Astros Minor League Recap: June 24th, 2018
Another day of minor league baseball in the books. See the results below.
AAA: Fresno Grizzlies (46-29) OFF
AA: Corpus Christi Hooks (48-27) lost 9-4 (BOX SCORE)
Whitley made his 4th start of the season for Corpus Christi but had his first rough outing allowing 7 runs over 4.1 innings. The Hooks scored 2 runs in the 2nd inning on a Jones RBI double and Rojas RBI double. Jones added a sac fly in the 4th inning. Cesar added a solo HR in the 6th inning but the offense was unable to score again as they fell 9-4.
Note: Cesar is hitting .389 over his last 10 games and extended his hitting streak to 41 games.
- Yordan Alvarez, LF: 1-for-4, R, 2B
- Randy Cesar, 3B: 2-for-4, 2 R, HR, RBI
- Taylor Jones, 1B: 2-for-3, R, 2B, 2 RBI
- Josh Rojas, 2B: 1-for-4, 2B, RBI
- Forrest Whitley , RHP: 4.1 IP, 5 H, 7 R, 7 ER, 3 BB, 6 K
- Kit Scheetz, LHP: 1.2 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 3 K
- Dean Deetz, RHP: 1.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 K
- Carlos Sierra, RHP: 1.1 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K
A+: Buies Creek Astros (39-34) lost 4-3 (BOX SCORE)
Bailey started for Buies Creek last night and allowed 4 runs, all in the 2nd inning, over 5 innings of work. Buies Creek tried to rally back getting a run on a Robinson RBI single. They got another run in the 5th on a Dawson RBI double. Dawson added an solo HR in the 7th to make it 4-3. Unfortunately, the offense wasn’t able to score any more runs and fell 4-3.
Note: Toro is hitting .355 with 2 2B, 2 HR, 6 RBI over his last 10 games.
- Abraham Toro, 3B: 2-for-4, BB
- Ronnie Dawson, CF: 2-for-4, R, 2B, HR, 2 RBI, BB
- Corey Julks, RF: 1-for-3, R, BB
- Cody Bohanek, 2B: 2-for-3, R, 2B
- Chuckie Robinson, C: 2-for-4, RBI
- Brandon Bailey, RHP: 5.0 IP, 9 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 2 BB, 5 K
- Brandon Bielak, RHP: 3.0 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K
A: Quad Cities River Bandits (41-33) lost 8-2 (BOX SCORE)
Quad Cities jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the 3rd inning on an Angarita 2 run double. Paredes tossed 4.2 scoreless innings to start it and was relieved by Sanabria who allowed 5 runs in the 6th inning. Collado came in and allowed 3 runs in the 7th innings. The River Bandits fell by a final of 8-2.
Note: Angarita is hitting .320 with 9 RBI in 12 games for Quad Cities.
- Alfredo Angarita, DH: 1-for-4, 2B, 2 RBI
- Adrian Tovalin, 3B: 1-for-3, R
- Michael Papierski, C: 0-for-2, R, BB
- Enoli Paredes, RHP: 4.2 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 3 BB, 5 K
- Carlos Sanabria, RHP: 1.0 IP, 5 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 0 BB, 2 K
- Willy Collado, RHP: 1.1 IP, 2 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 2 K
- Brendan Feldmann, RHP: 2.0 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K
A-: Tri-City ValleyCats (6-4) won 5-2 (BOX SCORE)
- Seth Beer, LF: 2-for-3, R, HR, RBI, BB
- Luis Encarnacion, 1B: 1-for-4, R, 2B
- Jeremy Pena, SS: 1-for-4, R
- Gilberto Celestino, RF: 1-for-2, R, RBI, SB
- Juan Pineda, 3B: 1-for-4, R, 2B, 2 RBI
- Luis Garcia, RHP: 3.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 5 K
- Shawn Dubin, RHP: 1.2 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 2 K
- Felipe Tejada, RHP: 3.1 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 5 K (WIN)
- Ian Hardman, RHP: 0.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 0 K
- Humberto Castellanos, RHP: 0.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K (SAVE)
Today’s starters according to MiLB.com:
FRE: Josh James (2.23 ERA)
CC: OFF
BC: TBD
QC: Parker Mushinski (2.90 ERA)
TRI: Chad Donato (0.00 ERA)
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