Bama missed the most interesting week possible to be out of the country.

https://www.mlb.com/prospects/stats/affiliates?teamId=145&date=08/23/2023

https://www.milb.com/scores/all/all/whitesox

Behold, Soxtalk, the winning world that Getz has wrought!

Edited August 23, 20232 yr by Timmy U

Nastrini K's the side in the 1st for Bham.

Vera on the bump in WS.

Sprinkle ?

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

Edited August 24, 20232 yr by Autumn Dreamin

Nastrini looking good so far 4IP 2H (both incredibly cheap) 1bb 5K.  Btw, Moises Castillo is not good at baseball. The fact that the Sox have had to find guys like this from other orgs to fill rosters is a huge indictment of the entire front office.

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

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.

Edited August 24, 20232 yr by Autumn Dreamin

Quero homer

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.

Edited August 24, 20232 yr by Autumn Dreamin

Some questionable umpiring in the Barons game. Ramos made what appeared to be an inning ending DP, catching a bases loaded liner and then tagging the bag for the force.

Ump calls no catch, so a run scores and the inning continues. Bundy ejected.

Noted pickoff expert Gil Luna comes on in relief and ends the inning without making a pitch, catching the runner off first.

I hope Montgomery is up by June next year. 

Luna walked 3 guys with 2 out then went to 3-2 on the 4th guy, but struck him out. Then he trashtalked coming off the mound and it almost started a brawl.  Quero impressive across the board.  Great composure at the end to help avert the brawl.

Wow. Wolkow promoted.

 

Edited August 24, 20232 yr by DirtySox

Thought that might happen, with the ACL season ending. Will be nice to get to see him in action.

3 minutes ago, Autumn Dreamin said:

Thought that might happen, with the ACL season ending. Will be nice to get to see him in action.

I’m a little surprised just because we still run fall instructs, and I’d have picked him to start in extended ST/ACL next year.

If he’s expected to be in Kanny, nice to give him some time to get familiar and find housing.

9 minutes ago, bmags said:

I’m a little surprised just because we still run fall instructs, and I’d have picked him to start in extended ST/ACL next year.

If he’s expected to be in Kanny, nice to give him some time to get familiar and find housing.

I know BA argued the case for this, and it's probably more of a pipedream than anything, but I really hope the ACL becomes a "full season" league in the near future. 

8 minutes ago, Sleepy Harold said:

I know BA argued the case for this, and it's probably more of a pipedream than anything, but I really hope the ACL becomes a "full season" league in the near future. 

100%

Wow, surprised about Wolkow, but things have changed a lot since the other short season teams were eliminated. 

3 hours ago, DirtySox said:

Wow. Wolkow promoted.

 

There's our Ethan Salas.  

10 hours ago, Autumn Dreamin said:

Thought that might happen, with the ACL season ending. Will be nice to get to see him in action.

I read "ACL season ending" and briefly panicked about Wolkow's knee

17 minutes ago, Jake said:

I read "ACL season ending" and briefly panicked about Wolkow's knee

yeah that acronym sucks. I'd like AZL better!

2 hours ago, Jake said:

I read "ACL season ending" and briefly panicked about Wolkow's knee

I do that every time. 

13 hours ago, bmags said:

I’m a little surprised just because we still run fall instructs, and I’d have picked him to start in extended ST/ACL next year.

If he’s expected to be in Kanny, nice to give him some time to get familiar and find housing.

I would be shocked if Wolkow is not in instructs.  I wish I could get video of those games. Gonna be the first stateside action for Nunez, Gil, Mogollon, and Flores too.