Memphis and the Big League club tried to go inning for inning last night, both coming to a close roughly around the same time.
On to the DFR!
Memphis 6, Nashville 5 (12 innings)
- Tyler Greene went 1-for-4
- Andrew Brown was 2-for-4 with 2 2Bs.
- Matt Carpenter went 1-for-4 with a 2B.
- Aaron Luna hit a 3-run HR and had 4 RBI.
- Pete Kozma went 1-for-3.
- Donovan Solano went 1-for-2.
- Maikel Cleto started, going 5 IP with 6 H, 4 ER, 3 BB and 3 K.
- Rich Rundles picked up a hold, allowing 2 H with 1 K in 1 IP.
- Jess Todd took a blown save, giving up 1 ER on 2 H and 1 BB.
- Victor Marte threw 2 IP with 1 H, 1 BB and 1 K.
- Chuckie Fick recorded the win with a 2 IP, 2 H, 4 K performance.
- Pete Parise had a save, allowing a H and recording a K in his IP.
- Jordan Rasmus, David Medina and Joseph Bergman went 1-for-4 with a 2B.
- Virgil Hill (3B) and Roberto Reyes were 1-for-3.
- Cesar Valera was had a H in 4 Abs.
- Michael Maness threw 7 good innings, giving up only 3 H and 2 BB for 1 UER. He struckout 5.
- Travis Miller picked up the win, hold the Spikes hitless over 2 IP with a BB and a K.
Johnson City 4, Bluefield 6 (11 innings)
- Tyler Rahmatulla and Steven Ramos went 3-for-5.
- Neal Pritchard hit a 2B, going 1-for-5.
- Anthony Garcia went 2-for-5.
- Gary Apelian was the only player with 6 ABs, picking up a H.
- David Washington and Jesus Montero went 1-for-5.
- Eduardo Hiraldo threw 4.1 IP of 8 H, 3 R (2 ER) baseball with 2 K.
- Nicholas Gillung struckout 5 in 3.1 IP. He gave up a H, ER and BB.
- Logan Billbrough gave up 2 H, getting an out on a K.
- Dyllon Nuernberg took the loss giving up 2 R (1 ER) on a HR. He walked 2, striking out 3 in 2.1 IP.
- Kolten Wong went 1-for-3.
- Oscar Taveras went 1-for-4.
- Jonathan Rodriguez hit a solo HR.
- Colin Walsh was 1-for-3 with a 2B and 2 RBI.
- Victor Sanchez went 2-for-4.
- Geoffrey Klein went 1-for-3
- Ryan Copeland twirled what should have been a great win, going 7 IP with only 1 H and 1 BB alongside 5 K.
- Aiden Lucas, however, came in and gave up 4 UER on 2 H and a BB in 1.2 IP.
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J-Rod is on quite a tear for QC, with 5 HR in his last 10 games. For the season, 30 of his 59 hits have gone for extra bases, and his ISO is up to .228.
Anthony Garcia is also off to a great start for JC. I think he’s only gone hitless in 1 of 11 games so far.
Hard to complain about Garcia but I am a little disappointed in his walk totals. Last year he walked more than he K’d but this year he has 7 K’s and just one BB.
As pitchers continue to be promoted throughout the organization, expect Maness and McInnes to both get a shot at QC this year. Both are 22 and should be at PB next year.
Steve Ramos has seemed like an interesting prospect to me since we drafted him last year, he has hit for a nice average so far, but what really stands out is his being 11 for 11 on stolen base attempts this year. And i believe he has had 3 or 4 games where he stole two even! It is Johnson City though, and hope to see him get a promotion to see if we have something here.
I’ll admit, I was disappointed to not see Matt Adams’ name up there because of Springfield’s night off.
Tyler Rahmatulla looks like a potentially intriguing name (both literally and figuratively). He seems to be knocking the leather off the ball at the moment.
Just saw per the News-leader that Daryl Jones is back in Springfield. In the lineup tonight.
Was Palm Beach rained out? I was hoping for another C-Mart update!
Im irrationally high on Luna. He’s my new Allen Craig. All he does is produce. Hasn’t slg’d as well as Craig but his OBP is better.
Luna’s wRC+ at his final year at each level:
High A: 149 in his 22yo season.
AA: 156 in his 23yo season.
AAA: 126 (so far) in his 24yo season.
Craig:
High A: 147 as a 22/23yo.
AA: 129 as a 23/24yo
AAA: 141 as a 24/25yo.
Got to say, that’s a better comp than I’d imagined. Craig’s hit for a bit more average and a tiny bit more power, whereas Luna’s walked and got HBP a touch more at each level. I guess the one question mark on Luna is whether his skillset translates to the majors as well as Craig’s; Craig seems to have more homerun pop and Luna’s OBP is heavily propped up by a propensity to get hit (I’m guessing he crowds the plate a LOT, which tends to only work against major league pitchers if you’re able to crush balls thrown in at you and have the ability to work a walk on pitches away).
I too have been quite a big Luna fan in recent years, and it’s testament to how much depth we have in the system now that we could trade Jay or Craig and have a pretty decent ready-made replacement for them in Chambers and Luna (respectively). Also, it’s pretty cool that Craig was in a lot of people’s top 10s (and even top 5′s) 2 years ago, whereas I think Luna would be a marginal top 20 guy at this point (but perhaps deserves more love!).