Astros Minor League Recap: June 25th, 2018
Another day of minor league baseball in the books. See the results below.
AAA: Fresno Grizzlies (46-30) lost 7-5 (BOX SCORE)
James got the start last night and had his first rough outing in AAA as he allowed 6 runs over 4.2 innings. The offense picked up 2 runs in the 4th on Davis and Reed RBI groundouts. Tanielu tied the game in the 5th inning on a 2 run HR. Fresno picked up another run in the 6th on a Tucker solo HR, his 11th HR of the season. El Paso picked up a run off of Emanuel in the bottom of the 6th and ended up winning by a score of 7-5.
Note: Tucker is hitting .424 with 7 2B, 4 HR, 17 RBI, 7 SB in 21 June games.
- Myles Straw, CF: 0-for-3, R, BB
- Kyle Tucker, RF: 2-for-3, 2 R, HR, RBI, BB
- J.D. Davis, 3B: 1-for-4, RBI
- AJ Reed, 1B: 1-for-4, 2B, RBI
- Garrett Stubbs, C: 1-for-3, R, BB
- Nick Tanielu, 2B: 1-for-3, R, HR, 2 RBI
- Josh James, RHP: 4.2 IP, 7 H, 6 R, 6 ER, 3 BB, 6 K
- Kent Emanuel, LHP: 0.2 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 0 K
- Andrew Thome, RHP: 1.2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 K
- James Hoyt, RHP: 1.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 K
AA: Corpus Christi Hooks (48-27) OFF
A+: Buies Creek Astros (39-34) POSTPONED
A: Quad Cities River Bandits (41-34) lost 9-0 (BOX SCORE)
Rough night for the Quad Cities offense. They managed to get seven hits, all singles, but were unable to push across a run. Mushinski started for the River Bandits and allowed 5 runs, 4 earned over 3.1 innings. Solomon pitched 4 innings in relief and picked up 6 strikeouts, though he allowed 2 runs.
Note: Solomon has a 2.44 ERA with 67 K in 55.1 innings this season.
- Logan Mattix, CF: 2-for-4
- David Hensley, SS: 2-for-3, BB
- Parker Mushinski, LHP: 3.1 IP, 6 H, 5 R, 4 ER, 3 BB, 3 K
- Dariel Aquino, RHP: 0.2 IP, 1 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 0 K
- Peter Solomon, RHP: 4.0 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 6 K
- Tanner Duncan, RHP: 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K
A-: Tri-City ValleyCats (7-4) won 5-1 (BOX SCORE)
- Seth Beer, LF: 1-for-4, 2B, BB
- Gilberto Celestino, DH: 2-for-5, RBI
- Michael Wielansky, 2B: 1-for-3, R, BB
- Juan Pineda, 3B: 1-for-2, R, 2 BB
- Austin Dennis, CF: 2-for-3, R, 2B, RBI, BB
- Andy Pineda, RF: 1-for-3, R, BB, SB
- Oscar Campos, C: 2-for-3, R, 2B, 3 RBI
- Chad Donato, RHP: 5.0 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 5 K (WIN)
- Devin Conn, RHP: 2.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K
- Luis De Paula, RHP: 2.0 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 4 K (SAVE)
Today’s starters according to MiLB.com:
FRE: Brock Dykxhoorn (2.35 ERA)
CC: OFF
BC: GM 1 – Hector Perez (4.06 ERA); GM 2 – Cristian Javier (0.82 ERA)
QC: Leovanny Rodriguez (2.93 ERA)
TRI: TBD
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