Hope you brought your sunscreen. Round Rock, Corpus Christi and Lexington all played day games yesterday.
Round Rock:
The Express snapped their losing streak and left Salt Lake with some dignity as they swatted the Bee’s 12-5 in a daytime get away game. Every Express batter got a hit. Mark Saccamanno went a triple shy of the cycle, Edwin Maysonet went 4 for 4, and Q had 4 RBI off his 3 hits as the Express banged out 18 hits.
Nieve came in and pitched 1 2/3 innings of relief, allowing no hits and striking out 2.
Corpus Christi
The Hooks wish the Express would have shared some of the extra runs they used. CC has now gone 23 innings without scoring a run. They had 9 hits but had 11 strike outs which explains why they left 11 runners on base.
“One of the things I know is we’re striking out a lot,” Pujols said. “That’s a lot of (expletive) strikeouts. … We haven’t been able to get the two-out hits, and that’s what really hurt.”
Sergio Perez had his second solid start after coming of the DL. In a 90 pitch performance, he went 4 1/3 innings allowing 1 run off 6 hits.
Salem
Mark Ori’s RBI in the 10th gave the Avs a 2-1 win. Ori has found some success against lefty pitchers this year.
He has hit .311 against right-handers this season, and despite getting to play fewer times against lefties, has actually hit .333 against them.
“He has more than held his own, this year and I think throughout his career against lefties,” Pankovits said. “He’s always teasing me about not playing him against lefties.
“But I tell him the reason I take him out is not that I don’t think he can hit lefties, it’s more a chance to give other people a chance to play.
“But he’s been about as clutch a hitter as I’ve had in three years here.”
The 10th inning had drama as the Key’s tried a suicide squeeze bunt but the hitter failed to make contact, making the runner at 3rd a dead duck. Raymar Diaz completed the inning with a strike out making way for Ori’s heroic hit in the bottom half of the inning.
The x-rays on Nick Moresi’s forearm showed a hairline fracture and he is out indefinitely.
Lexington
Leandro Cespedes struggled with his control of his pitches and his pickoffs in yesterday’s game. He walked the lead off man and then threw a pickoff attempt away to allow him to move further around the bases. That runner later scored on a home run, giving the Legends an early hole to dig out of. They couldn’t do it as they lost 6-5. Max Sapp wore the tools of ignorance for 3 innings marking his return to catching.