Wednesday, May 09, 2007 |
Minor League Scorebook
News
- Kendry Morales supposedly got the callup to replace the unwell Justin Speier (also from the Bees website).
- The Angels did the logical thing and optioned Brandon Wood back to AAA Salt Lake, where he can get actual at-bats in a lineup against minor league pitchers he has a chance of hitting. His replacement, writes the Salt Lake Tribune, will be former third baseman Matt Brown. Brown's hitting .300/.374/.500 with three homers for the Bees. He had been moving around the diamond at second, third, left, and DHing when Brandon Wood was still at AAA, but he settled back in to third. Maybe not surprisingly, once he moved back to his familiar old hot corner, he started to hit, as he's posted a .382/.447/.676 line, with two of his home runs coming in that span (since April 29). Brown gives the Angels some positional versatility. It looks like the Times has changed their tune on Brown, so Brown it is.
- Bees Wax (see
the May 8 entry) has an interesting article about extended spring
training, which I will quote in its entirety:
On April 19, outfielder Coby Smith joined the Bees from extended spring training. After three games on the field with Salt Lake he was returned to his original starting point. But it didn't last long, in just five days, Smith was headed back to the Bees where he is currently sporting the team's white and gold.
Imagine being glad to get back to a AAA assignment.So what exactly is extended spring training? I met up with #19 and asked him that exact question.
Held in Tempe, Ariz. at the Angels' minor league complex, extended spring training is "just like spring training. Practice in the morning, play games in the afternoon. We play one game a day, everyday. It's Monday through Saturday, Sundays off. It's not a league, but it's the same thing as the rookie ball Arizona Fall League. It's basically the same thing, just not keeping up with the stats and all that stuff."
Who can be found at extended spring training? "It's just a lot of guys rehabbing and then you have a lot of other guys that [the Angels] are not quite ready to get rid of but there's not really room on [minor league] rosters for them to go yet. So they're kind of waiting around, still playing games. There are probably 50, 60 people there. A lot of them are real young guys, a lot of them are waiting to go to the short season team, the Orem Owlz. It starts after the draft. Different people are there for different reasons."
"I knew I was going to have to leave [the Bees] but I didn't know I was going to have to go back to extended. If something else opened up in double-A I thought I had a chance to go there but it didn't, so I went back. Then a couple of guys got called back up so they sent me back here. I was very glad... very glad."
Scores
Mathis: 1-4
Gorneault: 2-4, 2 K
Brown: 2-3, 1 2B, 1 RBI
Smith, Ca: 2-4, 1 2B, 2 RBI
Bonilla: (W, 4-1), 6.0 IP, 3 R, 3 ER, 7 H, 3 K, 0 BB, 3.96 ERA
Bulger: 2.0 IP, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 H, 5 K, 0 BB, 3.52 ERA
Oh, happy day! An offensive explosion. Not partaking was Terry Evans, who ended a little three-game hit streak. Look out below: he's only got three walks so far this year.
Peel, A: 1-3, 1 HR, 1 RBI
Saenz: (L, 1-3), 4.0 IP, 4 R, 3 ER, 6 H, 1 K, 3 BB, 9.78 ERA
Rodriguez, R: 3.0 IP, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 H, 0 K, 1 BB, 5.06 ERA
Arredondo: 1.0 IP, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 H, 0 K, 0 BB, 4.05 ERA
Aaron Peel has not done well in his second stint at AA, so the home run he hit in this game, his third of the year, was more than welcome. Sean Rodriguez hit a solo homer; he's hitting .280/.408/.486 on the season. Chris Saenz continued his string of bad outings, but Rafael Rodriguez posted three zero frames.
Statia: 3-4, 2 3B, 3 RBI, 1 BB
Sutton: 3-5, 3 RBI, 1 K
Renz: 1-5, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 2 K
Ortega: 5.0 IP, 3 R, 3 ER, 4 H, 4 K, 3 BB, 4.15 ERA
Mattison: (BS, 2)(W, 1-2) (in relief), 3.0 IP, 2 R, 1 ER, 4 H, 2 K, 0 BB, 1.69 ERA
Nice little blowout; Hainley Statia and Nate Sutton each drove in three, Statia garnering a pair of triples and a walk. while Brad Coon went 4-5 with a double.
Ortiz, W: 2-3, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 K
Trumbo: 1-3, 1 RBI
Conger: 0-3
Mount: 0-3, 2 K
Phillips: 0-3, 1 K
O'Sullivan: (W, 2-3), 8.0 IP, 1 R, 1 ER, 6 H, 6 K, 0 BB, 3.41 ERA
Did I say Hank Conger is struggling? He's really struggling. He's been 0-fer in four of his last five games, and hasn't had a multi-hit game in over a week now. Fortunately, Wilberto Ortiz picked up some of the slack, as did Mark Trumbo and Christopher Pettit. The game was tied 1-1 going into the ninth, when the Kernels staged a two-out rally. Pettit singled, and Ortiz cashed him in.
Sean O'Sullivan pitched a real gem, his best game so far this year, eight innings of one-run ball.
Kemp: 3-4, 1 2B, 1 K
Loney: 0-4, 3 K
Young: 2-4, 1 HR, 1 RBI
Perez: 2-4, 1 HR, 3 RBI
Stults: (L, 2-3), 1.2 IP, 6 R, 6 ER, 8 H, 2 K, 2 BB, 7.71 ERA
LaMura: 3.0 IP, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 H, 5 K, 1 BB, 0.00 ERA
Riley: 2.1 IP, 3 R, 3 ER, 3 H, 4 K, 0 BB, 1 HR, 11.57 ERA
Hoorelbeke: 1.0 IP, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 H, 1 K, 0 BB, 4.84 ERA
Oklahoma hammered starter Eric Stults, who didn't last two innings. James Loney got three strikeouts, while Matt Kemp had a great night at the plate, 3-4. Tomas Perez's three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth made the game look respectable, but Oklahoma's five-run second — including a 2-5 night from former major leaguer Desi Relaford — put the game away for good.
Paul: 1-3, 1 BB
Lindsey: 2-4, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 K
McDougall: 3-4, 1 2B, 1 RBI
Cyr: (W, 2-1), 6.1 IP, 1 R, 0 ER, 7 H, 4 K, 1 BB, 2.48 ERA
Hammes: (H, 1), 1.2 IP, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 H, 3 K, 0 BB, 0.00 ERA
Meloan: 1.0 IP, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 H, 2 K, 1 BB, 1.76 ERA
Eric Cyr had a solid night, giving up only an unearned run on Jimmy Rohan's fielding error in the first, but face it, he's pitching to kids much younger than he is. Zach Hammes and Jonathan Meloan, on the other hand, had excellent nights and are legit prospects, too.
Jacksonville scored all four runs in the sixth. Barons starter Adam Russell failed to make a single out at the plate, allowing hits to the first four batters in the frame, and giving up a run when he threw away a pickoff toss besides. Anthony Raglani's single drove in yet another run, capping the scoring.
Mitchell: 2-4, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 BB
De Jesus: 1-5
Tomlin: 2-3, 1 BB
Castillo, J: 5.0 IP, 4 R, 4 ER, 6 H, 5 K, 2 BB, 1 HR, 4.96 ERA
Troncoso: (L, 3-1) (in relief), 2.0 IP, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 H, 0 K, 0 BB, 1.33 ERA
The 66ers lost this one in the top of the tenth when Ramon Troncoso gave up a leadoff double to John Mayberry and a sac bunt from Thomas Berkery to move him to third. Micah Furtado got a sac fly to left, plating Mayberry, the game-winner.
The game could have been won save for Bakersfields' four-run fifth; scoring started with a man-on-third balk by Jesus Castillo, and ended with a John Mayberry three-run homer.
Berezay: 2-4, 1 2B
Santana: 0-4
Bell: 1-2, 1 BB
Van Slyke: 2-3, 1 2B, 1 RBI
Kershaw: (W, 3-0), 5.2 IP, 2 R, 2 ER, 5 H, 8 K, 2 BB, 1.47 ERA
A fine game for Clayton Kershaw, even though it wasn't quite a quality start. The Loons scored all five in the fourth, despite the hardest-hit ball being only Scott Van Slyke's RBI double.
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