Houston Astros Minor League Recap: July 13th
Another night of Astros minor league play is in the books. See how the prospects performed last night.
AAA: Fresno Grizzlies (46-42) OFF
AA: Corpus Christi Hooks (58-31) won 4-2 (BOX SCORE)
Mayfield carries the Hooks to a win. Sneed was on the mound last night for the Hooks and had a nice outing. He finished going 6 innings allowing just 2 runs with 4 strikeouts. The Hooks got on the board in the bottom of the first with a Mayfield solo HR, his 5th HR in last 7 games. The Hooks would be held at 1 run until the 7th inning. With two outs, two singles and a walk loaded the bases for Mayfield and once again he came through. Mayfield provided Corpus with a 3 run double to take the lead. Peterson and West combined to allow zero runs over the last 3 innings of the game.
- Jack Mayfield, SS: 2-for-4, R, 2B, HR, 4 RBI
- J.D. Davis, 3B: 2-for-3, BB
- Nick Tanielu, DH: 1-for-4
- Alejandro Garcia, RF: 2-for-3, R
- Mott Hyde, 2B: 2-for-4
- Roberto Pena, C: 1-for-4, R
- Cy Sneed, RHP: 6.0 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 4 K
- Eric Peterson, RHP: 1.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 K (WIN)
- Aaron West, RHP: 1.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K (SAVE)
A+: Lancaster Jethawks (47-42) won 10-9 (BOX SCORE)
Huge 3rd inning lifts Lancaster to the win. James got the starts for the Jethawks and allowed 6 runs over 4 innings, though he did strike out 5. Going into the bottom of the 3rd the Jethawks were down 5-0, but that would change. Lancaster scored 8 runs in the bottom of the 3rd. In that inning they got an RBI single from Boyd, 3 run HR from Sewald, RBI singles from Ritchie and Marlow and a 2 run double from Ferguson. Lancaster would get another 2 in the 4th on a Sewald sac fly and Ritchie RBI single. San Jose would rebound with a few runs of their own to make it 10-9 but Dorris came in and shut the door tossing 2.2 scoreless innings to pick up the save.
- Bobby Boyd, CF: 3-for-4, 2 R, 2B, BB
- Johnny Sewald, LF: 1-for-3, R, HR, 4 RBI, BB, SB
- Ramon Laureano, RF: 2-for-3, R, 2B, BB
- Bryan Muniz, 1B: 0-for-3, R, BB
- Trent Woodward, 3B: 1-for-4, R
- Jamie Ritchie, C: 2-for-4, R, 2 RBI
- Brooks Marlow, 2B: 1-for-4, R, RBI
- Drew Ferguson, DH: 1-for-3, R, 2B, 2 RBI
- Joshua James, RHP: 4.0 IP, 7 H, 6 R, 5 ER, 0 BB, 5 K
- Scott Weathersby, RHP: 2.1 IP, 6 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 2 K (WIN)
- Jacob Dorris, RHP: 2.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 4 K (SAVE)
A: Quad Cities River Bandits (41-48) lost 6-0 (BOX SCORE)
Another rough night for the River Bandits bats. Quiala got the start and kept the game scoreless for the first 5 innings. Unfortunately in the 6th it fell apart and he ended up giving up 5 runs. Quad Cities was only able to manage four hits on the night with two from Straw and two from Porter.
- Myles Straw, RF: 2-for-3, 2B, BB
- Pat Porter, DH: 2-for-4
- Yoanys Quiala, RHP: 5.1 IP, 9 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 0 BB, 4 K
- Makay Nelson, RHP: 1.2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K
A-: Tri-City ValleyCats (13-13) lost 5-3 (BOX SCORE)
Big first inning dooms the ValleyCats. Winkelman was on the mound for the ValleyCats and gave up 3 runs in the first but settled down to throw 3 scoreless innings after that. Tri-City got on the board in the 3rd inning, scoring 2 runs on a Robinson 2 run double. In the 9th down 5-2, Jones added a solo HR but the ValleyCats were unable to score any more dropping this one.
- Ryne Birk, 2B: 1-for-5, R
- Stephen Wrenn, CF: 1-for-4
- Taylor Jones, 1B: 1-for-3, R, HR, RBI, BB
- Brauly Mejia, RF: 2-for-3
- Chuckie Robinson, C: 2-for-4, 2B, 2 RBI
- Alex Winkelman, LHP: 4.0 IP, 6 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 0 BB, 5 K
- Carlos Sierra, RHP: 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 2 K
- Framber Valdez, RHP: 3.0 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 3 K
ROOKIE: Greeneville Astros (9-11) won 5-1 (BOX SCORE)
- Miguelangel Sierra, SS: 2-for-3, 2 R, BB, SB
- Bryan De La Cruz, RF: 2-for-3, 2 R, 3B, RBI, BB
- Jonathan Arauz, 2B: 1-for-4
- Marcos Almonte, CF: 1-for-4, R, 2 SB
- Gabriel Bracamonte, C: 2-for-4, 2B, RBI
- Ben Smith, LHP: 4.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 4 K
- Angelo Serrano, RHP: 3.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 6 K (WIN)
Today’s starters according to MiLB.com:
FRE: Cesar Valdez (3.36 ERA)
CC: Francis Martes (3.88 ERA)
LAN: GAME 1 – Rogelio Armenteros (2.67 ERA); GAME 2 – Trent Thornton (4.46 ERA)
QC: Matt Bower (2.78 ERA)
TC: TBD
GV: Carlos Hiraldo (10.13 ERA)
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