Children are, on the whole, very much alike everywhere, and you four lads fairly represent multitudes, who are growing up in all directions. It will make me happy to think that my simple narrative may lead some of these to observe how blessed are the results of patient continuance in well-doing, what benefits arise from the thoughtful application of knowledge and science, and how good and pleasant a thing it is when brethren dwell together in unity, under the eye of parental love.
Night has closed around me.
For the last time my united family slumbers beneath my care.
To-morrow this closing chapter of my journal will pass into the hands of my eldest son.
From afar I greet thee, Europe!
I greet thee, dear old Switzerland !
Like thee, may New Switzerland flourish and prosper —good, happy, and free!
Lots of DFR goodness badness today with all 4 teams in action.
- With a slot potentially opening up in place of Lohse, Blake Hawksworth made sure to take his name out of the running. Everything was going fine until the 4th inning, when a handful of singles and walks totaled 5 runs. His final line: 4 innings, 6 hits, 6 ER, 3 BB and 2 SO.
- Matt Scherer continued to be unscored on, throwing 3 perfect innings. He struck out 3.
- Josh Kinney didn’t help get himself any closer to returning to St. Louis. Giving up what would be the decisive run in the 9th, he was tagged for 2 hits while striking out 2.
- Memphis scored 6 runs on only 4 hits. Chief Justice had a single and an RBI. Joe Mather is showing signs of life, going 2-for-4 with an RBI and a double. He also threw out Top 30 prospect Mat Gamel at 1B.
- The only other hit was a 9th inning pinch hit by Nick Stavinoha. Stavinfection drove in a run.
- In that 9th inning, our old friend Chris Narveson tried to give the game to Memphis. After scoring 2 runs, David Freese struck out with runners at 2nd and 3rd.
- Brandon Dickson didn’t stick around for the run support. He left after 5 innings, giving up 7 hits, 5 ERs and 3 BBs. About the only bright spot was that he struck out 5.
- Pete Parise poached the win with 2 perfect innings in which he struck out 3.
- Chrysanthemum Linares faced 6 batters, only getting 2 of them out. He walked 3 of them and the other one got a hit. Impressively enough, only 1 run scored.
- Francisco Samuel pitched his first scoreless outing in a while for the save. In his 1.1 innings, he struck out 3 and walked 2.
- James Rapoport rapped (note the extra p for meaning!) out 3 hits, one of which was a Grand Slam. He drove in 5.
- Tony Cruz and Daniel Descalso both went 1-for-4. Descalso had 2 RBIs and Cruz hit a HR.
- Andrew Brown was 2-for-4 with 2 runs scored.
- DJ Tools continues to be awesome. Jones was 3 for 4 with 2 runs scored. When the power comes, Cubs fans will be complaining for years that we have 2 of the best OF’ers in baseball on the cheap for years to come.
- Coo Coo Ca Choo keeps being pitched around. And when he isn’t, he is hit by a pitch.
- Ryan Kulik continued the tradition of bad starting pitching tonight. In his 3 innings, he gave up 6 ERs on 6 hits and 2 BBs. He struck out 4. Pitching in the 4th, he gave up a triple and a double before being lifted.
- That double scored with Eduardo Sanchez on the mound. He walked a batter and gave up an earned run of his own. He pitched a scoreless 2nd inning of work, with 3 hits, 1 BB and 1 strikeout.
- Mark Diapoules pitched 2 innings of 2 hit, 2 BB, 1 strikeout and 1 run ball.
- Adam Reifer blunted out the scoring, finally, striking out 2 in the 8th.
- Pete Kozma was 2-for-3 with a walk. No errors.
- Shane Peterson, Curt Smith and Tommy Pham all were 1-for-4. Pham also stole a base.
- Scott McGregor was not the worst starting pitcher in the system tonight. Yay him! He still gave up 3 ERs in 4 innings of work. However, McGregor struck out 5 and only walked 1, while giving up 6 hits.
- Miguel Chinese Tapia took the loss, giving up 3 more runs in his 3 innings. He too, struckout 5 but walked 2. They got 5 hits off him.
- George Brown threw up the picket fences, 1 IP, 1 ER, 1 H, 1 BB.
- Quad Cities scored 4 runs in the 1st inning on 5 hits. The rest of the game they had 0 runs and only mustered 2 hits.
- Brett Lilley was 2 for 2 with a double and a walk. He apparently said something about the milkmaids of Beloit, as he was plunked twice as well.
- Chris Swauger, Jon Edwards and Charles Cutler were both 1 for 4. Swauger and Edwards had an RBI and Cutler a double.
- Osvaldo was just a patsy Morales had one hit in his 4 ABs, a 2 run homerun in the 1st.
Overall, not a good night for pitching. Hopefully, like flesh eating fish, the minor league pitching climbs all over each other to sink their teeth into that available rotation spot that likely is coming after Dr. Nick tells us Kyle Lohse’s leg has gangrene. Hello Everybody!
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Memphis’ offense is still is terrible, they need to get on the road to a good hitters park to wake up the bats, Tied for last in hitting at .224 and dead last in slugging at .315!
They didn’t have a legit hit until the 9th as Mather’s first hit could been another error on Mat Gamel, David Freese was originally given a hit but later changed it to the error on basically the same play in the first, Gamel has a good looking bat but he defense is terrible but Alcides Escobar on the other hand has looked phenomenal.
Mather took advantage of the OF’er slipping on his hit to make it into second the Bourgeois threw him out trying to get the extra base the game before, the hated Matt Scherer looked good again and when is 100% is a solid reliever, and it looks like Kat Maekawa may be heading to the DL with knee issues of his own.
Other than Brett Lilley coming to QC they made the move to send Kenny Maiques to EST and moved Eddie Degerman up to take his spot, hopefully he has found his control to help Springfield who has a 20 BB lead in issued free passes to get out of last place in Texas Leagues team ERA race,
I find it odd that DJ, one of the Cards’ best prospects, bats eighth. Shouldn’t he be in the two-hole? Does he have too many tools for a higher slot? Are they being sneaky?
A little correction, Descalso had the HR in Springfield, not Cruz. It was a solid line drive HR too. And, contrary to what I have seen and read previously Descalso looked really good with the glove last night.
Speaking of looking good with the glove; this will be shocking, Brett Wallace!? He doesn’t have horizontal range; that’s for sure, but he charged to weakly hit balls last night and made really athletic looking plays.
Also, my wife informed me that he should not be referred to as the Walrus. She thinks it may be hurting his feelings and resulting in his lack of pop thus far. She had no better suggestion, so….Coo Coo Ca Choo
To keep the night’s pitching meltdowns in perspective, unless I’m missing something, none of these guys getting bombed as starters were really the best prospects that their respective teams can run out there. Somebody’s gotta be the #4 and #5 starter, after all.
If Walrus got promoted all the way to AAA, wonder if they’d still pitch around him? Swap him and Freese, maybe? I am REALLY looking forward to seeing this guy in a major-league uniform.
Mookie, I noticed the same thing with Wallace’s defense last year at QC. He gets a great jump on a ball hit in front of him and can make a very accurate, strong throw while off balance and on the move. Another thing I notices is that he played too close to the 3rd base line at times last year. It could have been a result of the defensive alignment for the batter at times, but it’s seemed he was there a lot – and meant the SS had to cover even more ground. I really thing he’s shown enough skill to improve defensively and fully expect to him stay at 3b for several years once he makes it to St Louis.
I haven’t heard anything negative about Descalso’s defense except for the guy here who refers to his glove as a ‘skillet’. That’s fair enough – I’m sure he saw him on a bad day.
But I haven’t heard anything else negative and there was an article in the News-Leader (I think) last summer with quotes from coaches raving about his defense.
Dustin, who rights here from time to time has seen Descalso and likes his defense. I also read another eye witness report that was negative with regard to range.
rights = writes (at least when you have a free press :) )