BA Dishes Up Some Veal - 07/11

[CubsWin]

The 21-year-old Cubs lefthander hadn't allowed an earned run in 18 2/3 innings entering Monday since being promoted to high Class A Daytona from the Midwest League. He stretched that streak to 24 1/3 with five scoreless innings Monday before Vero Beach finally scraped together a run in the sixth.

 

"To come up to this league and put together that type of streak is tremendous," Bailey told the paper of Veal's scoreless stretch.

 

Just an excerpt. If you want to read the rest, here's the link...

[JWCUB]

The 21-year-old Cubs lefthander hadn't allowed an earned run in 18 2/3 innings entering Monday since being promoted to high Class A Daytona from the Midwest League. He stretched that streak to 24 1/3 with five scoreless innings Monday before Vero Beach finally scraped together a run in the sixth.

 

"To come up to this league and put together that type of streak is tremendous," Bailey told the paper of Veal's scoreless stretch.

 

Just an excerpt. If you want to read the rest, here's the link...

 

Sounds like a promising Lefty. :D

[Brian]

and Jeremy Papelbon is mentioned in the quick hits

 

Jeremy Papelbon earned the win for Boise as he threw 2 2/3 innings of one-hit relief. So far this season, Papelbon is 2-0, 0.00 with 2 saves and has 17 strikeouts in 14 innings.