Gwinnett score tab in stream has been hilariously inaccurate all game. Shallow pop out off Isaac Collins bat for the first out? Let's put another run on the Sounds tally. It's 9-0 baby! 

[Joseph Zarr]

RHP Alexander Cornielle gave up more runs tonight than he had over his past 2 1/2 months. 12 runs tonight. 8 runs over his past 11 (10 GS) outings. 

[Joseph Zarr]

The Shuckers trail 7-3 here in the bottom of the 7th. However, EMJ just walked to load the bases. Connor Scott up to the dish for a big AB.

[Joseph Zarr]

Ahhhhh, the ol' pop up to SS and nobody scores. Oooof-ta. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Adam Hall singles. A runner scores. All runners advance. 7-4 game. One down. Zavi Warren will try to continue chipping into this lead.

[Joseph Zarr]

Can confirm: RHP J.B. Bukauskas is healthy and can still very much sling the white rat. The sinker is back. He gave up a line drive single to RF. He gave up two absurdly weakly hit balls - bloop over Miller at 1B (force out at 2B regardless) and a tapper between home plate and the mound. He then gets a reach 98 mph line out to 3B Christian Arroyo on a slider - got him out in front. A clean inning. Nice to see him back. Here's hoping he builds strength and can become a darkhorse candidate to further bolster the Brewers bullpen. Sinker sat low 94's Max 94.5 in his first inning of work.

[Joseph Zarr]

Major kudos to RHP Nick Merkel's 3 scoreless relief innings. He has given his team the chance to make a game of this. They grabbed two in the 7th to make it 7-5 before the rally fizzled. He just escaped a bases loaded jam himself by getting a line out to RF. It is still 7-5 Trash Pandas. Shuckers will try to complete a comeback. They have six outs to do so. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Christian Arroyo just gave a belt high inside slider a ride to the high LF wall. He was absolutely robbed of multiple RBI on a fantastic diving catch into the wall. Likely not gone (?) but that was a heck of a sell out catch trailing 8-0.

[wiguy94]

6 minutes ago, Joseph Zarr said:

Christian Arroyo just gave a belt high inside slider a ride to the high LF wall. He was absolutely robbed of multiple RBI on a fantastic diving catch into the wall. Likely not gone (?) but that was a heck of a sell out catch trailing 8-0.

Are the Stripers using actual pitchers post rain delay or still rocking the position players?

[Joseph Zarr]

1 minute ago, wiguy94 said:

Are the Stripers using actual pitchers post rain delay or still rocking the position players?

Real live professional baseball pitchers. I have absolutely zero idea what was going on with that Catcher appearance. That was all sorts of wild. Like, huh?!?

[Joseph Zarr]

The Shuckers had the first two batters aboard in the bottom of the 8th via walk. They squandered that opportunity. They will head to the 9th still trailing 7-5. And, still with zero video to show for it.

[Joseph Zarr]

What's that you say? More walks, hits and runs at the expense of RHP Tyler Woessner? Ahhhhh yes. He's given up two in the ninth. 2 H, 2 BB, 1 K so far with two down. Men on the corners. What an absolute regression of a season for this young man who is, unfortunately, fast becoming an afterthought within the greater pitching pool. We obviously want to see him turn a corner but the truth is the truth: he has many man problems to fix to regain his footing. Shuckers trail 9-5. Mercifully, he gets a swinging K for the final out in an 8-pitch AB. 

[Joseph Zarr]

It's 9-0 Sounds. Stop me if you've heard this story before: the first two runners are aboard vs RHP Mitch White. A flare bloop single to LF and an ensuing walk. AND, just like that an inside-out line drive single to the LF grass. Nobody out. Men on 1st and 2nd. 9-1. Man, White is just what he is in 2024.The next pitch? Line drive for another base hit to RF. 9-2. Men on 1st and 2nd. Quagmire.

[Joseph Zarr]

Arroyo has made two fantastic snaring catches at the hot corner tonight. He just fully stretched to snare RHP Ryan Middendorf's first out in the bottom of the 9th. Man, that was a grab.

[Joseph Zarr]

@wiguy94:

Our moment of Zen is here. Those wrists and that innate power. It is so there. A matter of time before he can learn to access this on a more routine basis. My goodness.

 

[wiguy94]

36 minutes ago, Joseph Zarr said:

Arroyo has made two fantastic snaring catches at the hot corner tonight. He just fully stretched to snare RHP Ryan Middendorf's first out in the bottom of the 9th. Man, that was a grab.

No wonder you can't tell where pitches are being thrown, you are watching games on a potato haha