Mon. 8/12 - DSL Only

[Jim Goulart]

Thread will be utilized for any minor league news Monday. 

Organizational Scoreboard

[Joseph Zarr]

C Yoneiker Lugo just smacked his first long ball of his summer. A three-run blast. DSL Cerveceros Dos lead 3-2z

[wiguy94]

I wonder if Luis Pena is nursing an injury. Feel like this is the 2nd time in a week he was pinch hit for mid game.

[Joseph Zarr]

Well, the DSL Cerveceros Uno are certainly going out with a dud in their push for a playoff berth. Swept by the DSL Orioles Orange in their Saturday double header. Now they've ;pst today 3-1 to the 21-29 DSL Rojos? They've  lost four straight and are 3.5 GB in the most important 10 day push of their season. Sigh. Not what we expected after transferring several of the best DSL Cerveceros Dos players to their clubhouse. 

Meanwhile, the DSL Cerveceros Dos scoffed at the loss of their teammates. They've now won two straight and have moved back to 5 games over 0.500 at 26-21. 

[Joseph Zarr]

3 hours ago, wiguy94 said:

I wonder if Luis Pena is nursing an injury. Feel like this is the 2nd time in a week he was pinch hit for mid game.

Not to mention he sat out the last game and was a DH today for only 2 AB. It certainly seems like something might be up there. Really unfortunate timing!

[Ro Mueller]

Super CF Jose Anderson has missed the past 2 ballgames for DSL Brewers-1, after being hit-by-pitch and pinch run for near the end of the first game of their doubleheader on Saturday. 

[Madhawk23]

Sucks to see both Pena and Anderson dealing with injuries, as I think the season ends in about a week, right?  

[Joseph Zarr]

4 minutes ago, Madhawk23 said:

Sucks to see both Pena and Anderson dealing with injuries, as I think the season ends in about a week, right?  

8/20 is the final regular season date fwiw.

[Ro Mueller]

3 minutes ago, Madhawk23 said:

Sucks to see both Pena and Anderson dealing with injuries, as I think the season ends in about a week, right?  

Yeah. It looked like we were trying to stack DSL Brewers-1's roster for a final playoff push, but all we really did was replace the injured Pena with Anderson for one game...in which he too got injured. Neither Wande Torres nor Wenderlyn King played in the doubleheader against the first place Orioles on Saturday.

Let's hope it's just bumps and bruises and these guys will all be stateside shortly for the unofficial Extended Summer League in Arizona (assuming that's permitted) - Pena, Made, Anderson, Ortuno, Torres...

[Ro Mueller]

This explains why Tyler Black was a late scratch for Nashville’s game on Sunday evening: 

 

[Jim Goulart]

There will not be a formal Link Report Tuesday AM with just the two DSL games on the docket Monday.  Look for summaries to be posted by me today that Joseph will incorporate into Wednesday AM's report.

[Jim Goulart]

9 hours ago, Jim Goulart said:

There will not be a formal Link Report Tuesday AM with just the two DSL games on the docket Monday.  Look for summaries to be posted by me today that Joseph will incorporate into Wednesday AM's report.

Final: DSL Reds (Rojos) 3, DSL Brewers #1 Squad 1
Box Score and Game Log

Oh, what a tough loss given the pitching Team Uno received from 17-year-old Panamanian starting RHP Manuel Moreno, who has posted a 1.00 WHIP in his first 33 pro innings. It just seems as though the Brewers hit more often than not on pitchers from what we may call outlier locales (Panama, Mexico, Nicaragua, etc.).

LHP Idalberto Santiesteban and RHP Gabriel Colmenarez will be great Wheel of Fortune puzzle answers someday. They each tossed a scoreless inning of relief, before Colmenarez retired the first two men in the bottom of the 8th. Then this happened:

- Walk
- Infield Single
- Triple to surrender the 1-0 lead that was grabbed in the 7th
- Single for the 3-1 score
- Double which did not drive in a run
- Pop-out finally ends the inning

But let's agree the usually vaunted Prime Brewers lineup did not come through, partly because Luis Pena exited mid-game from the DH spot, and recently-transferred from Brewers #2 OF Jose Anderson was idle, apparently dealing with HBP issues from earlier in the week.

That being said, c'mon men:

Team RISP: 2-for-12.
Team LOB: 8.

Neither of those two RISP hits drove in a run, the only Cerveceros run scored on a GIDP.

 

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Final: DSL Brewers #2 Squad 5, DSL Red Sox Blue 4
Box Score and Game Log

It's a walkoff, baby!

Each team managed only five hits, but it was over quickly in the bottom of the 9th at the Brewers' new complex.

Second baseman Moises Polanco, a young 17 years old (18 next May), led off with a single. We likely have not mentioned Polanco often enough, so we'll make up for it here. Polanco reached base four times from the leadoff spot (single, two walks, HBP) to lift his OBP for the season to .411 along with 20 steals in 25 tries.

Big-money bonus signee Jorge Quintana then hit a line drive double to center field (as a LH batter, switch-hitter) to end matters. Nice to see Team Dos keep their heads up and it's a spin of results between the two squads management wasn't likely anticipating. 

This win placed Team Dos at 26-21, hardly a troubling record at all. 

We'll give the pitching game ball to 18-year-old Venezuelan RHP Francisco Guevara; check out his game logs to see how his current 12.10 ERA is leaps and bounds lower than his start to the season. The young man can enter the winter feeling better about progress, since he began his season surrendering eight runs over his first two outings before he retired a batter and moved away from his infinity ERA at the time.