The system went 2-1 today with a loss to the hated Iowa Cubs and turncoat Mike Parisi, Springfield offense having a … well, spring field day and QC winning a pitchers duel.
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- Bats were light for the Redbirds as they faced their previous compadre Mike Parisi, but Tyler Henley led the way with 2 hits including a triple. Henley also added an outfield assist and a throwing error to the ledger.
- Jon Jay had a double.
- Bryan Anderson also had the other hit.
- Brandon Dickson pitched 5+ striking out 5 and walking 3 while giving up 1 run.
- Minor league free agent Rich Rundles pitched a scoreless inning.
- Josh Kinney got blowed up with 2 runs on 3 hits in his inning.
- If this was a Michael Bay movie, there would be an even larger explosion for Matt Scherer’s inning in which he gave up 3 runs on 5 hits.
- Steve Hill was 3-5 with a double and 3 RBIs…please let him stick at catcher, please let him stick at catcher
- Pete Kozma had 2 hits including a triple.
- Charlie Cutler had a double amongst his 2 hits.
- Aaron Luna was 2-3 with 2 walks.
- Adron Chambers and Andrew Brown both had 2 singles.
- David Kopp had a bad start to the game (giving up 5 runs in the first) but settled down for 3 more innings after that.
- Ryan Kulik got the win with 4 innings in relief striking out 3.
- Thomas Eager finished the game off.
Palm Beach was off today.
- Let’s lead with the pitchers because they were dominant (with no walks allowed on the game).
- Joe Kelly started and pitched 5 shutout innings striking out 2.
- Daniel Calhoun got the hold for securing the next 3 innings, striking out 2.
- Aaron Terry shut the door in the 9th.
- Matt Adams was all the offense QC needed with a solo HR.
- Ryan Jackson and Jason Stidham were the only other two QCers with hits with 1 each
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Tyler Henley is hitting .500 over his last 3 games at 9-for-18, Donovan Solano is 0 for his last 18 after picking up a single in his firs AB, Shane Robinson who lead Memphis in GIDP last year has 4 already this season, Jon Jay has a 5 game hit and a 4 game XBH streak and Kevin Howard has a RBI in each of his 4 games played this season.
I attended ‘birds/I-cubs in D Money tonight. I couldn’t pay extra special attention as it was a date night for me in order to make up for me being gone a lot over the next few weeks. I missed first and last 1 1/2 innings. Anyway…
Parisi, only pitched 3 innings. No idea why they pulled him, he looked good. Dickson looked good, kept guys off balance. Got out of jams with groundballs, actually struck out 5… that is a result of how weak the I-Cubs lineup is IMO. Either way, he’s very average but I liked watching him.
Rich “mr. bundles” Rundles (never heard of him) got Memphis outta trouble with K and GIDP. Then Kinney proceeded to come in and allow a hit, then Tyler Greene couldn’t make the play on a bunt. Then Micah Hoffpauir crushed a ball to center, narrowly missing a homerun which put the Cubs up for good. Apparently after I left Scherer got worked.
As for our Memphis line-up. Not much pop but good bats overall. Jon Jay hit every ball hard except one. His last AB he took an outside fastball the other way with a sharp liner towards 3B in which he was robbed of extra bases by the elusive Bobby Scales (oh man the song he came up to bat to was “don’t stop til you get enough” by MJ… nice tribute?). Descalso hit a triple down RF line, his speed surprised me. B Anderson also hit balls hard, has that certain sound that tells you he can hit (btw he is really short). Tyler Greene was embarassed by I-Cub LH reliever Gaub who was definitely bringing it, ML arm I bet.
In summation, Jon Jay was the only guy I was really impressed with. Only guys who looked to have power were Henley and that Howard fella who looked like dog tonight. This team will not win the PCL, as if I needed to tell anyone.
@Memphis25: Memphis, how does Anderson look behind the plate? Any impressions so far?
With Hamilton out, Howard is getting all the 1st base time. they need to let one of Shorey or Marti play there some to get their bats in the lineup. Howard can slide over to third to replace Gotay or Solano (man what a slump he is in) if you want to keep his bat in the lineup.
Joe Kelly and Shelby Miller in the Quad Cities rotation…thats a lot of “stuff” for two guys in the low minors…would be great if both got anywhere close to their ceilings
Me thinks this farm system is just a little better than what it has been given credit for
Nice to see Anderson is the “starter” for Memphis at least so far. Pags has only 3 ABs so far, wonder how long that will last or if Pags is actually in StL already just in case they DL LaRue.
what happened to hamilton? do you get frequent flyer miles for the DL?
@tom s.: Hamilton’s on the DL for his right thumb. HBP would be my guess. He’s fragile.
After I finally got to see Henley hit on TV this Spring don’t be surprised if Henley moves ahead of both Jay and Robinson in the cardinals plans. Short quick swing with direct path to the ball. He is more than likely already ahead of what is expected out of Robinson at this point. I heard they were working with Robinson at 2nd base this spring. Anyword on if he is still working at that?
Hope Hamilton gets hot and we can trade him and get something from him before its too late. The guy can hit but theres someone that can hit better ahead of him. Any chance Hamilton is mobile enough for RF?