Joseph Zarr
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Chourio grounds out weakly to deep SS. He is thrown out by a few steps. 4-for-23 in the series now. The struggle is real: the young man was over-amped and nearly offered at a slider 4 feet off the plate and in the dirt in the first pitch of the AB. The current run of AB's just doesn't lie. By Chourio's standards, he is mired in a mini-funk. We're going to need more if the Shuckers have thoughts of usurping Montgomery at Home. -
Four pitch walk to Sparks (and the Birmingham announcer is somehow still a batter ahead thinking it's Collins -he catches his error and is very good-spirited about it) and Collins is to the dish. Men on 1st and 2nd. Nobody out. Collins fails to get a bunt down the line and pops out in foul territory for the first out. That hurts. Chourio now to the dish. One down. Two men on. Meanwhile Gardner worked around a man on first getting a line out to EBJ at SS and then a swinging K. 3-2 T-Rats and we are onto the bottom of the 8th.
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Ethan Murray just led off the 9th by smashing a double in the exact location Sparks smashed his HR ball in the 7th. Huge AB's. Let's see if Sparks can send him home.
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Meeker gets a very generous strike 3 call on the very dangerous Edgar Quero on a heater that looked to me just high and outside. Who cares? Let's go! 😅 On to the top of the 9th. These are the big money innings. Heck of a job by Meeker working around that jam.
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Zamora just made the play of the game. He took a short-hopped chopper to shallow SS behind the mound and fired a very accurate dart to Clarke at home plate back away from his body. Zamora makes this play look way too easy. This just in: that play is ridiculously hard to make. AND, Clarke then asleep at home plate during a delayed steal airmails the throw to 2B into shallow CF and they have a runner back on 3B. That can't happen. Yikes. Two down, at least. But, sheesh, Clarkesy just eat the ball!
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Sac fly to deep RF. Man on 3rd base. One down. The very dangerous Wilfred Veras to the dish.
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Meeker gave up a second pitch double down the 1B line. Nobody out. Man on 2nd. 4-3 Shuckers. (Bites nails)
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EBJ walk. Lara 3-2 triple. Paydirt. 3-2 T-Rats baby. EBJ also took 2nd base for his 37th steal on the first pitch.
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Meanwhile in Wisconsin, RHP Sam Gardner has run into a bit of trouble with a two out walk and single to left CF. Men on 1st and 2nd with two down. 2-2 ball game. Top of the 7th. He gets a 2-2 check swing called for a 'K'. On to the bottom half. Still 2-2.
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Three pitch K (strike 3 on a slider in the dirt - noice, we'll take it!). Another K swinging - that's now five straight Barrons K'd between Bowman and Meeker. Two down. A first pitch line out to Rodriguez in RF. We are on to the 8th. 4-3 Shuckers.
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Earlier tonight, RHP Tobias Myers set the Shuckers single season strikeout record:
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Collins is thrown out at 2B (heck of a play by the Barrons' Womack tagging Collins) and Clarke goes down looking. On to the bottom of the 7th. Shuckers lead 4-3.
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Collins walks on 5 pitches. Chourio to the dish. 4-for-21 in the series but does have a triple tonight. Let's find some magic, Jackson! He K's looking on a questionable outside slider - looked just off the plate to me. BUT, he had an absolute meatball slider dead center early in the count but his swing was a mess and he fouled it off while falling apart. He is not dialed at present. All we can hope for, at present, is he finds his best stuff leading into the final series. 4-for-22 in the series.
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How about a OF Lamar Sparks 3-0 rocket over the RF wall?!? 4-3 baby. Let's go Shuckers!!! That linedrive left in a hurry. Whewwwww. If there was ever a batter to give himself a green light on a 3-0 count it's Lamar Sparks and I love it!!!
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Another very solid RHP Tobias Myers start - that's now three straight. 5 IP, 2 H, 3 BB, 9 K, 2 ER. Shuckers lead 3-2 - they've outhit Birmingham 7-to-2. RHP Kaleb Bowman will try to protect the lead here in the 6th frame. AND, he gives up a solo jack facing his first batter. That's the 2nd HR Bowman has allowed in the past two outings. Ouch. 3-3. Nobody down. Sighs. And, lo and behold, Montgomery leads Memphis 6-3 in the 9th frame. This is close to a must win game tonight for the Shuckers.
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Brewers (Miley) vs Yankees (King): 9/9/23, 1:05pm
Joseph Zarr replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Archived Game Threads
Absolutely in pain the Crew took another at the Yankees' house. Couldn't happen to a more likable team and fanbase. Oh, the Cubs lost too? How terrible. Just impossible to sleep tonight. -
Misc. Minor League Alumni News & Notes
Joseph Zarr replied to Jim Goulart's topic in Brewers Minor League Talk
A lot of really good baseball players struggle to get those call-ups or consistent PT at the MLB level and spend years battling it out at the Triple-A level. It is such an arduous journey. C Jakson Reetz was a big part of my 2022 'Hype Train' with his incredible season for the Shuckers in 2022. He got the late call-up to Nashville but was deep down the catcher depth chart. He played in the Kansas City system since August of 2022, elected Free Agency at the end of that season and then signed back with Kansas City. He was released in mid-June of this summer (as we know, this is often contractually given as an option to the Minor Leaguers or an agreement with the team so a player can land in a better spot - ie OF David Dahl last season by every observable measure or INF Eddy Alvarez this year) when he latched on with San Francisco's Sacramento Triple-A affiliate. He's had another solid season at the dish with a 0.901 OPS and 17 HR knocks in just 248 combined AB's. I continue to wish him nothing but the best. -
Misc. Minor League Alumni News & Notes
Joseph Zarr replied to Jim Goulart's topic in Brewers Minor League Talk
Seeing all these 2022 Sounds having fantastic seasons in the MLB and MiLB levels has me all kinds of nostalgic for that team and that season. Here's a clip of INF/OF Utility man extraordinaire, Weston Wilson, setting the Lehigh Valley season HR record at Buffalo. Wilson is indeed a big reason LV is tied with Durham atop the International League leaderboard pushing for a coveted three-game match-up with with the first half champion Norfolk Tides. -
Just a reminder to any and all interested fans: Game 5 Biloxi @ Birmingham is indeed the FREE MiLB.TV 'Game of the Day'. Check in for a free viewing as they look to take a game back in their race against the Rays' Montgomery Biscuits.
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I really don't know. Given his age, I hope it's a classic concentration issue. If it's depth perception that's obviously a whole other topic. I can't speak to it as an expert as I'm not in the clubhouse or on the practice field. All I know is even prior to these past two drops, he's had drops issues since Carolina. I certainly don't think it's a case of the 'y***' but it happens enough for my viewing to be 'concerned'. He has a solid arm from out there but the glove just has not been clean stateside. That's really all I can say at this juncture - with the obvious addendum he is only 19 years of age and all of these players go through ups-and-downs in their trials and travails as professional players. But, defense is enough of a concern for me at present where in my eyes he is playing himself into a strict RF'er; he has really struggled in LF; and his bat hasn't evolved enough (when healthy, obviously) in 2023 to warrant just tossing it to the wayside. Loads of talent. Still young. Struggling to put it together. BUT, really, he hasn't played enough baseball. It will be very interesting if he spends time in the AFL. AND, how he performs defensively if he is sent down to the SW. As with all the young guys, I will keep rooting for their development success.
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OK. It's now to the point where we need to acknowledge: OF Hendry Mendez has a basic catching the ball issue in the outfield grass. He can't be dropping these routine pop flies like he is doing and expect to keep getting regular playing time. He hung his team out to dry in Ashby's start with a two-base routine drop and error in the fateful first inning. He nearly cost his team the game on Saturday by allowing the run to score from 2nd base on another extremely routine pop fly to right CF. He has to catch these balls or he is going to ultimately find himself in the doghouse. You can have all the talent in the world (and, Mendez has loads of talent in that baseball frame) but consistent routine mistakes are going to see you plummet down the depth charts. 3 errors in LF in just 11 GS is an ugly line for an outfielder - 0.842 FP% (yikes) 5 errors in RF in 44 GS - 0.932 FP% Defense is, unfortunately, a very real issue here.
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Two-Year runing double oddities in the Brewers Minor Leagues at present: RHP Alexander Cornielle will get shutdown hot at the tail end of the season. 1B Jesus Chirinos will get scorching hot right around his late July birthday and it will carry through the end of the season.
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You win 10 straight and you only gain a game. And then you lose that game by losing your first game in 11?! Yes. That's the nature of the Southern League second half pennant chase. Montgomery is going to be a handful and then some for that final home stand. The Shuckers likely need to take these last two just to stay 1.5 GB and hope they can gain a game back. The Biscuits are rising up at the end of the season and, it's hard to believe, are playing even more winning baseball (at present) than the Shuckers. It's hard to fathom how good this homestretch has been between the two teams. The bullpen, unfortunately, was due for an unfortunate 'meltdown' given their torrid output over that same 10 game win streak. The question I have, over these final 8 games, is: When are we going to see CF Jackson Chourio assert himself? He has been awfullllllly quiet offensively in Birmingham. His team needs him to be the superstar he is if they are to grab this playoff birth. Let's hope he can rekindle some heat in that bat to help the Shuckers get to the podium.
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Well, if they are going to blow one they may as well blow it in vintage Shuckers bullpen fashion. That's my take.
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The Shuckers just tied it up 1-1 in the 4th inning after Ethan Murray doubled to bring home Freddy Zamora. Isaac Collins was HBP. And Chourio lined out to RF. I believe Chourio is now 2-for 15 in the series? That was possibly a key miss. Montgomery trailed 3-0 headed to the 4th inning. They now lead 5-3 in the bottom of the 6th.
