Durham (8-11) @ Charlotte (9-9), 6:15pm CDT, Wes Whisler (3-0, 1.80, off to a surprisingly good start) goes for the Knights

 

Montgommery (8-13) @ B-Ham (11-10), 6:05pm CDT, McCulloch (1-2, 4.09) to start for the Barons

 

Winston-Salem (9-7) @ Wilmington (7-12), 6:05pm CDT, no starter named yet

 

Lake County (14-7) @ Kannapolis (10-11), 6:05pm CDT, Rice (0-2, 3.29) starts for the Intimidators

 

Ely should be on the bump tonight for Los Hogos.

Durham @ Charlotte

Whisler pitching

Charlotte up 5-2 after 3 innings.

Eldred, Fields, and Rouse with homeruns.

 

 

Montgomery @ Birmingham

McCulloch pitching

Game Notes (pdf)

 

 

Winston-Salem @ Wilmington

Ely pitching

 

 

Lake County @ Kannapolis

Rice pitching

Game Notes (pdf)

 

Edited April 26, 200817 yr by scenario

Oops. Just noticed this was a duplicate thread. Feel free to delete.

 

I did add links to the box scores in here and game notes, if you want to transfer those to the other thread.

 

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Edit: Thanks for moving the post.

Edited April 26, 200817 yr by scenario

Here's the way the Charlotte game closed out tonight...

 

Durham Top 9th

Pitcher Change: Ehren Wassermann replaces Rob Bell.

John Rodriguez strikes out swinging.

Josh Johnson strikes out swinging.

Fernando Perez strikes out swinging.

 

Charlotte won 5-2.

Edited April 26, 200817 yr by scenario

Wasserman deserves to be on the big league roster more than half the guys.

What's gotten into Wes Whisler? Dude is 4-0 with a 0.83 ERA so far in Charlotte. Before the season, I was thinking it was time to put him back in the outfield. Seems he may have turned a corner.

 

And yeah, Wassermann has been stellar down there. 8 appearances, no runs, no hits, 3 walks, 10 strikeouts.

 

What's gotten into Wes Whisler? Dude is 4-0 with a 0.83 ERA so far in Charlotte. Before the season, I was thinking it was time to put him back in the outfield. Seems he may have turned a corner.

 

And yeah, Wassermann has been stellar down there. 8 appearances, no runs, no hits, 3 walks, 10 strikeouts.

 

McCulloch sucks. 5 earned runs tonight and a ton of hits. Whisler is pitching great. He's doing better in AAA than he did in AA. Just goes to show you how tough the Southern League is.

People talk about Broadway being a bad 1st round pick, McCulloch was 10x worse of a pick...

I feel like I'm becoming the official apologist for McCulloch.

 

Yeah, that was not a good game for him, but let's see what's going wrong to determine if he's broken or fixable.

 

If you break down McCulloch's games, he's had 3 good starts and two bad starts.

 

In the two bad starts, he had one bad inning in each:

- April 10th, he gave up 5 of his 6 runs; and 5 of his 9 hits; in one inning

- April 25th, he gave up 4 of his 5 runs; and 5 of his 8 hits; in one inning

 

So... he's given up 15 runs all year. 9 of them in two innings. He's given up 26 hits in 26 innings, but 10 of those hits in his two bad innings.

 

Meanwhile in his 3 good starts, he's gone an average of 5 2/3 innings, only given up an average of 3 hits, and less than 2 runs per game.

 

He's not having bad games. He's had a couple of bad innings. And that's all.

 

Sounds fixable to me.

Edited April 26, 200817 yr by scenario