Everyone but Savannah was in the win column, including a rout by Binghamton, plus some top pitchers on the radar. Onward!
Buffalo 4, Gwinnett 2
Chris Schiwinden continues to get over his big league call up blahs and had an impressive outing, going 6 innings, giving up two runs (bot thing the first) on six hits and two walks against four K’s. Hell, he was even two for two with a run scored! The Bisons roughed up Braves top prospect for four runs on seven hits and five walks in 2.2 innings.
Binghamton 12, Trenton 3
The B-Mets were kind enough to hang up a nine spot in the second innings, effectively putting the game away and allowing us all to focus on what was important in this game: How’s Zach Wheeler doing? The answer is – pretty damn good. The torn fingernail did not seem to affect his throwing, as he gave up two runs on two hits and four walks (still a bit high) in seven innings against eight strikeouts. Jefry Marte hit a solo homer and scored three runs, while 1B Travis Ozga (who leads the league in Best Name) added a three run shot of his own while scoring twice. Matt den Dekker extended his hit streak to twelve games with a 3 for 4 night, but Reese Havens took another 0-fer and got booted out of the game to boot.
St. Lucie 6, Lakeland 5
First things first, I almost spit out my diet Coke when I saw a Luis Castillo in the box score. Fortunately he was on the Tigers…and a center fielder. Now for the bad news, the Tigers pitchers were able to hold the Lucies to five hits and no runs. However, Blake Forsythe was a team unto himself last night, smacking a solo homer in the third, grand slam in the fourth, and lifted a sacrifice fly in the eight to put the Mets up for good. That’s six RBI’s on the night folks – pretty good week right there. Cory Mazzoni labored through five innings, giving up four runs on seven hits and two walks. He did strike out five though, and as he moves up the ladder – and back into the bullpen – he won’t be asked to stretch himself out over such a long outing. Hamilton Bennett picked up the win and Adrian Rosario got the save.
Augusta 3, Savannah 2
Domingo Tapia struggled through four innings, giving up three runs on five hits while walking two and striking out five while taking the loss. Marcos Camarena, Jack Leathersitch and TJ Chism combined to shutout the Green Jackets over the next five innings, but the Sand Gants could not muster much of an offensive attack. Travis Taijeron and Greg Pron each went 1 for 3 with an RBI.
10 comments
Prismo
5/18/2012-10:20am at 10:20 am (UTC -4)
“Now for the bad news, the Tigers pitchers were able to hold the Lucies to five hits and no runs. However, Blake Forsythe was a team unto himself last night, smacking a solo homer in the third, grand slam in the fourth, and lifted a sacrifice fly in the eight to put the Mets up for good.”
I think this is erroneous. It’s definitely confusing!
trs86
5/18/2012-10:32am at 10:32 am (UTC -4)
Perhaps it is supposed to say other than Blake?
Peter Duffy
5/18/2012-10:25am at 10:25 am (UTC -4)
Who is this?
Prismo
5/18/2012-12:50pm at 12:50 pm (UTC -4)
Peter Duffy.
Peter Duffy
5/18/2012-2:05pm at 2:05 pm (UTC -4)
srt
5/18/2012-11:38am at 11:38 am (UTC -4)
So what’s the deal with Schwinden? Is he going to be one of those guys who pitches will in the minors but can’t quite make it in the majors? Or too early to tell yet?
Bryan
5/18/2012-11:46am at 11:46 am (UTC -4)
That would be my guess at this point. It’s not too early to tell cause he’s been around a while. I think he’s capable of doing better in the big leagues than his two starts this year, but I doubt he’ll ever be a big leaguer you can rely on to be consistent over a long period of time. Also, after his last two big league starts he’s going to be way down on the depth chart. Right now, they’re trying to get by with Batista until Young gets back, then there’s Hefner in line, and then possibly McHugh or Mejia before Schwinden would get another shot.
srt
5/18/2012-11:51am at 11:51 am (UTC -4)
Thanks.
That was my assumption as well but I’ll confess to not really knowing much about Schwinden at all until last Sept.
Good thing we’ve got you guys who follow the minors to a greater extent. All I have to do is come here and read!
trs86
5/18/2012-12:57pm at 12:57 pm (UTC -4)
So do you think he would be in danger of being released if a spot on the 40 man becomes needed?
Bryan
5/18/2012-2:11pm at 2:11 pm (UTC -4)
Personally I hope so. If Young is healthy he should sure things up in the rotation, at least for a while hopefully. And then at some point this year if Harvey, McHugh, Gorski, or someone else is deserving/ready for a call up the need for Schwinden on the 40 essentially goes away.
As far as pitchers go, if they were to DFA someone to get him off the 40 it would either Schwinden or Acosta at this point. But if you include everybody I would think Satin could be next. Lutz too could be a possibility as well as Rottino, but I think they’d like to keep both if possible. If they had to dump someone today I’d be surprised if it wasn’t Satin or Schwinden. Also, I don’t know if Rob Johnson has options or not so they might have to DFA him when Thole comes back if he doesn’t, which would free up another spot. Right now they’re at 39 but Young will need a spot and also Beato if he comes off the 60 day DL.