The Carolina Mudacts will avoid the loss column today because they have the day off.
Klinker has been reactivated and is scheduled to start tomorrow night against Chattanooga in Carolina.
Daryl Harang has been assigned to Lynchburg to open a spot for Matt Klinker.
Bats @ Bison
Burke, C CF .222
Cozart SS .250
Dorn 1B .268
Balentien RF .159
Francisco, J 3B .189
Castillo, W C .242
Frazier LF .180
Sutton 2B .211
Lehr P .000
The Bats will be facing the knuckleballer, R. A. Dickey
Dickey had a 1 hit complete game last time out.
After going on a recent tear, Neftali Soto is now hitting .303/.344/.483 - .827 OPS in 89 atbats.
Mesoraco is 1-for-2 tonight.
Bats down 3-2 in the 8th
Dorn is 3 for 4
Bats lead 4-3 on a two RBI triple by Frazier in the 9th
Lynchburg won 6-5 on a Neftali Soto walk off 2-run HR.
Soto finished 2-for-5 with a walk off 2-run HR (#5), his 4th HR in four days. Mesoraco was 1-for-3 with a walk.
Adkins blows it bigtime
Bats lose 5-4
Code:Player AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO AVG Burke CF 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .208 Cozart SS 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .240 Dorn 1B 4 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 .291 Balentien RF 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 .167 Francisco, J 3B 4 1 2 1 0 0 2 0 0 .205 Castillo, W C 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .243 Frazier LF 4 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 1 .185 Sutton 2B 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 .200 Lehr P 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 Terrero PH 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .300 Valaika PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .337 Player IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA Lehr 6.0 6 3 2 1 1 0 5.81 Del Rosario 2.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2.16 Adkins (BS, 3)(L, 0-2) 0.1 4 2 2 0 0 0 7.20
3 blown saves for Adkins, 32 going on 33, how long is he the closer with all the great arms around him ready to step up? He's kind of like the Luis Bolivar of the bullpen, ya know?
2015 Rotation: Under Construction
Bolivar was a good reliever. :-)
This is, IMHO, the most important story in our minor league system regarding a position player (Soto's that is, though I like Mes too.) Soto is getting back on track to being in Cinti by age 23, maybe earlier. He may yet get there earlier than a number of more highly touted people at AAA.Originally Posted by OnBaseMachine
23 would be extremely optimistic, especially if he's going to play at least some catcher (and I assume he will play that position almost exclusively as he moves forward). If he and Mesoraco continue to hit as well as they have, two years from now, the Reds should have a nice duo behind the plate.
Logan Ondrusek should be closing in Louisville.
Go BLUE!!!
"You look at his numbers, and other than last year -- which was probably an aberration because maybe he was at a level too high to start out with, maybe because of (organizational) need -- and he's thrown up some pretty good numbers. We knew he was going to hit. He got off to a slow start here. But it's nice to see him get hot and stay hot." - Kelly on Soto
(The News & Advance)
http://ramsey.mlblogs.com/archives/2...port-5510.html
He's not closing in Louisville because the Reds don't want him as a closer. He's in the role he'll be in in Cincy.
Adkins did very well for the Bats in 2008, supposedly did very well in Korea in 2009, but seems to have really lost it.
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