Durham 4, Gwinnett 0
Gwinnett laid an egg as Barton accounted for the only 2 baserunners the team had all night. Tampa Bay prospect Jeremy Hellickson, A.K.A. Hellboy, dominated them, tossing a scoreless 8 innings. The loss drops the G-Braves to 2 games back in the division, though they maintain the lead in the Wild Card standings.
Mississippi 6, West Tennessee 1
A nice all around win for the M-Braves as Jose Ortegano continues to pitch better at AA than he did in High A. Brandon Hicks also continues his fine play of late, as August is the only month he's hit with any authority. Maybe he will be able to take this upswing with him out to the AFL and perform like he was expected to prior to the season. Travis Jones and Willie Cabrera have been hot this month too; it's nice to see guys working hard to finish the year strong.
Frederick 9, Myrtle Beach 8
Poor Myrtle Beach, even when they score 8 runs they can't win. Donell Linares is finishing off a fine season, providing a huge blow with a grand slam tonight. Cole Rorhbough had a better start than he's been having lately, but still nothing to be too excited about. Also of interest, former Pelican Jake Stevens allowed 4 runs in 2 innings of work for the Keys.
Savannah 2, Rome 0
Hoover is the unfortunate loser as he has an outstanding start, gunning down 11 Sand Gnats. The offense couldn't back him up though, and I blame Adam Milligan. How dare he not hit 4 home runs tonight. Actually, it really is worth noting that he went hitless, cause that hasn't happend in a long while.
Kingsport 4, Danville 1
Not much going on for the D-Braves as they only muster 4 hits. Still, this team has been outstanding, winning 70 percent of their games, winning the division by more than 10 games. The team has 2 more regular season games against Kingsport, followerd by a 3 game championship series against the Elizabethton Twins.
GCL - Off
The Orlando Braves will play their final game of the season against the GCL Yankees tomorrow morning.
The Dominican Summer League Braves actually finished their season on the 21st. The team went 39-24, finishing second in their division. I'll highlight some of their better performers:
Clearly Sanchez and Otero where the best hitter and pitcher respectively on the team. It's impressive since they're both so young, especially Otero, who is the youngest player on the team. He's also the smallest, at just 5'9" and 160 pounds, which is a sharp contrast to Sanchez's 6'4", 195 pound frame. These are definitely two players to keep an eye on next year, likely at Danville.
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Funny how mr. Hoover’s first name is JJ….
GoBravesNY - August 31, 2009
FYI
Phillip Wellman got tossed in the Mississippi game. Was the most amusing thing of the afternoon. Threw his helmet, and stormed off the field, but certainly no resin bag grenades today.
royhobbs - August 31, 2009
The best thing about those epic ejections is that when you just talk to him, you could never in a million years see it happening. He’s the nicest, most unassuming guy around.
cbwilk - August 31, 2009
Also, the best part of Butts’ performance is that it qualifies for the old-skool save. Maybe it should’ve been denoted as such?
royhobbs - August 31, 2009
Also of note
It was announced at the game, that the second of Matt Young’s three SBs on the day was a new Mississippi record for stolen bases, at 41, and then 42. A terror on the basepaths, he was all day.
royhobbs - August 31, 2009
Williams Perez
Dont forget Williams Perez who is 18 and posted some impressive numbers: 69 innings, 50 hits, 57 K (against 15 BB) and 2.39 ERA. The league batter .207 against him….
Stephen in the UAE - August 31, 2009
Cabrera
Cabrera had a very good year at MB last year and had a solid year at Miss in spite of losing playing time when Heyward was brought up. Hasn’t hit for the power he had at MB but still drives in runs. 52 RBIs on 99 hits is pretty good ratio given that he has only hit 7 HRs. Young is going to make someone a pretty good 4th OFer. Speed, defense, and solid hitter. Not sure he can be a starter just yet. Maybe the light has come on for Hicks, We can only hope.
braves99 - August 31, 2009
Edison Sanchez
I’m going to go on and say he’s our best 3B prospect.
graf - August 31, 2009
Jake Hanson’s done pretty well as a 3B propsect .
rstrangeiv - August 31, 2009
Both had very fine years at very, very low levels. I’d like to see how they perform next year against higher competition, but yes, they’re definitely prospects. And really, it doesn’t take much to be the best 3B prospect in the system. Linares is the only other guy I’d give any consideration to, and he’s very old for his league.
cbwilk - August 31, 2009
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