Round Rock
The Express ended their 9 game losing streak to Omaha on Sunday and then started a new one on Monday. The Express gave up 3 unearned runs to sink a solid effort by Josh Muecke who fell to 0-2 verses Omaha this season.
All three runs scored against Muecke on Monday were unearned. Muecke’s record against Omaha this season fell to 0-2, although he’s only allowed a combined two earned runs in his two starts.
Edwin Maysonet made the second out of an inning trying to stretch a double into a triple. Here is what his manager had to say about it.
I won’t say it was a momentum killer but the fact is — and I talked to (Maysonet) after about this — that he’s got to know for sure if he can make it or not,” said Express manager Dave Clark, pointing out that the heart of the Express order was due up after Maysonet.
Corpus Christi
Tip Fairchild had a solid start in his second outing since coming off Tommy John Surgery.
“I just felt much more comfortable out there,” Fairchild said. “The whole deal with me coming back from the surgery was building my confidence back up to where it was before I got hurt. (The third) got me thinking that I could get five or six innings out of this and put a pretty decent outing together.”
However, the rest of the Hooks performance got a closed door meeting and some very direct quotes to the local paper by Manager Luis Pujols.
“I just told them that we’ve played 50 games and we’re playing .500 ball,” Pujols said. “A good two months is not a good season. And one good season is not a good career. So some of the guys need to get their heads out of their (rears) and go out and play baseball and have some fun like they were doing the first two months.
“I never mentioned winning. What I’ve seen in the last two weeks, the pitchers and position players, that they’re not having fun anymore. That’s the attitude I want to see. Maybe we’re tired. But from what I see, some guys see their good numbers and they think it’s OK. The next thing they know, they’ll be surprised at where they’re going to be.
Salem
Douglas Arguello wasn’t effective but he was good enough. He went 4 2/3 innings pitching around 5 walks, hit one batter, and allowed 6 hits but only gave up one run.
“He’s got to find a way to be a lot more effective and keep us in games, or he’s going to start losing opportunities,” Pankovits said. “It’s a bad tempo he sets.”
The bullpen and the back up catcher took care of the rest. Chad Wagler retired 10 of the 11 batters he faced and Bryan Hallberg pitched a scoreless inning for the save. Justin Tellam, appearing in just his 13th game, got a two run double to give the Avs all the runs they would need.
“That was a big hit by Tellam,” Avalanche manager Jim Pankovits said. “It’s the toughest thing in baseball, I think, to play on a part-time basis and swing the bat. A lot of guys can play part time and play defense. But not too many can swing the bat.”
Lexington
Carlos Ladueth gave up a grand slam and put the Legends in a hole that just kept getting bigger as the game went along. The final score was 8-1.