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by civ ollilavad
REHAB
Lane Thomas (starting DH, Columbus): 0-3, 2 K - Thomas is back in the batter’s box in a real game, that is good news in and of itself.
Nick Mitchell (CF, ACL - Monday): 1-3, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 BB, 1 K - Mitchell had a good evening at the plate as his rehab progressed to the point of playing a full (albeit 7-inning) game.
Chase DeLauter (RF, ACL - Monday): 1-3, 2 K, 1 Outfield Assist - The outfield assist is a promising sign regarding DeLauter’s ability to play in the outfield and not merely DH.
David Fry (starting DH, ACL - Tuesday): 0-3, 1 K - See the Lane Thomas entry, replace “Thomas” with “Fry”.
HIGHLIGHTS
Andrew Walters (RP, Columbus): 1 IP, 1 BB, 2 K - Walters matched every column of his statline from his return from the IL last Saturday in Indianapolis except one, bettering his return effort with his first two post-Il stint strikeouts. The only slight cause for concern might be his fastball velo, which topped out in the low 96s and occasionally dipped into the high 93s, a drop of about one MPH from his Indy outing.
Christian Knapczyk (2B, Lake County): 1-2, 1 R, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 HBP - Knapczyk extended his team-leading hit/on-base streak to six games with a third-inning solo shot to right that produced the Captains’ lone run of an ugly afternoon in Midland, Mich.
NOTABLE PERFORMANCES
Brayan Rocchio (SS, Columbus): 2-4, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K - Rocchio led the way for the Clippers by reaching thrice, including on the Clip Show’s only extra-base hit of the evening, in his first game since being optioned on Monday.
Johnathan Rodriguez (LF, Columbus); 2-5, 1 R, 1 RBI, 2 K - Rodriguez, the other Clipper with both a run scored and one driven in on Tuesday night, is now hitting .371 in May after this two-hit effort.
Petey Halpin (CF, Columbus): 2-5, 2 K - Halpin picked up right where he left off, extending his hitting and on-base streaks to five and seven games, respectively (both the longest current streak of their kind by a member if the Clippers active roster), in his first game played in six days. His third-inning single is notable in that it left his bat at 103.5 MPH, the only Clipper base hit of the game to reach triple digits. [Having his best season at bat in the minors; hitting 283 with 814 OPS; although his strikeouts are way too high at 30% of his plate appearances]
Wuilfredo Antunez (RF, Lake County): 2-3, 1 2B, 1 BB, 1 SB - Antunez has now doubled in three of his last four games played, his second such stretch of the season, accounting for six of his seven 2025 two-baggers.
Caden Favors (SP, Lake County): L (1-3), 5 IP, 5 H, 2 R (both earned), 3 BB, 3 K, 1 HR allowed - Favors came within one bad pitch of hurling five shutout frames in his second solid outing after starting the month allowing five earned runs in only two innings in Lansing.
Robert Arias (LF, ACL - Monday): 2-3, 2 2B, 1 RBI, 1 SB - Arias’ pair of doubles were his second and third stateside hits, with the first being a home run at the Dodgers on May 5. (He went 0-for-4 with 2 Ks on Tuesday, so the wait for his first American single continues.)
Johan Rodriguez (SS, ACL - Monday): 1-3, 1 R, 1 2B, 2 RBI, 1 BB - Rodriguez opened his domestic extra-base hit and RBI accounts with a two-run double in the top of the third in Scottsdale on Monday night.
Johan Rodriguez (SS, ACL - Tuesday): 2-3, 1 R, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 1 BB - A day later, Rodriguez was the star of the return fixture in Goodyear, smashing a solo shot 370 feet over the left field fence at 102.6 MPH for the A-Guards’ only run of the evening.
Dauri Fernandez (3B, ACL - Monday): 1-4, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 K, 1 SB - Fernandez extended his season-opening on-base streak to seven games on Monday (did not play last night) with a base hit in a game that actually dropped his OPS from 1.331 to 1.192.
Yeiferth Castillo (starting RF, ACL - Tuesday): 2-3 - Castillo had the only non-Rodriguez multi-hit performance for the A-Guards last night and could’ve had even more than two hits had he not been pulled for pinch runner Yerlin Luis in the fifth - especially given that the ACL side played their first nine-inning game since Opening Day.
Miguel Flores (RP, ACL - Tuesday): 3 IP, 1 H, 1 R (unearned), 1 WP, 4 K, 1 E - Flores’ unblemished ERA through two stateside outings is slightly misleading as the error that rendered the run unearned was committed by Miguel himself. That said, this was still an impressive outing, with his six whiffs evenly split between his low 90s four-seamer (ignore the “sinkers": in Savant, the underlying metrics are virtually identical to those of his fastball) and his off-speed stuff. One minor red flag is that both of his pitches that went over 92.5 MPH were balls, indicating possible control issues at the high end of his velo range.