Houston Astros Minor League Recap: July 19th
Another night of Astros minor league play is in the books. See how the prospects performed last night.
AAA: Fresno Grizzlies (50-44) won 1-0 (BOX SCORE)
Dominating pitching performance in this one. Musgrove got the start and was almost untouchable. He finished tossing 7 scoreless innings with 0 BB/9 K. Fresno only scored 1 run last night which came on a White RBI single bringing in Bregman in the 3rd inning. Fields tossed a scoreless 8th to keep it 1-0. Hoyt tossed a scoreless 9th to record his 24th save. He now has a 1.77 ERA with 79 K in 45.2 innings.
- Alex Bregman, SS: 2-for-4, R, 2B
- Tyler White, DH: 1-for-4, RBI
- Preston Tucker, LF: 1-for-4
- Max Stassi, C: 1-for-2
- Joe Musgrove, RHP: 7.0 IP, 6 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 9 K (WIN)
- Josh Fields, RHP: 1.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K
- James Hoyt, RHP: 1.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K (SAVE)
AA: Corpus Christi Hooks (59-36) lost 14-2 (BOX SCORE)
Corpus jumped out to an early 1-0 lead with Stubbs singling and coming around to score on a wild pitch. Unfortunately the lead didn’t last long. Sneed has been great this season but struggled last night giving up 8 runs in his only inning of work. Sanudo gave up 2 runs and Peterson gave up 3 runs, though all unearned. Corpus was only able to add one more run in the 7th on an RBI single from Stubbs.
- J.D. Davis, 3B: 1-for-4, 2B
- James Ramsay, LF: 2-for-3, R
- Garrett Stubbs, C: 2-for-3, R, RBI, BB
- Mott Hyde, SS: 1-for-3, 2B
- Cy Sneed, RHP: 1.0 IP, 6 H, 8 R, 8 ER, 3 BB, 0 K
A+: Lancaster Jethawks (52-44) won 5-4 (BOX SCORE)
Nice close win for Lancaster. Boyd lead off the game with a solo HR, his 8th HR of the season. Thornton got the start and gave up 3 runs in the first but tossed five scoreless innings after that to keep the game close. In the 3rd inning Muniz added an RBI single to bring the Jethawks within a run. Lancaster added 3 runs in the 6th with 1 run scoring on an error and a 2 run double from Boyd. Deemes and Comer combined to throw 2 shutout innings to end the game.
- Bobby Boyd, CF: 3-for-5, R, 3B, HR, 3 RBI
- Ramon Laureano, LF: 0-for-3, 2 BB
- Bryan Muniz, DH: 1-for-3, R, RBI, BB
- Jamie Ritchie, 1B: 1-for-3, 2B
- Keach Ballard, SS: 1-for-3, R, BB
- Drew Ferguson, RF: 0-for-3, R, BB, 2 SB
- Trent Thornton, RHP: 6.0 IP, 7 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 9 K (WIN)
- Ryan Deemes, RHP: 1.2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 1 K
- Kevin Comer, RHP: 0.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 K
A: Quad Cities River Bandits (44-50) OFF
A-: Tri-City ValleyCats (17-15) lost 6-4 (BOX SCORE)
Tri-City lost this one in extra innings. The ValleyCats scored first on a Johnson solo HR in the 2nd inning. They were down 3-1 entering the 4th inning but Birk came through with a 2 out, 2 run single to tie it at 3. Mejia added an RBI single in the 5th to take a 4-3 lead. Unfortunately the bullpen wasn’t able to hold it as Batavia tied it in the 8th and won it with 2 runs in the 10th.
- Rodrigo Ayarza, 3B: 2-for-5
- Ryne Birk, 2B: 1-for-5, 2 RBI, BB
- Carmen Benedetti, RF: 2-for-6
- Brauly Mejia, CF: 2-for-5, RBI
- Spencer Johnson, 1B: 4-for-5, 2 R, 2B, HR, RBI
- Chuckie Robinson, DH: 2-for-4, R, 2B
- Enrique Chavez, RHP: 5.0 IP, 4 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 4 K
- Hector Perez, RHP: 4.0 IP, 5 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 6 K
ROOKIE: Greeneville Astros (14-12) lost 4-3 (BOX SCORE)
- Miguelangel Sierra, SS: 1-for-4, R
- Marcos Almonte, CF: 2-for-4, R, SB
- Troy Sieber, DH: 1-for-4, RBI
- Bryan De La Cruz, RF: 1-for-4, 2B, RBI
- Abraham Toro-Hernandez, CF: 1-for-4, R, 2B
- Jonathan Arauz, 2B: 1-for-3, RBI
- Ben Smith, LHP: 4.2 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 7 K
Today’s starters according to MiLB.com:
FRE: Cesar Valdez (3.19 ERA)
CC: Francis Martes (3.62 ERA)
LAN: OFF
QC: Yoanys Quiala (4.35 ERA)
TC: OFF
GV: Carlos Hiraldo (7.47 ERA)
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**Photo Credit: Kiel Maddox/Fresno Grizzlies**
