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His approach tonight seems better than last week when I watched him last. Shuckers offense almost showing small pulse of life

Cornielle is at 87 pitches. I wonder if they just sit him. High pitch count, and he is leading and got out of the inning with a K Or do they put him back for 5, hoping for a low pitch count inning- I don’t think is 90-100+ pitch-time in minor league outings.

And Cornielle ties his professional high of 11 Ks. first 10 outs were via the K. Then a pop up to Adams and no error. Then another K am I crazy for almost wanting Adam’s to misplay the ball just so all the outs could have been K. 😜

Finally watched some mudacts and watched the innings of holobetz. Seems to have velo as Chris mentioned 94 and said he had issue with velocity. Seemed to struggle with command. Nice to see some of these guys actually play. I’ll watch more later.

Cornielle. Looking sharp. Only 4 hits, but the errors allowed the run. 3 IP. So that’s 9 outs. And of those he has 9 K. Wow. Not dominant since they have hit it. But all outs via K. Fastball up to 94.

That's great to hear. It looked lively but I only heard it stated during the broadcast twice as 94. He seemed to command it well (located it in upper zone reliably), but the other offerings looked like they need more refinement but again this is from someone who can't recognize pitches well and really has no understanding the movement/shape data, but I am so glad a lot of you do.

It does look and plays well up. Not sure his velocity but the announcer stated 94 mph twice. So not sure if that’s max, so not quite 96+ that Wichrowski has thrown. Hardin’s offspeed stuff looks like it needs time to be effective. But the high heat was his bread and butter.

He is the star of that operation for sure. I'm hoping a bunch of our players become stars this summer, but Javik right now is the reason to watch Shuckers at the moment.

That camera is funny - is anyone else just so used to now tilting your head to the left when you watch Biloxi games lol And yeah that audio is trip. I hear the "hears the pitch and the ball is..." while the pitch is being delivered. So you wait to see what is happening while the description happens - it's the virtual reality of having gameday on while watching the games (gameday is usually 1-2 pitches ahead of the live game feeds).

Watched Hardin. He works quick. He is primarily fastball, and works up in the zone. A few calls by the announcer for 94 mph, and another that was 89 - maybe it was a cutter or change? His slider was erratic and I think 2 of the hits were off sliders. Only a few hard hit balls, as one of the basehits was a dribbler between 1B and pitcher and 2B and Burke made a nice fielding play and flip from his glove but the runner beat it out. The biggest hit was his last out only a few feet away from a home run. But Hardin looked sharp and impressive again. Definitely a high zone fastball that the batters could not get to is his main pitch.

Watched most of the Mudcats game - really focused on the pitching side. Travis Smith seems to have some good stuff, but his command was not sharp again. He can be dialed like he was for his first two batters, but then it eludes him. But he must have enough to make do and get the outs, as he not walked any so far. The announce did report two fastballs at 93, and the effort seems easy so I imagine he can sit there, or may have more velocity with more effort, but he needs to reign in the command I think. I was impressed again with Sam Garcia. His delivery is deceptive and everything looks faster. What I liked is when he has bouts of control, he finds it within a few pitches. He gave up really the one hard hit ball for a HR. One of the "doubles" was a misplay in RF (between Alastre and Adamczewski), and the other double was opposite way grounder/liner down 3rd base line. Dinges looks very athletic behind the plate, but to my untrained eye needs work on the glove. He is good and did stop/catch a lot of pitches that missed, but the run scoring wild pitch could have been blocked better and he did lose track of a couple of balls that he stopped. But I still see a catcher there. And his bat seems quick in the few at bats I've watched of his so far. Made seems very confident at the plate, and hopefully his swings will lead to more hits. He has good range and solid glove but his throws are not consistent, as he made 3 that were not great. While Pena has the hands at the plate so that is good, but he can chase a little more. Also defensively at 3rd has a good glove, but his throws are also off, as he made a great stab when infield was in to prevent a XBH, but the throw was bounced and to the right of Dinges so he had no chance to get the runner home. Bang bang play but a solid throw and he is out. Seppings was solid. All his pitches move, and I don't know if he throws only breaking ball, or his fastballs move too. Again I stink at pitch recognition, but he definitely has movement on his pitches but not wild. Overall solid game for the Muddies. You can see the talent and the youth. But they are not wild, but have things to work on which is what you would expect from 17-20 year olds mostly in their first year of full season professional baseball. Adamczewski and Payne definitely stand out defensively and at the plate as mature and I can envision them moving up by end of season if I were to predict based upon about a week of baseball (then I need to remind myself that there were many players who looked amazing the first few weeks last year too).

Alright. Solid win and good timely hits by the Mudcats. This win doesn’t happen with Tanner Gillis. Came in a through 5 shutout innings after Meccage and Reyes struggled in the first 2 innings. He got 5K, and only 4 hits. That offense was off balance against him. Adamaczewski with the heads up play on the double play in a bases loaded 1-out scenario is extras in the 10th. Hit right to him and he knew what to do - no panic. Even the announcer was confused as he thought the runner was called out on interference, but it was a quick tag and a quick throw, no room for error and he did it to keep it tied. Then gets the first lead in the 11th. Blayberg Diaz had the grounder force out to score it and looks like Langhorne went 3 up and 3 down to close it out. This team has immense talent, fun players and pitchers, and a game like this where you have to will yourself to win is a nice sign.

Gonna call it a night. Muddies get a run across in the 12th. Hoping they can close it out here.

And a double just smoked to left center and it’s tied again. Runner on 2nd one out bottom 11.

Adamczewski big double to RF to give them the lead.

Wow. Soft grounder to Adamczewski and he causally tags the runner and flips to 1st. Wow. Heads up. Most go to home, and he may not have had a chance. But run into the runner and flip to first. Double play. Great play!

Trouble brewing. Muddies unable to even move the runner over. Langhorne now in. A grounder to 1st that eats up Bitonti (he’s struggled after we gave him some compliments earlier). A big out then a HBP. Bases juice one out 8-8 bottom 10.

Broca freezes the Pelicans hottest hitter Mathis with a breaking ball on the lower outer corner of the zone. And we are off to Extras. 8-8. Wild game. 5 innings of nothing in between eventful 1st/2nd and 8th/9th.

Wild game in Myrtle Beach. 8-7 lead bottom of the 9th. HBP. Single into RF and runners on the corners. A single dropped into LF. And the run scores. Tie game 8-8. Still no out. Broca not dolling these guys and now a little. Nearly hitting the batter. But gets a huge K. One out. ‘Let’s get to extras please?

And Broca came in and with a walk a couple hard hits. It’s now 8-7. Muddies still lead. Not what they needed there.

MADE first stateside hit is a 3 run HR. Wow. Just cleared the LF wall, in the corner. Didn’t get it all but his power gets it out of here!!

Midendorf comes on an closes it out Nashville. Sounds win Nadal draws a walk in the 8th.

Can’t say enough about Tanner Gillis. 5 innings of shutout relief. Not dominant. His offspeed stuff had them off balance, but got outs. Worked around a Bitonti error and a hit and wild pitch still even 5-5 after 7 complete.

For all the fireworks of 10 runs in the first 2 innings, a pitching duel broke out in Myrtle Beach now. 5-5 still on to the 7th. Meanwhile Wilken up for the Shuckers in the 9th. Can’t hit a 5 run HR with no one on. So he strikes out. Ugh. Sounds cruising still. Bottom 8, and a 7-1 lead for the Sounds.

Wow. Line drive to Peña and then the toss to first. Line out DP. hard hit EV 107. But a loud hard hit out.