It’s a clean sweep for the organization tonight including impressive pitching performance at AA and some high flyin’ offense in the Quad Cities.
- Jim Rapoport was 3-for-5.
- Tyler Greene was 2-for-5.
- Allen Craig was 2-for-5 with a double. Craig is hitting for average in Memphis but his power numbers still haven’t returned to where they’d be ideally.
- Bryan Anderson was 3-for-4.
- Donovan Solano was 2-for-4 with a double and a triple.
- Brandon Dickson threw 6 innings allowing 6 hits and 3 walks for 2 ER. He struck out 6 with his usually high groundball rate.
- Pete Parise tossed 1.1 scoreless innings allowing 1 hit and 1 walk.
- Fernando Salas struckout the last two batters to end the game.
Springfield 9, Corpus Christi 0
- The lead item here is Brian Broderick tossing a 2-hit complete game. He struck out 5 and needed just 97 pitches. Quite an impressive outing.
- Curt Smith brought the firepower going 3-for-5 with a pair of homeruns and a double.
- Aaron Luna was 3-for-5 with a double.
- Charles Cutler was 2-for-4 with a double.
- Xavier Scruggs was 2-for-4 with a double and a HR.
- Nick Derba was 3-for-4 with a double and a HR.
- Scott McGregor tossed 5 innings allowing 4 hits. The only ER came on a solo home run.
- David Carpenter picked up a save with a scoreless 9th.
- Ryan Jackson and Jason Stidham was 2-for-6.
- Niko Vasquez was 3-for-5 with a double.
- Ryde Rodriguez was 2-for-5.
- Edgar Lara was 3-for-4 with a pair of triples and a walk.
- Joe Kelly was his typical dominant self. He tossed 5 shut out innings allowing 4 hits and 1 walk while striking out 6.
- Daniel Calhoun got lit up for 6 ER in 1.2 innings.
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Was this Brodericks first ever AA game? I know he’s been at PB this year. First start at a higher level? In a hitters league? Wow.
On another note is Ryde Rodriquez finally living up to his potential? He seems to be in the DFR everyday.
wow, that is a dominant performance by broderick…13-8 GB/FB isn’t great, but its pretty good…what is his stuff like? does he have a legit chance at the majors
Also Matias pitched another 3 innings in the DSL today. 3 Ks and 3 walks.
@Andrew: Ryde is still posting a OPS well below 700 so he has a ways to go. Niko, though, is bucking for a second half promotion if he keeps hitting like this. Tyler Greene is smoking hot. It’s too bad he is being blocked by Aaron Miles.
@Andrew: Broderick was at Springfield last year 0-5 in 7 games. This was his second start this year. First start he went 5 innings and allowed 5 runs. Hopefully this starts a turn around.
@VolsnCards5:
I think he spent a little time in AA end of last year. Not sure, but could be he used a lot of breaking stuff, but what does it matter, he got the job done, a badly needed win and gave the bull pen a day off.
Congrats to him.
Joe Kelly is certainly looking good, at least statistically. What does he throw?
@Gruntosaurus: I believe I’ve read that he throws 92-94 mph fastball, four and two seam, and a slider.
Joe Kelly was always thought to be a reliever, but he’s doing well in the rotation. In the bullpen, he was a “velocity” guy hitting the upper 90′s. He’s takena few ticks off the fastball and seems to be a groundball machine with a little more run and sink now.
He’s got a nice, large frame, and a great arm. Looks to have a bright future, and might need to be challenged in the second half.
@Vision:
“Nice, large frame”? Kelly’s frame is far from large. He’s not a big guy at all.
I agree with the rest of your comments though. Kelly has become quite an exciting prospect.