Sun. 6-29: Meccage in a Bottle - Woodruff, Hardin Pitch Today

[biedergb]

Burke with a huge double and Areinamo scores but Dinges goes down turning around 3rd base.  Grabbing his hamstring. Oh no. 
Getting helped off the field. Please no. No more injuries to key players and top prospects- this is enough.

ugh. It’s a 5-3 game. Should be 5-4 but Dinges injury really affects this game and the team moving forward. 
 

Garcia hits it where they ain’t and it’s a shallow RF double now 5-4

[biedergb]

Well looks like no no hitter or shutout against. As Nashville gets 2 hits and a run in the top of 1st.

Getting back to TRats. That Dinges injury is such a downer.  Adams, Wilken and now Dinges. Just a bummer 2 weeks. 

[markedman5]

 

[Ro Mueller]

20 minutes ago, Ro Mueller said:

Hodges is halfway thru: fly out-K swinging-K swinging in the 8th.

On to the 9th, Mudcats up 3 to 2.

Task complete. 6-up, 6-down for Garrett Hodges. Carolina wins 4-2.

[biedergb]

Mudcats get an insurance run and hold on to win 4-2

TRats up in the bottom of 9 trying to tie the game down 5-4 still

And Woodruff laboring to get through the first inning. But fastball velocity recorded at 96 on a ball that walked a batter so better velocity is encouraging. We can surely use some good news on the injury from between Adams, Wilken, Mitchell and now Dinges. Ugh

[biedergb]

Oh no Woodruff gives up a 3 run HR. Yikes. 

[Ro Mueller]

The Dinges injury basically cost Wisconsin a tie game and potentially the series. Baez K'd and Nicasia lined out to strand Eduardo at 2nd base, down 5-4 in that 8th inning.

A Guilarte single was all they got in the 9th.

They lose the home series 4 games to 2.

And with Walther exiting a Low-A game early a few days ago (no news or injury placement yet), this may force Victor Torres over to High-A Wisconsin for actual playing time.

[MudcatsfaninBrunsCO]

2 hours ago, Ro Mueller said:

Hope it was a great week!

It was! Thanks for asking. An awesome church camp in Panama City Beach, FL. 

[biedergb]

Man this season started with a bunch of top prospects on the shelf- and some came back (Quero, Wichrowski, Boeve, Crow, and Black, all to different degrees of success). And now mid-season a bunch of recent injuries or updates on those who are out (O’Rae, Adamczewski, Adams, Wilken, now Dinges, and unknown status of Payne).

Catching depth will be tested with Ramon Rodriguez out, and both Dinges and possibly Walther looking at IL time.

Gonna load up on catchers in the draft??? I mean half kidding, but for position players still feel you grab as many SS/CF/C as possible since they can ultimately play anywhere. 

[Guest]

Woodruff has been inconsistent today but he's hitting 95 in the 4th.

[wibadgers23]

Has this been the worst year as far as injuries go?  I really can't remember a year with this many injuries to our prospects.

[Ro Mueller]

Kind of nice of the Marlins to have Adam Mazur throw 166 pitches over 6 days.

Andrew Vaughn just took his 91st pitch today (and 9th pitch of this at-bat) deep for a 3-run homer to make it a 6-5 game in the top of the 7th inning.

Bobby Dalbec then hit his third double of the game, but a lineout double play ended the chance. 

 

[Ro Mueller]

An inning later, the Sounds strand baserunners at 2nd (Dunn - infield hit) and 3rd (Perkins - walk, SB) when Avans goes down swinging.

I’m kind of surprised we’re pulling Stallings after 34 pitches for Yoho, but I guess Yoho could use the work here in the bottom of the 8th.

Sounds still trail 6-5.

[Ro Mueller]

Yoho gave up 2 hard hit balls (fly out, double), then baffled the next 2 hitters (K, weak grounder).

And DH Andrew Vaughn walked to lead off the 9th inning. Despite 3 speedsters on the bench (Black, Oliva, Delgado), we didn’t pinch run for Vaughn (zero career MILB stolen bases) and Dalbec hit into a GIDP.

Seigler then drew a walk and Alfaro K’d to end the game.

Sounds lose 6-5 and drop the series 4 games to 2.

[biedergb]

2 hours ago, wibadgers23 said:

Has this been the worst year as far as injuries go?  I really can't remember a year with this many injuries to our prospects.

For in-season injuries in a short time period, this is unusual. But we have multiple injuries each year (remember Wilken was hit in the eye last year; Quero injured his first at bat). However the most serious ones seem to happen in the offseason, so a lot players hurt may really miss time the following year and these are often known (ie Knoth, Gasser, Cortez, among other).

This does seem like a bad run (really since about a month ago with Rodriguez who is not really a true prospect however it was a non-contact injury) but then things kept getting weird like with Woodruff's 2 setbacks, and other mystery ailments.

[brewmann04]

Anthony just got called up 

[markedman5]

 

[Joseph Zarr]

1 hour ago, brewmann04 said:

Anthony just got called up 

It appears so! Just posted this in the transaction thread. Romero is spot on with this stuff:

 

[Jim Goulart]

 

[Jake McKibbin]

In almost every interview this year when asked "what's your focus" Blake Burke has responded with swing decisions time and again. Swinging at strikes, taking out of zone.

 

Well over a 50 pitch rolling sample it seems he's in a purple patch now and the power is showing up alongside that

Chase rate is currently below 25% while he's swinging at 70% of in zone pitches. Thing you love to see. 

It's no coincidence that he's also popped his only two home runs in June over the last week to boot

[Jake McKibbin]

6 hours ago, markedman5 said:

 

Not to stoke fire on this, but Hamstring strains of any grade are a minimum two week absence. You can't image immediately after as the swelling and bruising hide the damage, so there's still a very real chance this is a lot worse and more on the grade 2-3 scale meaning 6-8 weeks. Grade 1 tears usually don't require assistance to get off the field

[snoogans8056]

4 hours ago, Jake McKibbin said:

Not to stoke fire on this, but Hamstring strains of any grade are a minimum two week absence. You can't image immediately after as the swelling and bruising hide the damage, so there's still a very real chance this is a lot worse and more on the grade 2-3 scale meaning 6-8 weeks. Grade 1 tears usually don't require assistance to get off the field

Either way, hamstring is infinitely better than anything else that comes to mind when “non contact injury” is used.

The usual way that gets used means he’d be gone for most of next year too.

[Mr Southpaw]

I was at the Mudcat game yesterday afternoon and and Meccage looked impressive. His fastball sat at about 93 miles an hour and his curveball was really good. I was sorry that Jesus did not play, but Pina looked really good, really fast and quick.

[Playing Catch]

8 hours ago, Jake McKibbin said:

he's in a purple patch now

Someone likes soccer...

edit to add:  apparently not a soccer-term, per se.