Oh Yerlin. My Sweet Prince. I pray you find your Princess some day and rule your pitching kingdom with poise and savvy. As for now? You are searching for what it means to be a King. He gives up the lead. AND, just walked a runner aboard. Also has a WP. Ugh.
Oh BOY.
Just remember, folks. I was asking for you to join my Areinamo bandwagon over a year ago when y'all were worrying about his swing pattern and lack of power.
AND, as I said then and as I still say today: toss those concerns in the trash. This young man is built different!
WHEW BABY! T Rats lead after his 3-Run BLAST.
Man that Cornielle feel good story fell back to Earth fast. Really hoping he isn't playing through injury and this is just a lull. His pitches have really flattened out over the past two outings - very little movement of any kind. Lots of prolonged 'sitting there' look and results.
Man, it is really a shame the Muddies couldn't capitalize and steal that Dub last night. Really a shame. It was right there in regulation. Just couldn't get that next poke. Today's start is Delayed due to weather it would appear.
We shall see. His primary offering is that curveball. The slider is a sprinkler and might get some swings on that swooping movement. I haven't heard a speed call from Chris but that heater has some late movement and I am feeling more 91 mph on that pitch but you were there. We'll have to track it. His build is uncannily similar to Higuera. Also, and I can't verify this but I could swear I saw him throw two change-ups.
7-up and 7-down before Bitonti botched a routine grounder for an Error. In those first 7 batters faced, he had one mistake breaking ball belt high and in that was hit for a hard out to the tip of the LF warning track. Curve ball is a realllly nice pitch.
Meanwhile, the DSL Cerveceros Dos are absolutely spanking the DSL Astros Orange 15-4 as they head to the bottom of the 9th. They've broken away with 11 runs over the final four innings and there certainly appears to be some classic DSL pitching meltdown items on the Orange Ledger: 12 BB, 4 WP, and 2 HB. 6-of-15 Crew Dos runs have not been accounted for by bats.
The DSL Brewers Uno exchanged 4-spots in the top of the 8th frame of Xtras. Wild. They then conceded what was ultimately the winning run on a throwing error from SS Luis Pena (just his 2nd of his season) after runners on 1st and 2nd had advanced via a WP just before. Pena then grounded out to 3B with runners on the corners and two down in the bottom of the 9th. They lose a tough one to the DSL Rojos in what ended up 9 innings - 2 innings of Xtras - 8-7. They entered those Xtras knotted 3-3.
DSL Brewers #1 are tied 3-3 and headed to Xtras (scheduled 7-inning game). Made lined out to SS with a man on 3rd and two down in the bottom of the 7th. They had the opening two runners on 1st and 2nd before Santiesteban hit into a DP.
One has to think, regardless of Ashby's shoulder recovery year, the constant regression to zero control outing-to-outing (with so few sustained bright spots) he will be a DFA candidate sooner than later. I know you've brought this up a couple times, Jim. AND, man, with each successive outing like this it becomes more likely by the day. 😔
Welcome back 2B Mike Boeve. Heck of a night in just his, what, second game back? Third?
3-for-4, 3 RBI, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 HR. Yeah, we'll take that for the first place Shuckers babayyyyyyyyy.
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