| CESAR CARRILLO NAMED PADRES #1 PROSPECT |
[Dec. 15th, 2005|09:58 pm] |
Eight BayBears on Padres top 10 Prospect List
Mobile, AL--Cesar Carrillo made five starts with the Mobile BayBears in 2005, and his undefeated record was enough to impress Baseball America, who named him the 2005 San Diego Padres #1 prospect. Carrillo, the first round pick out of the University of Miami, was 4-0 with a 3.23 ERA in the Southern League. He had 35 strikeouts, compared to just seven walks. Carrillo split his first professional season between Mobile and Single-A Lake Elsinore.
The second ranked prospect in the Padres system was the catcher for most of Carrillo’s starts, George Kottaras. The Ontario native hit .287 with two home runs and 15 RBI’s with the BayBears after his promotion from Single-A Lake Elsinore in August. Kottaras played in the Arizona Fall League this past fall, and is expected to be the BayBears catcher to start the 2006 season.
Two other 2005 BayBears cracked the top 10 list. Pitcher Jared Wells went 2-5 with a 4.40 ERA for Mobile, and was ranked the seventh best prospect in the system. Wells was named by Minor League Pitcher of the Year by the San Diego Padres Organization. Southern League All-Star Paul McAnulty had two stints this year in the Major Leagues with San Diego, and hit .282 with 10 home runs and 42 RBI in 79 games with the BayBears. McAnulty was the eighth best prospect on Baseball America’s list.
Along with the four player that played for Mobile in the 2005 season there was four players who had played for Mobile in previous seasons on Baseball America's Top 10 List: Josh Barfield, Ben Johnson, Clay Hensley, and Freddy Guzman, all played for the BayBears as recently as 2004.
The Top Ten List is published for each organization every year by Baseball America. This years Padres list includes eight former or current BayBears and the two other (Chase Headley and Nick Hundley) who could see Mobile as soon as the 2006 season. Headley and Hundley we both selected in the 2005 June Amateur Draft.
Baseball America's Top 10 Prospect List for the San Diego Padres:
1) Cesar Carrillo- 2005 BayBear
2) George Kottaras- 2005 BayBear
3) Josh Barfield- 2004 BayBear
4) Ben Johnson-2002-2004 BayBear
5) Chase Headley
6) Clay Hensley- 2004 BayBear
7) Jared Wells-2005 BayBear
8) Paul McAnulty-2005 BayBear
9) Nick Hundley
10) Freddy Guzman-2003-2004 BayBear
Names in bold have already played in the Major Leagues with the Padres.
Several current and former BayBears made Baseball America’s Best Tools list which is released in conjunction with the Top 10 Prospects List:
Best Hitter for Average- Paul McAnulty
Best Curveball- Sean Thompson
Best Fastball- Cesar Carrillo
Best Control- Cesar Carrillo
Best Baserunner- Freddy Guzman
Best Defensive Outfielder- Freddy Guzman
Best Athlete- Ben Johnson
-from www.mobilebaybears.com |
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| madfriars.com NAMES PAUL MCANULTY POSITION PLAYER OF THE YEAR FOR MOBILE IN 2005 |
[Dec. 7th, 2005|08:57 pm] |
From madfriars.com
In 2005 Paul McAnulty, 24, continued to defy the expectations of a 12th round draft pick, proving that last year’s breakout season in Lake Elsinore wasn’t a fluke and that he may not only be the best left-handed hitter in the Padres system, but maybe the best hitter period.
In Mobile this year, Paul McAnulty hit .282/.453/.364, with ten home runs and 42 RBIs in 79 games, before moving on to Portland to punish the Pacific Coast League with a .344 batting average and a .563 slugging percentage.
McAnulty’s numbers are misrepresentative of an even better performance, for most of the year he had little protection around him at Mobile on what was easily the Padres’ worst minor league team this year offensively.
The biggest obstacle that McAnulty had to face this year was to prove that he was more than a one-dimensional player, and show that he could play the outfield.
Tye Waller, who was the Padres Director of Minor League Development, was impressed with McAnulty's play in Mobile and Portland this year.
"Mac has really poured himself into improving defensively,” said Waller. “However, if you play the two corners your best position is batter. He's got to hit. He started to hit down there not only for average, but also for power. He's becoming the hitter we envisioned."
The Padres see McAnulty as their top left-handed hitting prospect, which is demonstrated by them calling him up from Double-A in Mobile when the big team needed a left-handed bat off of the bench. Although McAnulty struggled in his newfound role as a pinch hitter, he didn’t look intimidated and seemed to impress Padres manager Bruce Bochy, which is rare for a rookie.
In all probability, McAnulty will start the year in Portland for 2006, but be prepared to see more of him by mid-season, the man will post some offensive numbers. He could get a legitimate shot at the first base or left field job in 2007 with the end of Ryan Klesko‘s contract.
McAnulty is the type of left-handed hitter the team is looking for, a guy who can drive the ball hard into the big gaps of PETCO. However, his bat is going to have to take him to the majors, which is tough for any young player, but he has put up very solid numbers for the past two years, and next year should be no exception.
After McAnulty, catcher George Kottaras, 22, was the next best prospect that rolled through Mobile. In only 101 at bats, Kottaras hit .287/.416/.397, very solid numbers for someone who was playing in Double-A for the first time – all while making only a single error behind the plate in twenty nine games.
In the Arizona Fall League, Kottaras got off to a rough start, but bounced back in limited playing time. He could start the year in Portland, mainly because of the emergence of Colt Morton in Lake Elsinore this past year and with the move of Nick Trzesniak to Texas, the road seems wide open.
The Padres consider Kottaras their top catching prospect, in what is the deepest position in the organization. The emergence of Kottaras may have factored into the team’s decision not to give Ramon Hernandez a long-term contract. Kottaras will probably play a full year in either Mobile or Portland and should be a candidate for the starting job behind the plate in 2007 if he continues to make the steady progress that he has in the past two years.
At the end of June, Kennard Jones, 23, seemed mired in another season where he failed to utilize his God given talent and speed, as he was caught hitting the ball in the air far too much. Things started to change in July and August when Jones suddenly began to put the ball in play. In July, Jones hit .308 followed by a sizzling August of .342. More importantly, and especially for a leadoff hitter, he put up an on base percentage over .400 for both months.
Jones’ biggest problem, especially for a player whose greatest tool is speed, and seen as having a future of being a leadoff hitter, was his poor stolen base ratio. In 37 attempts, he was thrown out 14 times, a number that will have to improve if he is going to propel himself back into the top prospect category.
This coming year, Portland should have some serious speed at the top of the order with Freddy Guzman and Kennard Jones in the lineup. Jones may have begun to turn the corner and may yet live up to the promise the team saw in him when they drafted him out of Indiana University in 2002, but he‘s going to have to continue to realize what his game is and is not.
Third baseman Corey Smith, 23,who was acquired for former number one pick Jake Gautreau at the beginning of the year, put up some nice power numbers in Mobile (18 home runs), but too much of his future value is tied up in his ability to play third base, where he is still a sub par player.
Smith easily had the best performance in the Arizona Fall League of any Padres’ prospect hitting .330/.390/.626, but spent most of the season at DH. The Padres’ decision to not put Smith on the forty-man roster and the signing of third baseman Justin Leone makes one wonder how much Smith does fit into the team’s plans for next year. He may have turned the corner with Rob Deer, who did wonders for Ben Johnson, but Smith is going to have to put together more than a Fall League to have a chance. |
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| BAYBEARS ARIZONA FALL LEAGUE UPDATE |
[Nov. 12th, 2005|06:26 pm] |
FORMER AND FUTURE BAYBEARS PLAYING WELL IN ARIZONA
by Tim Leonard
from Padres.com
Craig Breslow has been one of the Javelinas' most reliable relievers for a couple of weeks, but his overall numbers still are skewed by the eight runs he gave up in two innings during his first three appearances.
Breslow had a streak of seven straight scoreless outings snapped on Nov. 1, when he allowed a run in a one-inning stint against the Saguaros.
Since Oct. 14, Breslow has surrendered that one run in 8 2/3 innings covering nine outings, yet his ERA was 7.59 as of Nov. 3. He has 11 strikeouts and two walks. Breslow and four other Padres prospects are playing for the Javelinas. Here's how they fared during the past week:
RHP Jack Cassel -- Cassel gave up two runs in four innings and was the hard-luck loser as the Javelinas were beaten by the Saguaros, 5-0, on Nov. 2. Cassel escaped some jams as he gave up six hits and four walks. The loss evened his record at 2-2.
LHP Rusty Tucker -- Tucker got his second win of the season with two scoreless innings against the Saguaros on Oct. 28. His ERA after that game was 2.70, but it went up to 4.76 after he yielded two runs in two-thirds of an inning to the Desert Dogs on Oct. 31 and one run in two-thirds of an inning to the Saguaros on Nov. 2.
C George Kottaras -- Kottaras has more than doubled his batting average in the last four games he's played. He went 6-for-12 in that span to go from .125 to .286. One day after hitting his first home run, Kottaras went 2-for-3 and drove in three runs as the Javelinas defeated the Saguaros, 7-0.
1B Michael Johnson -- Johnson hit three home runs in one game on Oct. 25. He didn't get three hits in all of last week. He went four games and 13 at-bats without a hit, dropping his batting average to .282 before ripping a single against the Saguaros on Nov. 2. Johnson walked three times and scored twice in a 7-0 victory over the Saguaros on Oct. 28. |
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| THE 2005 BAYBEARS SEASON- OUTSIDE THE BOX SCORE |
[Sep. 16th, 2005|11:14 pm] |
While the BayBears season was disappointing in terms of wins and losses a year after winning the Southern League Championship, 2005 provided many memorable events. Mobile’s 58-80 record was the worst in team history, but those 138 games saw everything from a 19 inning game, a triple play, and a delay because of dead bats in the outfield, and those three notables were in games against Huntsville alone. Here in chronological order, the strangeness that was the Mobile BayBears season.
April 9th- It’s not often a player strikes out five times, yet is mobbed by his teammates at the end of the game. That happened to Mike Richardson after the third game of the season. Richardson had been 0-for-5 with 5 K’s, but hit a ground ball single in the 13th inning to give the BayBears an 8-7 win over Tennessee. The game also was delayed twice because of the lights going out.
April 20th- Paul McAnulty had a collision with the left field wall in Huntsville; McAnulty went down, the wall didn’t. McAnulty was pursuing a fly ball hit by Stars third baseman Tony Zuniga, who would round the bases for an inside-the-park home run. McAnulty would end up missing four games with a broken blood vessel in his leg after the run-in.
April 26th & 27th- BayBears Manager Gary Jones was ejected three times in 2005, but two of them came about 16 hours apart. On April 26th Jones was ejected in Chattanooga, and then got tossed early in the afternoon game on April 27th. Lookouts Manager Jayhawk Owens also watched the game from the clubhouse, as he was thrown out of the second game as well.
May 16th- Tagg Bozied joined the BayBears, and hadn’t played in eight months. He didn’t show any signs of rust, hitting three home runs in his first game. The three homer game helped the BayBears beat Montgomery 14-3.
May 21st- Dustin Delucchi wasn’t an everyday player, and didn’t help his chances of getting into the lineup more when he hit Manager Gary Jones in the head with a foul ball. Jones seemed to be the only one in the ballpark unfazed by this, as he stood up immediately in the third base coaches box and received a loud ovation.
May 21st- In that same game, Nick Trzesniak hit a ball just outside the foul ball with the bases loaded in the seventh inning. Just when he thought that was his chance for a grand slam, he got up with the bases loaded again in the eighth inning, and hit one over the left field wall.
May 23rd- Research shows that a pitcher throws a no-hitter one in every 800 professional baseball games. West Tenn lefthander Carmen Pignatello was as close as you can get to being that one, but ended up just like the other 799. Pignatello had a no hitter with two outs in the ninth inning, when Ronnie Merrill’s ground ball single went into right field to end the chance of history.
June 10th- Both teams had a seven run lead at some point in this game. The BayBears trailed Birmingham 7-0 in the second inning, but would lead the Barons 9-8 in the third inning, in a game Mobile ended up winning 15-9.
June 23rd- Up until this game, the most runs the BayBears had allowed in a game was 11. That season record was broken, in one inning, as Huntsville scored twelve times, led by pitcher Dennis Sarfate’s three-run home run.
June 24th- In the first of three pitching appearances, utilityman Mike Richardson uses his knuckleball to throw a scoreless ninth against Huntsville.
July 20th- Mobile beat Huntsville 2-1 in a game that needed 10 extra innings. Not 10 innings, 10 extra innings. The 19 inning victory was the longest game in BayBears history. From the sixth inning through the fifteenth, the BayBears bullpen threw 9.2 no-hit innings.
July 29th- There are signs at the Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville warning fans to look out for flying balls and bats. Suns spectators on the left field grass berm had to avoid flying players on July 29th, when Mobile outfielder Brian Burgamy jumped over a cement wall, and dove on the berm to make a sliding catch. Burgamy just stood up on the grass with the fans and threw the ball in.
August 4th- It sounds crazy, but this is the game where Rusty Tucker accidentally threw a strike. In the midst of throwing an intentional walk to Montgomery catcher Shawn Riggans, Tucker errantly lobbed one right over the plate, and Riggans hit it to right field for a two-run single.
August 14th- Two teams combining for six home runs isn’t too rare, but Mobile and Montgomery divided six home runs into three sets of back-to-back homers on August 14th. Corey Smith and Steve Baker hit two home runs in a row for Mobile, and then George Kottaras and Smith did it one inning later. In the ninth, Montgomery’s Elliot Johnson and Jason Pridie went back-to-back.
August 23rd- Even by triple-play standards, the one Huntsville turned on August 23rd was bizarre. Steve Baker was batting with the bases loaded, and grounded into what looked like a 1-2-3 double play. With Stars first baseman Brandon Gemoll walking the ball in to the mound, Mobile’s Corey Smith tried to take off and score. Gemoll threw to the third baseman, who tagged Smith to complete Huntsville’s second triple play in franchise history.
September 2nd- Who gets credit for a game-winning balk? That was the question on September 2nd, when West Tenn pitcher Jon Searless balked in the 10th inning with Jeff Duncan at third base. Mobile won the game 2-1.
September 4th- Speaking of near no-hitters in West Tenn, the BayBears had only two hits in an 11 inning loss on September 4th. Both of the hits were off the bat of the starting pitcher, Jose Oyervidez.
The 2006 BayBears season is right around the corner. Buy a ticket, you never know what you’ll see at the ballpark.
-from mobilebaybears.com |
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| Five BayBears called up |
[Sep. 2nd, 2005|09:22 pm] |
Friday, September 02, 2005
Staff report
Five former Mobile BayBears were called up to the majors on Tuesday, giving the Double-A Southern League team 64 players who have made it to the big leagues.
The San Diego Padres promoted right-handed pitcher Chris Oxspring, left-handed pitcher Craig Breslow and first baseman/outfielder Paul McAnulty. The Baltimore Orioles called up second baseman Bernie Castro and the New York Yankees moved up catcher Wil Nieves.
Oxspring and Castro will be making their first appearance in the majors. Breslow and McAnulty made their major league debuts earlier this season and Nieves played in the majors with the Padres in 2002.
Oxspring is 12-6 with a 4.03 ERA with 125 strikeouts in 26 starts with the Triple-A Portland. He pitched for the BayBears in parts of 2002 and all of 2003.
Breslow is 0-1 with a 3.60 ERA in eight relief appearances with the Triple-A Portland Beavers. Breslow had his contract purchased by the Padres from the BayBears on July 29.
McAnulty was batting .344 with six home runs, 15 doubles and 27 RBIs in 38 games with Portland. McAnulty was recalled from Mobile on June 22 and batted .222 in 10 games with the Padres before being optioned back to Mobile on July 3. In 79 games with the BayBears, McAnulty batted .279 with 10 home runs, 16 doubles and 42 RBIs.
Castro was hitting .315 with 41 stolen bases, setting the Triple-A Ottawa record for hits in a season with 158. Castro played for Mobile in the 2002 season.
Nieves played for Mobile in 2000 and 2001. In the 2001 season, Nieves hit .300 for the BayBears in 95 games. He made his major league debut for the Padres in 2002. |
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| Peavy doing his part |
[Sep. 2nd, 2005|09:19 pm] |
As San Diego fights for the NL West, its 24-year-old ace leads the way
Friday, September 02, 2005
By TOMMY HICKS
Sports Reporter
It seems Mobile's Jake Peavy picks up another group of fans and more respect from his San Diego Padres teammates with every start he makes.
The 24-year-old ace of the Padres staff is doing his part as San Diego tries to hold on to its spot atop the National League West Division and earn a playoff berth. When Peavy is on the mound, the Padres' chances of picking up another win are usually pretty good.
That was the case Tuesday night, when Peavy -- who pitched despite requiring Novocain injections due to the removal of two wisdom teeth and an abscessed molar, and another pain-numbing shot after he cut his left (glove) hand opening a can of green beans -- threw 112 pitches over 6 innings to earn his 12th win of the year.
It wasn't just any win, either. It was a win over the Arizona Diamondbacks, currently in second place in the NL West, a day after Arizona had beaten the Padres in the first game of the three-game set at Petco Park.
The Padres' win behind Peavy's pitching and the hitting of Brian Giles enabled San Diego to regain a 5½-game lead over the Diamondbacks in the NL West. A 9-5 Padres win Wednesday moved that lead to 6½ games over Arizona and allowed the Los Angeles Dodgers to move into second place, 5½ games behind the Padres heading into Thursday's games.
"The thing that amazes me most is he's only 24 years old," Giles told mlb.com, speaking of Peavy after Tuesday's 5-3 win. "You don't have that makeup too often at that young an age. For him to go out and do what he did says a lot about him."
Giles said he saw Peavy before the game and "he didn't look too good."
Peavy's 12-6 record this season -- including a 2-0, complete-game shutout against his idol Roger Clemens in his previous start -- has meant more than those numbers indicate. The former Mobile BayBear has established himself as the Padres' ace and those around the league know they are going to face a pitcher who bears down and challenges hitters when he's on the mound.
This has been quite a season for Peavy. He was named to the NL team for the All-Star Game for the first time in his career, signed a new four-year contract prior to the start of the season for $15 million, and is leading the Padres' charge in the NL West. He leads the majors with 197 strikeouts in 176.1 innings, he's third in shutouts (3) and tied for seventh in complete games (3). All of this coming a year after leading the majors with a 2.27 earned run average.
He has put together the strong season despite the recent ailments, as well as a freak injury in early August when a batted ball during batting practice bounced off a wall at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C., and struck Peavy's right middle finger, causing it to swell. Two nights later he made his next scheduled start and won the game, striking out 10 in one of his complete-game performances. He has also had to overcome a virus and an upper respiratory infection.
When Peavy made his appearance in the All-Star Game in Detroit in July, 20 members of his family were there to watch, some of them chased that way earlier than expected because of the threat of Hurricane Dennis.
"It's something that you dream about," Peavy told the Register in a recent telephone interview of his All-Star game appearance. "Kids get drafted out of high school and I'm there, and you dream of making it to the big leagues and starting. Making the All-Star Game takes it to another level. That game is the best of the best and it was a truly mind-blowing experience. It was great to have my family there to experience it with me. You never know if you'll get the chance to do something like that again so you try and make the most of it."
Peavy is making the most of this season. He also ranks first in strikeouts per nine innings pitched (10.05), sixth in hits allowed per nine innings pitched (7.04), fifth in opponents' batting average ( .213) and 10th in earned run average (3.01).
While the All-Star Game appearance has to rank at the top of his accomplishments this season, defeating Clemens in the first head-to-head meeting between the two pitchers last week before more than 38,000 at Petco Park, is a close second. Peavy idolized Clemens, who has won seven Cy Young Awards, when he was growing up in Mobile. The two pitchers became friends following last season when they were part of the U.S. team that traveled to Japan for two weeks of exhibition games. Peavy said he has an autographed Clemens jersey in his house, along with other Clemens memorabilia.
Following last week's 2-0 win, in which both pitchers went the distance, Peavy claimed one of the game balls and the lineup card from the game to add to his Clemens collection.
"It was a neat night," Peavy said. "Getting a chance to go head-to-head with a guy you idolize, one of the best pitchers to ever play, definitely the best right-handed pitcher of our era, and to go out there and throw a complete-game shutout against him and have him throw a complete game, too, it was a lot of fun. I thought about the game beforehand, but once the game started I was so focused on what I was trying to do that it was just another game when it was going on. But when I look back on it, it will be one of my best memories.
"I had the chance to be around him in Japan and we became friends. I got a chance to sit on the bench with him (in Japan) and learn from him and watch him pitch and pick his brain and watch how he prepares for games. ... I was also able to be with him on the night he learned he had won his seventh Cy Young and some of us went out and celebrated. We've stayed in touch throughout the year and developed a good relationship. ... Again, you would never imagine being in a situation like that, being friends with someone you idolized growing up, so it's been special."
Next on his list of dreams is making the playoffs with a chance to pitch in the World Series. If the season ended today the Padres would face the Atlanta Braves in the first round of the NL playoffs, which could possibly set up a Peavy vs. John Smoltz pitching matchup, perhaps in Game 1.
"I think about getting there (playoffs) all the time," Peavy said. "I hear the guys who have played in the playoffs before talk about it all the time. We've got a tough month of games coming up and we have to stay focused. ... If we make it and we play Atlanta, that would be fine. If we do go to Atlanta I'm sure I'd have more friends and family (want tickets) than I would know what to do with, but it would be a good problem to have. And we took five of six from those guys in the regular season, so we would take some confidence into that series. But however it shakes out, you have to beat the best to win a world title." |
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| BayBears' Carrillo shuts down Suns again |
[Aug. 6th, 2005|12:12 pm] |
BayBears' Carrillo shuts down Suns again
Saturday, August 06, 2005
By ARTHUR L. MACK
Sports Correspondent
Mobile got an early boost on Corey Smith's two-run homer, and Cesar Carrillo turned in a strong six-inning pitching performance to lead the BayBears to a 4-1 win over Jacksonville Friday night at Hank Aaron Stadium.
Dale Thayer also picked up his 20th save, tying the Southern League lead, before an announced crowd of 4,771.
Carrillo give up only one run while allowing four hits in six innings to improve to 2-0. He walked four and struck out four. His first victory came on the road against the Suns six days ago.
Carrillo got great bullpen support from Paul Abraham, Ryan Meaux and Thayer to shut down the Suns.
"It was pretty impressive for Carrillo to come back after six days and pitch another strong six innings against these guys," said Mobile manager Gary Jones. "After about the second or third inning, he made some adjustments and started changing speeds a little bit more."
Smith and Steve Baker -- who had an RBI double -- each finished the night 2-for-4 to pace Mobile's hitting. Joe Gerber added a solo homer for the BayBears (15-21), who broke a three-game losing streak and remain in last place in the Southern League's South Division, seven games out of first. Jacksonville, the first-half South champion, fell to 20-18.
Suns losing pitcher Chad Billingsley (8-6) was no slouch himself in six innings of work, allowing two runs on five hits while striking out 11.
James Loney went 2-for-4 for Jacksonville.
The Suns needed only two pitches to take a 1-0 lead in the top of the first when Tony Abreu hit a leadoff triple on the first pitch of the game and scored on John Weber's RBI single.
Mobile, though, answered with Smith's two-run home run to right in the bottom of the inning to take the lead. It was Smith's 15th homer of the year and his fourth in an eight-day span.
"I've just been trying to get some pretty good swings and do what I need to do to help the team win," Smith said.
The BayBears made it 3-1 in the bottom of the seventh on Gerber's solo homer to right, and added another run in the eighth when Baker's double drove in George Kotteras.
Meaux, recently acquired from Birmingham, came on the top of the eighth to hold Jacksonville hitless, and Thayer slammed the door on the Suns in the top of the ninth to earn the save.
The two teams meet in a doubleheader tonight. In game one, which begins at 6:05 p.m., right-hander Jose Oyervidez (5-7, 3.77 ERA) is the scheduled starter for Mobile against Jacksonville right-hander Eric Hull (5-5, 3.72 ERA).
In the nightcap, Mobile right-hander Jared Wells (1-1, 2.77 ERA) is scheduled to start against the Suns' William Juarez (4-4, 4.80 ERA).
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I was there at the game and boy did Cesar pitch well. He did struggle a bit in the 1st, where he gave up the only Suns run of the night. 4 hits over 6 innings is something to behold, especially in Double-A ball. I can't wait to see what he can do in AAA or the bigs. I'll be at tonight's doubleheader against the Suns, where Jared wells is slated to pitch the second game. |
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| Biscuits Edge BayBears 2-1 |
[Aug. 3rd, 2005|03:09 pm] |
Mobile manages only two hits off Montgomery pitchers
Wednesday, August 03, 2005
Staff reports
Four Montgomery pitchers held Mobile to two hits as the Biscuits beat the BayBears 2-1 in a Southern League game on Tuesday night in Montgomery.
Montgomery starter Tony Peguero (3-0) allowed two hits while striking out three and walking two in six innings. Relievers Jeff Neimann, Brian Henderson and Josh Parker combined to pitch three hitless innings for the Biscuits, with Parker picking up his third save.
Jared Wells (1-1) was the hard-luck loser for the BayBears. Wells allowed nine hits, struck out four and walked one in six innings. Three of Montgomery's hits came in the fifth inning when the Biscuits scored both of their runs to take a 2-0 lead.
Peguero retired the first 10 BayBears before Brian Burgamy reached on an error. But he was promptly retired when Ronnie Merrill grounded into a double play.
Mobile (14-19) didn't get its first hit until George Kottaras singled in the fifth.
Mobile center fielder Kennard Jones singled in the sixth, stole second, went to third when Burgamy grounded out to second and scored when Montgomery second baseman Elliot Johnson misplayed Merrill's grounder.
Mobile didn't get another hit for the rest of the game.
The BayBears visit Montgomery (16-21) again at 7:05 tonight.
-- LEAGUE HONOR: Mobile third baseman Corey Smith has been named the Southern League's hitter of the week. Smith hit six home runs in six games, including blasting two out on both July 26 and 28, as the BayBears won five times.
Smith had the league's highest slugging percentage (1.174) and most extra-base hits (seven) for the week.
The Cleveland Indians selected Smith with the 26th pick in the first round of the 2000 draft out of Piscataway High School in New Jersey and traded him to the San Diego Padres on Feb. 2 in exchange for second baseman Jake Gautreau.
-- NEW BAYBEAR: Left-handed pitcher Ryan Meaux has joined Mobile's roster from Southern League rival Birmingham. Meaux was traded to the San Diego Padres organization in a weekend deal that sent utility infielder Geoff Blum to the Chicago White Sox.
Meaux had a 5-2 record with a 2.96 earned run average in 38 relief appearances with the Barons this season. He struck out 64 and walked 18 in 67 innings. |
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