Round Rock

The Express swept a pair of 7 inning games from New Orleans last night. In the first game, Reggie Abercrombie hit his 8th homer of the year to lead the Express to a 3-2 win. Reggie has hit .336 in the month of May with 18 RBI.

In game 2, Chance Douglass doubled and scored a run at the plate. He also picked up the win by only allowing 3 hits and 2 walks in 6 innings of shutout baseball. Chad Pronto was given the save despite giving up a triple and two hit batters in his one inning of work.Read More

The games take second fiddle to the player news today, let’s start our trip around the farm in Salem.

Salem

The Avs took an 8-4 loss last night. Pankovits had this to say about starter Joel Santo

“In his last two or three outings he’s pitched pretty well,” Pankovits said. “He fell behind but he’s been able to make some pitches to put people away. Tonight he wasn’t able to do that.

“Even though he has a good arm and he’s able to throw in the low 90s, you’ve still got to be able to command your pitches.”

Erick Abreu will start Thursday’s game for Polin Trinidad who was called up to Corpus Christi. Sergio Severino will join the Avs from Lexington.
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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.Read More

Round Rock

Saturday night, the Express lost to Omaha for the 9th straight time. According to David Clark, the problems began with Josh Miller leaving the ball up.

“(Miller) started leaving the ball up a little bit and they came out swinging,” Clark said. “When you got a free-swinging club like those guys got over there, when you make mistakes they are going to put a charge on it.”

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Lexington

The Legends let Hagerstown walk away with an 11 inning win. Jordan Powell allowed the tying run in the 9th inning and then loaded the bases in the 11th before Fernando Abad came in to walk the first batter he faced for the 8-7 loss.

Minor League Pitching Coordinator, Brit Burns, likes what he sees from some of the pitchers in Lex.Read More

Corpus Christi had the big story for the second night in a row. Houston sent Wandy Rodriguez down to pitch a rehab start and he pitched well. He went 6 innings giving up one run on 4 hits. One of those hits was a solo homer. He walked one batter and didn’t strike out any. He threw 78 pitches during his outing. Chris Johnson continued his good work at the plate going 3 for 4 but his struggles in the field continued with his 17th error of the year.Read More