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Good pitch no hit everywhere on Saturday.

Here are the linescores, boxscores and summaries:
http://www.milb.com/scoreboard/index.js ... d=20150411

Scores were:
AAA 0-2; AA 0-2: HiA 0-1 and 2-1; LoA 2-3 and 2-1. 6 games 46 innings, 17 hits by our guys!

Pitching lines from excellent to OK:
Justus Sheffield, 18 year old LH: 5-4-1-0-2-4
Adam Plutko RH in Lynchburg: 6-3-1-1-1-3 only run a homer by rehabbing Jayson Werth
Shawn Morimando LH in Akron: 5-2-0-0-3-5
Nick Maronde LH in Columbus: 5-4-2-2-3-3
Anderson Polanco another LH with Lake County: 5-2-3-3-4-5

And there actually are some notable hitting lines, too, from some of the kids who we are counting on:

in game 1 for Lynchburg, the two hits were one each from Frazier and Zimmer
in game 2 Papi doubled and walked, Zimmer homered, Frazier sac bunted
in game 1 for Lake County: Allen singled in 2 runs, Chang singled and walked, Bradley 2W,Mejia1W,Loopstock1w,1hbp
in game 2 Chang with 2 doubles, this slightly overshadowed prospect is hitting 444 in 3 games; Bradley HR #1

Remember 2nd round pick Trey Haley, from 2008? in his 8th season he's still in AA and lost the game in relief, making no progress but he's still only 24, so maybe with a dozen years under his belt he'll be ready for the big time

BB/K watch:

3 game totals:

Papi 4/1, Zimmer 2/2, Frazier 0/3, NRodriguez 0/5
Bradley 3/3, Mejia 2/1, Paulino 0/5

BA daily report is kind of similar to mine

CLE AA Gonzalez, Erik SS 4 0 1 0 .273
CLE AA Wolters, Tony DH 3 0 0 0 .273
CLE AAA Aguilar, Jesus 1B 3 0 0 0 .250 BB (1)
CLE AAA Lindor, Francisco SS 4 0 0 0 .182
CLE AAA Moncrief, Carlos DH 4 0 1 0 .200
CLE AAA Ramsey, James RF 4 0 0 0 .308
CLE HiA Frazier, Clint CF 2 0 0 0 .300
CLE HiA Papi, Mike LF 2 0 1 0 .143 2B (1), BB (4)
CLE HiA Rodriguez, Nellie 1B 3 0 0 0 .091
CLE HiA Zimmer, Bradley DH 3 1 1 1 .333 HR (1)
CLE LoA Bradley, Bobby 1B 3 1 1 2 .250 HR (1)
CLE LoA Chang, Yu-Cheng SS 3 1 2 0 .444 2 2B (3)
CLE LoA Mejia, Francisco DH 2 0 0 0 .000 BB (2)
CLE LoA Paulino, Dorssys DH 3 0 0 0 .000
CLE MAJ Perez, Roberto C 0 0 0 0 .500

CLE HiA Plutko, Adam 6 3 1 1 1 3 1.50 L (0-1)
CLE LoA Sheffield, Justus 5 4 1 0 2 4 0.00 W (1-0)

2 more lefties are starting today:
Michael Roth for Columbus; Thomas Pannone for Lake County.
RH:
Mitch Brown with his Lynchburg debut; Clevinger starting for Akron.

Another rather offense-less day around the minors. Our teams total 5 runs in 4 games.

http://www.milb.com/scoreboard/index.js ... d=20150412

Pitching from AAA down to Low A:
Michael Roth LH 5-6-1-1-2-2
MIchael Clevinger RH 6-3-1-1-1-4
Mitch Brown RH 3 2/3-5-4-4-2-1
Thomas Pannone LH 6-2-1-1-0-9 Pitcher of the Day

Offense?
Lindor 0-4 .133; Ramsey 1-4 3K 294; Aguillar 0-4 188; Moncrief 1-3 231 at AAA
Papi 0-4 .091/515; Frazier 1-4 286/571; Zimmer 1-3, walk, 2 steals, .333/1050 at High A
Allen 0-2, hbp, sac 231/614; Chang 0-4 3K; Bradley single, walk; Paulino finally a hit; Mejia still none
Hitter of the Day: Claudio Bautista 2b at Lake County who doubled and homered

First short week [4 games each] yields these records: 2-2 by everyone but lousy Akron is 1-3.

Batting avg/ops for each team Followed by era/whip for the team

Columbus 154/505.....1.06 1.09
Akron ..... 208/542.....3.00 1.06
Lynchburg 252/663.....2.12 0.79
LakeCnty...159/536....1.50 0.87

Nice outing by Pannone, 9 K and 2 hits in 6 innings. Too bad he got the no decision.

Little video of Mitch Brown of the Hillcats working.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkkMePv ... e=youtu.be

SS Erik Gonzalez of the Ducks with a bases clearing double.

http://www.milb.com/multimedia/vpp.jsp? ... =tw_video_

We should be good at SS for quite a while. Here is a triple by Lindor.

http://www.milb.com/multimedia/vpp.jsp? ... =tw_video_

Claudio Bautista, who Civ mentioned, had himself a day.

And lastly, little funny something about slugging prospect, Bobby Bradley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iSJae3 ... d9vtdzRMVE

BA lines from Sunday games:

CLE AAA Moncrief, Carlos RF 3 0 1 0 .231
CLE AAA Ramsey, James CF 4 0 1 0 .294
CLE HiA Frazier, Clint CF 4 0 1 0 .286
CLE HiA Zimmer, Bradley RF 3 0 1 0 .333 BB (3), 2 SB (2) [Lou Boudreau player of the Week]
CLE LoA Bradley, Bobby 1B 3 0 1 0 .273 BB (4)
CLE LoA Paulino, Dorssys LF 3 0 1 0 .071

CLE AA Clevinger, Mike 6 3 1 1 1 4 1.50 L (0-1) the unknown prospect.
CLE HiA Brown, Mitch 3.2 5 4 4 4 2 9.82 L (0-1) [he usually starts his seasons dreadfully]
CLE MAJ Adams, Austin 2.2 2 1 1 1 1 3.38

Lynchburg went into many extra innings tonight. Zimmer was 1 for 7 last I looked...

Only one team managed a game; the Ohioans all rained out.
This one went 17 innings and finished with a couple position players doing the pitching for the Hillcats [that's us]

CLE HiA Frazier, Clint CF 6 0 3 0 .350 BB (1), SB (1) [that's a nice batting avg for a 20 year old in High A]
CLE HiA Papi, Mike LF 6 0 0 0 .059 2 BB (6) [can't hit, but he can walk]
CLE HiA Rodriguez, Nellie 1B 7 0 0 0 .045 [can't hit or walk]
CLE HiA Zimmer, Bradley RF 7 0 1 0 .263 BB (4), SB (3) [doing a little of everything offensively]

Papi and Rodriguez lead the Carolina League in lowest batting average over the first 5 games.

Who pitched. Francona would love a couple of bench players that could pitch.

Joe Sever with 2 shutout innings.

Luigi Rodriguez not se good, walked a couple, hit a batter and lost on a sac fly.

Bradley's first at bat tonight he ripped a deep one to straight center but it was caught.

I think they have a double header tonight.