Minor League Discussion & Boxes 7-3-2007

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Box Scores:

 

Iowa lost 7-6, box:

 

2B E. Patterson 1/5, R, 2 K

SS R. Cedeño 1/3, 2 R, HR (10), 3 RBI, 2 BB

RF M. Murton 0/4, BB, 2 K

1B G. Soto 3/4, 2B (18), RBI

CF B. Coats 1/3, R, BB, K

LF J. Kroeger 1/3, R, HR (3), 2 RBI, BB, K

SP L. Walrond 5.2 IP, 6 R, 4 ER, 9 H, 4 K/5 BB, HR, 9 GO-3 FO, 112 pitches (63 strikes)

RP C. Rapada 1 IP, 0 R, 1 H, 1 K/0 BB, 2 GO-0 FO, 17 pitches (11 strikes)

 

Tennessee lost 10-5, box:

 

RF S. Fuld 2/5, 2B (13), K, E (2, throw)

2B G. Cates 2/5, R, 2B (11), K

LF J. Fox 3/4, 2 R, 2 HR (16), 3 RBI, BB

CF T. Colvin 1/5, K

3B-1B M. Craig 2/4, R, 2B (16)

C C. Robinson 2/3, R, RBI, K

SP P. Schappert 3.2 IP, 9 R, 7 ER, 11 H, 1 K/1 BB, 3 GO-7 FO; hitting: 0/1

RP M. Avery 1 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 1 K/0 BB, 0 GO-2 FO

 

Daytona won a rain-shortened 5 inning game 1-0, box:

 

SS R. Chirinos 0/0, 2 BB, CS (5)

CF C. Amador 0/1, R, HBP, SB (2)

1B B. Dopirak 0/2, K

LF A. Garcia 2/2, RBI, CS (3)

RF J. Valdez 0/2, 2 K, OF assist at first base

SP G. Reinhard 5 IP, 0 R, 5 H, 3 K/1 BB, HBP, 4 GO-7 FO

 

Peoria won 15-3, box:

 

2B J. Mota 3/6, 2 R, 3 2B (15), 4 RBI

RF J. Adduci 3/6, R, HR (1), 3 RBI

3B J. Lansford 2/6, RBI

LF A. Joseph 1/4, 2 R, 2B (6)

DH B. Lalli 3/4, 2 R, 2B (5), 3 RBI

SS N. Samson 4/5, 3 R, 2 RBI

CF M. Camp 4/5, 3 R, 2B (14), 2 RBI, SB (29)

SP J. Mateo 5 IP, 3 ER, 7 H, 3 K/2 BB, HBP, 10 GO-2 FO

RP J. Papelbon 3 IP, 0 R, 2 H, 2 K/0 BB, 5 G-2 FO

 

Boise won 11-1, box:

 

SS D. Johnston 2/4, R, 2 2B (10), E (6, fielding)

CF J. Wyatt 2/4, R, 2 2B (2), RBI, 2 K

1B S. Clevenger 1/3, 2 RBI, BB, K

C J. Donaldson 2/4, 2 R, HR (1), 2 RBI, BB, K - first game at Boise / first pro HR

DH B. Mottram 1/4, R, 2B (1), 2 RBI, K, HBP

2B B. Moss 1/4, 2B (2), K

RF D. Rundle 2/3, 3 R, HR (1), 2 RBI, BB, K

SP D. Sasser 6 IP, 1 ER, 3 H, 5 K/0 BB, 7 GO-6 FO

RP J. Latham 1 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 3 K/0 BB

 

Mesa won 11-3, box:

 

CF L. Johnson 3/3, 2 R, 3B (3), 2 RBI, BB, SB (7)

DH R. Harvey 1/4, RBI, 2 K - rehab

1B J. Reyes 1/5, 2 R, 2 K

RF Nelson Perez 2/5, 2 R, 3B (2), HR (1), 2 RBI, 2 K, OF assist at first base (5)

3B J. Rosa 3/5, 3 R, 2B (1), 2 RBI, K

LF C. Andersen 2/4, R, K, E (1, fielding)

SS G. Guzman 1/4, R, 2 RBI, K, E (2, fielding)

SP A. Hempy 1.2 IP, 1 ER, 4 H, 1 K/1 BB, 4 GO-0 FO - pro debut (18th rounder from South Carolina)

RP S. Vento 1 IP, 0 R, 1 H, 0 K/0 BB, WP, 1 GO-2 FO

 

DSL Cubs vs. DSL Reds - no box

 

VSL Cubs/Twins lost to the VSL Devil Rays/Reds 8-4, box:

 

SS G. Matheus 1/5, BB, E (7, fielding)

RF K. Soto 0/4, BB, K, SB (9)

DH J. Guevara 0/3, R, 2 BB

C J. Bracho 0/2, K

SP E. Infante 5.2 IP, 3 ER, 7 H, 0 K/2 BB, 7 GO-10 FO

RP C. Rojas 1.2 IP, 1 ER, 3 H, 1 K/1 BB, HBP, 1 GO-1 FO

RP E. Figueroa 3 IP, 4 R, 2 ER, 2 H, 2 K/0 BB, HBP, 5 GO-2 FO

 

State-side: 4-2

Overall: 4-3

Edited July 4, 2007 by CaliforniaRaisin

[Guest]

Probable Starters:

 

Iowa: LHP Les Walrond (8-4, 4.86 ERA, 96.1 IP)

Tennessee: LHP Paul Schappert (Tenn: 3-3, 5.40 ERA, 58.1 IP; Overall: 3-3, 5.09 ERA, 63.2 IP)

Daytona: RHP Greg Reinhard (Daytona: 0-1, 3.63 ERA, 17.1 IP; Overall: 1-2, 4.02 ERA, 47 IP)

Peoria: RHP Juan Mateo (0-1, 7.15 ERA, 11.1 IP) – rehab

Boise: LHP Dustin Sasser (0-1, 3.86 ERA, 7 IP)

 

Walrond: 96.1 IP, 64 K/31 BB, .293 BAA

Schappert (Tenn): 58.1 IP, 26 K/18 BB, .274 BAA

Schappert (Iowa & Tenn): 63.2 IP, 29 K/21 BB, .278 BAA

Reinhard (Daytona): 17.1 IP, 11 K/7 BB, .258 BAA

Reinhard (Tenn & Daytona): 47 IP, 37 K/23 BB, .253 BAA

Mateo: 11.1 IP, 5 K/4 BB, .362 BAA

Sasser: 7 IP, 6 K/4 BB, .167 BAA

[baseball7897]

 

 

Peoria at Kane County, 6 pm CDT

 

 

 

I'll be there.

[Guest]

LHP Arik Hempy (17th rounder from South Carolina) is making his pro debut and getting the start for Mesa.

[NCCubFan]

LHP Arik Hempy (17th rounder from South Carolina) is making his pro debut and getting the start for Mesa.

Slugger will probably be interested in this since she's a huge USC fan.

[UK1679666180]

 

 

Peoria at Kane County, 6 pm CDT

 

 

 

I'll be there.

 

I might make it tomorrow, we'll see about the weather as I'll be in a hot air balloon in the morning and it's supposed to storm tomorrow.

[CubColtPacer]

Jake Fox with 2 HR and 4 RBI already through 3 innings.

 

Colvin 1-2

[ChiefsVoice]

12 run 4th for the Chiefs....

[questionmarkgrace]

any one knowanything about Leon Johnson? He seems to be doing very well in Mesa. Does he project to be anything? How was he in college?

[Guest]

Jake Fox with 2 HR and 4 RBI already through 3 innings.

 

Colvin 1-2

 

Fox an awful June, so that's good.

[CubColtPacer]

Jake Fox with 2 HR and 4 RBI already through 3 innings.

 

Colvin 1-2

 

Fox an awful June, so that's good.

 

Yeah, Schappert ran into trouble in the 4th though. Bases loaded, nobody out, 1 run already in. The next two batters get out on the infield fly rule. So now there's 2 outs, and 7 more runs come home to score before the inning is over, including a steal of home (and an error by Carlos Rojas in the middle of the rally didn't help).

[Guest]

any one knowanything about Leon Johnson? He seems to be doing very well in Mesa. Does he project to be anything? How was he in college?

 

Nice athlete, good speed, good defensive player. He did poorly in college (.248/.328/.339) but last year he just returned from a Mormon mission in Siberia so he might have been getting the rust off. I'm most impressed with his plate discipline/patience so far because he had quotes when he was drafted about how he liked to swing at the first pitch and didn't like to walk.

 

Of course he's 23 years old and in the AZL.

[Guest]

RHP Miguel Cuevas (broken foot) and RHP Donnie Walters (hand) to the Peoria DL.

 

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Josh Donaldson walks in his first Boise PA.

[Lockes Eye Scar]

Ronny is 1-1 with a 3-run HR and a walk

[Brian]

Ronny is 1-1 with a 3-run HR and a walk

 

call him up asap Jimbo.

[Guest]

Drew Rundle with a solo HR, his second pro HR and Boise is tied 1-1 in the third inning.

[Keener98]

Ronny is 1-1 with a 3-run HR and a walk

 

Seriously he is locked in wow. Where the hell is all this power coming from?

[Guest]

Ronny is 1-1 with a 3-run HR and a walk

 

Seriously he is locked in wow. Where the hell is all this power coming from?

 

The last four games have been in Albuquerque (4500' up), so 3 of his 10 HRs might have been aided by the elevation.

[NCCubFan]

Ronny is 1-1 with a 3-run HR and a walk

 

Seriously he is locked in wow. Where the hell is all this power coming from?

He must be juicing. :D

[Keener98]

Ronny is 1-1 with a 3-run HR and a walk

 

Seriously he is locked in wow. Where the hell is all this power coming from?

 

The last four games have been in Albuquerque (4500' up), so 3 of his 10 HRs might have been aided by the elevation.

 

Ok that makes some sense then. Whats his OPS up to now?

[Guest]

Ronny is 1-1 with a 3-run HR and a walk

 

Seriously he is locked in wow. Where the hell is all this power coming from?

 

The last four games have been in Albuquerque (4500' up), so 3 of his 10 HRs might have been aided by the elevation.

 

Ok that makes some sense then. Whats his OPS up to now?

 

1.109.

[Keener98]

Ronny is 1-1 with a 3-run HR and a walk

 

Seriously he is locked in wow. Where the hell is all this power coming from?

 

The last four games have been in Albuquerque (4500' up), so 3 of his 10 HRs might have been aided by the elevation.

 

Ok that makes some sense then. Whats his OPS up to now?

 

1.109.

 

LMAO, do our major league SS's equal that if you add them up(minus Fontenot). Theriot and Izturis combined is probably around 1.2 right?lol CALL HIM UP

[TruffleShuffle]

cedeno isn't going to get called up, but it sure is fun to bitch about it in every minor league thread :lol:

[Guest]

Josh Donaldson is having a hell of a Boise debut. 2/3...walk, single and now his first professional HR and he's made a few nice defensive plays.

 

Boise up 10-1 now.

[Guest]

IowaCubs.com[/url]"]'Topes top slumping Cubs

 

Brett Carroll hit a three-run homer and Scott Seabol drove in the go-ahead run as Albuquerque edged visiting Iowa, 7-6, on Tuesday.

Carroll slugged his seventh home run in the second inning and Seabol laced an RBI double in the seventh to snap a 6-6 tie.

 

Valentino Pascucci went 2-for-4 with an RBI to help the Isotopes (43-43) complete a four-game sweep of the Cubs (46-39).

 

Harvey Garcia (2-1) allowed a hit and fanned two in one inning for the win and Roy Corcoran pitched a scoreless ninth to notch his second save. Albuquerque starter Chris George gave up six runs on six hits in six innings with four walks and three strikeouts.

 

Geovany Soto went 3-for-4 with an RBI double in the first for the Cubs, who have lost a season-high seven straight. Ronny Cedeno belted a two-run homer, his 10th, in the second and Josh Kroeger added a two-run shot, his third, in the third.

 

Kroeger also hit 11 homers in 66 games for Double-A Tennessee.

 

Ben Howard (4-3) was saddled with the loss after yielding one run on two hits over 1 1/3 frames. Iowa starter Les Walrond surrendered six runs -- four earned -- on nine hits in 5 2/3 innings, striking out four and walking five. --Marc Jimenez/MLB.com

 

SmokiesBaseball.com[/url]"]Eight run fourth inning too much for Smokies in 10-5 loss

 

Sevierville, TN – The Tennessee Smokies dropped the final game of their four game series with the Mississippi Braves by a score of 10-5 in front of a record-breaking crowd of 6,864 patriotic fans. The Braves plated eight runs in the fourth inning to wipe away a three run Smokies lead, and Tennessee could not recover. The Smokies dropped to 9-7 for the second half of the season, while Mississippi improved to 6-10.

 

The crowd of 6,864 fans was the fifth largest crowd ever at Smokies Park. The four-game series attendance with the Braves was 19,801 fans, which was the highest attended four game series in Smokies Park history.

 

Jake Fox crushed two home runs in his first two plate appearances, his 15th and 16th to pace the Smokies early on. After the Braves took a 1-0 lead in the first inning on a sacrifice fly by Matt Esquivel, Fox homered over the left field wall to tie the game at 1-1 in the bottom half of the first. The Smokies added another run in the 2nd inning on a sacrifice fly by Chris Robinson to score Matt Craig, and take a 2-1 lead.

 

It looked as if the Smokies were on their way to the series sweep after plating another two runs. Gary Cates hit a two-out single to left, which brought Fox to the plate. He crushed his 2nd home run of the game on a mammoth shot to left center field to give the Smokies a 4-1 lead.

 

Starting pitcher Paul Schappert (3-4) threw well for the first three innings, but ran into trouble in the fateful fourth inning. Schappert gave up eight hits and was charged with eight runs. When it was all said and done, the Braves had taken a 9-4 lead. Mississippi was also aided by two Smokies error in the inning, which allowed a couple of runs to score.

 

Francisley Bueno (3-4) just had to hold on to a five run lead to pick up the win, and he did just that. The Smokies kept things interesting by scoring another run in the bottom half of the sixth inning off of Bueno however. After a Robinson single, his second hit of the night, Carlos Rojas reached on an error by Braves third baseman Van Pope. Robinson came home on a wild pitch by Bueno, and the Smokies pulled to within four runs. Mississippi scored an additional run to make the score 10-5 in the eighth inning, and benefited from three scoreless innings of work from their bullpen.

 

DaytonaCubs.com[/url]"]Cubs Sweep Rays Thanks to the Elements

Rain Shortens Game to 5 Innings, Cubs Win 1-0

 

By: Matt Martinez

 

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) It seemed that only the rain could keep the Cubs from sweeping the cellar-dwelling Devil Rays, but Daytona and Vero Beach got through five complete innings to finalize the victory Tuesday night, 1-0.

 

Greg Reinhard took the ball for the Cubs (5-8) against the team that originally drafted him. Reinhard came to the organization in the Jae Kuk Ryu trade and on Tuesday night, Reinhard looked like a brilliant aquisition.

 

Reinhard threw all five innings against Vero Beach (3-10) and was radiant as he scattered five base hits, walked one and struck out three to extend his consecutive scoreless innings streak to a team best 11.

 

Jeff Kamrath was impressive for Vero but got no run support en route to his sixth loss of the year. Kamrath went all five, allowed only one earned run on two base hits while striking out eight. The bottom of the fourth would be the Devil Rays undoing.

 

Chris Amador led off the inning with a free pass by way of an inside pitch that plunked his shoulder. Amador got quick revenge as he not only stole second, but stole third to give his team a chance to take the first lead of the game. With two out, Alberto Garcia laced a single to left field to score Amador and gave Daytona a 1-0 lead that would prove to be the final.

 

Garcia ended the day 2-for-2, accounting for all of Daytona's offense as the Cubs won by the slimmest of margins.

 

PeoriaChiefs.com[/url]"]First Place Chiefs Hammer Cougars 15-3

 

Geneva, IL – The first place Peoria Chiefs scored 12 times in the 4th inning and finished with more hits than any other Midwest League team this season in a 15-3 rout of in-state rival Kane County on Tuesday night. The Chiefs collected 21 hits, including six doubles and a homer to start a seven game road trip with their largest victory of the season.

 

Kane County wasted little time in jumping on Chiefs starter Juan Mateo. Mike Massaro led off the first with a double and went to third on a groundout. Jermaine Mitchell gave the Cougars a 1-0 lead with a single to right before Mateo induced a double play to end the frame. Kane County added a second run in the third on two singles and a fielders’ choice to take a 2-0 lead.

 

Alfred Joseph started the fourth with a double to left center. With one out, Blake Lalli doubled off the right field wall and moved to third on a single by Nate Samson. With his team down 2-1, Matt Camp doubled over the head of left fielder Ramiro Mendoza as both Lalli and Samson scored for a 3-2 Chiefs lead. Jonathon Mota doubled home Camp and Jim Adduci hit his first homer of the season as Peoria extended the lead to 6-2. The homer knocked starter James Heuser out of the game as the Cougars brought in All-Star Scott Moore from the bullpen. Josh Lansford greeted Moore with a single up the middle and Russ Canzler reached on an error. After a fielders’ choice, Moore walked Wellington Castillo to load the bases. Lalli’s second hit of the inning scored a pair and Samson followed with his own two-run single for a 10-2 Chiefs lead. Camp singled and Mota’s second double of the inning scored two and gave the Chiefs a 12-2 lead.

 

Mateo allowed a run in the fifth but got through five innings as a starter for the first time this season on his strict pitch counts. Peoria ’s bats continued their assault in the eighth inning. With one out, Samson picked up his fourth hit of the night with a single down the right field line. Camp followed with his fourth hit, and infield single to put two on with one out. Mota doubled to right-center as Samson scored giving Mota three doubles in the game. First baseman Haas Pratt relieved Derek Tharpe and gave up a RBI groundout to Adduci as the Chiefs took a 14-3 lead. Lansford singled home Mota for the Chiefs 21st hit of the game and a 15-3 lead.

 

Mateo picked up his first win of the season and his first in the Midwest League since he pitched for Lansing in 2004. The righthander allowed three runs on six hits while striking out three over five innings. Jeremy Papelbon threw three shutout innings in which he allowed just two hits and struck out two. Matt Maradeo threw a perfect ninth with two strikeouts.

 

Gorman’s Pub Co-Player of the Game: Blake Lalli (DH), Nate Samson (SS) & Matt Camp (CF) – The 7-8-9 hitters combined to go 11-for-14 with a stolen base, two doubles, nine runs scored and seven RBI in the contest. Lalli doubled, drove in three and scored twice in a 3-for-4 night. Samson and Camp each had a career high four hits in five at bats. Samson scored four times and drove in two as Camp drove in two, doubled, scored three times and stole a base.

 

BoiseHawks.com[/url]"]Hawks Crush Sox for First Home Win

 

Dustin Sasser pitched six strong innings and Drew Rundle and Josh Donaldson each hit their first home run of the season as the Boise Hawks beat the Everett Aqua Sox Tuesday night, 11-1.

 

Sasser gave up a triple to the first batter of the game who scored on a sacrifice fly. He then slammed the door of the Sox offense. The left-hander allowed two hits the rest of the way, did not walk batter and struck out five. Harol Tolentino, Anndrew McCormick and Jordan Latham each pitched a shutout inning to perserve the win.

 

Rundle's home run tied the game in the third inning when the Hawks scored three times. Dylan Johnston scored in the fifth inning following the first of his two doubles giving him a league-leading 10 on the season. Billy Mottram's two-run double keyed a four-run sixth and the Hawks were off and running. Josh Donaldson, playing in his first game for Boise his a long home run to left field in the seventh inning and the Hawks added one more in the eighth.