Removed
Today was like the last day of school. That epic daily battle of Yahoo! Pool you and five of your friends have been locked in all year on the Dutch Yahoo site (as to avoid the school’s content blocker) just isn’t the same since 3 of the guys already took their summer vacation a day early. Plus, everyone is eating cookies in the cafeteria and generally wandering aimlessly through the building. Memphis was those 3 friends today.
Springfield 1, Buffalo 2
- Clayton Mortensen was competent in his final 5 innings of the spring. He gave up 4 hits, 2 ERs and struckout 2.
- Tyler Norrick worked 2 scoreless innings of 3 hit ball. He supplemented those 3 hits with 4 walks.
- Eduardo Sanchez gave up a hit and struckout a batter in 1 inning.
- Casey Mulligan only needed 2 do-overs on a hit and walk, while striking out 2 in his inning.
- James Rapoport went 2-for-5.
- Andrew Brown was an extra base machine with a double, a triple and scored a run.
- Steve Hill doubled and Mike Folli singled in the only run for the good guys.
- Coo Coo Ca Choo reached base twice, on a single and a walk.
Palm Beach 2, Binghamton 9
- Brandon Dickson, like Brad Furnish the day before him, sucked against Binghamton hitters. He allowed 5 runs (4 earned) on 6 hits and a 1 walk. He struck out 1 in his 4 innings of work. He has a bit of an excuse, though, since the entire organization played ‘up’ one level with Memphis not there.
- Nick Additon had a major calculating error, totaling the other 4 ER in the game. In his 3 innings, he gave up 4 hits, 3 BBs and struckout 3.
- George Brown had somewhere he needed to be. On 7 pitches, he got 3 week groundballs and took the rest of the day off.
- David Carpenter, the serial killer pitcher, struck out 1 and walked 2 in 1 IP.
- Shane Peterson (1-for-3) and Charlie Kingrey (1-for-2) each scored a run.
- Francisco Rivera was 1-for-4 with an RBI
Shirts 3 (Quad Cities #1), Skins 5 (Quad Cities #2)
QC #1
- Gary Daley did well facing his Quad Cities brethren with 3 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 2 BB, and 3 K’s.
- Eric Fornataro (5 H, 4 R, 2 ER, 1 BB) and LaCurtis Mayes (2 H,1 R 0 ER, 0 BB, and 2 K’s) both went 2 innings.
- Jon Edwards (not that Jon Edwards) was 2-for-2 with two walks.
- Alex Castellanos doubled with a run scored and a run driven in.
- Niko Vasquez denied reports that he was both men that caught the toddler in Massachusetts who fell from a 40-foot high window. Unfazed by such a routine occurrence, he doubled and scored a run.
- Brian Buck doubled, while Charlie Cutler and Ryde Rodriguez singled.
QC #2
- Anthony Ferrara (3 IP, 3 H, 0 R ) and Brett Zawacki (2.2 IP, 4 H, 2 ER) both walked a batter and struck out 4.
- Joel Pichardo filled out his boxscore with goose eggs in his1 IP.
- Jason Buursma struck out the side in his inning. Around that, he gave up 2 hits and an earned run.
- Travis Mitchell was 2-for-3 with a run scored.
- Jairo Martinez reached base all 3 times he batted going 2-for-2 with a walk and two RBIs.
- Ivan Castro fired a double into play and drove a run in past the embargo.
- Everytime Edwin Gomez reached base, he scored (2 R). Unfortunately/Fortunately for Quad Cities (depends which one you were rooting for!) he was only 1-for-2 with a walk.
Big thanks to John Vuch, as this will be the last Vuch report I transcribe. This will also, probably be the last above quality report I do. ZING! Palm Beach plans to stay in Florida and play more intrasquad games or games vs extended Spring Training teams but for all intents and purposes, today (or tomorrow) is the end of camp.
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Is it too early to go out and purchase my Anthony Ferrara Cards jersey?
Tony Ferrara and Jon Edwards are definitely my new minor league man crushes. Niko will have to wait another year I guess.
Good to see Travis Mitchell having some success so far this year. He’s still really young but it seems like he needs to have a good year to make it work. As a fellow PCH alumni, I hope he does.
That lit quote was….hot.
Uh, go Cards.
yeah, maybe a little too hot for FR. The Godfather isn’t sure what to make of that. The Adventures of Little Niko on the other hand, I heartily approve of.
Grapes of Wrath, that takes me back.
The Niko Vazquez reports get me everytime.
I read on Viva El Birdos that the Cards now see Jess Todd as a reliever and not a starter. That is more than a little disappointing.
Seriously Todd might be a reliever we have to accept this as an option. This doesn’t mean that this move was not intended to get him on the MLB team as soon as possible and go from there. This seriously could be a move intended to get him MLB experience this season so we don’t have to wory about replacing Pineiro.
Oh come on…if I’m forced to read Grapes as an adolescent, it’s probably OK. Although that part did creep me out.
Carry on.
I took it down. When I chose it, I didn’t think that it was that bad but if other people had problems with it then it shouldn’t have been posted.
For the record, I did not have a problem with it. Mike’s right. If you can read it in seventh grade, you can post it on a blog.
Next up: Love in the Time of Cholera
hmm… seems as if today Nicholas said “Add-it-on” to Binghamton………………… don’t worry….. I’m failing myself here.
The city of Binghamton did not have a good day today.
“Maybe I am a Red (bird) Ma, I don’t know. All I know is that, wherever a guy’s getting beat up by a Cub fan, I’ll be there. I’ll be there in the box scores and in the stands whenever a kid’s hungry for a hot dog or a fella’s thirsty for a cold one and, if a guy’s all messed up and confused about some roster decision, well, I’ll be there too.” These lit things are fun HL so don’t give up. Don’t know about “Cholera” I got bored and didn’t finish it. Now 100 Years of Solitude is worth all that reading time.