Link Dump for this week:

Big Miles: I feel your pain Skip

Pitchers are gritty too:

”I was bummed to have to come back, but to come back and play for Hammer (manager Chris Maloney) and Blaise, they remember how I used to take care of my business,” Kinney said.

Hammer and Blaise, coming to a Saturday morning cartoon near you. Speaking of Saturday morning cartoons, I came across and old TMNT cartoon on VHS at my parents house — that cartoon was awesome. I watched it while wearing my awesome TMNT homage shirt.

Lance Lynn – a profile.

The 6-foot-5, 250-pound starting pitcher for the Springfield Cardinals played tight end in high school, and his football-sized frame has been a calling card his entire baseball career.

“For me, it’s just one of those things where I’m big, and I know how to use my body to do certain things — to hide the ball better because I’m bigger,” Lynn said during the Cardinals’ most recent homestand. “It helps me a lot.”

The Cardinals’ made a stink out of Chris Perez‘s “football sized frame” so I kind of question whether this is going to be kosher for Lynn to be toting around about 50 extra pounds.

Memphis 1, Las Vegas 8

• Jon Jay was 2-for-3 with a double and a walk.
• Clayton Mortensen‘s pitches weren’t sinking. He allowed 3 HRs and a dreadful 7 ER in 5 innings. He allowed 9 hits and struck out 3. The most obvious indicator was only 5 of 12 outs on balls in play were on the ground.
• Kat Maekawa pitched 3 scoreless, meaningless innings since the offense decided to take the night off. Kat walked 2 and struck out 1.
• Fernando Salas caught gopheritis as well. He allowed a solo HR in his inning of work.

Springfield 5, Some Direction That HL Would Make Fun Of Arkansas 4

• Tyler Henley was the only player with a multi hit game. He went 2-for-4 with a double. That pushes his OPS for the season over .800 with an OBP near 40%.
• Jim Rapoport was 1-for-3 with a walk and a double.
• Lance Lynn had a solid outing allowing 2 runs (a 2 run shot) in 6 innings. He struck out 3 against 2 walks and 4 hits recording 8 of his 15 ball in play outs on the ground.
• Tyler Norrick struck out 2 over 1.1 innings.
• The live armed Francisco Samuel, whose bandwagon I watched pass me by in the spring, continues to show abominable command walking another batter and allowed an ER in his inning of work. He’s walked 15 in 13 IP though he’s struck out 24.

Palm Beach 2, Charlotte 1 (14 innings)

• Jose Garcia was 3-for-5 with a double and a walk.
• Shane Peterson was 3-for-5 with a walk.
• Tommy Pham was 2-for-5 with a walk.
• David Kopp brought his A-game tonight. He pitched 6 innings and struck out 9. He only walked 1 and allowed 2 hits. He had a 7:2 GO:AO ratio. Too bad he wasn’t letting his defense participate. [/sarcasm]
• Eduardo Sanchez tossed 2 scoreless frames.
• Blake King and Thomas Eager both struggled through scoreless frames walking 2 and striking out 2 each.
• Shaun Garceau walked 4 over his 1.2 IP but allowed just 1 hit to escape unscathed.
• Chuckie Fick picked up the win with 2.1 scoreless IP striking out 1.
• 6 innings of one run ball from Kopp and 8 scoreless innings from the pen — Palm Beach deserves huge kudos for the entire pitching staff tonight.

Quad Cities went the way of St. Louis and was postponed.

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