Jesus, Montero is on fire

Josh Norris was at Low-A Charleston’s game last night and got some video of Jose Ramirez and J.R. Murphy. Check it out.

Triple-A Scranton (3-1 loss to Gwinnett)
Kevin Russo, CF: 2 for 4 – got picked off first
Reegie Corona, 2B, Eric Bruntlett, 3B, Greg Golson, RF & Chad Moeller, C: all 0 for 3 – Corona drew a walk
Eduardo Nunez, SS, Jorge Vazquez, 1B & Chad Huffman, LF: all 1 for 4 – Nunez stole a base, scored a run & got caught stealing … JoVa got picked off first, K’ed twice & committed a fielding error … Huffman K’ed
Jesus Montero, DH: 3 for 3, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 BB – eight for his last nine with two doubles & two homers … .420/.532/.740 in July … he hasn’t struck out in ten days
Tim Redding: 8 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 6 K, 10-7 GB/FB, 1 E (pickoff) – 67 of 102 pitches were strikes (65.7%) … if he wasn’t Tim Redding, I’d say he’s making a might fine case to challenge Sergio Mitre for that open rotation spot
Romulo Sanchez: 1 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 1 K, 1-0 GB/FB – eight of his 13 pitches were strikes (61.5%) … whole lotta stuff happened in the span of 13 pitches there, huh?

Double-A Trenton (4-2 loss to Richmond)
Justin Christian, DH: 2 for 5, 1 2B, 2 K
Justin Snyder, SS & Edwar Gonzalez, RF: both 0 for 4 – Snyder walked & K’ed … Edwar K’ed twice & threw a runner out at third
Matt Cusick, 2B & Brandon Laird, 3B: both 0 for 3, 1 BB – Laird K’ed
Dan Brewer, CF: 1 for 4, 1 R, 1 K
Marcos Vechionacci, 1B: 2 for 4
Rene Rivera, C: 1 for 3, 1 R, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K, 2 PB – that’s only his third homer since signing, but it feels like it should be a whole lot more
Jack Rye, LF: 1 for 4, 1 RBI, 1 K
Andrew Brackman: 5.2 IP, 9 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 7 K, 1 HB, 7-2 GB/FB – 86-22 K/BB ratio in 91.1 IP
Wilkins Arias: 1.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 4 K, 2 WP, 0-1 GB/FB – the walk was intentional
J.B. Cox: 0.2 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 0 K, 1-1 GB/FB

High-A Tampa (3-1 loss to Bradenton)
Ray Kruml, LF & Jose Gil, C: both 0 for 4
Jose Pirela, SS: 2 for 4, 1 R, 1 E (throwing) – 17 for his last 40 (.425)
Corban Joseph, 2B: 0 for 2, 2 BB, 1 CS – five walks, one strikeout in his last six games
Bradley Suttle, DH, Melky Mesa, CF & Zoilo Almonte, RF: all 1 for 4 – Suttle & Almonte each K’ed once
Trenton Lockwood, 1B & Walt Ibarra, 3B: both 0 for 3 – Lockwood drew a walk … Ibarra committed a fielding error
Manny Banuelos: 5 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 0 ER, 3 BB, 10 K, 2-2 GB/FB, 1 E (throwing) – 39-11 K/BB ratio in 28.1 IP
Trenton Lare: 3 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 K, 3-3 GB/FB
Pat Venditte: 1 IP, zeroes, 0-3 GB/FB

Low-A Charleston (5-4 win over Lakewood in 10 innings)
Slade Heathcott, CF: 2 for 5, 1 2B, 1 K – 15 for his last 41 (.366)
J.R. Murphy, C: 0 for 4, 1 R, 1 K, 1 PB, 1 HBP – .650 OPS as a catcher, .591 as a DH … usually it’s the other way around, but small sample size
Jimmy Paredes, 2B: 1 for 4, 1 SB
Neil Medchill, LF & Luke Murton, 1B: both 2 for 5, 1 R – Medchill drove in a run & K’ed twice … Murton doubled
Rob Lyerly, 3B: 1 for 5, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 K, 1 SB, 2 E (throwing, fielding)
Kyle Higashioka, DH: 2 for 4, 1 2B, 2 RBI, 1 BB, 2 K – 14 for his last 40 (.350)
DeAngelo Mack, RF: 1 for 2, 1 R, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 3 BB – second homer in the last four games
Brett Marshall: 6 IP, 5 H, 4 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 7 K, 6-4 GB/FB – he was up to 94 on the gun
Ryan Acosta: 2 IP, zeroes, 2 K, 2-1 GB/FB
Kelvin Perez: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K, 2-0 GB/FB
Francisco Gil: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 0-2 GB/FB

Short Season Staten Island had their doubleheader rained out. They have plenty of games left against Hudson Valley, so there will be no trouble making these up. Just not sure when it’ll happen just yet.

Rookie GCL Yanks (3-1 win over GCL Blue Jays)
Cito Culver, SS: 0 for 2, 1 BB, 1 K – love seeing him hit leadoff, gets him as many plate appearances as humanly possible
Anderson Felix, 2B & Reymond Nunez, 1B: both 0 for 4 – Felix K’ed
Ramon Flores, RF: 1 for 1, 2 BB, 1 HBP – threw a runner out at second … 12 for his last 26 (.462) with six walks & four strike outs
Damian Taveras, C & Fu-Lin Kuo, DH: both 0 for 3  – Taveras got hit by a pitch, came around to score & made a throwing error
Jose Rosario, 3B: 1 for 3, 1 R
Jose Toussen, LF & Judd Golsan, CF: both 2 for 3, 1 RBI, 1 CS – Golsan doubled, scored a run & K’ed
Amaury Sanit: 2 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 2 K, 2-1 GB/FB – I guess his PED suspension is over
Conor Mullee: 3 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 4 K, 4-0 GB/FB
Juan Marcano: 4 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K, 2-6 GB/FB