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Powered by one kick-ass production of Franz Lahár's The Merry Widow, on to the news...- Matt Brown done a bad, bad thing — or so he thought:
Matt Brown initially thought he was in the manager's doghouse when he was pulled in the seventh inning Tuesday night of a Pacific Coast League game involving Salt Lake and Tacoma.
Brian Harper, the Salt Lake manager, told the infielder that he had come out of the game because of a poor secondary lead off second base. Then Harper added, "But when you're taking batting practice in Anaheim tomorrow, you can work on that."
Brown, 24, had hit .300 with three homers and 22 RBIs in 30 games with the Bees while primarily playing second base so that top prospect Brandon Wood could play third base. The Angels optioned Wood back to Salt Lake on Tuesday so that he could play every day.
Faced with the same quandary — being a reserve in Anaheim or playing regularly in Salt Lake — Brown didn't hesitate to offer his preference.
"I think everybody wants to be in the big leagues," he said. "That's where it's at."
- The Angels named their Players of the Month. Defensive Player: Hainley Statia; Pitcher: Nick Adenhart; Offensive: Nathan Haynes.
- The Dodgers will be calling up Hong-Chih Kuo or Yhency Brazoban in the next week.
- There's definitely something wrong with the MILB.com news archives, or there was, anyway; no meta-roundup post of last week's news, so here goes for the individual leagues, just like last year. PCL (Bees, 51's); Texas League (Travs); Southern League (Suns); Cal League (Quakes, 66ers); Midwest League (Kernels, Loons).
Scores
Evans: 3-5, 3 RBI
Wood: 2-6, 1 2B, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 3 K
Eylward: 2-5, 1 2B, 1 BB
Gorneault: 1-4, 1 RBI, 2 BB
Mathis: 1-5, 1 BB, 1 K
Smith, Ca: 2-3, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K
Pavkovich: 2-4, 1 K
Liriano: 5.0 IP, 1 R, 1 ER, 5 H, 3 K, 0 BB, 7.59 ERA
Resop: 2.0 IP, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 H, 0 K, 0 BB, 6.27 ERA
Serrano: (L, 1-2) (in relief), 1.0 IP, 2 R, 0 ER, 2 H, 2 K, 0 BB, 2.89 ERA
Light a fire under his Bee-hind, and see what Brandon Wood can do? Anyway, not a good game for starting pitching in this one, but Chris Resop managed a couple scoreless frames.
Renz: 2-4, 1 K
Morris: 2-4, 2 K
Marek: (L, 2-1), 5.2 IP, 4 R, 4 ER, 5 H, 7 K, 0 BB, 1 HR, 3.04 ERA
Stephen Marek got tagged with the loss in this one, though he didn't pitch especially badly; most of the damage came in the three-run sixth, in which he surrendered a two-out, two-run homer to Kyle Blanks.
Sweeney: 2-3, 1 HR, 2 RBI
Trumbo: 3-5, 1 2B
Conger: 2-5, 1 2B, 1 RBI
Mount: 3-5, 1 RBI
Phillips: 3-5, 2 HR, 4 RBI, 2 K
Schoeninger: (W, 5-1), 7.0 IP, 2 R, 2 ER, 7 H, 1 K, 1 BB, 2.36 ERA
Mark Trumbo looks like he's starting to figure things out some, posting his third multi-hit game of the season, raising his line to .256/.287/.378, and extending his on-base streak to 12 games. Hank Conger got his first hit after a three game slumplet, driving in his first run in the last seven games; Ryan Mount also broke out after three 0-fers. Matt Sweeney and P.J. Phillips both homered, Phillips twice (once in the top of the second with no outs and nobody on, and again in the top of the sixth with Ryan Mount on).
Tim Schoeninger continued his stellar work on the mound, as the former University of Nevada at Reno product hoovers up wins. His 6.21 K/9 isn't enough to make you believe he'll have a lot of success at higher levels, but the Angels have lately done well with this type of pitcher, so who knows. If he keeps this up, I expect to see him at Rancho by midseason.
Kemp: 1-4, 1 2B, 1 K
Loney: 2-4, 1 2B, 2 K
Young: 1-4, 1 2B, 1 RBI
Garcia: 2-3
Houlton: (W, 3-2), 6.0 IP, 1 R, 1 ER, 5 H, 7 K, 2 BB, 2.95 ERA
Brazoban: (H, 2), 2.0 IP, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 H, 1 K, 1 BB, 1.29 ERA
D.J. Houlton this year has had more "on" games than "off", yesterday posting one of his best of the season for his third win. He's delivered quality starts in three of his seven outings, and is 2-0 with a no-decision in those games. Yhency Brazoban also pitched well, with two scoreless innings. Matt White got his first save of the year.
The 51's did most of their scoring in the three-run fourth, on doubles by James Loney and Delwyn Young; an RBI single by Ken Huckaby and Tomas Perez's sac fly finished the scoring.
Paul: 2-4, 1 2B
McDougall: 2-4, 1 K
Allen: 0-2, 2 BB, 1 K
Ojeda: 6.0 IP, 1 R, 1 ER, 6 H, 2 K, 2 BB, 1 HR, 5.50 ERA
Alexander: (W, 1-0) (in relief), 2.0 IP, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 H, 5 K, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA
Meloan: 1.0 IP, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 H, 1 K, 0 BB, 1.65 ERA
Back to AA for the struggling Mark Alexander, who looks to maybe be a AAa pitcher; he struck out all but one batter he faced in two frames, and collected his first win with the Suns. Jonathan Meloan continued his great relief pitching with a scoreless ninth, picking up his fifth save of the year.
Jacksonville did almost all of their scoring in the bottom of the eighth; singles by John Lindsey and Marshall McDougall, a wild pitch by Dewon Day, and shortstop Robert Valdo's error allowed both to score. Juan Gonzalez reached on a scoring fielder's choice to the pitcher to make it 4-1.
Dewitt: 0-3
Mitchell: 2-3, 1 2B
Arias, M: (W, 2-1), 9.0 IP, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 H, 10 K, 2 BB, 4.66 ERA
Marlon Arias pitched the fourth complete-game no-hitter in 66ers history, shutting down Bakersfield 2-0. It's only his second win and just his first quality start of the season. His opponent was erstwhile Texas top prospect Edinson Volquez, whose development seems to have stagnated.
James Tomlin singled in Russell Mitchell in the second; Mitchell had previously doubled. It was all the scoring Arias would need.
Bell: 0-3, 3 K
Santana: 0-2, 1 BB
Melgarejo: 2.0 IP, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 H, 0 K, 0 BB, 3.76 ERA
Sanfler: (L, 0-1) (in relief), 2.0 IP, 2 R, 1 ER, 5 H, 1 K, 1 BB, 1.71 ERA
The Loons posted four in the first but gave them back in the fourth; Miguel Sanfler gave up the game-loser to Andy Hargrove in the top of the ninth, one of those runs being unearned thanks to a throwing error by 2B Adolfo Gonzalez.
Labels: minors
Anybody else out there realize that Schoeninger's career K/BB ratio is 94:6?
It's only Low-A, and no, he doesn't strike out many, but that's still pretty impressive.
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