Box Scores
AAA: Round Rock 7, at Sacramento (SFO) 1
Round Rock: 10 hits, 2 walks, 9 strikeouts
Opponent: 3 hits, 3 walks, 10 strikeouts
Record: 23-14, 4 GB, 54-58 overall
SP Dalton Pence: 5 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 6 SO, 63 P / 46 S, 2.70 ERA
C Julian Brock: 1-4, HR (1), .364/.462/.727
Pitching minus my attendance for the first time in three weeks, Dalton Pence produced one of his best starts. I can take a hint. Pence had his full repertoire in sync, inducing more out-of-zone swings (18) than in-zone (17) and ten swinging strikes. Both times I observed him, the slider lagged what I’d seen on video, but it was his foundational pitch Friday, used first to 12 of 18 batters (ten times for strikes) and generating eight calls and three misses.
Logan O’Hoppe (.240/.321/.400 in six games) doubled to the opposite gap to plate two in the 1st. 
AA: Frisco 6, at Midland (ATH) 4
Frisco: 13 hits, 0 walks, 10strikeouts
Opponent: 9 hits, 3 walks, 8 strikeouts
Record: 20-17, tied for first, 59-46 overall
SP Aidan Curry: 4 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 2 BB, 6 SO, 66 P / 41 S, 5.24 ERA
SS Frainyer Chavez: 3-5, .271/.377/.424
Frisco trailed much of the game but pulled ahead with a four-run 8th capped by Malcolm Moore’s RBI single. Dylan Dreiling’s double was the only extra-base hit. Frisco also had one steal, and you’d better believe it was from Arturo Disla. Aidan Curry had his shortest outing of the year by pitches.
Hi-A: Hub City 8, at Bowling Green (TAM) 7
Hub City: 12 hits, 1 walk, 4 strikeouts
Opponent: 7 hits, 4 walks, 7 strikeouts
Record: 15-25, 11.5 GB, 49-57 overall
SP Caden Scarborough: 5.2 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 2 BB, 5 SO, 75 P / 51 S, 3.18 ERA
RP Luimy Munoz: 1.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 1 SO, 1.69 ERA
DH Casey Cook: 2-5, 2B, HR (4), .194/.342/.419
RF Maxton Martin: 3-4, 2B, HR (16), .234/.304/.444
1B Antonis Macias: 3-4, 2 2B, .263/.366/.389
Scarborough reached a season high in pitches and innings, tallying strikeouts with the fastball, slider and split.
Max Martin smashed a pitch off the scoreboard beyond the right-center scoreboard and one-hopped the fence the other direction for a double. On the latter, LF Jhon Diaz rushed in two steps and wished he hadn’t.
Hub City barely held on after leading 8-1 at the stretch. Luimy Munoz warded off four Bowling Green plate appearances with the tying run in scoring position. The Burgers have taken three of four on the road from one of the best teams in the minors. 
Lo-A: Hickory 4, Augusta (ATL) 3
Hickory: 4 hits, 3 walks, 9 strikeouts
Opponent: 12 hits, 3 walks, 12 strikeouts
Record: 28-11, 5.5 G up, 62-41 overall
SP Mason McConnaughey: 4 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 3 SO, 54 P / 33 S, 3.75 ERA
RP Michael Trausch: 1.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 1 SO, 2.96 ERA
RP JD McReynolds: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 3 SO, 3.25 ERA
C Noah Franklin: 1-3, HR (1), .265/.405/.382
Noah Franklin hit his first full-season homer after five at the complex. Control has been McConnaughey’s forte so far, with three walks issued in 12 innings.
Today’s Starters
AAA: Davalillo
AA: TBD
Hi-A: Tiger
Lo-A: Johnson
Five Years Ago Yesterday
I saw newcomer Glenn Otto for the first time. For the most part, I liked what I saw but still pinned a “reliever” tag on him because of an almost total reliance on two pitches. The change was very infrequent, the curve completely absent. Instead Otto relied heavily on a sweeper, a relatively new and career-altering pitch that propelled him to a 40% K rate in AA before the Gallo trade. By my pre-Statcast count, he threw 35 and missed ten bats.
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