Minor League Discussion & Boxes 7-12-14

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Box Scores:

 

Iowa won game one 6-5 (7 innings) on an Eli Whiteside walk-off single Box Score

 

Iowa lost game two 2-1 (7 innings) Box Score

 

Tennessee lost 2-0 Box Score

 

Daytona won 7-4 (8 innings - Rain) Box Score

 

Kane County lost 7-0 Box Score

 

Boise lost 5-2 Box Score

 

AZL Cubs lost 3-1 Box Score

 

DSL Cubs won 4-3 Box Score

 

VSL Cubs won 4-2 Box Score

[hawkeyecub]

Going to both games in Des Moines today. Was not aware they would be 7 inning games.

[PackLandVA]

Depending on the weather, I'm headed up to see Kane County tonight. The forecast is not looking so great though.

[ScrubMD]

Smokies website has Johnson pitching tonight.

[Guest]

Smokies website has Johnson pitching tonight.

 

I could have sworn it said Figueroa last night. My bad.

[Guest]

James Norwood and Tommy Thorpe promoted to Boise.

[CubInOK]

Neither Baez nor Bryant in the lineup for Iowa's first game today.

[Guest]

Neither Baez nor Bryant in the lineup for Iowa's first game today.

 

They're gone for the Futures Game.

[Guest]

Neither Baez nor Bryant in the lineup for Iowa's first game today.

 

They're gone for the Futures Game.

 

Yep. That's tomorrow.

[Guest]

Good times:

 

@TommyBirch: Another sac fly brings in another run. Vitters, who lost track of outs, casually tosses the ball in after jogging away. Runner moves up.

[Guest]

Good times:

 

@TommyBirch: Another sac fly brings in another run. Vitters, who lost track of outs, casually tosses the ball in after jogging away. Runner moves up.

 

lmao

[Little Slide Rooter]

Good times:

 

@TommyBirch: Another sac fly brings in another run. Vitters, who lost track of outs, casually tosses the ball in after jogging away. Runner moves up.

 

lmao

 

The Milton Bradley special.

[Guest]

@BroadcasterMick: #cubs prospect Jorge Soler not in the lineup tonight. Just a scheduled day off. He will play 2 and take one off

[Guest]

@andruwgreen: Pierce Johnson just dropped an absolutely filthy slider to get a called strike 3. 1 BB, 2 K's through 2 for the righty

[UMFan83]

No Baez, Bryant, Soler and Alcantara is with the big club = quiet game thread

[Vinestal]

Soler with a ph double then replaced by a pinch runner

[Vinestal]

Russell continues to perform poorly 0-2 so far tonight

[Guest]

Russell continues to perform poorly 0-2 so far tonight

 

He is coming off two straight two-hit games.

[Vinestal]

Russell continues to perform poorly 0-2 so far tonight

 

He is coming off two straight two-hit games.

meh, ok after 2 0-fer games. 0-4 with 2 strikeouts tonight

Batting .174 I suspect he will break out of the funk soon though.

[CubsWin]

We might be experiencing a Candelawakening. He was my pick to breakout this year. Boy, was I wrong. But he's had 2 or more hits in 5 of his last 6 games with 5 Candelubles and a Candelahomer in that span.

 

I'm sorry. I can't help myself now...

[Clem Fandango]

I think we should call Candelario home runs Candeljacks, because that wa

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

I think we should stop this fu

[Guest]

Bryant will bat cleanup for Team USA. Baez isn't starting.

[PackLandVA]

Went to the KC Cougars game tonight. Nice park, have never been there before. Had a lot of fun and there's some sort of promo, contest, "thing" in between every inning. Would've been nice if the home team could've scored. Crownd was good (9,000+) but there were still plenty of seats. I sat behind home plate (a little to 1B side) about 10 rows back. A couple of observations from the game:

 

-Skulina didn't seem to have very good stuff. Fastball seemed to hover in the upper 80s most of his 5 innings, and when he hit the 90s, it was 90-91. Seemed to get behind the hitters quite a bit and his off speed pitches weren't strikes (called or swinging). He didn't look comfortable out there. One run was on a WP and another on a CRUSHED triple to LF.

 

-Concepcion looked okay and should've gotten out of the 7th without any runs but for an error by Carlos Penalver (would've been the third out).

 

-Arias looked good and should've been out of the 9th without any runs. He got squeezed on a full count and then gave up a couple of hard hit balls.

 

-Schwarber looks really good at the plate. Facing a lefty, he had two hard hit balls, one for a single and one for an out (missed his first AB - single). His K was after being down 0-2 and working a full count. He just got overpowered on a fastball and missed it. He also looks pretty good behind the plate. Blocked a lot of pitches in the dirt and threw out two runners pretty easily, one a straight steal and the other on a pitch in the dirt. The lone stolen base was on a hard to handle pitch. Also noticed he questioned the ump behind the plate a few times on some close pitches.

 

-Candelario looked pretty good at the plate with a couple of singles.

 

-The other batters can't hit a curve ball. Trey Martin actually started laughing when he was called out on a curve for a strike. Brendan McCurry (Beloit) was the hardest thrower and had a pretty good hook, although it a really slow, big bender. He was hit 95-96 on the fastball.

 

-Jake Hanneman had a fielding error and either missed his cut off man or had a terrible throw to the cutoff man 3 times. However, on one relay, Penalver threw an absolute bullet to third to beat a runner I thought they had absolutely no shot of getting.

 

-Daury Torres was signing autographs after the game, but with the impending storm, I didn't stick around. Hope I don't regret that some day. Wait a minute, I actually DO hope I regret it some day! :D

 

Had a lot of fun. I will definitely go back sometime later this summer.

[CubsWin]

Bryant will bat cleanup for Team USA. Baez isn't starting.

Apparently, Kris' dad, Mike Bryant, taught both Kris and Joey Gallo how to hit. Cubs need to sign Mike as a hitting instructor like now.