C Matt Wood looks fantastic tonight. Just poked an oppo single down the LF line. Really nice piece of hitting. Managing a great game. Had a ripped double earlier. Hard to see a better version.
Tobias Myers has a successful healthy 45 pitch 3/13 scoreless rehab outing. Positive step. He didn't fully unleash but he was touching 94 mph and looked healthy. You love to see it. LHP Tyler Jay will likely come on in relief.
Sounds match the Redbirds and strand two on with nobody out in their own half of the third frame. Yuck. EMJ force out to 2B nabbed Monasterio at Home leaving on contact. Alfaro struck out. Herron grounded out to 2B. 2-0 Sounds on to the 4th.
Tobes saw two walks to open his frame in the third. Double steal barely succeeds at 3B (bang-bang - just safe). He gets the shallow fly out to RF. Runners stay. He gets the shallow pop out to 2B. Line out to RF. Zero runs.
THis night of Brewers Minor League baseball keeps on giving.
With Mendoza clearly running out of gas approaching 80 pitches in the fourth he had two runners aboard and one down. Jheremy Vargas just charged and scooped a line drive single into shallow LF and threw the runner out at home with a really nice piece of work by Darrien Miller to go up line and corral the ball and reach back and tag the runner at home. Beautiful assist.
Eduardo Garcia legitimately just had the best AB I've seen him have as a Brewer. A 9 pitch 3-2 bloop 2-out RBI single. Glorious. Laid off a 2-2 inside low slider. Fouled one off. Blooped one in there. Just so great to see.
Clarke just ripped a double down the RF wall. Now we have men on the corners (missed what happened there). Spain goes down looking. Two down. 2-0 Sounds.
EBJ with his second RISP opportunity of his night. He lined out to 2B earlier. He swings and misses on two early sliders. Massive hacks. Works the count 2-2. Rips a gorgeous RBI single into LF through the 3B/SS gap. 3-0 Shuckers. Atta boy!!
What do I mean? Watch his first AB in the bottom of the 2nd inning.
I just watched Luke Adams strike out and I'm unsure if he took his bat off his shoulders. A classic Luke Adams AB. 😅
Oliva with a gorgeous charging diving catch to get Tobes his first out on a bloop top of 2. Tobes K's the next batter up and just off the corner of the zone. Two down.
I'm loathe to speak so soon, but I do tend to be out in front of these things as a general rule on our board:
I think we may absolutely have a diamond in the rough in Mendoza. He has tools to work with here that if harnessed and evolved could really turn into something. I see the vision. Really nice off-speed stuff to work off his sinker. Where I'm not quite sold in this early early outing and first time seeing him is the four-seamer. That's where the work seems to need to be picked up. He has 6 K through 2 1/3 IP. And these are swings and misses, folks.
@MudcatsfaninBrunsCO: Feel free to post those Mudcats updates as they roll in. I'm going to focus in on the games I can watch. Any and all updates are appreciated so have at it if you feel so inclined!
AND, I swear to you, just as I typed that Burke picks off a liner toward 1B and doubles off the runner off 1B. I'm just saying: this young man is more than a power bat. It's abundantly obvious. He is very clearly a baseball player.
I'm telling you prospect 'experts' really don't know what they're talking about a lot of the time when it comes to the Brewers prospects. I find this year-in and year-out. Dykstra just undersold Areinamo's defense again in the T-Rats pod today. AND, I overwhelmingly hear Blake Burke can't play defense. Hogwash. That man has hands. He's made tow very good plays in four games I was told he shouldn't be able to make. He's a much better and more nimble athlete at first base than given credit for. This much is clear early.
Well, we had video through two batters. Weird to see it cut out like that. BUT, yeah, the highlight of my viewing evening has ended. I am Mudcats all night every night. Most entertaining game-by-game action by a hefty margin.