A trio of News-Leader links for the DFR:
- Justin Fiske is out for 3-6 weeks. A stress reaction in his pitching arm.
- Brad Furnish discusses his recent bout with Steve Blass syndrome.
“The ball just wasn’t going where I wanted it to,” Furnish said today at Hammons Field. “I really tried to do some stuff to correct it, and by the time I got it fixed, I already put us in a hole.”
Furnish struggled to throw strikes. Only 47 of his 97 pitches were strikes. He fell behind in the count 3-0 five times and threw first-pitch strikes to only 10 of the 24 batters he faced.
- This might be my favorite article in a while. I love the sombrero gag and then the article ends with one of my favorite occurences in baseball: the manager getting tossed from the game. “Yer outta heer.”
Palm Beach takes a close loss in a night filled with some close wins.
- Tyler Greene was 1-for-4 with a walk. Eerily reminiscent of our big league SS, Tyler’s plate discipline seems to have taken a step forward as well as improved contact rates.
- Nick Stavinoha, catcher, went 1-for-3 with a HR and 2 walks. I’m guessing Bryan Anderson isn’t a Redbird by year’s end.
- Allen Craig went 2-for-5.
- Jarrett Hoffpauir says hello. Twice. He went 3-for-4 with a pair of HRs.
- Mark Shorey was 2-for-4 with a double.
- Your Memphis starter, Ian Oustland, went 5 innings striking out 6. He allowed 8 hits and 2 walks for 3 ER.
- Marco Gonzalez tossed 2 scoreless innings striking out 1 and allowed 3 hits.
- Josh Kinney allowed a solo HR in his 2 innings of work. He struck out 3 and walked 1.
- Daryl Jones goes 1-for-3 with a pair of walks.
- Brett Wallace was 2-for-5 including the game winning walkoff HR.
- Tyler Henley was 2-for-3 with a double and a walk.
- Tyler Herron generally limited the damage but allowed a lot of baserunners. He lasted 5 innings allowing 5 hits and 4 walks (1 IBB). He struck out 6 but allowed 2 runs.
- Kristian Linaires failed to retire a batter walking 3 and allowing a run.
- Pete Parise stranded 3 of Linaires runners but ran into some trounle of his own. He allowed 2 runs including a HR taking a blown save.
- Tyler Norrick would pick up the win working a scoreless 1 hit, 1 walk frame.
- Pete Kozma went 2-for-4 raising his average to .281.
- Jermaine Curtis was 0-for-2 with a pair of walks.
- Tommy Pham was 1-for-3 with a walk.
- Lefty Nick Additon was the start of the tandem throwing 4 innings. He allowed 3 hits and 3 walks for 2 ER while striking out 5.
- Eduardo Sanchez worked a scoreless 5th striking out 1. His ERA now sits at 0.82 and opponents are hitting .167 off of him. He’s struck out 10 batters to 3 walks in 11 IP. If a pitcher gets called up to Springfield, Sanchez seems likely to be on that short list.
- David Kopp allowed 2 ER in his 3 innings. He struck out 2 and allowed 3 hits walking zero. He took the loss for Palm Beach.
- Brett Lilley was 0-for-2 with 3 BBs.
- Niko Vasquez was 2-for-5 with a triple and a walk. His OBP currently sits at a Rasmus-ian .393.
- Charles Chris Swauger was 3-for-5 with a double.
- Ryde Rodriguez has had a heck of a weekend. After hitting a grand slam on friday, he goes 3-for-4 today with a pair of doubles and a walk.
- Brian Buck went 0-for-4 and is hitting .038 on the season. First Jameson Maj, now Brian Buck. Liam is not allowed to follow prospects anymore.
- The River Bandits scored 7 times in the last in the last 3 innings.
- Gary Daley allowed 1 ER (3 runs) walking 1 and allowing 3 hits. He struck out 2.
- Casey Mulligan picked up the win with a scoreless frame striking out 1.
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I was disappointed we brought LaRue back instead of using Anderson as the backup. Oh well as long as Yadi can sustain an offensive line near what he currently has/had last season then Anderson is expendable as trade bait.
I had no idea Stavinoha could catch. Has he ever before?
Jones isn’t exactly outplaying his league to the point that he is wasting his time in Springfield and he is playing in a hitter friendly league, but I wonder what the Cardinals current career path plan is for him now.
Do they want him in the 2010 mix? Rasmus, Duncan, Ludwick, Jones? If so, he’d probably need to get a month or two in Memphis this year and a month to start the season next year. Being such a raw talent that still needs to be nurtured, are they going to take it slow with the 21 year old, hoping that 2011 is the earliest he sees big league time?
Springfield pitchers added 9 more walks to the total and are up to 102 in 15 games and are worst in the league by 34 BB almost matching Corpus Christi TL low mark of 40 free passes, But thanks to the bats Springfield somehow still has the leagues best record.
Good to see the Memphis sticks wake up a little bit even if it was wind aided, Pete Kozma with 3 straight multi hits games, and nice for Ryde Rodriguez to break out of his slump with back-to-back 3 hit games with some pop.
Uh, two walk offs for Wallace in a row? Am I right?
Bring him up, jeez….j/k
Went to the game in Springpatch again today….Herron was either striking them out or getting hit hard, no in between.
Linares was painful to watch. Just painful.
DJ just looks like he’s locked in. Not sure how much he’s gonna grow in Springfield, move em on up to Memphis.
Descalso’s glove looked good again today, as did Wallaces.
Wallace, walk off for the second day in a row….this one oppo. I like to see that opposite field power. He hit the ball with more conviction today than I had previously seen. I think he’s submitted to the fact that he’s not going to see a lot of quality pitches. He seems to be waiting to get the count deep and wait for a mistake. His two K’s today were both called strikes, and definitely borderline.
Hey azruavatar, why do you always call Chris Swauger Charles Swauger?
Same reason I called Descalso by the first name of David for the first year — every now and then I get a name stuck in my head and it’s wrong. Thanks for catching that.
I think Stavinoha put in some time as a catcher in college.
Re: LaRue — in a peripheral note in a P-D article, one of writers noted that LaRue’s knees are so bad he can only catch once a week. Hard to believe a roster spot goes to a guy who can only answer the bell once every seven games.
If anything happens to Yadi, they’re going to have to make an immediate move to bring someone up from Memphis. If they don’t think Anderson’s ready, and if they see Pagnozzi as an automatic out, then maybe Stavi is the least-worst option. At least he has a chance to hit.
I think the club has no belief in Anderson. They pretty much admitted that during the offseason. I’m positive I read a few times Mo saying that no other teams had much interest in him either. I watched him play in the QC when he was 19 and wasnt that impressed and my guess is right now he is viewd as the new Daric Barton.
i just don’t get it. the kid has hit everywhere he has played while often being young for the league, and last year he threw out 36% of basestealers. sure, he isn’t molina with the glove, but this kid is at the very least a very solid back-up catcher that can hit.
Mookie – I love seeing that opposite field power from Wallace too. Both of his opening day HR were to left field, too, I believe.
yay to Wallace, Kozma and Niko.
Are we allowed to cheer for Kozma here?