Friday April 20th, 2012 Minor League updates (Dayton video online)

[dougdirt]

Louisville is about to get underway. Brett Tomko is on the mound.

Dayton starts at 7pm with Carlos Gonzalez on the mound. You can watch it online for free here: http://www.whiotv.com/s/weather/7weathernow/

Pensacola starts at 8 and has Pedro Villarreal taking the hill.

Bakersfield takes the field at 10:15 and has Tony Cingrani going.

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Louisville Bats lineup

Kristopher Negron CF
Chris Valaika 2B
Denis Phipps LF
Neftali Soto 1B
Mike Costanzo 3B
Daniel Dorn DH
Paul Janish SS
Felix Perez RF
Corky Miller C

[mace]

They're showing a lot of faith in Phipps. He hasn't hit a lick this year, but they're sticking with him in the 3-hole. On the big club, that could be frustrating. In AAA, it's kind of encouraging. I guess.

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Louisville is tied at 1-1. The Bats are threatening with runners on 1st and 2nd.

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Dayton Dragons line up

Jefry Sierra CF
Brandon Dailey SS
Ryan Wright 2B
Danny Vicioso 1B
Juan Silva LF
Steve Selsky RF
Kyle Waldrop DH
Junior Arias 3B
Nick O'Shea C

[dougdirt]

Originally Posted by mace

They're showing a lot of faith in Phipps. He hasn't hit a lick this year, but they're sticking with him in the 3-hole. On the big club, that could be frustrating. In AAA, it's kind of encouraging. I guess.

Lots of walks and strikeouts thus far. 9 walks and 16 strikeouts through 64 plate appearances.

[dougdirt]

Dayton gets each of their first two runners on. Jefry Sierra gets caught on a delayed steal. Brandon Dailey gets picked off by the pitcher. Dayton down 1-0 after 1.

[mace]

Originally Posted by dougdirt

Lots of walks and strikeouts thus far. 9 walks and 16 strikeouts through 64 plate appearances.

Sounds like maybe they're directing him to work the count, see a lot of pitches.

[dougdirt]

Originally Posted by mace

Sounds like maybe they're directing him to work the count, see a lot of pitches.

Perhaps. The strikeout rate is in line with his career though (it is slightly higher, but still, he has been a 22-23% guy in the past, sitting at 25% now).

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Toledo takes a 2-1 lead on Louisville heading to the bottom of 3.

Dayton is down 2-0 heading into the bottom of the 2nd.

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Kyle Waldrop with a line drive sac fly to center gets Dayton on the board. They are down 2-1 and batting in the bottom of the 2nd.

[muddie]

Klinker doing some radio for Dayton?

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Originally Posted by muddie

Klinker doing some radio for Dayton?

He is on the tv coverage tonight.

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Brandon Dailey just hit roughly a 400 foot 3-run home run to put Dayton up 4-2.

[muddie]

Originally Posted by dougdirt

He is on the tv coverage tonight.

Nice. I wonder if he has his eye on something like this. He did a couple of Mudcat games on radio with Patrick Kinas when he was on the shelf the latter part of last year. Kinas, now the lead guy with the Durham Bulls, is very well respected in the business and will be in the majors one day on radio. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if he didn't hint to Klinker that this might be a good field for him to pursue. Klinker was good on the games he sat in on. Just wondering...