Some pitching moves just as I hit the “send” button yesterday:
RHP Ricky Vanasco up to Frisco from Hickory
RHP Gavin Collyer up to Hickory from Down East
RHP Ivan Oviedo up to Down East from Arizona
Vanasco’s moved will permit an extra outing, as Frisco’s season last a week longer.
Box Scores
AAA: Round Rock 9, Sugar Land (HOU) 11 (12)
Round Rock: 14 hits, 4 walks, 15 strikeouts
Opponent: 10 hits, 7 walks, 15 strikeouts
Record: 73-60, 1 GB
SP Kolby Allard: 5 IP, 5 H (2 HR), 4 R, 1 BB, 7 SO, 77 P / 50 S, 4.98 ERA
RP AJ Alexy: 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 3 SO, 6.02 ERA
LF Elier Hernandez: 3-6, 2 2B, .286/.351/.514
DH Yohel Pozo: 2-5, 2B, .333/.372/.495
SS Ryan Dorow: 3-6, .243/.329/.351
A win would have given Round Rock a share of the division lead for the first time since early June. Ezequiel Duran did not participate in the offensive festivities, going 0-6 with three strikeouts in his first game back with the Express.
AA: Frisco 2, Tulsa (LAD) 14
Frisco: 4 hits, 4 walks, 11 strikeouts
Opponent: 15 hits, 4 walks, 12 strikeouts
Record: 34-26, 2 G up, 70-59 overall
SP Mason Englert: 5.2 IP, 4 H, 3 R, 1 BB, 1 HBP, 8 SO, 87 P / 60 S, 3.38 ERA
LF Trevor Hauver: 1-2, 2B, 2 BB, .217/.393/.543
Mason Englert cruised through the first four innings. Three would score in the 5th aided by Englert’s only bout of wildness, wherein a walk, HBP and balk preceded a two-out double.
Kellen Strahm singled and stole his ninth and tenth bases.
Trevor Hauver played first base professionally for the first time. For one batter, in the 9th, with IF Frainyer Chavez on the mound.
Corpus walked off victorious in both ends of its doubleheader with Midland, so Frisco gained one-half game despite the loss.
High-A: Hickory 4, Rome (ATL) 5
Hickory: 11 hits, 3 walks, 10 strikeouts
Opponent: 3 hits, 5 walks, 10 strikeouts
Record: 28-36, eliminated, 66-64 overall
SP Gavin Collyer: 3.2 IP, 2 H (1 HR), 5 R, 4 BB, 1 HBP, 5 SO, 78 P / 46 S, 2.45 ERA
RP John Matthews: 3 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 3 SO, 4.32 ERA
2B Thomas Saggese: 1-4, HR (14), BB, .310/.361/.489
RF Angel Aponte: 3-5, 2 2B, .254/.336/.390
In his high-A debut, Gavin Collyer’s struggled with his control but maintained a close game until the 5th, when a two-out grand slam (following an error by SS Griffin Cheney) ended his night. Down three in the 9th, Thomas Saggese hit a two-run homer, and Angel Aponte and Chris Seise both reached safely, buy Cody Freeman’s fly to right was caught.
Rome clinched the second-half division title with the win.
Low-A: Down East 1, at Delmarva (BAL) 3
Down East: 4 hits, 3 walks, 11 strikeouts
Opponent: 6 hits, 6 walks, 10 strikeouts
Record: 32-32, eliminated, 65-65 overall
SP DJ McCarty: 1.2 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 2 BB, 2 SO, 44 P / 20 S, 10.80 ERA
RP Ivan Oviedo: 4.1 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 3 BB, 5 SO, 0.00 ERA
RP Nick Lockhart: 2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 33 SO, 4.22 ERA
3B Miguel Villarroel: 1-3, BB, SB (8), .323/.405/.392
1B Tucker Mitchell: 1-3, HR (4), .185/.325/.319
Ivan Oviedo had a nice full-season debut. The 19-year-old was among the rookie squad’s most reliable starters. Also debuting, on his 20th birthday no less, DJ McCarty ran into trouble in the 2nd. His 31st and final pitch that inning was ball four to first-overall 2022 pick Jackson Holliday. Holliday is batting .238/.439/.333 in 12 games.
Today’s Starters
AAA: Winn
AA: Weems
Hi-A: TBD (Garcia)
Lo-A: TBD (Gessner)