Tuesday, July 31, 2007 |
Minor League Scorebook
News
- Andy LaRoche and his improbable run top
the list of relevant prospects on this week's Prospect Hot
Sheet:
3. Andy LaRoche, 3b, Triple-A Las Vegas (Dodgers)
Making the Not-So-Hot list was 1B Cory Dunlap, whose .217/.305/.253 line in 83 AB isn't turning heads. This week's Helium award goes to Angels prospect RHP Mason Tobin:After a pedestrian first half in the PCL (.273/.367/.441), LaRoche has turned it on in July, hitting .415/.490/.939 with all but three of his 14 home runs. The 22-year-old batted .384 (10-for-26) last week with two homers, three doubles and three RBIs.
14. Ivan De Jesus Jr., ss, high Class A Inland Empire (Dodgers)
De Jesus showed his age for the first half of 2007, as the 20-year-old's batting average hovered around .250 in his second full pro season. However a scintillating July has left De Jesus hitting a season-high .297/.378/.385. He was second in the Cal League last week with a .524 average and has four straight multi-hit games. With just two days remaining, De Jesus was hitting .418/.455/.560 in July.
15. James McDonald, rhp, Double-A Jacksonville (Dodgers)
An 11th-round pick in 2002 out of Golden West (Calif.) Junior College, McDonald spent all of 2004 and the majority of 2005 playing in the outfield in the Rookie-level Gulf Coast League. The Dodgers moved him back to the mound late in the 2005 season at Rookie-level Ogden, and he spent all year in low Class A as a pitcher last season. After going a respectable 6-7, 3.95 in the Cal League this year, McDonald moved up to Double-A where he's 3-1, 1.19 in 23 innings, including an 11-strikeout performance in his last start.
In contrast to Cole Rohrbough, Tobin didn't sign with the Braves as a draft-and-follow. After two years in junior college (one at Rohrbough's old school, Western Nevada, the other in Washington at Everett JC), Tobin signed as a 16th-round pick of the Angels. His sinking fastball sat at 90-92 mph at times in the spring, and he's flashed a plus slider. He's off to an outstanding pro start at 2-0, 1.11 with 29 strikeouts in 24 innings.
- Here's the weekly MiLB.com wrap.
- The Travs' Miguel Gonzalez (1-0, 0.00 ERA, 8.0 IP) was named Texas League Pitcher of the Week. No Dodger or Angel prospect was named Offensive Player of the Week.
- RHP Aaron Cook was activated off the DL and promoted to Rancho from Cedar Rapids.
Scores
Evans: 0-3, 1 K
Wood: 0-3, 2 K
Morales: 1-2, 1 2B, 1 BB
Wilson: 1-3
Liriano: (W, 4-11), 5.0 IP, 0 R, 0 ER, 4 H, 1 K, 3 BB, 5.85 ERA
Bulger: (S, 7), 1.1 IP, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 H, 3 K, 0 BB, 4.01 ERA
The Bees won on the only run scored in the game, when Kendry Morales got a leadoff walk, moved to second on Kevin Hart's wild pitch, and Adam Pavkovich singled him home. The victory was the Bees' first shutout of the season. Matt Wilhite and Steven Shell took the game home with 2.2 innings of scoreless relief following Pedro Liriano's five zero frames of his own for the win. Jason Bulger collected his seventh save, striking out the side in the ninth.
Pettit: 2-3, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 BB
McRobbie: (W, 2-1), 7.1 IP, 0 R, 0 ER, 5 H, 6 K, 3 BB, 5.40 ERA
Arredondo: 1.0 IP, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 H, 3 K, 0 BB, 6.95 ERA
Meet Alex "All Or Nothing" McRobbie, who kept a shutout going into the eighth while striking out six, walking five, and only allowing five hits. Jose Arredondo struck out the side despite giving up two hits and a wild pitch.
Christopher Pettit had his third multi-hit game in four days; he's had one extra-base hit in every game in his last five, and driven in at least one run in that span as well. Send him to Arkansas already.
Mount: 0-5, 1 K
Conger: 2-4, 1 HR, 1 RBI
Trumbo: 2-4, 1 2B, 2 RBI
Walker: 1-4, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 1 K
Phillips: 2-3, 1 3B, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K
Rosario: 2-4, 2 HR, 2 RBI
Haynes: (W, 4-5), 5.0 IP, 0 R, 0 ER, 4 H, 3 K, 3 BB, 3.04 ERA
Madrigal: 1.0 IP, 1 R, 0 ER, 1 H, 2 K, 0 BB, 2.30 ERA
Hank Conger hit his first homer since returning from the DL, as did 22-year-old Brian Walker, and also 22-year-old Anderson Rosario — twice (his fifth and sixth of the year), and P.J. Phillips, who knocked out his 11th.
Jeremy Haynes stuck around long enough to get the win, Kelly Shearer picked it up in middle relieve, and Warner Madrigal continued his impressive run of relief.
Moore: 2-3, 1 HR, 2 RBI
Walden: (W, 1-0), 5.0 IP, 1 R, 1 ER, 3 H, 4 K, 0 BB, 5.22 ERA
Schlecker: 3.0 IP, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 H, 4 K, 0 BB, 4.22 ERA
36th-rounder Jay Brossman must like that home cooking, because the former University of Utah product belted two homers in this game, driving in three of the Owlz' five runs. Jordan Walden got his first victory in eight attempts; this was his only the second time where he had gone long enough to qualify for a win.
Loman: 2-4, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 1 K
Molina, R: (W, 3-2), 6.0 IP, 1 R, 1 ER, 7 H, 3 K, 3 BB, 3.76 ERA
Seth Loman continues to make a bid for promotion to Orem in his second tour of the AZL, stroking a two-run jack in the fifth. Not listed here but still worthy of note: Robert Coello has allowed only two earned runs all season, and owns a 1.20 ERA. He pitched a scoreless eighth despite giving up two hits.
Hu, C: 1-5
Young: 0-5, 1 K
LaRoche: 2-5, 1 HR, 3 RBI
Barnes: 3-5
McDougall: 2-4, 1 BB, 1 K
Stults: 6.0 IP, 5 R, 5 ER, 8 H, 8 K, 1 BB, 1 HR, 7.05 ERA
Wright: (L, 0-2) (in relief), 1.0 IP, 6 R, 0 ER, 4 H, 1 K, 2 BB, 1 HR, 7.90 ERA
Eric Stults hurt his chances of another callup with this game, but luckily his offense get him off the hook for a loss with a four-run fifth capped by Andy LaRoche's three-run homer, his third round-tripper in the last four games. Wesley Wright took the loss, giving up six runs in the top of the tenth, all unearned thanks to a John Lindsey throwing error. Wright compounded his problems with a wild pitch to Brooks Conrad, but it didn't matter, as he later gave up a homer to Jesse Garcia.
Dunlap: 1-4, 1 2B, 1 K
Concepcion: 2-3, 1 2B
Orenduff, J: 0-1, 1 K
Orenduff, J: (L, 6-4), 4.0 IP, 5 R, 5 ER, 6 H, 5 K, 3 BB, 1 HR, 4.03 ERA
Alexander: 2.0 IP, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 H, 4 K, 0 BB, 4.22 ERA
Gonzalez, L: 2.0 IP, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 H, 2 K, 1 BB, 4.15 ERA
Is the Mark Alexander of old — or at least, last year before his promotion to Las Vegas — back? It's still an awfully small sample size, but he has allowed only one earned run in his last seven appearances while striking out 14 over 11.1 innings. Unfortunately, his latest good outing came in a loss to the Mudcats, who worked Justin Orenduff for five runs and chased him after four. Blake Dewitt's solo homer provided half of the Suns' scoring.
May: 3-4, 1 HR, 2 RBI
Hunt: 3-4, 1 2B, 2 RBI
Alvarez, M: (L, 5-7), 0.2 IP, 7 R, 7 ER, 7 H, 2 K, 2 BB, 1 HR, 5.52 ERA
Pratt: 1.1 IP, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 H, 2 K, 1 BB, 6.91 ERA
Brooks, P: 3.0 IP, 2 R, 2 ER, 5 H, 3 K, 1 BB, 6.00 ERA
If you aren't laughing, you aren't paying attention... an eleven-run fourth put this one away for the Mavericks. Carlos Triunfel of the Mavs went 6-for-6 with three runs scored and a pair of RBIs. Travis Scott hit a grand slam in that big fourth, with Eduardo Quintana and starter Mario Alvarez — the latter lasting only two outs — taking virtually all the abuse themselves.
Ivan DeJesus took advantage of the launching pad at High Desert to launch one himself, a three-run jack, and Lucas May also got a solo homer.
Bell: 0-4, 2 K
Apodaca: 2-4, 1 3B, 2 RBI, 1 K
Mattingly: 0-4
Kershaw: (L, 7-5), 1.0 IP, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 H, 2 K, 1 BB, 2.83 ERA
Sanfler: 2.1 IP, 3 R, 2 ER, 1 H, 2 K, 2 BB, 5.43 ERA
The Dodgers limited Clayton Kershaw's inning count, and so his one-inning start had nothing to do with performance; he got tagged with the loss by giving up a run in the first inning.
Mathews: 2-3, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 1 BB
Vetters: 2-3, 1 HR, 2 RBI
Blevins: (L, 2-1), 6.0 IP, 5 R, 5 ER, 7 H, 6 K, 0 BB, 1 HR, 4.66 ERA
Bradley: 2-3, 1 RBI, 2 BB
Silverio: 3-3, 2 RBI
Garcia, J: 2-4, 1 K
Guzman, A: 1-4, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 1 K
Miller: 2.0 IP, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 H, 1 K, 0 BB, 2.45 ERA
Garcia, L. A.: (W, 3-0) (in relief), 4.0 IP, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 H, 1 K, 1 BB, 1.93 ERA
Dutton: (L, 2-1), 5.0 IP, 3 R, 3 ER, 10 H, 4 K, 1 BB, 1 HR, 4.86 ERA
Paredes: 2.0 IP, 1 R, 0 ER, 2 H, 3 K, 1 BB, 4.76 ERA
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