Sun. 4/20: How Many Wins Will Go into the Basket, Eggzactly?

[biedergb]

A wild pitch, or passed ball and it’s 5-3 Shuckers now. Pratt walks  

And usual first baseman Goosenburg in to pitch. Hits Wilken, but then Miller taps it just in front of the plate and thrown out at first. GameDay says a swinging strike, but it was a 2-3 putout I think.

Childers will come in to try to close it out here. Let’s go Matt…. I mean let’s go Will, Matt’s son

[Ro Mueller]

12 outs from the last 11 Barons’ batters. The Shuckers’ pitching really came through. No Birmingham ghost runner scored in the 10th or 11th. It’s a 4-2 Biloxi road series win!!

[biedergb]

And that’s a wrap- Childers get two fly outs. And then a grounder to Pratt, who fields it cleanly and throws to first and ballgame.  Nice come from behind win for Shuckers.  Solid games from Lara and Pratt (except for the error early on). Amazing work from the bullpen after the hiccup with a single and then an error that plated a couple of runs.  After that zeros!

[Joseph Zarr]

I do have to say: C Marco Dinges throw to 2B remains very much a work in progress. He's trying to gun it out there and he has air mailed at least two balls I've seen this past week into the right CF grass as the ball runs on him arm side. Work in progress. I liked his framing quite a bit more today. He was catching the ball cleanly and sneaking some strikes in there with quick glove work and placement.

[Joseph Zarr]

BT Dubs. For all of you game watchers. Be sure to watch LHP Bjorn Johnson's second strikeout of the 7th. He nearly gives up a long ball over the LF wall for strike one in a 2-0 count - a high and in heater gets torched 107 mph and 398 feet but it is pulled into foul territory beyond the LF foul pole. BUT, holy heck he comes back and absolutely dominates the rest of the AB with real flare. He goes breaking ball down and in for a filthy swinging second strike. He comes back with an absolutely disgusting change-up (?) for a check swing sword strike 3. My word. That last two pitch combination was truly filthy.

Strike 2 begins at 2:51:04, fwiw.

[biedergb]

14 minutes ago, Joseph Zarr said:

I do have to say: C Marco Dinges throw to 2B remains very much a work in progress. He's trying to gun it out there and he has air mailed at least two balls I've seen this past week into the right CF grass as the ball runs on him arm side. Work in progress. I liked his framing quite a bit more today. He was catching the ball cleanly and sneaking some strikes in there with quick glove work and placement.

I agree. It was three airmailed balls today- if you count the attempted throw in the 1st or 2nd when the batter struck four out #3, but he still threw to 2nd on the runner, didn’t matter or count and I gave him plenty of slack since he caught the pitch (foul tip maybe), so a lot going on. But his other two throws - looks like nice velocity, just airmailed.

His framing has been good, glove still need work. But I like how he sets - his blue glove is a nice big target. And he moves well,  he could handle other positions I think if his bat moves quicker than his catching skills.  But I would love for him to develop into a offensively gifted and defensively sound catching prospect. I still have high hopes for him. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Vire comes aboard and torches 95 mph on the outer black? Sits 95-96 mph in his debut? With that lankiness and that wily delivery you can just see the projection and dream on those types of raw tools. Saw some pitches run arm side. Saw some breakers swoop a bit in and beyond the zone. BUT, man, to come back and K two straight after two BB and a HBP (off an elbow guard up and in) to load em up shows real grit. Very very impressive debut from his first action in Low-A. 

[CheeseheadInQC]

26 minutes ago, Joseph Zarr said:

Vire comes aboard and torches 95 mph on the outer black? Sits 95-96 mph in his debut? With that lankiness and that wily delivery you can just see the projection and dream on that type of raw tools. Saw some pitches run arm side. Saw some breakers swoop a bit in and beyond the zone. BUT, man, to come back and K two straight after two BB and a HBP (off an elbow guard up and in) to load em up shows real grit. Very very impressive debut from his first action in Low-A. 

I don’t remember seeing his name on the spring training lineups and was concerned he suffered another serious injury. Really glad that wasn’t the case. The more talented young pitching in the system the better.

[SF70]

10 hours ago, CheeseheadInQC said:

I don’t remember seeing his name on the spring training lineups and was concerned he suffered another serious injury. Really glad that wasn’t the case. The more talented young pitching in the system the better.

The organizational pitching is fast catching up to the positional talent. At least that’s how I’m seeing it. We still have projectable HS arm talent yet to make their pro debuts to look forward to.