Sarasota wins 9-4, Smit picks up his first win of the season.
Sarasota wins 9-4, Smit picks up his first win of the season.
I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball. -- Pete Rose
2009 Record while in attendance: Terrible
Sarasota Box Score
Code:Player AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO AVG Heisey RF 6 2 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 .313 DeJesus, Mic LF 3 2 1 0 0 0 2 1 1 .214 Turner 2B 6 1 4 1 0 0 1 0 0 .344 Valaika SS 4 1 2 0 0 1 3 1 0 .353 Stubbs CF 4 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 .364 Louwsma 1B 5 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 .302 Kainer DH 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .182 Tordi 3B 4 1 2 1 0 0 0 1 1 .286 Rodriguez C 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 .174 Smit, A P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Manuel P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Geronimo P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 BATTING 2B: Tordi (1, Below), Heisey (6, Witt), Turner (2, Witt). 3B: Stubbs (1, Below). HR: Valaika (3, 3rd inning off Below, 2 on, 0 out). TB: Heisey 4; DeJesus, Mic; Turner 5; Valaika 5; Stubbs 3; Louwsma; Kainer; Tordi 3; Rodriguez. RBI: Turner (2), Valaika 3 (11), Louwsma (5), DeJesus, Mic 2 (5). Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Heisey 3; Turner 2; Louwsma. SF: DeJesus, Mic 2. GIDP: Louwsma. Team LOB: 12. BASERUNNING CS: Turner (2, 2nd base by Below/Skelton). FIELDING E: Rodriguez (2, throw), Tordi (2, fielding). Pickoffs: Smit, A (Iorg at 1st base), Rodriguez (Sizemore at 2nd base). Player IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA Smit, A (W, 1-2) 5.0 6 4 3 2 5 1 6.75 Manuel (H, 1) 2.0 1 0 0 1 4 0 0.00 Geronimo 2.0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.00 WP: Benitez 2. Balk: Below. HBP: Kainer (by Benitez). Ground outs-fly outs: Smit, A 3-5, Manuel 1-1, Geronimo 2-2, Below 6-4, Witt 4-3, Martin 2-0, Benitez 1-1. Batters faced: Smit, A 21, Manuel 8, Geronimo 7, Below 26, Witt 13, Martin 3, Benitez 6.
Geronimo has been dominant this season. He's a little old, he'll turn 25 late in the season, but he's pitching great right now. I'd promote him to Chattanooga soon.
Wayne couldn't have been to happy. Bruce was poor and Bailey wasn't overly impressive. Not the best floor show from the prospects and young players san Bray.
I'm sure Wayne realizes that one game doesn't make a season.
I think Wayne looked at Bailey tonight and thought he did just fine.... because he did. He threw lots of strikes, didn't allow many hard hit baseballs and had good control.
BJ Szymanski with a 2 RBI double. He has a 10 game hitting streak.
I think when Aronchis graduates to the "big league threads", he posts under FCB.Originally Posted by Aronchis
Bailey was fine. Actually more than fine.
He'll never be a starter but he just may develop into a fine 4th or 5th outfielder with some pop off the bench. And we could definitely use some power off the bench.
True, the Red Sox are like a weak hitting major league team. But they had his fastball down by the 4th inning and were starting to hit him good on alot of 0-2 counts. If anything, Homer's growth may be stunted by improved control because he thinks now that I know where it is going, it will strike out everyone with mid-90's heat and ditch his changeup bs(the key to his success) and make lazy efforts on his breaking pitch. Homer has a hard head, we know it has softened, but still hard it is.
Bruce was a big disappointment.
Right now is looks like both guys will be in AAA for the rest of the year if they don't improve. For Bailey, maybe not a big big hurt(though I don't think it will feel good). For Bruce, it would be awfull.
Firstly, a hitter can never be a big disppointment based on one game in baseball. There are simply too many random variables to suggest such a thing.
Secondly, it's 2 weeks into the season. And Bailey, usually a slow starter, has been a very pleasant surprise.
Don't look now but we may actually have a decent shortstop or two in the system. If everybody continues at their current production level, I'd like to see Valaika in Chattanooga and Frazier in Sarasota by this time next month.
I would think that Castro has more of a future at SS than Valaika, so I wouldn't be surprised to see Valaika play some 2B once he arrives in Chattanooga- which is fine by me. I see Valaika as a utility guy at the big league level. Meanwhile, like someone else said, I'm sure we'll see Frazier playing SS in Sarasota once Cozart is ready to man the position in Dayton. And I would think sometime around then, we may see Waring and Francisco get bumped up a notch as well, provided they continue to crush the ball. Waring and Frazier should move up together assuming things stay the same.
Go BLUE!!!
Dayton opened the floodgates. They were trailing 4-2 heading into the 7th inning. They then put up 8 runs in the 7th, 8th and 9th. Jake Long has 4 hits and 5 RBI. Denis Phipps has 2 doubles and 2 RBI. Kel Jones also has 3 hits.
forget it.
Last edited by OnBaseMachine; 04-14-2008 at 11:23 PM.
Dayton won 10-4.
Frazier: 1-for-4 single, two walks
Waring: 1-for-6
Long: 4-for-5 double, 5 RBI
Jeffords: 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 5 K
Jacob Long went 3-for-3 yesterday combined with his 4-for-5 effort today...that's a combined 7-for-8 in two games. He turns 22 in three days...might want to keep an eye on him.
Check out Jeffords' numbers on the season:
8.2 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 3 BB, 17 K
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