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Check that 10-1. Veras crushed his 32nd double of the year.

Barons have broken it open. Ramos hits a scorcher to drive in 2. 9-1 Birmingham.

Charlotte blows it (again) in the 9th. Navarro walks a couple of guys and then serves up a 2-out 3-run dong to Rowdy Tellez.

I believe that home run (94.5) does not count as a hard hit ball.

Nastrini finishes strong 6IP 6H 1R 1ER 1bb 10K 64 of 93 pitches for strikes.

Nastrini K's the side. He's up to 8 in 5IP. Only 13 balls in play, 6 have gone for hits cuz babip.

Another blooper against Nastrini, then a single off of Ramos' glove. He gets his 5th K to get out of it, but the pitch count rises. He's earning time off Purgatory, as my mother would say.

3-1 Barons. Nastrini has had some awful batted ball luck. 2 of the 4 hits are bloopers. As a result, there have been a lot of extra pitches, but he looks pretty good.

Batista done 5IP 3H 0R 0ER 2bb 4K. Looked really under control. None of the hits were hit particularly hard. His pitch count was low. Looked like he could have gone much longer.

The way other teams approach Birmingham tells you that they think highly of Montgomery as well. When he's in the line up, you see a lot of lefty relievers and they rarely give him anything to hit. They come right after everyone else, except Popeye because he expands the zone.

He’s made five errors. I think mostly on throws. In some ways, he reminds me of Montgomery. He hesitates sometimes and ends up throwing way high. Otherwise, he’s been fine. I want to make something clear, his swing is not radically changed from college. I think he’s a little more closed and not flying open as much, and it feels like his feet are planted more. In college, he looked almost like he was emulating the Japanese swing. But it is not much different, he is still open and crouched.

I have been worried about Gonzalez early. I will say he looked better today. Made a fantastic play in the field that the runner barely beat. Had a double in the gap robbed, walked and got two hits. Only on his foul pop to left did he have the big loop in his swing that has really concerned me. There’s still no way he’s a top 4 guy in the system, but tonight was pretty good.

ACL wins 5-0 to complete the org sweep.

Wolkow first professional HR! 2-3 2bb 1K

That little Cub fan is pretty brave behind that netting. Robert looks bigger than him and his friend combined.

Very impressive game by Quero. Just as impressive for me as the two HR was how he worked with Mena and his productive outs -- hitting behind the runner with a man on 2b no one out in a one run game and a perfectly executed sac fly. Edgar is a smart player.

Walk off for Quero!!!

Extras for the Barons. With their bad bullpen, I don't like their chances.

Right on cue, crappy bullpen gives up a 2-run HR.

Mena done 7IP 3H 3R 3ER 2bb 4K. Actually pitched better than the numbers indicate. Let's see if their crappy bullpen can hold on.

Quero long sac fly. Very fundamentally sound player. Barons 5-3.

Veras barely misses an oppo taco. 2b, Barons lead 4-3.

Mena gives up a kind of cheap run in the 6th, but Veras 2b, Quero productive grounder, Elko hard single 3-3.

Mena gives up a 2-run homer on a 1-2 elevated fastball. Barons trail 2-1.

Quero LONG HR.