Wed. 8/27 - Need to Flip Recent Scripts

[biedergb]

Bonus innings in Montgomery. Biscuits Shuckers still tied 1-1. Robert’s goes 1-2-3in the 9th (strikes out Brayden Taylor who is also 0-4 with 3K to mirror the pick after him in Wilken who is 0-4 with 4K).

[biedergb]

Shuckers with back to back singles in the top of 10, and it’s 2-1. But a sac bunt, the pop up to catcher and a fly out to right and a two-on-no-out scenario yields no more runs😡

[biedergb]

Infield in and Pratt leaps but only knocks it down. And the runner at third scores. 2-2 tie again. The runner is on due to throwing error by Pratt. Dang only one out and winning runner on base. 

The lack of extra insurance runs in the top of 10 will haunt them now.

OK a K and it’s 2 outs. Let’s keep it tied please

[Joseph Zarr]

AND, Montogmery ties it. Strike out but Wood can't hold the ball and the runner gets free run to 1B. He looks the runner back to 2B. He takes 3B anyway on the throw to 1B. Then a high chopper up the middle and Pratt can't handle it cleanly rushing the gather (looked very catchable). Runner scores. Burke botches the catch at 1B. Lovely. Has to catch that ball. 

[Joseph Zarr]

1 minute ago, biedergb said:

Infield in and Pratt leaps but only knocks it down. And the runner at third scores. 2-2 tie again. The runner is on due to throwing error by Pratt. Dang only one out and winning runner on base. 

The lack of extra insurance runs in the top of 10 will haunt them now.

OK a K and it’s 2 outs. Let’s keep it tied please

I don't know. As per usual I completely disagree with ML scorers. The error was on the gather - that was off the cup of his glove. BUT, really the error is on Burke's catch. That was right to him. He lunged for the ball and completely missed it. Ugly play. 

[biedergb]

Another K. On to the 11th

Meanwhile in Wisconsin its bases loaded and only 1 out with bases full of River Bandits on the top of 9. Uh oh

[biedergb]

Wilken a fifth strike out. Yikes. It’s 2024 Brock Wilken tonight. 😞

[Joseph Zarr]

I see this 9th inning mini meltdown is at the hands of our 26-year-old regression Indy man RHP Aaron Rund. Nightmare second season for a guy who really needed to improve. 

[biedergb]

And the rails appear to be coming off in Wisconsin as it’s 8-4 Quad Cities with some infield hits and a force out and an error.  I suspect some challenging defense by the TRats. Will try to watch that inning later - or wait for someone else to put some context to this inning. Was it defense, or all on Rund?

[Joseph Zarr]

And now Peña absolutely botches the most routine of weakly hit ground balls because he still struggles with moments of 'hack'. He goes for a back-hand grab inexplicably and caroms the ball into shallow LF. That has to be gathered clean when your relief arm is mired in a meltdown. He continues to botch routine plays while a certain young man hasn't received a single opportunity at 2B since his call-up. 8-4 T-Rats trail.

Now, these are soft hits, mind you. 

AND, Dinges back pick airmails a throw into RF. Amazing. Another run crosses. Nicasia over runs it. They manage to miraculously get the runner at home plate. 

That inning is this 2025 second half T-Rats quagmire in a nutshell. Lazy sloppy play and a whole lot of bad luck intermingled with the ugly.

[biedergb]

And Lara just missed a double (or triple given his speed) as the grounder is like an inch off 3rd base line.  The next pitch he hits right at Gregory Barrios who tosses to Areinamo and he throws to first to get the fast Lara. End of inning. Dang it. 

TRats down 9-4 heading to bottom of 9.

Shuckers squander some great chances in extras. 

And Brewers lose a 1-run game (they still play the bad teams poorly this year, I mean they win but just not enough).

Rough evening with the Mudcats win the sole highlight so far.

[Joseph Zarr]

Seriously, the amount of absurdly sloppy unforced miscues throughout the Brewers system in the second half has been nauseating. That T-Rats 9th inning summed it up in a nutshell. Your uber-talented blue chippers just making one gaffe after the next. I'm honestly surprised Dinges held onto the accurate throw at the dish from Made on the relay throw. That T-Rats team is every inch of 19 games under 0.500. They are a complete quagmire of a watch. Heavy hitting prospects or not they are not a good team. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Naturally, the Biscuits execute. Beautiful piece of hitting. Infield in. 0-2 count. Reach poke shallow liner into RF for the walk-off. 

This cumulate second half record is what it is because we have deserved to lose with the quality of play. It's as simple as that. A failure to execute for the most part. It's really rough. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Now, if the T-Rats Social team was ready to up-level there already immense Minor League Social prowess...they'd give us a condensed Home highlight package of that ninth inning put to the Benny Hill Theme Song Music. That'd really put some salve on the wounds of watching them this entire second half. 😅

[markedman5]

 

[Joseph Zarr]

OK. Time to write a Minor League report and tone down my frustrations from that viewing circus. Time to find the positives and lighten up my overarching negative sentiments 😅. Gotta sift through a lot of weeds tonight. But, as always, there are positive notes throughout. 

Sounds are trying to come back from a game long deficit with two aboard and one down in the 9th. Cameron is in a 2-2 count. They trail 8-5. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Hey now. Cameron worked an 0-2 count to a walk. Bases juiced. AND, the red hot Raynel Delgado (with three more pokes tonight!) is up to the plate. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Delgado follows Cameron and fights off several very tough pitches for fouls in an 0-2 count. He then works the walk to score a run. Man, he is seeing the ball so incredibly well right now. 8-6 Sounds trail. One down. Bases still juiced. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Haase is the man of the hour. He ropes a hard hit liner to 3B and gets the favorable short hop at the 3B backing up as it caroms up and over his right shoulder into LF. Two score. We. Are. Tied. We have a chance to walk it off. One down. 1st and 3rd. Clutch Man Freddy Zamora is at the dish. King of the clutch single. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Delgado tries to tag on a bloop fly to very shallow RF. It was a reasonable attempt given the circumstances and the flat footed catch. But, the throw was good and very accurate. He was gunned down by a good three feet. Ball was there just as he was getting into the slide. We have more Xtras. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Of Note:

Chourio and Hoskins have indeed stayed into Extra Innings. They are at that stage of their rehab. The Big Club obviously needs their talents and their bodies to ease the ongoing crunch with injuries. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Oh man, Liranzo had two down. A bloop flare single scored one. An infield single to 3B on a weakly hit roller got two aboard. Two down. 3-2 count. Hard hit triple just inside the first base line down into the RF corner. 

Delgado's choice to try for that tag looks like it has come to haunt them - the Sounds are thin on pitching as is. Liranzo guts out a 38 pitch two-inning outing. He gets the hard ground out back to the mound. The Sounds will trail 11-8 in the Bottom of the 10th. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Chourio plays the top of the 10th on defense. He is PH for in the bottom half. Drew Avans will try to do some damage with runners on the corners. Hoskins, however, does appear to be in the on deck circle. Meanwhile, because the Sounds literally have no more available relievers...Cy Kahle is warming up in the bullpen. Amazing. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Avans has walked. The door is once again open for the Sounds. Rhys Hoskins will come to the dish. 11-8 deficit. One down. Bases juiced. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Sac Fly to RF. 11-9 deficit.