Minor League Discussion & Boxes 7-15-05

[burnt out cubbie fan]

Box Scores

 

Iowa won 3-2 Box Score

 

CF C. Patterson 0/3, HBP, SB (1)

LF J. Dubois 2/4, RBI

1B S. McClain 1/3, BB, HR (19), E (8)

3B M. Fontenot 0/4, K

DH D. Kelton 2/4, K, 2B (21)

SS N. Frese 1/3, RBI, BB, 2B (4)

2B R. Lewis 0/4, K

SP R. Hill 7 IP, 7 H, 2 ER, HR, WP, HBP, 10/1

RP B. Brownlie 1 perfect, 0/0

RP J. Van Buren 1 perfect, 0/0

 

West Tenn PPD: Rain

 

Daytona won 8-6 in 12 innings Box Score

 

DH C. Walker 2/5, R, RBI, BB, CS (10), PO

3B S. Moore 4/6, 3 RBI, 2 R, 2 K, HR (17), SB (16)

1B B. Dopirak 1/5, R, 2 RBI, BB, 2 K, HR (9)

LF K. Collins 1/3, BB, K

CF J³ 0/5, K

C J. Fox 1/3, 2 BB, HR (5)

SP R. Wells 4 IP, 7 H, 4 ER, 2 HR, 5/0

 

Peoria lost 9-5 Box Score

 

CF S. Fuld 0/3, R, BB

2B E. Patterson 1/4, K, 2 RBI, HR (6)

RF R. Harvey 3/4, 3 RBI, K, R, 2B (19), HR (15)

1B D. Larsen 0/4, 3 K, E (15)

LF B. Flowers 0/4, K

SP G. Johnson 4 IP, 5 H, 6 R, 4 ER, HR, HBP 1/0

RP J. Blevins 4 IP, 2 H, 3 ER, HR, HBP, 7/1

 

Boise won 8-5 Box Score

 

CF D. Gregg 2/3, 2 BB, 3 R, 3 SB (19)

LF C. Quinones 0/2, K

1B C. Gaskin 2/5, RBI, 2B (5)

DH B. Taylor 1/4, RBI, R, BB, K

3B E. Puello 2/2, 2 R, 2 BB, RBI, 2B (6)

C J. Muyco 1/3, K, 3 RBI, HR (1)

C M. Reed 0/0, BB

2B S. Hode 2/4, RBI

SP M. Atkins 5 IP, 3 H, 2 ER, HR, 3/4

RP L. Hagerty 0 IP, 0 H, 1 ER, WP, 0/2 <-- ERA = 24.75 ouch

 

Arizona has the day off.

 

OVERALL: 3-1

Edited July 16, 2005 by burnt out cubbie fan

[Chris]

So glad that the Jaxx are back on the field tonight! Hopefully I will be able to get to the game tonight.

 

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[CaliforniaRaisin]

Sorry for the delay, I just got home...

 

Iowa: LHP Rich Hill (3-1, 3.90) vs. RHP Shawn Camp (3-6, 4.36)

West Tenn: ?

Daytona: RHP Alfredo Polanco

Peoria: RHP Grant Johnson vs. RH Patrick Hicklen

Boise: RHP Mitch Atkins

[texascub]

Hopefully Grant can bounce back with a big game tonight after two straight bad starts.

[ctcf]

Go Grant!!!

[UMFan83]

Looks like Corey is 0-1 but reached and stole a base. Rich Hill gave up a solo HR, 1-0 Omaha in the second right now

[FloridaCubbie]

Looks like Corey is 0-1 but reached and stole a base. Rich Hill gave up a solo HR, 1-0 Omaha in the second right now

0-2 now with a HBP.

[FloridaCubbie]

Dubois is 2-3.

[UMFan83]

The Jaxx game was PPD due to rain. Looks like we'll have to wait ANOTHER day for them to be back in action...

[Laura]

Looks like another rough outing for Grant Johnson:

4IPs, 6R, 5ER, 5 hits, 1K/0BB, 1HR.

 

Harvey is 2-2 with a double so far.

[Chris]

The Jaxx game was PPD due to rain. Looks like we'll have to wait ANOTHER day for them to be back in action...

 

I wasn't able to make the drive to Jackson so this doesn't personally bother me. I presume the Jaxx will play a pair tomorrow, which I can appreciate!

[CaliforniaRaisin]

They've gone to the top of the 9th in Sarasota, Daytona and Sarasota are tied at 5.

 

Randy Wells made his first start in a few months for Daytona.

 

Top of the 9th:

Ismael Salas walks.

Chris Walker bunts into a FC, Salas out at second.

Walker CS for the second time tonight.

Rojas strikes out.

 

Scott Moore will lead off the 10th if the D-Cubs bullpen can get it there.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Rapata gets himself in and out of a jam in the bottom of the 9th. To the 10th we go, tied at 5. Due up, Scott Moore (who has 3 hits, including a 3-run HR), Brian Dopirak and Paul O'Toole.

 

Moore and Dope strike out, O'Toole grounds out. :( Jordan Gerk into pitch the bottom of the 10th. Apparently 90% of the people remaining in the stands are scouts or team personnel.

Edited July 16, 2005 by CaliforniaRaisin

[UMFan83]

Cool, Iowa gets 2 in the 8th to take the lead and JVB gets the save as the Iowa Cubs win 3-2.

 

I like this minor league stuff :)

 

BTW:

Corey 0-3, SB, HBP

Dubois 2-4 RBI

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Robinson Chirinos hits a solo HR in the top of the 11th to make it 6-5 Daytona! That's the third Daytona HR, following Jake Fox and Scott Moore's.

 

Apparently it's so quiet and there are so few fans at the ballpark now that fans in the front row looked up to Bo in the announcer's booth to see who was getting excited over the HR.

[Laura]

HRs for Ryan Harvey (15) and Eric Patterson (6), but Peoria loses 9-5.

 

Blevins gives up 3 runs in 4 innings of relief, but also strikes out 7.

 

Box is now showing that Johnson allowed 4 ERs (not 5).

[Chris]

Apparently it's so quiet and there are so few fans at the ballpark now that fans in the front row looked up to Bo in the announcer's booth to see who was getting excited over the HR.

 

:shock:

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Argh, we're in the 12th now after Nate Sevier blew the save. He threw a WP with 2 outs and a runner at third which tied the game at 6.

 

DOPE SLAP!

 

Two-run shot (following a Scott Moore line single) to DEAD CF, hitting the batter's eye above the 400-foot sign.

 

8-6 Daytona, D-Cubs still batting. Now O'Toole with a double. All this off of Eric Lohse, Kyle's younger bro.

 

Bo counted the fans before the 12th inning started, there are 22 fans there.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

They're down to 19 fans at the ballpark!

[burnt out cubbie fan]

YAY DOPE!!! Hopefully he can build off of this.

[Chris]

Another l o n g night for Bo

 

19 FANS!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

[abuck1220]

rich hill = good at baseball

 

went to the iowa game tonight...hill looked pretty good. man, does he NOT give up ground balls, though. if he gets traded to cincy, i'm gonna feel bad for him. when he did give up grounders tonight, die hard screwed em up anyway. the home run pickering hit was a bomb...hit the light pole next to the scoreboard in right. i'm not so sure hill liked his mosey around the bases, as he plunked the next batter with the next pitch. :D

 

the second run scored on a infield dribbler that should have been an out. fontenot fielded the little nubber and threw in the dirt to first. should have been an easy dig for mcclain, but he booted it. the guy who scored got on when he swung late on a hook and looped it to right for a double.

 

hill got into a jam in the 3rd (bases loaded, no outs). struck out gemoll, pickering (twice really...he was getting squeezed early on), and got the next guy to ground out (after he should have struck him out...squeezed again).

 

people talk about his average fb, but he gets some pretty sad looking swings with it. he was hitting 89-90 on iowa's slow gun in the 7th. the hook was snapping real nice tonight as well. also of note was the fact that he was hitting some 84's during the 7th...possibly his cutter, as i could tell that it wasn't a breaking pitch. :?

 

thanks to the stupid i-cubs, i didn't see much of the radar gun (which is crap anyway). they said the only available seats were general admission, which is basically hell on earth...fat, sweaty, BO toting drunks...the wife and i sandwiched in the middle of the row. needless to say we sat there for three outs and went to sit beyond the rf fence in the aluminum bleachers. from there you can see that probably 50% of the entire crowd is concentrated into three small general admission sections...while 50% of the reserved areas are empty. wow, was that frustrating.

 

oh yeah...one more thing...i'm not going to say i didn't come home with a wet, stinky, game-used autographed rich hill jersey. and i also won't say that i didn't come home $200 poorer...but it was worth it. :wink:

[abuck1220]

yeah, so i got to meet him briefly after the game, as they were doing the 'jerseys off our backs' thing for MDA. i won the auction for his jersey (one of the more expensive ones thanks to this guy that bid me up from $125 all the way to $200... :evil: ). they have you go on the field afterwards to get it from the guy...just talked to him for a second, told him thanks for driving up the price of his jersey by pitching so well...and thanks for sweating up the jersey real nice. i was gonna start in on him w/ the questions, but i figure we'll have our chance w/ the chat. i've met him briefly a few other times in ST, and he has always been a cool guy.

 

patterson's jersey was up to $300+ when i last saw it. oh, and for the record, the guy who bid me up on the hill jersey told me that corey was signing autographs before the game. he wears #11, which is weird. his ab's were nothing special. he reached on an error in the first...may have been a DP ball had the 3b not booted it. made a catch on a deep fly to cf, threw a gun to 3rd, holding the runner at 2nd. the crowd practically gave him a standing O...kinda sad, actually.

 

dubois' single was an absolute laser off the very, very top of the rf fence...probably two feet from being a line drive homer. he got gunned trying to stretch it into a double. the guy can hit. made a nice running catch in lf as well. it surprised me because i was told he sucked on D.

[Chris]

abuck, if you'd like they are auctioning off Hill's cleats in Jackson tomorrow!

[UMFan83]

So what are you trying to say??? This could be your best NSBB auction yet ;)