Saturday 5/23/09 minor league updates

[GOYA]

Chiefs @ Bats In progress (Jukich)

Dorn - solo HR in the 2nd

Bats lead 1-0

Carolina @ Chattanooga 7:15 (Travis Wood)

St. Lucie @ Sarasota in progress (Jerry Gil)

Sarasota down 1-0 in the 3rd

Dayton @ Burlington 7:30

[GOYA]

Luis Bolivar follows Dorn with jis own solo HR

2-0 on the back-to-backers

[OnBaseMachine]

Louisville is winning 4-0 in the 6th inning.

Jukich: 6 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 3 K

Stubbs is 1-for-3.

[OnBaseMachine]

1-0 Carolina after one inning.

Heisey: 1-for-1 double
Francisco: 1-for-1 RBI single

Wood: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 1 K

[dougdirt]

Sarasota won 3-2.

Player	       AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG
Reed CF	        4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.233
Kainer LF	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.276
Alonso 1B	3	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	.286
Soto 3B	        3	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	1	.275
Phipps RF	4	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	.250
Mesoraco C	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.191
Louwsma DH	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.218
Feiner 2B	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.273
Tordi SS	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.126

Player	                IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Gil (W, 1-6)	        6.0	4	2	0	3	3	0	8.23
Del Rosario (H, 5)	2.0	0	0	0	0	3	0	1.37
Valiquette (S, 5)	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1.53

[dougdirt]

Ben Jukich is happy to be back in the Louisville rotation....

Player	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Jukich 	7.0	2	0	0	1	3	0	4.32

[HokieRed]

Doug,
What's your read on the way the organization looks at Valiquette right now? Seems like there's not a lot more for him to do at Sarasota? How's he regarded?

[Kingspoint]

Alonso's slowing down.

Only 7 RBI's in his last 11 games and an average of about .287 over that span. Still struggling against Left-handers going 4 for 20. He could use another 100 PA's in Sarasota, not just for his bat, but for his glove. Go through the whole league one time, and then see what happens after they've seen each other and adjustments are made. The next five weeks will be telling, though like you, I think he could hit well right now in the Majors against Right-handers.

[dougdirt]

Doug,
What's your read on the way the organization looks at Valiquette right now? Seems like there's not a lot more for him to do at Sarasota? How's he regarded?

They like him, I figure he splits time in Sarasota and Carolina this year. He had an ok year there last year. He still battles consistency and I think thats why he is still in Sarasota.

[OnBaseMachine]

Louisville won 6-0.

Hopper: 1-for-4
Stubbs: 1-for-4
Griffin: 1-for-4 triple
Dorn: 2-for-4 HR (#5), 2 RBI
Bolivar: 1-for-4 HR (#2)
Richar: 2-for-3 walk
Tatum: 1-for-4

Jukich: 7 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 3 K

Viola: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K

Baez: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 K

[dougdirt]

Dayton is scoreless through 3 innings.

[GOYA]

Bats Win 6-0

Player	        AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG
Hopper RF	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.311
Stubbs CF	4	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	.317
Barker 1B	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.241
Griffin 3B	4	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	.182
Dorn LF	        4	1	2	0	0	1	2	0	0	.200
Bolivar SS	4	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	.267
Richar 2B	3	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	.274
Tatum C	        4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.224
Jukich P	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Peterson PH	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000

Player	         IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Jukich (W, 3-1)	7.0	2	0	0	1	3	0	4.32
Viola 	        1.0	1	0	0	0	2	0	4.86
Baez 	        1.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	10.80

[Kingspoint]

Dorn's on fire!

5 Total Bases today in 4 AB's (1.750 OPS today)

[OnBaseMachine]

Travis Wood: 5 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 4 K

1-0 Carolina after five innings.

[dougdirt]

Dayton is up 3-0. Don't look now but Miguel Rojas who has been all glove and no bat is starting to show some life with his bat. He was hitting .312/.372/.403 with 8 walks and 6 K's heading into the game in May and is 1-2 with a triple and a walk tonight.