Houston Astros Minor League Recap: August 14th
Another night of Astros minor league play is in the books. See how the prospects performed last night.
AAA: Fresno Grizzlies (65-55) lost 9-5 (BOX SCORE)
Another tough loss for Fresno. They had one of their betters starters, in Hauschild, on the mound last night but he only lasted 1 inning. In that first inning he allowed 4 hits, 2 walks, and 4 runs. Fresno entered the bottom of the 5th down 6-0 but started to mount a comeback with an RBI single from Moran and a bases loaded walk to Worth. In the 7th inning Kemmer crushed a 3 run HR to right center, an estimated 469′. This was his 15th of the season and brought Fresno within a run. Unfortunately, the bullpen gave up 3 more runs and Fresno fell 9-5.
- Colin Moran, 3B: 1-for-4, RBI, BB
- Derek Fisher, RF: 0-for-4, R, BB
- Jon Kemmer, LF: 1-for-4, R, HR, 3 RBI, BB
- Danny Worth, DH: 2-for-4, 2B, RBI, BB
- Andrew Aplin, CF: 1-for-4, R
- Nolan Fontana, SS: 1-for-4, 2B
- Chan Moon, 2B: 3-for-4, 2 R
- Mike Hauschild, RHP: 1.0 IP, 4 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 2 BB, 2 K
- Albert Minnis, RHP: 3.1 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 0 ER, 3 BB, 2 K
- Aaron West, RHP: 2.1 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K
AA: Corpus Christi Hooks (71-49) won 7-1 (BOX SCORE)
Paulino made his return to the Hooks rotation making his first start for Corpus since June 18th. He was great again though going 6 innings allowing just 1 run with 0 BB/6 K. The Hooks offense jumped out to an early 1-0 on a Gurriel sac fly scoring Laureano. They scored again in the 3rd on a Gurriel RBI single driving in Stubbs who doubled. Ramsay added a solo HR in the 4th to make it 3-1. In the 7th inning the offense put this one out of reach with a sac fly from Boyd and a 3 run HR from Laureano. Smith pitched 3 scoreless innings to close it out.
- Ramon Laureano, CF: 2-for-4, 2 R, HR, 3 RBI, SB
- Garrett Stubbs, C: 1-for-4, R, 2B
- Yulieski Gurriel, 3B: 1-for-3, 2 RBI
- Chase McDonald, 1B: 2-for-4, R, 2B
- James Ramsay, RF: 2-for-3, 2 R, HR, RBI
- Mott Hyde, SS: 1-for-3, R
- Bobby Boyd, LF: 1-for-2, RBI
- David Paulino, RHP: 6.0 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 6 K
- Kyle Smith, RHP: 3.0 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 2 K
A+: Lancaster Jethawks (67-52) won 9-4 (BOX SCORE)
Lancaster has really been playing good baseball and that continued last night. The Jethawks got 3 runs in the first inning on a Ferguson sac fly and a 2 run triple from Martin. Ferguson drove in another in the 2nd inning with an RBI single to make it 4-2. Marlow added an RBI double in the 3rd inning to extend the lead. Hernandez made his return to the Jethawks and pitched a lot better allowing 3 runs over 6 innings with 9 strikeouts. In the 6th inning Lancaster put the game out of reach getting a solo HR from Wik and RBI singles from Mizell, Ferguson, and Muniz. Deemes tossed 2 scoreless in relief and Deetz closed it out in the 9th.
- Myles Straw, LF: 2-for-4, 2 R, 2B, BB
- Aaron Mizell, RF: 1-for-5, R, RBI
- Osvaldo Duarte, SS: 2-for-4, R, 2B
- Drew Ferguson, DH: 2-for-4, R, 3 RBI, SB
- Bryan Muniz, 1B: 1-for-4, R, BB
- Jason Martin, CF: 1-for-4, 3B, 2 RBI
- Jamie Ritchie, C: 1-for-4, R, 2B
- Brooks Marlow, 3B: 1-for-2, R, 2B, RBI, 2 BB
- Marc Wik, SS: 1-for-4, R, HR, RBI
- Elieser Hernandez, RHP: 6.0 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 0 BB, 9 K (WIN)
- Ryan Deemes, RHP: 2.0 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K
- Dean Deetz, RHP: 1.0 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 0 K
A: Quad Cities River Bandits (57-61) won 4-0 (BOX SCORE)
Dominant pitching in this one. The Perez/Abreu piggy-back was about as good as it gets. Perez went the first five scoreless innings allowing just 4 hits with 9 strikeouts. Abreu followed him tossing four scoreless innings with 5 strikeouts. Porter got Quad Cities on the board with a solo HR in the 3rd inning. Tucker added an RBI single in the 6th inning to make it 2-0. They got 2 more in the 9th on a Cesar 2 run single and that was more than enough for Perez and Abreu.
- Kristian Trompiz, SS: 1-for-4
- Stephen Wrenn, LF: 1-for-3, R, BB
- Dexture McCall, 1B: 1-for-3, R, BB
- Kyle Tucker, CF: 3-for-4, R, 2B, RBI
- Randy Cesar, 3B: 1-for-4, 2 RBI
- Pat Porter, RF: 2-for-4, R, HR, RBI
- Franklin Perez, RHP: 5.0 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 9 K (WIN)
- Albert Abreu, RHP: 4.0 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 5 K (SAVE)
A-: Tri-City ValleyCats (30-26) played a double header
GAME 1 – won 3-0 (BOX SCORE)
- Marcos Almonte, CF: 2-for-3, R, BB, SB
- Miguelangel Sierra, SS: 2-for-4
- Chuckie Robinson, C: 1-for-4, R, 2B
- Ronnie Dawson, LF: 1-for-2, 2B, RBI, BB
- Ryan Hartman, LHP: 3.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 K
- Sebastian Kessay, LHP: 3.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 3 K (WIN)
- Carlos Sierra, RHP: 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K
GAME 2 – lost 2-1 (BOX SCORE)
- Bryan De La Cruz, RF: 0-for-2, R, BB
- Gabriel Bracamonte, C: 1-for-3
- Alex DeGoti, 2B: 1-for-2, BB
- Abdiel Saldana, RHP: 2.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 K
- Austin Nicely, LHP: 3.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 K
- Nick Hernandez, RHP: 1.0 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K
ROOKIE: Greeneville Astros (26-25) won 7-3 (BOX SCORE)
- Jonathan Arauz, SS: 1-for-5, R, BB
- Jonathan Matute, 2B: 0-for-1, 2 R, 3 BB
- Abraham Toro-Hernandez, 3B: 2-for-5, 3 RBI
- Frankeny Fernandez, CF: 0-for-3, R, RBI, 2 BB, SB
- Carlos Machado, DH: 1-for-4, R, RBI
- Vicente Sanchez, LF: 1-for-5, R, 3B, RBI
- Ruben Castro, C: 2-for-4, RBI
- Luis Payano, RF: 1-for-3, R, BB, SB
- Ben Smith, LHP: 2.0 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 3 BB, 0 K
- Reggie Johnson, RHP: 2.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 2 K (WIN)
- Cristian Javier, RHP: 4.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 K
- Lucas Williams, RHP: 1.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K
Today’s starters according to MiLB.com:
FRE: Brad Peacock (4.20 ERA)
CC: OFF
LAN: TBD
QC: Yoanys Quiala (4.34 ERA)
TC: OFF
GV: Carlos Sanabria (4.09 ERA)
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