Round Rock:
Chan Ho “Can’t keep the ball in the” Park gave up another homer in the 4-3 loss to the Sounds. Atleast the homer he surrendered wasn’t to Laynce Nix, whose home streak ended. Raines & Quintero had solo shots for the Express.
Corpus Christi:
Brian Bogusevic looked good through 3 innings but blew up in the 4th and didn’t make it out. Every hooks batter struck out at least once. The side was struck out in the 7th after bases were loaded with no outs and in the 8th when a runner was at 3rd with no outs. The final was an 8-4 loss.
Salem:
Salem’s game made it to the 9th but was suspended by rain with the score 5-5. It is scheduled to be completed today before the scheduled game.
Lexington:
Sergio Severino struck out 4 but also walked 4 in his 4 innings of work. The result was 3 runs. The Legends offense could only muster 1 run in a 5-1 loss. Jordan Parraz had 3 singles for the Legends.
Tri Cities:
The “bark in the park” promotion resulted in a dog of a game as the ValleyCats got skunked 13-0.
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Tri-City has allowed 13 or more runs in five games this season, all lopsided home losses. And for the second time in two weeks, they gave up a franchise-record nine runs in one inning.
Greeneville:
Kyle Greenewalt didn’t make it out of the third inning. He gave up 9 hits and 5 earned runs in 2 1/3 innings. It appeared that his curve was flat and the hits were solid hits against him. The pen did a nice job of keeping the Astros in the game.
Kyle Miller hit a monster shot over the score board in left center in the 1st and Drew Anderson put some drama in the game hitting a 3 run shot in the 9th to bring the Astros within one. However, after back to back walks, Drew Saylor grounded out to end the game.
Marques Williams was two for two on the night but it ended early. He scored from first on Travis Sweet’s triple but slid in head first at home. He got up acting a little hurt and was taken out of the game. I don’t know if the removal was due to injury or due to violating the Astros’ minors policy against head first slides.
The Appy league race has been dominated by the Elizabethon Twins (44-16) and Danville Braves (43-17). Only one other team has a record above .500 and that is the Burlington Royals. The next team in the standings is Kingsport who is two games below .500. All 4 of these teams have complex league that feed their teams and they don’t have a short season A ball teams. So it isn’t necessarily comparing Apples to Apples in the Appy League.