Houston Astros Minor League Recap: July 8th

Houston Astros Minor League Recap: July 8th

Another night of Astros minor league play is in the books. See how the prospects performed last night.

AAA: Fresno Grizzlies (44-42) lost 9-4 (BOX SCORE)

Shirley got the start for Fresno last night and got roughed up early giving up 6 runs in 4.1 innings. The Fresno offense was silent outside of one inning. In the bottom of the 6th, White hit a grand slam, his 3rd consecutive game with a HR. Teoscar also finished with 2 hits to include a double but Fresno was unable to get anything else going.

• Tony Kemp, 2B: 1-for-4
• Preston Tucker, LF: 0-for-3, R, BB
• Tyler White, DH: 1-for-4, R, HR, 4 RBI
• Teoscar Hernandez, RF: 2-for-3, R, 2B, BB
• Andrew Aplin, CF: 1-for-3, R

• Thomas Shirley, LHP: 4.1 IP, 9 H, 6 R, 6 ER, 1 BB, 3 K
• Cesar Valdez, RHP: 1.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 K
• Jandel Gustave, RHP: 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K

AA: Corpus Christi Hooks (55-30) lost 14-5 (BOX SCORE)

Rough game as Springfield hit 7 homeruns last night. Grills got the start for the Hooks and gave up 11 runs over his 5 innings of work. Corpus got on the board in the 3rd inning on a grand slam from Fisher, his 14th HR of the season. In the 5th inning Stubbs hit a solo HR, his first HR in AA and his 7th HR overall. Unfortunately that is all the Hooks would get as they take the loss 14-5.

• Garrett Stubbs, C: 2-for-4, 2 R, HR, RBI, BB
• Derek Fisher, CF: 1-for-3, R, HR, 4 RBI
• J.D. Davis, 3B: 1-for-4
• Alejandro Garcia, RF: 1-for-4, R
• Conrad Gregor, 1B: 1-for-3, BB

• Evan Grills, LHP: 5.0 IP, 11 H, 11 R, 11 ER, 1 BB, 6 K
• Eric Peterson, RHP: 3.0 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 0 BB, 2 K

A+: Lancaster Jethawks (44-41) won 4-0 (BOX SCORE)

Jethawks shutout Inland Empire last night. Armenteros got the started and tossed 6 scoreless innings with 8 strikeouts. He now has a 2.67 ERA with 74 K in 60.2 innings for Lancaster. Lancaster got on the board in the first with an RBI double from Woodward. They would score again in the 5th on a sac fly from Nunez. Marlow added insurance with a 2 run HR in the 9th to make it 4-0. Comer and Dorris combined to pitch the last 3 innings without giving up a run.

• Bobby Boyd, RF: 0-for-3, R, BB, 2 SB
• Trent Woodward, C: 2-for-4, 2 2B, RBI
• Drew Ferguson, CF: 0-for-0, R, 4 BB
• Brooks Marlow, DH: 1-for-4, R, HR, 2 RBI
• Jamie Ritchie, 1B: 1-for-4, R, 2B

• Rogelio Armenteros, RHP: 6.0 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 3 BB, 8 K (WIN)
• Kevin Comer, RHP: 1.1 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 2 K
• Jacob Dorris, RHP: 1.2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 2 K (SAVE)

A: Quad Cities River Bandits (40-45) won 7-1 (BOX SCORE)

River Bandits keep working their way back to .500. Perez was on the mound for Quad Cities last night and gave up 1 run over 5 innings of work, striking out 6. Quad Cities first got on the board with an RBI single from Wernes in the 5th inning. In the 6th inning they added 3 runs with 2 runs scoring on wild pitches and a Trompiz RBI single. The River Bandits capped the game off with 3 more runs in the 7th on a 3 run double from Hermelyn. Person returned with a scoreless inning in relief and Ferrell closed the game with 3 shutout innings to pick up the save.

• Myles Straw, RF: 1-for-4, SB
• Arturo Michelena, 2B: 1-for-3, R
• Kyle Tucker, CF: 1-for-4, R
• Kristian Trompiz, SS: 1-for-2, RBI, BB, SB
• Dexture McCall, 1B: 1-for-3, 2 R, 2B, BB
• Anthony Hermelyn, C: 1-for-3, R, 2B, 3 RBI
• Connor Goedert, LF: 1-for-4, R, 2B
• Bobby Wernes, 3B: 2-for-4, R, RBI

• Franklin Perez, RHP: 5.0 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 3 BB, 6 K
• Zac Person, LHP: 1.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 K (WIN)
• Justin Ferrell, RHP: 3.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 3 BB, 1 K (SAVE)

A-: Tri-City ValleyCats (10-11) won 7-3 (BOX SCORE) 

Two big innings lift the ValleyCats to the win. The game was scoreless until the 4th inning. In the 4th inning Tri-City scored 4 runs on a 2 run HR from Wrenn and a 2 run HR from Johnson. They got 3 more runs in the 6th with a run scoring on a fielder’s choice and then RBI singles from Mejia and DeGoti. Valdez got the start for Tri-City and had a nice outing allowing just 1 earned run over 6 innings with 7 strikeouts. Santos struck out 7 in the final 3 innings giving up 2 runs.

• Alex DeGoti, SS: 2-for-5, 2B, RBI, SB
• Ryne Birk, 2B: 1-for-2, R, 2 BB
• Stephen Wrenn, CF: 2-for-5, R, HR, 2 RBI
• Ronnie Dawson, DH: 0-for-2, R, 2 BB
• Spencer Johnson, LF: 1-for-4, R, HR, 2 RBI
• Jake Rogers, C: 1-for-3, BB
• Brauly Mejia, RF: 1-for-4, RBI

• Framber Valdez, LHP: 6.0 IP, 6 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 7 K (WIN)
• Juan Santos, RHP: 3.0 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 7 K (SAVE)

ROOKIE: Greeneville Astros (6-10) lost 8-4 (BOX SCORE)

• Miguelangel Sierra, SS: 2-for-4, R, HR, RBI
• Tyler Wolfe, DH: 1-for-4, SB
• Bryan De La Cruz, RF: 2-for-4, 2 R, 3B
• Chase McDonald, 1B: 2-for-4, R, HR, 3 RBI

• Carlos Hiraldo, LHP: 4.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 4 K
• Devon Carr, RHP: 2.0 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 1 K

Today’s starters according to MiLB.com:

FRE: GAME 1 – Brad Peacock (5.17 ERA); GAME 2 – TBD

CC: Kent Emanuel (3.18 ERA)

LAN: Dean Deetz (4.19 ERA)

QC: Albert Abreu (4.20 ERA)

TC: TBD

GV: Diogenes Almengo (2.16 ERA)

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