35 combined strikeouts in Carolina's 3-1 loss. Judging by hitter reactions it might have been the biggest strike zone since Greg Maddux was in Atlanta.
Nashville working a bit of a rally here in the 8th inning. Patrick Dorrian to the plate. Can he break out of his April slump? He's currently 1-42 in April.
Lots of strike outs looking in Carolina tonight. The camera angle isn't very good, but a lot of the hitters did not look pleased at the strike 3 calls on both teams. Yophery in particular looks like he had to bite his tongue.
Do they contemplate sending Ashby to AA or would they just send him to the complex league to work on stuff? Can't be good for a guys confidence to struggle this much in AAA.
So MiLB.com had Letson listed as the SP today for most of the week. Now Jesus Rivero is listed as the SP and Letson isn't listed for the rest of the series. Hopefully Letson is just second half of the piggy back this week. Birchard already went down with an injury. Don't want to see it happen to another young ranked pitcher.
They all had pretty low pitch counts and were on multiple days rest coming in. It’d be pretty concerning if they weren’t able to turn around and be available tomorrow. Pitches in the last 5 days from tomorrow’s perspective
Peguero - 26
Megill - 16
Payamps - 20
Bullpen should be pretty fine for tomorrow.
I'd bet Payamps, Megill, Peguero, Uribe, Milner, Vieira are all available. Hudson is the only guy who likely is totally unavailable.
Rea and Ross both average 5 IP a start, so that's not quite accurate. It's pretty risky bringing a guy whose stretched for 4 innings and 50 pitches up for an MLB start. 1 bad inning and you might get a 2 inning start from him.
They should definitely give him a shot, but he's not even re-stretched out yet. He threw 4.1 innings and 49 pitches today. Give him another start to bump those up to 5 and 75.
That's a rough 8th inning all around for Adams. First a CS in the top of the inning that ultimately was the reason add on runs weren't scored then an error in the bottom half that tied the game up.
The Bats broadcast said that the Sounds do not believe Hicklen will need to go on the IL. Pretty incredible news seeing how much pain he was in yesterday.