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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