Round Rock was off last night but this morning the paper explains why Fernando Nieve has been hanging out in the Express bullpen.
Minor game recaps“We just noticed that he gives us three or four really good innings and things start to go south after that,” Clark said.
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.Read More
Lexington
Anthony Bello picked up his first win, Bryan Brown picked up his first hit, Russell Dixon went yard for the first time and Eric Taylor played great defense at first as the Legends put together a good win at home.Read More
Minor game recapsRound Rock
The Express has hit a rough stretch. Friday night, Runelvys Hernandez had pitched five shutout innings and was staked to a 3-0 lead. Then came a 3 run sixth and a 2 run 8th for Colorado Springs while the Express couldn’t push another runner home. The final result was a 5-3 loss.Read More
Minor game recapsLexington was rained out but that doesn’t mean we don’t have news from them. Greg Langbehn has been frustrated with the play of the Legends at times has found a silver lining in an otherwise dreary season. Here are some of his quotes from the Lexington paper today:
Minor game recaps, Nieve, Norris“Our (eight-game) road trip was actually an excellent defensive road trip up until the game we had seven errors. That was just one of those nights where everybody was going to get the ball and everybody was going to make an error. But … we’ve gotten better defensively, which is a big thing.”…Read More
