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.
Ty Wigginton was in enough pain after being hit by a fastball in the eighth inning Monday to warrant having X-rays taken on the left side of his rib cage the next morning. The results were negative, Read More
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
Giants 4, Astros 2
W: Matt Cain (2-3) | L: Brandon Backe (2-5) | S: Brian Wilson (12)
After winning the first four games of the current west coast visit, the Astros managed to bumble their way to a 4-2 defeat at the hands of the Giants of San Francisco at The Big Phone. Read More
We are less than a month away from the 2008 MLB Draft. So it is time to look back at the 2005 draft and get a peek at how successful that draft is looking. The players from the 2005 draft have 2 ½ seasons under their belts and while it is still early in their development, especially for the high school and college freshman picks, we wanted to get an idea of how they are coming along. Consider this a mid term progress report on how the players are developing. Remember progress report grades can still be brought up or down depending on how you do the rest of the grading term, which for drafts tends to be 5 years.Read More
2005 DraftFernando Nieve will be moved to the bullpen for the rest of the season. He’s been diagnosed with a deviated septum,
