Jaime Garcia makes a rehab start in Springfield. Anthony Garcia and Stephen Piscotty make some noise in Quad Cities.
Memphis 2, Sacramento 3 (10 innings)
- Steve Hill reaches double digits in home runs with a solo shot in the 9th inning. It was his only hit in 4 at bats.
- Cedric Hunter was 2-for-3 with a pair of doubles and a walk.
- Tyler Lyons pitched 6 innings allowing 2 runs on 8 hits and 1 walk. He struck out 8.
- Jess Todd pitched a perfect inning striking out 1.
- Sam Freeman pitched a pair of scoreless innings. He struck out 2, walked 1 and allowed 2 hits.
- Adam Reifer took the loss in the 10th after failing to record an out. He allowed Sacramento to walk off scoring a run on 3 hits.
Springfield 3, Tulsa 7 (12 innings)
- Kolten Wong was 0-for-4 with a walk.
- Oscar Taveras was 1-for-5.
- Audry Perez was 2-for-4.
- Adam Melker was 2-for-3 with a home run and a walk.
- Jaime Garcia was once again effective in his rehab start allowing just 1 run on 2 hits scored on a solo home run. Garcia struck out 6 and had a 6-1 groundout to flyout ratio.
- Scott Gorgen appeared in relief pitching a scoreless frame allowing 1 hit.
- Keith Butler would take the loss after getting walloped in his second inning of work. He allowed 3 hits and a walk culminating in a grand slam by Tulsa lead off hitter Corey Dickerson — who had also homered off Garcia earlier in the game.
- Palm Beach actually out hit Bradenton 6 to 3 but a home run from Bradenton proved to be all the difference.
- Chris Corrigan pitched 5 innings allowing 2 runs on 2 hits and 3 walks. He struck out 6.
- Michael Wacha, the Cardinals’ first overall pick in 2012, pitched the final 2 innings allowing 1 walk and striking out 3.
- The Cardinals were shut down in part by the 2nd overall pick in the 2010 draft, James Tallion. He pitched 5 innings allowing 2 hits and striking out 4.
- Stephen Piscotty went 1-for-2 with a home run and 2 walks. He also had 2 throwing errors in the game.
- Anthony Garcia was 1-for-3 with his 16th home run of the season.
- Nick Martini was 2-for-4.
- Willy Paulino lasted just 2.2 innings allowing 4 runs (1 earned) on 5 walks and 1 hit. He struck out 5.
- Jonathan Cornelius saved the bullpen with 4.1 innings allowing 3 hits and striking out 6.
- Kyle Barraclough wound up with the loss after he was tagged for 3 runs on 3 hits in the 8th.
- Danny Stienstra (2B) went 2-for-4 with a double.
- Patrick Wisdom (3B) accumulated a golden sombrero in his 4 at bats.
- Jonathan Keener (C) walked twice and was 1-for-2.
- David Popkins (RF) was 2-for-4 with a double.
- Ben O’Shea was knocked around for 12 hits in 4.1 innings. He struck out 3 but allowed 5 runs (4 earned).
Johnson City 2, Greeneville 3 (10 innings)
- Idemaro Vargas was 2-for-5.
- Adam Ehrlich was 2-for-4 with a home run. His first home run of the season was good enough to tie the game but ultimate Johnson City wasn’t able to win.
- Zachary Petrick pitched 4 innings allowing 4 hits and 2 runs. He struck out 1 and walked 1.
- Michael Aldrete struck out 2 in 3 innings allowing 2 hits and 1 walk.
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OT was actually 1-5 with a SB and run score.
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Would like to see Wacha move up, maybe set up for Butler, or at least give Butler a little more rest.
Wacha’s straight FB and curveball will likely not be tested this season due to pitching in relief.
Man, Reifer is really struggling. I have to start wondering if he is going to make it past this year. Only reason he would is if they think he just hasn’t returned from injury and he still might.
Reifer is the next guy off the 40-man, IMO.
Was in attendance at the Springfield game last night. Taveras again takes massive cuts at the plate violent controlled swing. In Taveras’s first AB he K’d on a curve-ball off balance type swing his 2 strike approach may need little work other than that Taveras made hard contact on his next 3 AB on sharply hit groundballs. In his last AB Taveras hit a single that was a rocket right up the middle ball sounds different off his bat.
Kevin Siegrist also pitched 2 2/3 innings last night for Springfield. He was sitting in the high 80s to low 90s on his fastball had some movement hit most of his spots mixed in a change-up that got a few swings and misses his delivery is a little funky it looks like he sides arm the ball hides the ball well to did struggle with his control a bit due to the umpires tight strike zone.
Fornataro pitches from the windup was sitting in the low-to-mid 90s displayed a sharp curve-ball with solid late break. Fornataro has reinvented himself into a groundball type pitcher.
Greg Garcia is actually a pretty smooth defender at SS does not have excellent range but has enough. Garcia made an excellent diving play up the showing some athleticism he ranged to his right to Wong nice turn showing his strong arm to Scruggs for a 6-4-3 DP. Wong made a leaping catch in the air showing his athleticism as well. Garcia also worked a 6 pitch walk showing his incredible plate discipline. Wong timing was a bit down due to his leg kick in his stance he looked a bit over matched with some of his swings.
Keith Butler was sitting in the mid-to-high 80s on his fastball showed his above average slider that he left over the plate a few times resulting in giving up a grand slam in the 12th.
DT; Why does it seem like Kolten Wong is on cruise control? What’s your take on him?
No doubt that Reifer has been a disappointment for me this season. Maybe he’s not completely healthy. However, if we wants to stay on the 40-man after this season, he’s going to have to show the Cardinals front office something.
As for Wacha, he sure is exciting. Is it possible that the Cards might send him to AA at some point to pitch in relief? Would they do that?
Anthony Garcia now slugging .528 and ISOing .245 this season for Quad Cities showing some intriguing power potential. That 31:90 BB:K ratio is going to kill him at higher levels though.
Good to see Adam Ehrlich show some power potential in his bat still love his defense behind the plate.
What’s interesting is that Garcia had outstanding K:BB ratios his first couple of years. His BB rate actually hasn’t decreased that much, just that the K rate as soared.
The knee jerk reaction would then be that he’s having trouble with more advanced breaking stuff. Will be interesting to see how he finishes up and where he goes next year, PB or even up to SPR.
I dont see him starting at SPFLD with those K rates.
He needs some time at PB but he will be fine.
Kenny Peoples Walls hit his first HR for GCL this season last night. Walls a very raw prospect owns this line .224/.288/.318.
I’m wondering about Piscotty’s future in the system. He’s only hit 2 hrs in over 100 abs and also has 10 errors already at 3b. Where is his future position? Is it 2b?
Steven Hill is on a run; he popped another dinger tonight. Must be pushing for a September call-up.
Piscotty’s ultimate future is probably in LF. He even got ample playing time there in college, if I recall correctly.
I’m beginning to think Piscotty’s upside is Skip Schumaker.
Piscotty’s highest upside would be probably Scott Rolen (not Schumaker) minus the defense both have strong line drive swings.
I am engulfed in a wave of sadness everytime Carson Kelly doesn’t make the DFR.