Houston Astros Minor League Recap: August 3rd
Another night of Astros minor league play is in the books. See how the prospects performed last night.
AAA: Fresno Grizzlies (61-49) won 5-3 (BOX SCORE)
Fresno keeps rolling. The Grizzlies got off to a good start on a 2 run HR from Moran in the 2nd inning. Cotton made his first start of the season and went 5 innings allowing 2 runs with 3 strikeouts. Singleton added a solo HR in the 4th to make it a 3-2 game. Las Vegas battled back getting a run in the 6th to tie it. The game stayed tied at 3 until the 11th inning. In the 11th, Kemmer came through with a 2 out, 2 run single to give Fresno the lead. Jankowski pitched the bottom of the 11th and struck out the side to pick up the save.
- Tony Kemp, 2B: 1-for-6, 2B
- Jon Kemmer, LF: 3-for-6, 2 RBI
- Teoscar Hernandez, RF: 2-for-5, 2B, SB
- Colin Moran, 3B: 3-for-4, 2 R, 2B, HR, 2 RBI, BB
- Jon Singleton, 1B: 2-for-5, 2 R, 2B, HR, RBI
- Tyler Heineman, C: 1-for-5, R
- Danny Worth, SS: 2-for-6
- Chris Cotton, LHP: 5.0 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 3 K
- Albert Minnis, LHP: 2.0 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 2 K
- Reymin Guduan, LHP: 3.0 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 4 K (WIN)
- Jordan Jankowski, RHP: 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 K (SAVE)
AA: Corpus Christi Hooks (66-44) won 6-2 (BOX SCORE)
One big inning lifted Corpus to the win. The game was scoreless until the 5th inning when Corpus exploded for 6 runs. In that inning they got an RBI walk from Ramsay, RBI walk from Tanielu, and a grand slam from Fisher to cap it off. Grills got the start and was brilliant. He went 7.2 innings allowing just 2 runs, both unearned, with 12 strikeouts. Peterson pitched the final 1.1 innings without allowing a run to seal the win.
- Ramon Laureano, RF: 1-for-3, R, BB
- Nick Tanielu, 2B: 1-for-3, R, 3B, RBI, BB
- James Ramsay, LF: 1-for-3, R, 2B, RBI, BB
- Derek Fisher, CF: 1-for-4, R, HR, 4 RBI
- Alejandro Garcia, DH: 1-for-3, BB, SB
- Roberto Pena, C: 2-for-4, R
- Antonio Nunez, SS: 1-for-4, R
- Evan Grills, LHP: 7.2 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 12 K (WIN)
- Eric Peterson, RHP: 1.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K
A+: Lancaster Jethawks (60-49) lost 7-4 (BOX SCORE)
This game started out well as Lancaster scored 2 runs in the first inning on a Duarte solo HR and a Muniz sac fly. Armenteros got the start and pitched well allowing 3 runs in 5 innings with 6 strikeouts. Lake Elsinore took the lead 5th and continued to play add on. Lancaster got a run back in the 8th on a Ferguson sac fly and another in the 9th on Marlow RBI single but they couldn’t get any more falling 7-4/
- Yulieski Gurriel: DNP
- Osvaldo Duarte, CF: 3-for-4, 2 R, 2B, HR, RBI
- Drew Ferguson, RF: 1-for-2, RBI, BB
- Trent Woodward, C: 0-for-2, R, 2 BB
- Brooks Marlow, 3B: 2-for-4, RBI
- Aaron Mizell, LF: 1-for-4, R
- Rogelio Armenteros, RHP: 5.0 IP, 6 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 0 BB, 6 K
A: Quad Cities River Bandits (51-57) lost 6-1 (BOX SCORE)
This game got away from Quad Cities in the 1st inning when Peoria put up 4 runs on Bower. Bower allowed 6 runs total over his 5 innings of work. Quad Cities did get on the board in the 7th with an RBI double from Birk but that is all they would get. Person tossed 3 scoreless innings in relief but the offense fell short.
- Kristian Trompiz, SS: 2-for-4, R
- Ryne Birk, 2B: 1-for-4, 2B, RBI
- Pat Porter, RF: 2-for-4, 2B
- Matt Bower, LHP: 5.0 IP, 9 H, 6 R, 6 ER, 1 BB, 5 K
- Zac Person, LHP: 3.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 4 K
A-: Tri-City ValleyCats (25-20) won 1-0 (BOX SCORE)
- Marcos Almonte, CF: 2-for-4
- Chuckie Robinson, C: 1-for-3, 2B, BB
- Brauly Mejia, LF: 2-for-4
- Bryan De La Cruz, RF: 1-for-4, R
- Agapito Barrios, RHP: 5.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 6 K
- Austin Nicely, LHP: 3.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K (WIN)
- Nick Hernandez, RHP: 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 K (SAVE)
ROOKIE: Greeneville Astros (22-18) OFF
Today’s starters according to MiLB.com:
FRE: GAME 1 – Brady Rodgers (2.59 ERA); GAME 2 – TBD
CC: Brian Holmes (3.73 ERA)
LAN: Dean Deetz (4.00 ERA)
QC: Elieser Hernandez (2.76 ERA)
TC: Sebastian Kessay (4.22 ERA)
GV: Ben Smith (1.96 ERA)
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