Wed. 6/18 - It's Not a Complex Day (as in, All The Complex Kids are Idle)

[Joseph Zarr]

Stallings is in one out bases loaded trouble in the third. Nashville leads 2-0. He just walked Greg Allen after a lengthy AB. Let him off the hook with a ball way high and outside. 

LHP Bjorn Johnson has relieved Meccage. 

Restituyo bomb over the LF wall! Whoa. 4-1. Was not expecting that. LOL. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Stallings saw one cross on a weak grounder to 2B - he fielded it and just beat the runner. AND, a 108 mph grounder to Delgado who dove and stopped the ball but couldn't catch it clean. Runner beat it out by a half step. 2-2 game. Bottom of the third the Sounds will bat. 

[Joseph Zarr]

I continue to love LHP Bjorn Johnson. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Oh hey it's just another Bobby Dalbec double. My goodness. Absolutely launched that ball to the RF warning track. He is en fuego. Have I told you I love me some Dalbec? HAVE I?!

[Joseph Zarr]

95 mph K looking for Hardin to end his third. That's 4 K and just 1 poke through 3 IP. Lovely.

Vaughn sends in Dalbec with an RBI grounder bouncing over the 3B line. Yeah baby. 3-2 Sounds. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Made has just massively improved his all around game since early in the season. His defense has come along immensely in an extremely short period of time. We should all be incredibly encouraged by what we're seeing. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Oh hey! It's a 1-of-3 outcome for our boy Brock Wilken. Wait for it.

His 35th double! That's 11 more than anyone else in the Southern League. 😅

[markedman5]

Is there a spot for Dalbec in Milwaukee? 

[Joseph Zarr]

Just now, markedman5 said:

Is there a spot for Dalbec in Milwaukee? 

I personally think so? I think it entirely depends on the Trade Deadline. He's really just a fantastic vet. I know it hasn't worked at the MLB level. I still believe in the player and the talent. He has massive pop in that bat. He is just fine defensively everywhere he plays. His best spot is first base. He's more than serviceable at 3B and RF. 

[Joseph Zarr]

And Lara sends home Wilken and takes 2B on the throw home. Poke through the left side of the infield. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Hey now! Walther scorches a double into the RF corner. Real nice easy oppo poke on an inside sinker. Hopped just short of the wall. A lead off bottom of the 8th double. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Hardin opens up the fourth frame with a lead-off homer just over the right CF wall. 108 mph off that bat, however. Scorched. 5-2 Shuckers lead. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Peña has had two really poor K's tonight. For such a fantastic hitter he still has his moments. Both were swinging and both were in the dirt in pitcher's counts. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Walther leads off with the dub. Made, Peña and Bitonti go down via strikeout and they were dominanced to a man. Bitonti went down on a 99 mph heater. Filthy stuff. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Johnson is going for the three inning Save but he gives up a lead-off double to the left CF wall to open his ninth. Ruh roh Raggy!

[Joseph Zarr]

Hardin gets his 5th K to ends his fourth. Fantastic work in his debut. 5-2 Shuckers lead. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Oh boy. He gives up another well hit ball. Just over the outstretched glove of Rodriguez in LF. Bounces to the wall. Double. Runners at 2nd and 3rd. 3-2 lead nobody out. 

[Joseph Zarr]

My word. Bitonti just dropped the ball at 1b after Made scooped a hard hit runner keeping both runners. Bitonti absolutely has to catch that ball. Good grief. Bases juiced. Terrible drop. Very makable catch. Brutal.

[MPsconnie]

Tough top of the 9th for the Mudcats. Yikes. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Tie game. Sac fly. ONly one out. Men on 1st and 2nd. 

[Ro Mueller]

33 minutes ago, Joseph Zarr said:

Meccage completes six frames - last out on a check swing K on a really nice low off-speed pitch (I believe a slider). That's 4 K. I believe this is his longest outing? Too lazy to look. 😅

Easily. Previous innings high was 4.1, though he did not set a pitches high (74 today vs. 75 high).

[Joseph Zarr]

2 minutes ago, MPsconnie said:

Tough top of the 9th for the Mudcats. Yikes. 

Johnson ran out of gas. Nobody has been up in the bullpen. Stanley absolutely does this. AND, the Mudcats are thin in the pitching ranks so you can understand why he is trying to get all he can out of Johnson.

[Joseph Zarr]

AND, now Stanley calls the bullpen. Amazing. I swear. That was completely unnecessary. Oh well. 

[Joseph Zarr]

And, well, lost in all this hoopla in the ninth is the fact Bryce Meccage will indeed not get his fist professional win. Bummer.

[MPsconnie]

3 minutes ago, Joseph Zarr said:

Johnson ran out of gas. Nobody has been up in the bullpen. Stanley absolutely does this. AND, the Mudcats are thin in the pitching ranks so you can understand why he is trying to get all he can out of Johnson.

Looks like it’s Sanchez now.