I was very surprised to see them put the shift on. He has not pulled everything. You are right, he has at least a couple of hits to left center.
Valaika line drive HR to left.
4-2 Bats
Alex Buchholz clears the bases with a double and Sarasota pulls one out with four in the ninth, 5-4.
Aguido Gonzalez gets the wins with 3.1 innings of one-hit relief.
Denove now 3 for 4
BTW, Baez replaced Wood for the bottom of the 8th. He got himself into and out of trouble with a DP ball
Ondrusek will pitch the 9thCode:Player IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA Baez 1.0 1 0 0 2 0 0 4.40
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Bats win 4-2 to drop their magic number to clinch the IL West to 9
Code:Player AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO AVG Bolivar LF 5 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 .249 Heisey CF 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .272 McDonald RF 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .319 Francisco 3B 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .394 Frazier 2B 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .000 Bankston 1B 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .258 Valaika SS 4 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 .223 Denove C 4 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 .341 Wood, T P 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .300 Eymann PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .179 Player IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA Wood, T (W, 4-1) 7.0 1 2 2 1 7 1 2.87 Baez, Fe (H, 6) 1.0 1 0 0 2 0 0 4.40 Ondrusek (S, 7) 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2.70
2nd best story on the Bats after JF is that Valaika is starting to hit his way back into being in the mix.
Yorman Rodriguez was 2-4 with his 3rd homerun of the season.
Billings lost 9-2.
Nice to see Wood continuing to strike batters out at a decent clip.
Cincinnati Reds: Farm System Champions 2022
Fwiw, Denove was in the Futures Game, so the Reds probably think at least something positive about him.
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