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Also @sveumrules: How impressived is Crow-Armstrong covering the CF grass? My goodness he made two utterly ridiculously difficult plays look 100% routine. The Miller sliding grab? My goodness. Tracking the deep bomb yesterday at the nook at 395 in deep left center? Also, unfair. He's a special talent. I also like that he clearly plays with a bit of 'anger' or a 'chip on his shoulder' type of in-your-face aggressiveness. Man, I'd love to pair him with Tyler Black. -
I'm just saying because, well, I've been just saying: You can very very credibly say Brice Turang is the Brewers best prospect today. He is just so dang good and so dang consistent with an evolving approach at the plate. I mean this completely whole-heartedly. There is more flash across the system, sure. BUT, nobody plays as day-in and day-out as Turang. And, his athleticism is vastly underrated.
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Couldn't agree more on all points. Glad we were watching the same contests - I hope you had a blast! Nothing more intense than a bases loaded 2022 Minor League game in the bottom of the ninth inning and the infield umpire calls a pitch clock violation for an auto-ball to start you at 1-0 eh? Sheeeeesh.
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RHP James Meeker does NOT flinch. Man, I love this young man's moxy. He takes on an extremely difficult situation in the ninth inning. Gets charged an auto-ball. Strikes two men down at the top of the order to close it out 5-2 with the bases forkin' juiced! It should be noted: Jeferson Quero can catch the he** out of the ball. He saved a sure-fire up and in wild pitch with absolute ease. He owned the situation as well. Let's go! T-Rats win and lead the series 2-1.
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So, the Sounds outhit the Stripers 9-1 in Game 1 and lose 3-2 in extras. Glorious. The Sounds finish 3-15 with RISP. Wiemer maintains the status quo of his mega-slump going 0-for-4. Nothing like Manfred's man on second base to start the 8th inning. LOL. All the Stripers and Sounds seem to know is one-run games. Since they began playing each other in 2021 on the regular: 21 one-run games. 11 in 2022. The sounds are 4-3 in these games in 2022.
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Oh sweet Mammy Pappy! RHP Logan Henderson opened up tonight's contest for the ACL Brewers Blue: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 BB, 3 K
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In a classic example of: the batting line does absolutely not always tell the story, I've seen Felix Valerio absolutely rope four outs in two nights. Extremely well-hit balls. Popping off the bat. Directly into the shift or at an opponent. Sometimes, you simply have to trust that process and keep at it. The young man can absolutely rake. This is the best contact we've seen in a spell. I trust those will eventually find the grass.
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Followed by Warren to left field. 4-1 now. That's 3 sacrifice flies and a wild pitch to plate the four runs. Love to see it!
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Crow-Armstrong is so athletic it hurts. Such a weapon in CF. He ran down a ball at the warning track to deep left center last night too and, just as with this sliding catch, he made it look SO easy. Ridiculously gifted.
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It's been mostly a scuffle. He made nice contact on a fly out to the CF warning track and grabbed his first hit last night but he's having a hard time getting out of his way at 3B at present. He's probably pressing and I truly don't want this to be perceived as a definitive comment whatsoever - he was literally just drafted. But, I am unimpressed with the arm, I have to admit. He'll need to be super-clean or improve the velocity on the throw or he simply hasn't unleashed the arm as of yet. He seems a bit of a soft-tosser if I'm being honest. Warren, for example, has quite a bit more velocity when the ball leaves his hand. Edit to Add: This probably has more to do, at present, with the fact Ernesto Martinez is still rehabbing in the ACL (which is awesome) and Ashton McGee and Wes Clarke are both nicked up. My personal opinion is he'll be sent down to Low-A when that resolves itself.
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Gasser bounces back with a 1-2-3 inning. Bookended with a first pitch weak ground-out and a strikeout. Man, his slider/splitter combo are nasty. Those pitches are going to play real nice as he matures. He threw the first slider I've seen to a lefty starting in and winding up over the middle of the dish - I'd say he added a good 5-10 mph on the pitch too.
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And, who other than Cam Devanney to turn quickly on a fastball and yank it into left field. He sends home Monasterio and he hits his 25th double of his season moving into a tie in 5th place for the Southern League Doubles Leaderboard.
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I find myself legitimately asking: Is Darrien Miller a lead-off hitter?!? He just walked again to open tonight's contest. Good stuff.
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Robert Gasser does not have his best stuff whatsoever in this first inning. He now has 3 BB's and a double down the left field line. Shuckers trail 1-0 and the bases are juiced with one down. He's approaching a 30 + pitch first inning. He does have a K and has Hunter Jr. down 1-2. AND, he escapes getting the strikeout and then a weak dribbler to Valerio. That's what you love to see when a young stud is struggling to find the zone!
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I mean, I'm not kidding on Home Plate umpire Matt Winter in Nashville: he just had a Striper hitter toss his bat to the dugout twice thinking he had walked - on a 3-1 pitch and then a 3-2 pitch. Given how he's called the game, well, they might have been strikes? LOL. This batter was tossed and the Striper skipper quickly went to discuss the aftermath. Yikes.
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The Stripers score their first run on what I would proclaim was an error on Weston Wilson but it will be charged a throwing error to Brice Turang. Wilson was inexplicably slow to get to second base on the cover - taking a circuitous and unhurried route He then was forced to speed up at the last second when Turang threw to the second base bag. The ball flew past Wilson down the third base line. Jon Singleton tracked it down adeptly and threw a strike to home plate grabbing out number 3. It's 1-0 Stripers on to the bottom of the second inning. I absolutely did not and do not like home plate umpire, Matt Winter's strike zone. It's all over the place and wildly inconsistent. Both dugouts have been chirping. The Sounds are facing-off versus Braves #6 prospect, RHP Freddy Tarnok who is routinely touching 97-98 on the radar gun.
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Er merrrrr gerdddd, OF Hendry Mendez is leading off for the Mudcats in Game 2?!? Be still my heart, the young man is back on the diamond. Yes Sir! He will lead-off in the DH slot of the line-up. Upstart and rising prospect Jadher Areinamo will also be back at 3B and in the line-up.
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Esteury Ruiz is literally one of those batters who can drop down a bunt single during any AB. As he does here in the bottom of the first inning and as I've seen twice now in his short tenure with the Sounds. He is an excellent bunter - a skill I don't really see all that often at all anymore. Put it in the tool kit.
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The Mudcats manage to hand the Shorebirds their 8th consecutive loss and 7th shutout of the season. LHP Pablo Garabitos manages to work around base runners in several innings by going three up and three down in the ninth grabbing his third victory of his 2022 season (3-0 overall). All told his relief line will read: 5 IP, 4 H, 1 BB, 1 HBP, 4 K Mudcats maintain the 4-0 score taking it through the ninth inning and to their fourth straight 'W'.
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The Shuckers will look to take a 2-1 series tonight as up-and-coming lefty Ace Robert Gasser will make his second start for the Brewers Double-A club. Catcher Jason Lopez will call the game for the young hurler while we see their A-Squad throughout and elsewhere in the line-up. Can OF Corey Ray build off his fantastic 4-for-5 outing last night? Tune in and find out:
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I've seen him twice now, but, I'm here to tell y'all: Eric Brown Jr. has that 'It'. He has that confidence and swagger you look for. He has the build. He has the discipline at the plate and the smarts on the base paths. I really like this young man's game.
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We have another RHP Adrian Houser rehab start to begin the first of two games tonight in Nashville. We will see the tantalizing 1-3 top of the order with Frelick, Ruiz, and Turang. We'll see CF Joey Wiemer tonight as he returns to the line-up. C Alex Jackson again calls the game behind the dish and the every-ready and reliable Pablo Reyes and Weston Wilson will also swinging bats and flashing leather.
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The Mudcats are underway here in Delmarva still leading 4-0 as they picked up in the bottom-half of the fifth inning. The Delmarva pitcher just closed the top-half of the sixth inning striking out all three Mudcats - including recent draftee and promoted Alex Hall on a high heater. LHP Pablo Garabitos will begin his second inning of work here.
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That feeling you get when you realize LHP Robert Gasser is on the mound in Biloxi:
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Darrien Miller is back in the lead-off spot - do the T-Rats have something here? His free passes last night indicated they just may have their next lead-off man. C Jeferson Quero is back behind the dish and hoping to build off last night's first High-A hit. Metzinger, Piñero, and Acosta once again round out the infield from the hot corner on in as Zavier Warren continues filling in at first base. This is RHP Carlos F. Rodriguez's first start for Wisconsin and we're all hoping for big things for the 20-year-old hurler.
