Lexington
Jeff Icenogle faced the Greensboro Grasshoppers for the second time in five days. Both outings were forgetable as the Grasshoppers round house kicked the Legends 7-5.
Minor game recaps“They hit him fairly well when we played at Lexington,” Hoppers manager Edwin Rodriguez said. “Today they were very aggressive. The hitters have been hitting the ball very well. It’s one of those things you get in a slump and you don’t hit then someone starts hitting. It’s contagious.”
The last time we spoke (I missed you too), the Astros were coming off a week where they has gone 1-5 against the Cardinals and the Brewers. So in that respect, a 2-4 week is an improvement. That may be the only way to take anything good out of the recent on field product. Everything else about the week has been an epic, well, to use the vernacular of the internets…
OK, let’s get this out of the way: yes, it was another wretched week for the “good guys”, a team playing completely uninspired ball for two weeks now. Enjoy the Brewers series while it lasts, because that gets followed up with 2 1/2 weeks of softball.Read More
Round Rock
The Express opened the weekend with a nice 10-6 beating of Memphis. Every batter in the line up had at least one hit.
Saturday, the Express, J. R. Towles started to work on getting his confidence back and saw how far he has to go. He went 0-3 with two K’s. Nieve, added some drama but still got the save in the 3-2 Express victory.
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Wandy started well. In the first inning he established the fast ball in, even to the point of figuring out that home plate ump Tim Welke was going to call the “corners”; the corners plus about a half a foot. He was able to accordian the fastball in and out and had good control of the curve, until the 7th. We’ll get to that later.
