Autumn Dreamin

Kannapolis gets walked off for the second day in a row. Another nice start from Batista (5IP, 1ER, 2BB, 3K). He's been very solid, with just 4ER across his 3 starts (15IP) so far. UDFA Connery Peters made his affiliate debut and threw two scoreless (1H, 2K). RHRP Connor Pellerin got the first half of a two inning save attempt in a scoreless 8th, but gave up a walk and HR in the 9th. The Knights emulate the big league club and win a walkoff in 10, 4-3. Recently acquired José Ureña made his second start, and put up a respectable line: 5.2IP, 2ER, 6H, 6K, no walks. Deivi Garcia had a scoreless inning. Leasure got 2Ks in his inning, but gave up a Charlotte solo shot. Cronin went 2IP hitless/scoreless, including stranding the free runner in the 10th to get the W. Hackenberg got the walkoff hit. Xavier Fernandez nudged his OPS over 1.000 with a 2B and 2 walks.

Nastrini gave up a run on a pair of doubles in the 5th, the first real contact against him. The other two hits were a lucky bloop and Castillo getting his feet tangled on a routine grounder to second but it not being ruled an error. Quero gets the lead back with a homer against his old team, scoring Veras who walked.

Popeye rocket double, Montgomery bloop single breaks a scoreless tie.

Sprinkle ? He's been looking better at the plate since his return.

Nastrini K's the side in the 1st for Bham. Vera on the bump in WS.

Gio with his best showing as an Angel. 6IP, 1ER, 9K. Unfortunately, he takes the L because of 3 unearned runs allowed by Angels defense. The Angels offense managed 3 runs, all on solo shots.

Nishida just reached on a HBP after a 9 pitch AB. It's fun to see guys work counts and reach base, but it's especially fun with him because he started 0-2 so you also get to see his 2 strike crouch routine a bunch. Dying to know what pitchers think when they see it.

Popeye made an impressive running basket catch on a foul ball. He's got wheels. Barons win 10-4. Multihit efforts for Popeye, Ramos, Veras, and Elko. Montgomery reached twice and scored both times. Quero had an RBI single and 2 walks. Really feels like we're doing Project Birmingham again, but the guys just already there. Nastrini on the bump tomorrow.

Barons bats add on late with a fun little bat around to put the game away Womack flyout Tatum BB Popeye single (should have been a double, but he stopped at first) Montgomery catcher's interference Ramos pop out Veras 2B (of course), 2 RBI Wild pitch scores Montgomery Quero walks Elko RBI single Mieses RBI single Womack K Nice to see Popeye making good contact again after cooling off a bit in the last series. Veras' double was his 2nd of the night, and 10th in his 14 games at AA.

Mena in August: 24.2IP across 4 starts. 7ER, 26K, 7BB. 2.55 ERA. Man, if he keeps this up...

Mena gives up an unearned run when Ramos makes a bad throw past 1B and the runner gets to second and then scores on a ground rule double. Popeye leads off the next inning with his own ground rule double. Ramos drives him in. Veras hits a double off the wall to score Ramos. Barons up 4-1 and still threatening.

Drew McDaniel left early with an apparent injury. Seemed visually like he was indicating towards his side, but Gameday says ankle.

Patino with an interesting showing in Charlotte. Walks the leadoff guy in the first. Gets three outs on weak contact to follow. Walks the leadoff guy in the second. Weak flyout, K, pick off to end the inning (nice throw to 1B by Lee). Walks the leadoff guy in the third. GIDP, BB, pop out. Walks the bases loaded in the forth. Allows a run on a sac fly, a single reloads the bases, but he gets another GIDP to strand them. 4IP, 1ER, 1H, 1K...7BB. Sac fly and single were the only balls hit hard. For what it's worth, it's an ABS day in Charlotte today so no benefit from framing, but a good number of the misses weren't particularly close anyway. Knights lead 3-1 on a Sanchez 3R HR.

Elko with another oppo HR

Mario Camilletti promoted to WS and activated today.

Move over Quero, there's a new youngest catcher in AA.

Eder gives up a cheap run in the 3rd. Batter reaches on an IF single on a very close play. He was picked off and CS for the final out, but the ump called him safe. Montgomery seemed pretty sure he got him, and he looked out to me at game speed, but no replay in AA obviously. He scored from second on a single. 5Ks for him through 3IP. The pick off play:

2 strike, 2 out, 2RBI game tying single for Nishida. He's very fun.

Wonder if they'll try to get Schultz some innings in AFL. Montgomery is presumably still going for some extra reps. Maybe Ramos too with his missed time.

Comas provided some much needed innings for Kannapolis in Schultz' absence. He does finally give up his first ER on a solo shot, but was solid otherwise. 4IP, 1ER/HR, 3H, 0BB, 3K. Strike thrower. Guess I spoke tooo soon. They try to squeeze another inning from Comas, and a second run scores on a single, balk, single sequence so he finishes with 5IP, 2ER. Longest outing of the season for him by far.

Re: Schultz

He's back ? Gave up 0ER over a handful of ACL appearances.