Round Rock

The Express has played the New Orleans Zephyrs for 8 straight games. They have one more game against them tonight. I’ll admit I have no idea what the heck a Zephyr is so I used our trusted and infallible source to find out. Best I can tell a Zephyr is either a marshmallow candy from Eastern Europe, the Greek god of the west wind, or a model of a racing dingy. Bottom line is I am sick of reading about them playing the Express and even more sick of seeing them kick the Express around the ball park like they did last night 12-4.Read More

Salem

Let’s get the weekend wrap up started in the far eastern section of the farm. The Avs played a bunch of ball this weekend.
Friday night, they completed a suspended game from May 6th. It was scoreless when they continued the game. David Qualben was pressed into service because the planned opening pitcher was Chad Wagler but he tweaked his side in warm ups. Qualben didn’t get enough time to warm up but the Winston Salem batters did. They sent the second pitch from Qualben over the fence and that would be enough for the win as Salem only scratched out one hit.Read More

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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