Houston Astros Minor League Recap: August 7th
Another night of Astros minor league play is in the books. See how the prospects performed last night.
AAA: Fresno Grizzlies (64-51) won 3-1 (BOX SCORE)
Fresno won this one in extras. Hauschild started for the Grizzlies last night and had another great start. He went 6.2 shutout innings allowing just 4 hits with 5 strikeouts lowering his season ERA to 2.96. Fresno got on the board first when Kemmer and Worth pulled off a double steal, which included Kemmer stealing home. The game stayed 1-0 until the 9th inning but El Paso was able to tie it off Jankowski. It didn’t take long for Fresno to retake the lead as Moran crushed a 2 run HR in the 10th inning. Gustave tossed a scoreless 10th to pick up the save.
- Jon Kemmer, LF: 3-for-5, R, SB
- Colin Moran, 3B: 1-for-5, R, HR, 2 RBI
- Danny Worth, 1B: 3-for-4, SB
- Mike Hauschild, RHP: 6.2 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 3 BB, 5 K
- Kevin Chapman, LHP: 1.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 0 K
- Jordan Jankowski, RHP: 1.1 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 2 K (WIN)
- Jandel Gustave, RHP: 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 0 K (SAVE)
AA: Corpus Christi Hooks (68-46) won 3-1 (BOX SCORE)
Martes got the start for the Hooks last night and dominated again. He went 7 innings allowing 1 run with 7 strikeouts. This was his third dominant outing in a row and could be pushing for a callup to AAA. Corpus got the scoring started with a McDonald RBI double in the 2nd inning. McDonald added an RBI single in the 4th to extend the lead to 2-0. Nunez capped off the scoring for the Hooks with an RBI single in the 7th. Dorris made his AA debut and tossed two scoreless innings to pick up the save.
- Conrad Gregor, 1B: 1-for-3, 2 R, BB
- Chase McDonald, DH: 3-for-4, R, 2B, 2 RBI
- Antonio Nunez, SS: 1-for-3, RBI, BB
- Francis Martes, RHP: 7.0 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 7 K (WIN)
- Jacob Dorris, RHP: 2.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 3 K (SAVE)
A+: Lancaster Jethawks (63-50) lost 12-10 (BOX SCORE)
This was definitely a shootout in the desert last night. Lancaster got on the board first with a Gurriel RBI double in the first inning. Modesto responded by putting up 5 in the 2nd inning and 4 in the 4th inning. Dykxhoorn started for the Jethawks and gave up 10 runs over 5 innings. Lancaster entered the 6th inning down 10-1 but rallied for 6 runs on a Martin sac fly, Duarte RBI walk, and a Gurriel grand slam. Modesto responded with two of their own in the 7th but the Jethawks came right back with a 2 run HR from Martin, his 18th of the season. Lancaster would make it closer on a solo HR from Duarte to bring the game to 12-10. Unfortunately, the offense couldn’t get anything else going and lost by this score. NOTE: This should be Gurriel’s last game with Lancaster and will be joining Corpus on Tuesday.
- Yulieski Gurriel, DH: 2-for-4, R, 2B, HR, 5 RBI
- Johnny Sewald, RF: 1-for-2, 2 R, 2 BB
- Osvaldo Duarte, SS: 1-for-4, 2 R, HR, 2 RBI, BB
- Bryan Muniz, 1B: 1-for-4, BB
- Drew Ferguson, CF: 2-for-5, 2 R, 2B
- Jason Martin, LF: 1-for-4, R, HR, 3 RBI
- Trent Woodward, 3B: 2-for-5, R, 2B
- Marc Wik, 2B: 1-for-4, R, 2B
- Brock Dykxhoorn, RHP: 5.0 IP, 11 H, 10 R, 10 ER, 1 BB, 3 K
- Kevin McCanna, RHP: 2.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K
A: Quad Cities River Bandits (54-58) won 2-1 (BOX SCORE)
The Abreu/Perez duo pitched in this one and they did great. Abreu went 5 innings allowing just 1 run with 6 strikeouts. He was relieved by Perez who tossed 4 scoreless innings with 4 strikeouts. Quad Cities tied the game at 1 in the 6th inning on an RBI single from Cesar. The game stayed tied at 1 until the 10th inning when Tucker came through with a walk-off RBI single to win it.
- Myles Straw, RF: 1-for-4, BB
- Kristian Trompiz, SS: 2-for-4, 2B
- Dexture McCall, 1B: 2-for-5, R, 2B
- Kyle Tucker, LF: 3-for-5, R, 3B, RBI
- Stephen Wrenn, CF: 1-for-5
- Randy Cesar, 3B: 2-for-4, RBI
- Albert Abreu, RHP: 5.0 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 3 BB, 6 K
- Franklin Perez, RHP: 4.0 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 4 K
- Juan Santos, RHP: 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K
A-: Tri-City ValleyCats (28-21) won 18-4 (BOX SCORE)
- Rodrigo Ayarza, 3B: 2-for-5, 2 R, 2 RBI
- Miguelangel Sierra, SS: 1-for-3, 2 R, RBI, 2 BB
- Brauly Mejia, CF: 3-for-5, R, 2 RBI, BB
- Chuckie Robinson, C: 2-for-4, R, 3 RBI
- Taylor Jones, 1B: 2-for-3, 4 R, 3 BB
- Ronnie Dawson, LF: 3-for-5, 3 R, 2 RBI, BB
- Spencer Johnson, DH: 2-for-4, R, 2B, HR, 4 RBI, 2 BB
- Bryan De La Cruz, RF: 1-for-4, 2 R, 2 RBI, BB
- Kevin Hill, RHP: 3.0 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 1 K
- Ryan Hartman, LHP: 3.0 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 2 K (WIN)
- Tyler Britton, RHP: 3.0 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 4 K (SAVE)
ROOKIE: Greeneville Astros (24-20) lost 8-7 (BOX SCORE)
- Jonathan Arauz, SS: 2-for-3, 2 R, HR, RBI, BB
- Abraham Toro-Hernandez, DH: 1-for-5, R, 2B
- Frankeny Fernandez, CF: 1-for-4, 2 R, 2 RBI, BB
- Reiny Beltre, 3B: 2-for-4, R, RBI, BB
- Carlos Machado, RF: 1-for-4, R
- Oscar Campos, C: 1-for-4, RBI
- Vicente Sanchez, LF: 1-for-4, RBI
- Lucas Williams, RHP: 3.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 2 K
Today’s starters according to MiLB.com:
FRE: Brad Peacock (4.13 ERA)
CC: OFF
LAN: OFF
QC: Yoanys Quiala (4.31 ERA)
TC: Austin Nicely (5.13 ERA)
GV: Jorge Alcala (0.00 ERA)
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