Wed. 7/30: How Intense Will the Last Evening of "Hug Watches" Be?

[Joseph Zarr]

And the Sounds strand them full for the second time. He gets the K in relief of Cargo. 0-0 on to the 5th.

Meanwhile Adamczewski just walked. That's a single and a BB in lead-off. Fine work.

[Joseph Zarr]

Shuckers are on the board first in Pensacola via a Luis Lara deep sac fly to LF. He scores Resituyo after he had just stolen 3rd base. 1-0 Shuckers.

[Joseph Zarr]

A lead off single off of Smith is compounded by a silly fielding error from CF Jose Anderson. He let's a very weakly hit roller somehow go under his glove and the runner is in scoring position. Ugly play.

[Joseph Zarr]

AND, now Made's turn to take the routine and get eaten up. These are bad errors. That ball couldn't have been hit more than 50 mph. Made charged it a bit slowly and was eaten up on the bounce. A routine play once again botched by the young'ns. Tough game for Made so far. Swinging K. Fly out. Now a fielding error. 

[Joseph Zarr]

A bunt advances both runners. Di Turi makes the nice charging play with a solid throw for the out at 1B. Smith throws a massive WP to the backstop but Walther and Smith somehow get the runner in a bang-bang play at the plate. Impressive. Two down. I have no idea how they got him but it must have been a great bounce. AND, Smith escapes via a ground out to 3B. They stay in a 1-0 deficit. Big work there.

[Joseph Zarr]

With runners on 1st and 2nd, in a 3-2 count, Wichrowski walks the bases full. And, a weakly hit reach poke blooper into shallow CF ties the game 1-1. Bases stay juiced. Nobody out. 1-1 game now.

[Joseph Zarr]

Station-to-station the Wahoos are ambling on. Another single. A 2-2 liner to LF. 2-1 Wahoos. Still nobody out.

[Joseph Zarr]

Big DP for Wichrowski. The runner goes from 3B on a shallow pop fly to RF. Spain and Miller combine to gun him down and tag the runner before the plate. Two down. Still 2-1. Runners on 1st and 2nd. 

[Ro Mueller]

Walling is 0 for his last 37. Just K’d to end the top of the 4th with 2 men on. Poor guy.

[Joseph Zarr]

That was a really poor inning for Wichrowski but he benefits from two put outs from Spain in RF. After the DP, Wichrowski walks the next batter. Bases juiced yet again. He then gives up a 3-2 single into RF. SPain guns down the second runner trying to score in a bang-bang play. Beautiful tag my Miller who appeared to get the lead hand just before it touched home plate. 3-1 deficit. On to the 4th.

[Joseph Zarr]

1 minute ago, Ro Mueller said:

Walling is 0 for his last 37. Just K’d to end the top of the 4th with 2 men on. Poor guy.

Yup. 3-1 count. Took a strike looking inside. Took a strike looking at a 95 mph heater on the outer black. Close call but you can't take that one. Caminiti is a very tough lefty on lefty match-up but Walling has been in a real slump for quite awhile.

[Ro Mueller]

1 minute ago, Joseph Zarr said:

That was a really poor inning for Wichrowski but he benefits from two put outs from Spain in RF. After the DP, Wichrowski walks the next batter. Bases juiced yet again. He then gives up a 3-2 single into RF. SPain guns down the second runner trying to score in a bang-bang play. Beautiful tag my Miller who appeared to get the lead hand just before it touched home plate. 3-1 deficit. On to the 4th.

Two outfield assists at home for Garrett Spain in the same inning?

That’s gotta be about as rare as winning PowerBall.

[Ro Mueller]

As expected, Nick Kahle notches the first extra-base hit of the game for either team to lead off the 6th inning.

[Joseph Zarr]

Boy these Tyler Black AB's are painful tonight. He looks absolutely befuddled with the bat in his hand. 

[Joseph Zarr]

3 minutes ago, Ro Mueller said:

As expected, Nick Kahle notches the first extra-base hit of the game for either team to lead off the 6th inning.

Double to the RF warning track over the RF'ers head as he was, logically, playing in. Kahle will sneak up on us all! Feisty!

[Ro Mueller]

I was worried that Jadher would be even more blocked in the Rays’ system (well, he wasn’t truly blocked in ours with Brown, Wilken, Adams and Boeve out the past 2+ weeks), but he DID get the bump up to AA Montgomery!

They’ve got a middle infield of Gregory Barrios and Jadher Areinamo in their game tonight, their first pairing since July 2 last year with the Timber Rattlers.

[Joseph Zarr]

Darrien Miller just tied it up with a double deep into the RF corner - it may have been a deep single and a fielding error (?). He scores Pratt (single to RF) and Murray (3-2 BB). 3-3 game now in the 4th.

[Joseph Zarr]

Just now, Ro Mueller said:

I was worried that Jadher would be even more blocked in the Rays’ system (well, he wasn’t truly blocked in ours with Brown, Wilken, Adams and Boeve out the past 2+ weeks), but he DID get the bump up to AA Montgomery!

They’ve got a middle infield of Gregory Barrios and Jadher Areinamo in their game tonight, their first pairing since July 2 last year with the Timber Rattlers.

Yup. Discussed it in last night's report. Shuckers play Montgomery Last week of August too.

[Joseph Zarr]

Spain had consecutive OF PO's and he gets the leading Sac Fly to deep CF. 4-3 Shuckers. You have to love it. Meanwhile, a bunch of seeing eye weak contact has the RailRiders up 1-0 via sac fly. Two down. And we'll see a pitching change. 

[Joseph Zarr]

106 mph 2-2 single to RF for Made. Adamczewski is on board for the 3rd time in 3 AB. Men on 1st and 2nd. One down for Peña. 

[Ro Mueller]

3 minutes ago, Joseph Zarr said:

Yup. Discussed it in last night's report. Shuckers play Montgomery Last week of August too.

Silly me believing MILB.com’s initial transaction indicating that he’d been assigned to Bowling Green of the South Atlantic League.

Of course, that log note has been entirely erased, so they can claim I’m crazy. 🤪

[Joseph Zarr]

Bases juiced. WP scores Adamczewski. Walks Anderson. 1-1. Bases juiced again. And, Di Turi has a really poor AB batting from the right side. Ugly ugly AB. swung and K'd at a slider inside and in the dirt (sword). Then swings and misses a change-up outside. Didn't make contact the entire AB. 

[Joseph Zarr]

The amount of strikes I've seen called balls agains the Brewers affiliates this early week is uncanny. Gorgeous first pitch slider on the outer half for Smith. Knee high. Ump sits there like a stone. Ball 1. Anderson makes a beautiful run down catch of a ball hit deep to the alley the next pitch. 

[Joseph Zarr]

RHP Travis Smith touching 95 mph in the 5th inning is a nice development. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Welcome to the sixth inning Enderson Mercado. He is greeted with a first pitch pull shot long ball inside the LF foul pole. Belt high inside off-speed pitch. Golfed over that wall. It was a hanger but he turned on that as it was tailing inside. Mudcats trail again 2-1.