5/2 Minor League updates

[dougdirt]

Dragons are up 2-0 in the top of the 3rd off a Jay Bruce HR, his 4th of the season and second in as many games. Johnny Cueto is on the mound for the Dragons and has gone 2 innings of 1 hit, 1k baseball so far. Dragons play a double header today.

[dougdirt]

BJ Szymanski didnt like the fact that Jay Bruce had as many home runs as he did, so he just hit one out to make it 3-0 Dragons.

[dougdirt]

3-0 Dragons at the end of 4 innings. Johnny Cueto is having another good outing.

[OnBaseMachine]

Cueto: 5 innings, 2 hits, 0 runs, 0 walks, 4 strikeouts

[dougdirt]

Cueto entered this season not even in BA top 30 Reds prospects, I would say he is well on his way to making it up to the top 15 easy. Does anyone have a scouting report on him? I havent seen him pitch and I am wondering how good all of his stuff is? I know he has a slider that sounds pretty good, but anyone who has actually seen him throw this year have some information on him?

[dougdirt]

Cueto walked two hitters to lead off the 6th before being removed. Bullpen came in and let them both score. Cueto charged with 2 runs in todays game.

[dougdirt]

Well the Dragons bullpen has been horrible this year. now a tie game, 3-3 in the 6th inning, with a runner on second and 1 out.

[OnBaseMachine]

Did Cueto start the 6th?

[dougdirt]

Yes he did, he walked the first two hitters. He was then taken out, both runners ended up scoring thanks to back to back doubles and then a single that helped tie the game.

[dougdirt]

Paul Janish hits a HR in the top 0f the 7th to take the lead in what could be the last inning. Dragons up 4-3 and still batting.

[dougdirt]

Dragons won the first game 4-3.

In the second game, its the top of the first. I missed how Griffing got on, but he scored on a double from first by Paul Janish, who was thrown out at third. Jay Bruce then hit a double.

[dougdirt]

Dayton won game 2, 8-2 in 7 innings. BJ Szymanski hit a home run in that game as well, pushing his total to two on the day and 6 for the season. BJ has his average up to .211 now on the season.

[dougdirt]

Chattanooga is now in the 3rd inning tied at 0.

[dougdirt]

Chattanooga down 3-1 after a 3 run 5th by Tennessee

[dougdirt]

Chattanooga takes the lead and is now up 4-3 in the bottom of the 6th.

[dougdirt]

Chattanooga wins 4-3 tonight. Valdez gets the win after 6 innings of 6 hit baseball and allowing 3 runs. The bullpen of Nannini, Coutlangus and Shafer combined for 3 innings of no hit baseball to close it up.

[dougdirt]

Oh and Louisville is down 4-2 in the 8th inning. Paul Wilson went 6 innings, allowed 6 hits, walked 1 and struck out 1 while giving up 2 runs.

[membengal]

Wow, a 1:1 K:BB ratio...that's EXACTLY what you want to see as he matches up with minor league hitters...yuck.

[lollipopcurve]

Dayton club is starting to look interesting.

[dougdirt]

Dayton has good talent there until you get to the bullpen. They bullpen has blown at least 6 games for them already. Do take notice who they played though. Burlington is now 9-17, not exactly the cream of the crop and had a team batting average of .209 at one point during one of yesterdays game for the season.

[Doc. Scott]

Dayton's figured out how to circumvent some of this bullpen problem: play shorter games.

They've won four straight seven-inning makeup contests to even their season record at 13-13.