Farmers Only: Bats blast their way to another win

by BK on Apr 15, 2011 8:00 AM EDT in Farmers only

Louisville won 5-2 against Indianapolis behind the power of the long ball. Dave Sappelt, Todd Frazier, and Kris Negron (the Bats new center fielder?!) all homered, and that was more than enough for Chad Reineke. Reineke went 6 2/3 innings and gave up 2 runs on 6 hits. Danny Ray Herrera and Carlos Fisher combined to give up 1 hit to close out a solid win. Up next: Dontrelle Willis tries to build on his good first outing tonight at 7:15 against Indy.
Carolina lost 6-2 to Huntsville to bring their record on the year to 1-6. James Avery was shaky in his start, but Donnie Joseph bounced back after a rough first outing to throw a hitless 9th. Denis Phipps did a lot to work his way off the stale list this week, with a 3-for-4 evening. Cody Puckett was 2-for-4 with a homer. On a minor note, Fred Lewis started his rehab assignment and went 1-for-3. Up next: Dallas Buck takes on Huntsville at 6:43.
Bakersfield lost 6-2 to Inland Empire, only able to score 2 runs off of 10 hits. Curtis Partch gave up 3 runs on 12 hits in 5 innings, and Tyree Hayes and Tzu-Kai Chiu each pitched 2 innings and gave up no earned runs (although Chiu gave up 3 unearned runs). On offense, Chris Richburg and Eric Campbell had two hits each, but nobody else got anything going. Up next: J.C. Sulbaran takes on the 66ers at 10:15 ET.
Dayton still can't catch a break, suffering another loss, 7-3 to Lake County. Yorman Rodriguez hit his 2nd homer of the year, but that was about all that was positive about this game. Tanner Robles only got one out in his start, ending up with 5 runs given up. Pat Doyle put up 3 1/3 innings of scoreless ball, but the offense couldn't come back from that huge early deficit. Up next: The Dragons take on Lansing tonight at 7:05, starter is TBA.

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Dallas buck is still around?

"Nobody hits Satchel." -Satchel Paige

by justin007000 on Apr 15, 2011 8:27 AM EDT reply actions

Wasn't he injured for much of last season?

Still not a candidate.

by Gray on Apr 15, 2011 9:49 AM EDT up reply actions

by much of last season=much of his career.

"Nobody hits Satchel." -Satchel Paige

by justin007000 on Apr 15, 2011 10:50 AM EDT up reply actions

Man, Devin Mesoraco just crushes the ball

He has 8 hits so far, 6 of them are for extra bases.

"Penus, stale beer, and day old hot dogs. Love it"--justin007000

by nycredsfan on Apr 15, 2011 9:04 AM EDT reply actions

Reineke has been impressive

Is he one to keep an eye on, or more of a placeholder?

When you come to the fork in the road, take it.

by poojols on Apr 15, 2011 9:19 AM EDT via mobile reply actions

I was going to say something about him

He sure has been impressive the last 2 seasons for the Bats, but he really isn’t anything to get excited about, unfortunately.

He’s a 29 year old career minor leaguer whose fastball tops out at about 88.

"Penus, stale beer, and day old hot dogs. Love it"--justin007000

by nycredsfan on Apr 15, 2011 9:36 AM EDT up reply actions

Sounds like he'd've been in the 4th/5th starter mix circa '02-'07

When you come to the fork in the road, take it.

by poojols on Apr 15, 2011 9:47 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions

Placeholder

He is 29 years old with all of 5 big league games; he use to have a nice minor league K/9, but that has dropped off since he got to AAA.

Two reasons he see’s time in Cincinnati, one there are a shitton of injuries, i mean a shitton, 2 the organization decides they would rather Maloney, LeCure, and Leake (i guess somebody from else will have to go when Bailey and Cueto get back, assuming the other three are all healthy), start every 5th day, and would rather have a more veteran type serve as the long relief man.

"Nobody hits Satchel." -Satchel Paige

by justin007000 on Apr 15, 2011 9:39 AM EDT up reply actions

Inland Empire is a really cool name for a really shitty stretch of land.

Let's not kid ourselves. It's really, really, bad.

by Cy Schourek on Apr 15, 2011 12:20 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs

and an incomprehensible 4 hour masturbatory David Lynch film

Joey Votto on Colin Cowherd: "I don’t know who he is"

by UncleWeez on Apr 15, 2011 1:19 PM EDT up reply actions

David Lynch can masturbate for 4 hours?

Color me impressed.

Or even if I just like such as judged a fish contest that would get me outta the house and in some air.

by RoastBeefKazenzakis on Apr 15, 2011 3:01 PM EDT up reply actions

Color me kind of a beigish peach type of color.

"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."

by crolfer on Apr 15, 2011 4:43 PM EDT up reply actions

I think most of my favorite minor league team names come from the Cal League

Mostly, I like saying Rancho Cucamonga, dude.

"Aroldis Chapman is a seven course meal followed by four hours of sex on the table with a nymphomaniac model heiress who owns her own brewery." - jch24

by BK on Apr 15, 2011 6:35 PM EDT up reply actions

i would expect the Bats game tonight to be rained out

it’s about 54 degrees here now and the rain clouds are a brewing with a steady 10 mph wind that’s supposed to pick up around 20 mph by game time. oh, and there’s a 90% chance of those rain clouds depositing their current and future contents back to the ground.

by Heeringa on Apr 15, 2011 12:21 PM EDT reply actions

Sounds like my odds when I'm drinking tequila

Calmer than you are.

by 3 Fast 3 Furious on Apr 15, 2011 12:22 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

The map isn't looking good for the Reds either

It’s ‘sposed to start raining in the next few hours and go on into the morning. Looks like we’ll be having ourselves a rain out thread tonight. Start thinking of your SIS suggestions, folks.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Apr 15, 2011 12:29 PM EDT up reply actions