Autumn Dreamin

Promising player, hope he makes it to the majors.

Gonzo's 3rd hit of the game is a 99mph single to RF.

McDaniel looks like he's auditioning for Schultz' spot in the WS rotation. 7IP, 0ER, 2H, 0BB, 11K on just 80 pitches tonight. His last outing was 7IP, 9K, 0ER. 20 strikeouts and no walks over 14 scoreless is pretty, pretty good.

Gonzo knocks in Tatum (3B) with a single for his first AA hit and RBI. Barons are up 4-1.

Quero HR 104mph 375 to RF, batting RH.

Gonzo starting at SS today, Baldwin slides over to 2B.

Gowens had a no hitter going into the 7th today. He finished with 7 IP, 1 H, 2 R (1 ER), 2 BB. 11 K. Iriarte with a similarly impressive 7 IP, 4H, 3ER, 1 BB, 13 K. Career high K's for both guys. Second straight outing of 7IP and 10+ K's for Gowens. Excellent day for farm pitching overall, seems like a round of promotions is imminent.

Thorpe settled in now, 10 straight retired. Baldwin just gave him a lead with a solo shot. Schultz sticks to his 4 IP routine. 3H, 2ER, 4K 1BB on 40/58. Knights won behind an 8th inning go ahead HR from Colas. Worked a full count, then hit one 107mph 420 ft.

0 ERA, 0.69 WHIP, 10 K for Stivors in 4 rehab appearances. He should be headed back to Bham soon.

Corbin Carroll down to a .526 OPS (.188 AVG). Weird to see. Also, Jung Ho Lee is out for the year for the Giants, and the Dodgers just optioned Outman (.147/.250/.516). NL West bidding war for Pham at the deadline? We know the Padres were already interested...

Bush's season ERA down to 2.09. Adler seems to be settling in to AA, 4.1 IP, 1 H, 2 BB, 8K since his rough first outing. Cousin has given up just 1 run in 5 games/6 IP out of the pen. Barons team ERA is down to 2.63, the lowest in their league and second lowest in ALL of the minors.

Grant Taylor hitting 99 in an 11 pitch first inning for Kanny ?

Nah, he just got pulled for pitch count. Got squeezed into a couple of full count walks, then a couple of full count hits.

12-7 vs Cleveland since last season

Lucas Gordon finished with 6IP, 1ER, 1H, 3BB, 4K. Gave up a solo shot to lead off the sixth. Bush went 5.1IP, 6H, 2ER, 2BB, 9K. He was pulled with two runners on in the sixth. They scored on a HR from the next batter. Hoopii-Tuionetoa flashed some nice stuff in his Barons debut despite the HR, got swinging Ks on the other two batters he faced.

The Duality of Yaz:

Schultz done after 4IP, 1ER, 3H, 5K, 0BB. The run was a little unlucky: leadoff double, throwing error, grounder through the drawn in IF. Pitch count was only 60, but they seem set on 4 innings for now. Lucas Gordon looks fantastic for Kanny tonight, he's through 5 without giving up a hit. Bush is also shoving, 7K through 4 scoreless.

AZ bats were hot today. Wolkow: 4-5 with 2 doubles Burrowes: 3-5 with a BB Mogollon: 1-3 with a 2B and 3 BB Every starter got a hit, 19 hits (and 7 walks) total. They win 13-5.

Did we break the Cards? Goldy is 0-27 in May with 10Ks and 3BB (.000/.100/.000).

Burger is down to .192/.238/.342. TA is at .197/.234/.221. Both were 0-4 in the Marlins loss today. But Declan Cronin has been excellent, so Miami is 1/3 on former Sox at least. Elsewhere, Johnny Cueto is working his way back: Middleton starts a rehab assignment for the Cards next week. Santos had another setback and is now not expected back until July:

Burrowes? He's on the roster but rehabbing in AZ. Other than that, they're waiting on reinforcements from ACL and the draft. Speaking of which, Mogollon finally got his first hit today. It was a 3 run HR scoring Burrowes and Wolkow (both singles).

The Dash pitch a shutout led by 6IP 2H 1BB 6K from Juan Carela. Wouldn't be surprised to see him take a rotation spot in Bham after the inevitable promotion of one of those guys. It was the inverse story for the Barons who lost 0-3. Couldn't string anything together on offense.