Jimmy Van Ostrand went 1-4 in his last appearence as a Salem Avalanche for the time being. He was promoted to Corpus Christi after the Av’s 3-2 loss last night. He leaves the team hitting .304.

Brian Hallburg is making some heads turn in the Salem bullpen. He has only allowed 2 runs in his last 12 appearences. During those 18 innings, he has given up 12 hits, 4 walks and no HR while striking out 15 batters.

Lexington

Tommy Vessella had a rough outing. He didn’t get out of the 4th inning, giving up 7 earned runs in the Legends’ 13-4 loss.

After the game, Colin Delome got the call up to Salem.

Corpus Christi

The Hooks let one get away late as they lost 5-4 last night. They just can’t seem to put the pieces together to start a winning streak.

“It’s more that we’re kind of in a funk as a team, and you just try to do something to break it and you hope it comes soon,” said Bogusevic, who was denied his first victory of the season after a 0-5 start.

…”Anytime you lead off the game with a triple, we hit two triples today and Bogusevc scored on the one. But anytime you have runners on first and third with nobody out and your third through fifth hitters up, I expect to score at least one run,” Pujols said. “We were not able to do that.”

The silver lining last night?

“Bogusevic threw the ball great. He’s just having a tough time trying to find a way to win a game,” Pujols said. “He pitched well enough to win.”

Round Rock

Runelvys Hernandez was due for a bad outing. He had given 7 quality starts in his last 8. He got his bad one out of the way last night. In 5 innings, he gave up 6 earned runs. The bullpen brought their gas hoses as they fanned the flames instead of putting them out. Fernando Nieve gave up 5 runs in one inning; giving up 2 home runs. The final damage was 12-3.

Draft Signings

OregonStrosFan has updated the draft signing tracker (Bus Ride version)with 10 more names bringing the total to 22 out of 52 players drafted.