Astros Minor League Recap: April 5th, 2018
Minor league baseball opened the season last night with all four full-season teams in action. See the results below.
AAA: Fresno Grizzlies (0-1) lost 10-2 (BOX SCORE)
Fresno started off the season a bit shaky last night. Hauschild got the start and was roughed up early allowing 7 runs in 2.1 innings before being pulled. The Grizzlies didn’t score their first run until the 6th when Ferguson scored on a White RBI single. Unfortunately, it was already 8-0 going into the 6th inning. The Grizzlies would get one more run in the 7th on a Kemp sac fly but the early deficit was too much to overcome.
- Tony Kemp, 2B: 0-for-4, RBI
- Drew Ferguson, CF: 3-for-4, R, 2B, BB
- Kyle Tucker, LF: 2-for-4, BB
- Tyler White, 3B: 1-for-3, RBI, BB
- A.J. Reed, 1B: 1-for-4
- Jack Mayfield, SS: 1-for-3, BB
- Garrett Stubbs, C: 1-for-4, R, 3B
- Mike Hauschild, RHP: 2.1 IP, 7 H, 7 R, 7 ER, 3 BB, 1 K
- Andrew Thome, RHP: 1.2 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 1 K
- James Hoyt, RHP: 1.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 K
- Matt Ramsey, RHP: 2.0 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 1 K
- Cy Sneed, RHP: 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K
AA: Corpus Christi Hooks (0-1) lost 5-4 (BOX SCORE)
F. Valdez got the start last night and while he gave up 2 runs in the first inning, he would settle down to throw 4 scoreless innings after that picking up 4 Ks in the 5 IP. The Hooks got their first run of the season in the 3rd inning from a rehabbing Gurriel RBI double. In the 5th inning they would pick up 2 runs on a Ritchie sac fly and Tanielu RBI double to take a 3-2 lead. Gurriel would add an RBI single in the 6th to make it 4-2. James relieved Valdez and struck out 7 over 3 innings but allowed 2 runs. Ferrell pitched the 9th and allowed a walk-off with two outs as the Hooks fell 5-4.
- Myles Straw, CF: 1-for-2, 2 R, 2 BB, SB
- Yuli Gurriel, 1B: 2-for-4, R, 2B, 2 RBI
- Jamie Ritchie, C: 1-for-4, RBI
- Yordan Alvarez, LF: 1-for-4, BB
- Nick Tanielu, DH: 2-for-5, 2B, RBI
- Stephen Wrenn, RF: 1-for-4, R
- Ryne Birk, 2B: 0-for-3, BB, SB
- Framber Valdez, LHP: 5.0 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 4 K
- Josh James, RHP: 3.0 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 7 K
- Riley Ferrell, RHP: 0.2 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 3 BB, 2 K
A+: Buies Creek Astros (0-1) lost 4-3 (BOX SCORE)
Buies Creek got off to a nice start scoring a run in the first inning on a Toro-Hernandez sac fly. Alcala got the start last night but struggled early giving up 3 runs in the first inning and another in the second inning. Scheetz and Saldana relieved Alcala and both had scoreless outings. The Astros picked up a run in the 3rd and another in the 6th on a McCormick RBI triple but were unable to score again dropping this one 4-3.
- Ronnie Dawson, CF: 0-for-2, 2 BB
- Josh Rojas, 2B: 1-for-4, R
- Abraham Toro-Hernandez, 3B: 0-for-1, R, RBI, BB, SB
- Troy Sieber, 1B: 2-for-4, 2 2B
- Chas McCormick, LF: 1-for-4, 3B, RBI
- Osvaldo Duarte, DH: 1-for-3, R, 3B
- Jorge Alcala, RHP: 3.0 IP, 5 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 2 BB, 5 K
- Kit Scheetz, LHP: 2.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 4 K
- Abdiel Saldana, RHP: 3.0 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K
A: Quad Cities River Bandits (0-1) lost 2-0 (BOX SCORE)
Rough offensive night for the River Bandits in the opener. They managed just 6 hits on the night with only one being for extra bases. Sandoval got the start and allowed 2 runs over 4 innings of work. The bullpen was decent with scoreless outings, though Rosado walked 5 in his 3.2 scoreless innings. The offense was just unable to get anything going.
- Jonathan Arauz, SS: 2-for-4
- J.J. Matijevic, LF: 1-for-4
- Jake Adams, 1B: 1-for-4
- Michael Papierski, C: 1-for-3, 2B, BB
- Jacob Meyers, CF: 1-for-1, 2 BB
- Patrick Sandoval, LHP: 4.0 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 4 K
- Adam Bleday, LHP: 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K
- Cesar Rosado, RHP: 3.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 5 BB, 2 K
- Robert Corniel, RHP: 0.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K
Today’s starters according to MiLB.com:
FRE: Trent Thornton (-.– ERA)
CC: Brock Dykxhoorn (-.– ERA)
BC: Hector Perez (-.– ERA)
QC: Tyler Ivey (-.– ERA)
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