Tue. 5/13 - All Five Clubs Once Again Spring to Action

[Joseph Zarr]

Welch gets a K on a filthy change-up in a 3-2 count. Man on first base reached via a seeing eye squib flare grounder that took an absurd bounce to get by Burke. And, he gets out of it with a weak pop up to 2B.

Meanwhile, RHP KC Hunt is enduring the starts to a classic 2025 early Hunt inning:

Seeing eye single through the left side of the infield. WP. Runner advances. Single to RF. Two men on. Nobody out. The early struggles continue. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Hunt gets the DP. Man scores. 3-1 lead. Limit the pitches here and get out of the frame and you shake it off.

[duewizard]

What a difference a year makes. Watching the Shuckers hit last season was painful. No weird camera view also helps

[Joseph Zarr]

Just now, duewizard said:

What a difference a year makes. Watching the Shuckers hit last season was painful. No weird camera view also helps

Yeah, Away games do that don't they? There are always issues with Biloxi's feed. 

For the second consecutive outing Hunt is getting a mound visit early to look at his right ankle. He's obviously going through something with the ankles. Strange.

[Joseph Zarr]

Hunt gets out of the inning as he stays in after the mound visit. 1-2 swinging K to a lefty. Nice pitch. 3-1 on to the 2nd. Shuckers lead. 

[Joseph Zarr]

10-Game hitting streak for Burke. He pulls a 2-2 single to the right side. Areinamo gets to 3B. That ball didn't look well hit - it was hit 101 mph 😅. Baez extends his hitting streak to 6 games and rips an RBI single to LF. 104 mph off the bat. 1-0 Timber Rattlers. Men on 1st and 2nd. One down.

[Joseph Zarr]

Miller just skied a lead off poke off the high wall in LF. Looked like a pop fly. That ball carried. Lead off double. 

Meanwhile, Wood hit into a broken bat DP (he beat the throw but in the Minors the umps rarely give the tie to the runner). 1-0 T-Rats into the 2nd frame.

[Joseph Zarr]

Welch leads off his second with a five pitch walk and a first pitch liner single to RF. Men on 1st and 2nd. Nobody out. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Man it is so good to see a healthy Mike Boeve in the batters box. Love it. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Of course, I jinked Boeve. He K's on a really nice swooping  low change-up in a 2-2 count. My point stands: Wonderful to see him with the bat in his hands!

[Joseph Zarr]

Consecutive one out singles - four hits already on Hunt - have men on the corners again. Hunt is just not good early in 2025. Just the plain baseball truth. Way too many hittable pitches. Way too many walks as well.

Meanwhile, Yoshwar Garcia extends his hitting streak to seven with an absolute dart line drive over the LF fence. Wow. That was pulled and smoked. 3-0 T-Rats. Home run numero uno. That was 106 mph off his stick. Sheesh Yoshwar!

[biedergb]

@Joseph Zarr

Thanks for the play-by-play.  I'm watching the forum and looking at score - can't watch games tonight due to work, but keep 'em coming, you got @duewizard and @sveumrules following along at mininum as well.

Let's go Shuckers and T-Rats!

[Joseph Zarr]

Hunt gets the swinging K. Has a chance to escape. Dig deep, KC. Full count now. He misses just high and outside. Whewww. That was close. Seven pitch free pass there stings. Still two down. Bases juiced now.

[Joseph Zarr]

Hunt gets him with a big 2-2 curve ball. 2 K inning working around 2 singles and a walk. Once again his pitch count is very high early. 3-1 Shuckers on to the top of the 3rd.

[Joseph Zarr]

Welch gives up a lead off shallow flare double (skipped past the diving Garcia in CF). Line drive double off the LF wall. Nobody out. 3-1 T-Rats.

[Joseph Zarr]

WILKEN AGAIN!!!! OFF THE BATTERS EYE. MY GOODNESS. 

 

[Joseph Zarr]

5-1 Shuckers.

Who cares about the Brewers and their meaningless run of woeful play. We are hawt in the Minor Leagues. Helps when the home plate ump didn't give the pitcher strike 3 on the outer black. 107 mph. 421 feet. SMOKED. 

 

[biedergb]

2 minutes ago, Joseph Zarr said:

Who cares about the Brewers and their meaningless run of woeful play.

The good news - possibly a higher draft pick in the 2026 draft - I mean there is that right?

 

But Wilken HR? That is joy.  Love to hear about that - and hopefully see that soon. I may be able to get online to watch soon.

[Joseph Zarr]

1 minute ago, biedergb said:

The good news - possibly a higher draft pick in the 2026 draft - I mean there is that right?

 

But Wilken HR? That is joy.  Love to hear about that - and hopefully see that soon. I may be able to get online to watch soon.

Hey, I'm entirely neutral on what is happening with the Big Club. This type of regression had to be expected at some point. My only contention is: realize what you have going on in the lower levels. Do not continue to give away that wealth like they just did with Priester. One of those with team control is fine. I can stomach that and I get it. I don't necessarily agree with it. But, it's defensible. BUT, no more desperation anything. There are way too many holes. My very personal opinion is they should absolutely be preparing to Sell and retool and ADD.

[markedman5]

Please translate to the majors……please….  

 

[biedergb]

5 minutes ago, Joseph Zarr said:

My very personal opinion is they should absolutely be preparing to Sell and retool and ADD.

I am starting to see that as well.  I mean there is Chourio and Turang may be for real, Contreras when healthy is real too. The rest of the team is really uninspired and young. Maybe good learning experience to struggle this year, and probably a few deals (trade some vet pitching) and try to re-tool with an influx of very nice young players right now.  And we don't need one player to come through, but just a few of a possible dozen, and the odds are OK, better than betting on a like 1 or 2 players.

[Joseph Zarr]

Boy, the winds in Montgomery must be really blowing out. If you hit anything high and hard it may get to the wall. Montgomery just ripped a sky high two out double off the CF wall and a leaping Lara could not get to it. I thought it was a pop out to CF 😂. Instead it's a two out triple.

[Joseph Zarr]

Ahhhh, that man gets aboard via a classic chopper swinging bunt underneath the barehand charges of both Wilken and Pratt. Nothing you can do about that. 

[Joseph Zarr]

5-2 Shuckers. Two down. Bottom of the third. Man on 1B. Grounder ends the inning.

3-2 one down man on first top of the 4th for Welch. T-Rats lead. 

[biedergb]

I just turned on the Shuckers and watch three straight plays that go from one fielder to the next

First a deep fly to right-center that nearly go out of here, and Lara nearly caught, but he missed the catch and Spain has to field it and a stand up triple. Then a ground to 3B and Wilken can't make the bare handed play, and Pratt can't make it either on a super high slow grounder, and a run scores. Then the hot shot off Adams to Murray, who then throws it back to Adams to get out of the inning. Haven't see that often where three times there was almost out #3, and all plays involved two fields trying to make the play.