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Abreu error leads to 3 unearned runs, but much of the fault still lies with Pomeranz who allowed 7 hits and 5 runs, 2 earned, while fanning 7 in 5 innings. Holt with a 3 hits at the top of the Kinston order. Casey Frawley has good power for a middle IF, hits his 8th homer, but he's only hitting 217
Jones the loser, 6-5.

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Current records, closing in on the halfway mark for minor league season, 140 games usually makes a season:

Columbus 40-22
Akron 29-33
Kinston 31-28
Lake County 27-34

Great mustache on Eric Berger

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Kluber fell apart in 4th and 5th after 3 shutout innings. Hagadone another disaster: He faced 7 batters: fans 2, walks 3, 2 get hits, 3 runs score. Zach Putnam and Josh Judy with shutout innnigs.

If we want to change 2nd baseman again, Kipnis with a 3-run homer and 2 other hits. ALso 2 by Chad Huffman (why not him insead of Kearns? he's even right handed) and catcher Paul Phillips.

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Jesus Aguillar with the only 2 hits for the Captains as they fall 6-1. Cole Cook meanwhile allows 11 hits and the 6 runs in 5 innings. 18-year-old SS R. Rodriguez who took over the job about a mnoth ago with his 11th and 12th errors; Nick Bartolone had slowed his error surge before he was repalced but the two of them together have about 30.

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Like a good leadoff hitter, Carrera gets on base 4 times, 2 by walk, one a single, one a dobule; Kipnis singles triples and plates 2. Duncan singles and homers, 3 ri. Goedert doubles and homers and 3 rbi. Another win for Jeanmar Gomez, ERA drops to 2.28, yielding 1 run on3 hits, 3 walks 5K in 6 innings.

10-4 Clipper win. They remain solidly in first place; should we be exchanging more Cleveland players with Columbus'?

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5-4 Aero win behind one of Joe's favorites winter league stars, Paolo Espino. [Whatever happened to JoeZ??] Burns and Langwell finish with scorelsss innings after another bad inning by Eric Berger (2 runs). Nick Weglarz, not injured, doubles and walks, hitting 190 on rehab. Chun Chen singles and doubles but fans 3 times. McBride 2 hits; Sanchez on base twice. Jordan Henry, one of a crew of potetnial leadoff singles-only CF's drops to 254 and strikes out 3 times, now hitting toward the bottom of the order. Fedroff now on top singles to hit 341

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Bad day in Beloit for Michael Goodnight, Alex Lavisky and the Captains. 7-2 losers. Goodnight leaves after 3, his lack of control getting the best of him. 3 runs on 4 walks, 2 hits. Lavisky 0-4 drops back below 200. 2nd rounder Levon Washington walks, he's at 212. [No one answered my Kyle Washington question last week; I assume because no one reads these posts] Jesus Aguillar, one of our top minor league power bats singles and doubles.

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Our Domincan team wins 3-2. 18 year old LH Anderson Polanco pitches 6 1-hit innings, allowing only one unearnd run, fans 7. He's 6-3 190.

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Here's the Minor League Game of the Day for sure. 23 inning win for Kinston, 3-2, after Preston Guilmet blew the save in the 9th. 6:27 minutes to play. Some of the highlights and lowlights from this marathon:

Adam Abraham strkes out 6 times.
7 steals by Kinston, 3 by former slugger Abner Abreu.
Red Hot Roberto Perez with a single, a double, a homer, another single, and a walk.
Doug Pickens hitless in 9 AB

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Kinston survives longest game in CL history
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Frawley's hit wins it in 23rd inning
June 13, 2011 12:10 AM
David Hall
By DAVID HALL

Staff Writer

The handful of fans remaining at Grainger Stadium as things wound down in Sunday’s gloaming were offered free tickets to a future Kinston Indians game as a reward for their perseverance.

Casey Frawley’s reward was redemption, not to mention a chance to finally go home.

Frawley hit an RBI single with two outs in the 23rd inning — and yes, you read that correctly — to lift the Indians to an epic 3-2 win over Myrtle Beach in the longest game, in innings, in the 66-year history of the Carolina League.

Some 6 hours and 27 minutes after the 1:30 p.m. contest began, Frawley yanked a sharp, first-pitch grounder into left field to bring Roberto Perez home from third for the game’s first run since the Pelicans tied it at 2-2 in the ninth.

Of 33,610 games in league history, which dates back to 1945, none have gone longer.

“It felt like an eternity,” said Frawley, who finished 2-for-11 with six strikeouts after leaving the winning run in scoring position with two outs in the ninth, 11th and 16th innings. “I’m definitely glad we could come out on top.

“You felt like the game was never going to end,” he added. “The baseball gods wanted it to go on forever.”

The victory, in which Kinston batters struck out 32 times, was more than a novelty. It kept the second-place K-Tribe (32-29) alive in the Carolina League Southern Division race as the first half winds down.

First-place Myrtle Beach (36-27) holds a three-game lead over the Indians with eight games remaining in the half.

But the playoff race was dwarfed by the enormity of Sunday’s box score. The teams combined to use 15 pitchers — none of them position players, it is worth noting — who threw a total of 654 pitches.Kinston’s bullpen held the Pelicans scoreless over the final 14 innings, with left-hander Francisco Jimenez turning in five of them beginning in the 14th.

“What a hard-fought battle by both teams,” Myrtle Beach manager Jason Wood said. “It was just a great game. Some great pitching today. We kind of happened to be on this end of it.”

Among the notable box score lines: Perez, Kinston’s catcher, had the best offensive day for either team, going 4-for-9 with a fifth-inning solo home run.

At the other end of the spectrum, K-Tribe first baseman Doug Pickens crammed a slump into a single afternoon, going 0-for-9 to drop his batting average 16 points, to .188.

Adam Abraham, Kinston’s designated hitter, matched Frawley with six punchouts. Eight K-Tribe hitters struck out at least twice, and five of them at least four times.

David Paisano went 3-for-9 for Myrtle Beach, which had 12 hits to the Indians’ 14. Mitch Hilligoss and Santiago Chirino both went 1-for-8 for the Pelicans.

After Wood exhausted his DH with a ninth-inning substitution, his pitchers were forced to hit in the cleanup spot five times. They went a combined 0-for-3 with two sacrifice bunts.

Wood wasn’t alone. With his bullpen completely shot by the 23rd inning, Kinston skipper Aaron Holbert sent Abraham and third baseman Justin Toole to the bullpen to warm up. Had Frawley not come through with two outs, they were next.

To further complicate things for Holbert, his team opens a four-game series against Salem with a doubleheader today at 4:30 p.m.

Left-hander T.J. House and right-hander Clayton Cook will look to go deep into their starts to preserve the weary bullpen.

“We’ll hope House and Cook can do their jobs,” Holbert said. “We may be asking for (the parent Cleveland Indians) to send us some help.” [Fausto: Get on the bus; you're needed in Carolina] The Pelicans sent it to extras by doing what no team had done all season: They got past Kinston closer Preston Guilmet.

The All-Star right-hander, who hadn’t blown a save in 14 chances, surrendered three hits in 1 1/3 innings, including a game-tying RBI single by Hilligoss with two outs in the ninth.

On the play, left fielder Tyler Holt gunned down Chirino, who was trying to score from second, with a perfect throw home.

The teams spent the next 13 innings flirting with the plate but never touching it.

Kinston left 13 men on base after the ninth, including a bases-loaded chance with no outs in the 22nd that ended when Pickens hit into a 6-4-3 double play.

The Pelicans left seven on board in the extra frames, four of them in scoring position.

“I look at it as a game of squandered opportunities,” said Holbert, who put his hands on his head and said, simply, “Wow,” when he saw his team’s strikeout total in the box score. “I know both teams had them. I think we had more than they did, and we just didn’t get the job done in some good situations to win the ballgame.”

Chris Jones (2-0), a left-hander, earned the win with three one-hit innings of relief after entering the game in the 21st.

Kasey Kiker (1-2) started the 23rd and gave up a leadoff single to Perez, who was bunted to second by Toole, moved to third on a Holt chopper and scored when Frawley finally got the hit the Indians had awaited for hours.

The game’s historic significance wasn’t lost on Kinston’s players, many of whom participated in an 18-inning loss with low Class A Lake County during last season’s Midwest League finals.

At some point late in Sunday’s game, Frawley said he turned to Myrtle Beach center fielder Ryan Strausborger at second base and told him, “We’ll never play another game like this, most likely, for the rest of our lives.”

Indeed, the previous longest game in league history took place on July 5, 1998, when Wilmington and Danville played 21 innings.

Only eight league games have gone more than 18 innings.

“That’s absolutely a cool feeling just to be a part of history,” said Toole, who finished 3-for-8.

“It took long enough, but we finally got it done.”

Frawley said he erased his bad day from his mind as he stepped into the box for one final chance.

“At that point, in the 23rd inning, all that stuff doesn’t matter,” he said. “It’s just that at-bat. I came up with a few opportunities prior to that and I didn’t come through, so I tried to buckle down and get that one.”



BUNTS: Kinston outfielder Bo Greenwell left the game in the first inning after being hit on the left hand while swinging at a pitch. He has a fractured pinky finger and is expected to miss 4-6 weeks, Holbert said. ... The announced attendance was 1,179, though an unofficial count yielded about 120 fans as the game ended under the lights. ... Holt was ejected by plate umpire Kiff Kinkead in the 17th for arguing.

Monday June 13th, 2:01 P.M EST

The Indians have officially signed three players from the 2011 Draft. Outfielder Bryson Myles (6th round, Stephen F. Austin), right-handed pitcher Grant Sides (12th round, Samford U), and outfielder Cody Elliott (21st round, Ball St) have come to terms and are the first three players from the 2011 draft class to sign. No word on where they will be assigned, but it is very likely all three go to Mahoning Valley.

Myles takes SLC title
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Published: Thursday, May 5, 2011

Updated: Thursday, May 5, 2011 08:05




SFA junior outfielder Bryson Myles has been named the Southland Conference hitter of the week, the league office announced on Monday.

It is the second honor of the year for Myles and is the third consecutive week that a Lumberjack has taken the award with Garrett Smith and Hunter Dozier having taken the honor in each of the last two weeks. Myles is the first SLC player to win the award multiple times while, SFA is the first program to have a winner in three straight weeks.

Myles recovered from his worst weekend at the plate for the year and then put together one of his best, hitting safely in 10 of 17 at-bats with no less than three hits in any of his three games in helping the Jacks to a pair of wins over UTA. The national leader in steals, Myles became the first SLC player since 1997 to swipe 40 bases in a season with his second steal of the weekend on Sunday, a two-out steal of second base in the bottom of the ninth that set him up to score the tying run in a 13-12 SFA win.

He opened the week with a 3-for-7 day on Friday and followed that up with a 3-for-4 day with two RBI and two runs scored. But he saved his best for last on Sunday, going 4-for-6 against the Mavs, including a three-run home run that trimmed a once nine-run UTA lead down to three. For the week the junior slugged .765 and for the season now sports a .502 on-base percentage.

Myles currently leads the SLC in steals (40), batting average (.436) and hits (78) and is on track to become the first player since 1995, and only the second all-time, to lead the SLC in both hits and steals in the same season

Sept. 14, 2010
From Summer 2010

DURHAM, N.C. - Baseball America announced its annual summer league prospect rankings on Monday with new Lumberjack outfielder Bryson Myles being named one of the top pro prospects in the Texas Collegiate League.

Myles, signed with the 'Jacks in the spring after playing last season at Weatherford College, was ranked as the seventh-best prospect in the TCL after spending his summer in the outfield for the McKinney Marshals and hit .328 with six home runs and 18 RBI in 35 games. He added 20 steals as well with an on-base percentage of .428.

He was one of five Southland players to be named to the top-10 list, including McNeese State's Lee Orr who was named the league's MVP and top prospect. The Texas Collegiate League is a seven-team, wood-bat league made up of college-age teams across Texas.

A Grand Prairie, Texas, native, Myles will have two years of eligibility remaining after earning all-region honors last season for the Coyotes. He finished second in the country last year at WC with 53 steals, and even hit .371 with five home runs and 30 RBI.

Baseball America annually releases a complete rankings of the top 10 prospects in all of the nation's summer leagues. Myles is the first Lumberjack to land on one of the lists

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2011 Indians 6th Round Pick: OF Bryson Myles

Posted by Tony at 2:52 PM

Photo: SFA Athletics
In the 6th round the Indians select outfielder Bryson Myles from Stephen F. Austin College (TX).

Bats: Right, Throws: Right, Height: 5'11", Weight: 230, Date of Birth: 09/18/1989

Notes: From Baseball America's Jim Callis, "Draws Kirby Puckett comps for his 6', 235 lb build...put up big numbers after transferring including an NCAA Division I-leading 53 steals. Profiles as a left fielder with intriguing power and speed."

Ranks:

Baseball America: 143
Perfect Game: 213

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Jeff Ellis: Bryson Myles is a former football star who played for Stephen F. Austin University in college. He was a commitment to TCU coming out of high school. He is a big guy who might have the ability to hit for power, but his best skill is his plus plus speed. He also has very good bat speed. He set his school's hit record this past season thanks to his quick wrists and excellent bat speed. He has the potential to be a five tool player down the road, though his arm is a bit weaker so he might profile best in CF down the road. The Indians took an athlete who is still raw as the game was not his focus for many years. He should be an interesting player to watch with a lot of upside.