Gulf Coast League
- The GCL Marlins beat the GCL Mets 4-3 Sunday. 4 players drafted in 2009 played. Chase Greene pinch ran in the 9th and was forced out at 2nd base. Cody Holliday pinch hit in the 6th and got a single. He stayed in the game in RF where he made an error and finished 1 for 2 at the plate. C Nelfi Zapata was 0 for 2 at the plate had 2 passed balls in the field before being removed in the 8th inning. CF ZeErika Hall had an RBI single in the 7th and a single in the 9th to go 2 for 5. For more see the box score and recap.
Appalachian League
- The Kingsport Mets whupped the Greeneville Astros 13-4 Sunday. 5 members of the class of ’09 took part. P Thomas Chism finished the game for the K-Mets. He issued a walk with the bases loaded to give up a run. Overall he allowed 2 hits and 2 walks as well as the run in the 9th inning. LF John Semel hit his 1st double of the season in the 6th inning to drive in 2 runs and finished the game 1 for 5. SS Ryan Mollica had 3 singles in 5 at bats and scored 2 runs. CF Darrell Ceciliani singled and stole 2nd, his 6th steal of the season, in the 1st inning but was stranded. He singled and scored in the 3rd inning, then in the 8th he doubled but was stranded at 3rd base. Ceciliani finished the game 3 for 5. RF Kurt Steinhauer continued his torrid hitting in his 6th game for Kingsport. Steinhauer singled and scored in the 3rd inning, hit a solo homer in the 5th inning then hit a 3-run homer in the 6th. In 6 games since being promoted from the GCL, Steinhauer is batting .471 with 3 HR and 7 RBI. For more see the box score and recap.
New York-Penn League
- The Brooklyn Cyclones edged the Auburn Doubledays 2-1 Sunday. 5 players drafted this June played for Brooklyn and 4 of them had good games. We can forgive 1B Sam Honeck going 0 for 4 with 2 strikeouts since the team won and since he’s batting .323 on the season. SS Robbie Shields had the 1st multi-hit game of his young career. He walked in the 1st inning, singled in the 6th and tripled in the 8th to go 2 for 3, bringing his average up to .176 after 17 professional at bats. LF Nick Santomauro singled in the 2nd inning, hit a solo homer (his 1st) leading off the 5th and singled in the 7th rounding out his 3 for 3 game. Wes Wrenn pitched scoreless 7th and 8th innings to pick up his 1st hold of the season. He allowed 2 hits and struck out 2. Darin Gorski (1-1) got the win, starting and going 6 strong innings allowing just 1 run on 2 hits and a walk, striking out 4 Doubledays. See the game story, box score and recap for more. The latest entry of Wrenn’s diary has been posted.
Darin Gorski (photo: George Napolitano)
South Atlantic League
- The Savannah Sand Gnats buzzed the Hickory Crawdads 11-2 Sunday. Both members of the 2009 draft class on the Gnats roster played. LF Joseph August came on for defense in the 7th inning and grounded out in his only at bat going 0 for 1. P John Church threw a scoreless 8th inning, allowing only 1 walk and recording 1 strikeout. For more see the game story, box score and recap.
11 comments
stickguy
7/20/2009-11:05am at 11:05 am (UTC -4)
Free Zapata baby!
wannybackstra
7/20/2009-11:15am at 11:15 am (UTC -4)
No mention of the bizarre promotion in Brooklyn?
GravediggerHebner
7/20/2009-11:21am at 11:21 am (UTC -4)
It wasn’t drafted in June (I think?) which is the focus of this piece.
I do/will occasionally mention promotions (I promoted the “Baracklyn Cyclones” game) but beforehand, not after the fact. I was out of town and didn’t do a “draft and follow” for Saturday which would’ve been the better time to bring it up IMO.
For those who wonder what the heck we’re talking about, yesterday was “Bellies and Baseball Day” at Keyspan Park. You can read more about it at:
http://www.brooklyncyclones.com/news/releases/index.html?article_id=638
CaseStreet
7/20/2009-11:24am at 11:24 am (UTC -4)
Bellies in Baseball!
-free lifetime season tix for family if you give birth before the end of the game
-free lifetime season tix for mom if agree to name your baby Cy or Brooklyn
-cravings station included icecream, pizza, pickels, anchovies
-women in 2nd trimester got to throw the ceremonial pitch to a Cyclone
-plus in between innings games
good times
GravediggerHebner
7/20/2009-11:34am at 11:34 am (UTC -4)
Case!
Do you have any thoughts on/impressions of yesterday’s starter Darin Gorski?
I’m very intrigued by him since I read this article when covering the draft:
http://www.rbimagazine.com/2009/04/clays-choice-darin-gorski/
stickguy
7/20/2009-11:41am at 11:41 am (UTC -4)
nice college career, but he needs to develop some more velocity to ever sniff the majors (or some incredible alternate pitches).
DId pretty good last night, but FB only hit 85 mostly, occasionally 86.
It does seem like he has good control, and knows how to pitch, so that is something. He might pick up a few MPH with some work on mechanics (and age!), and who knows, could be another Neise in a few years.
CaseStreet
7/20/2009-12:14pm at 12:14 pm (UTC -4)
Hey Grave!
From what little I saw (My two year-old is a handful), Darin seemed to have good control, went through the hitters very efficiently and when in trouble was able to get out of it. There was a good mix of groundball and flyball outs, not too many strikeouts.
Hopefully I can do some better scouting next time I head out to see my new team, the Cyclones.
metsfan4decades
7/20/2009-11:41am at 11:41 am (UTC -4)
Only the Mets organization.
wannybackstra
7/20/2009-11:25am at 11:25 am (UTC -4)
Nice game for Wilmer Flores, by the way, in the Savannah rout. He was 4 for 4 with 2 RBI batting cleanup.
stickguy
7/20/2009-11:42am at 11:42 am (UTC -4)
Marte has been hitting lately too.
Wonder if Wilmer can stay at SS after he finishes growing?
wannybackstra
7/20/2009-11:52am at 11:52 am (UTC -4)
I’ve read that his defense has improved (Flores).
His batting average is back up .287 but the power is not there yet. Knowing the Mets he will be at St. Lucie next season, if not later this year. Like with Holt, I hope they are cautious with these 17 year olds (including Marte).