AAA OKC
AA Tulsa
Sean McLain gets an LFG Award for his 3 hits last night. The hits are great, but I’ve been tellin’ ya’ for a week or 2 now how his at-bats have been super quality, and that he hasn’t been getting rewarded as well as he should have.
Well, baseball typically evens itself out, and right now that’s happening for McLain.
McLain had 3 hits last night, including a single over the 2nd baseman’s head that was hit WELL over 100MPH. He spiked another ball back up the box and into center field, then nailed one to the opposite field into right.
This is the kind of approach and execution that just screams “approach”, which usually dates back well into the past before the results come.
Well done Sean. From a baseball purist’s perspective, that was extremely fun to watch. More Cowbell Please!
Taylor Young extended his hit streak to 12 games, he brought out the Chicken Dance, he pounded out 3 hits on the night, and he scored a run.
Just another night in the leadoff spot for TY!
Young has 2 multi-hit games in his last 3 and is hitting .343 so far in July.
Not surprisingly, Kyle Nevin had 2 hits last night for AA Tulsa, and even less surprisingly, they were both hit back up the middle.
Nevin wears out the middle of the field to the opposite field, which should continue to play as he moves up to face more advanced pitching sequences.
Nevin played 3rd on Sunday, he plays a lot of 1st base, and last night he was in left field, so he is as versatile as they get.
2nd 2-hit game in a row for Nevin, 3rd multi-hit game in his last 4.
Kendall Simmons had 3 hits last night for AA Tulsa, one oppo, one right back up the middle, and one hit 115 MPH to the pullside. Impressive display of hitting line drives, hitting the ball where it’s pitched, and using the entire field.
This Tulsa team isn’t winning all of their games at the moment, but they are showing a lot more offense in the 2nd half.
High A Great Lakes
Sean Linan gets the DAYUM Award of the Day! Or for all year, for that matter.
6IP 4H 1R 6Ks 0BB
Professional glove hitter, pitcher’s pitcher. He uses his great stuff and moves the ball, changes speeds, and locates to turn in one great outing after the other.
Last night was his longest outing of the year, and it was his 11th outing of the season where he’s given either 1 or no runs.
Alex Makarewich threw a scoreless inning for Great Lakes, which is his 5th scoreless outing in his last 6 times out.
The good outings are dominant because this dude has a totally electric right arm. The process is to minimize the outings that aren’t as good. That will happen as he continues the process of mastering the strike zone, because when he’s in the zone, the other team can’t match him.
His average against is just .140, and he has 53 Ks in 27. innings. Front of the Rolodex potential, stay tuned!
Single A Rancho
Blake Snell began his much-anticipated rehab in Rancho Cucamonga and provided hope that we may see him on the Dodgers soon. Snellzilla looked sharp for his first rehab outing.
His very first pitch was a 96 mph strike.
Snell pitched what would have been two clean innings if not for a questionable call at first base with two outs in his second inning of work on a strikeout/curveball in the dirt. Still, Snell looked to have his pitches working well, good velocity and movement, a tight slider, and his devastating drop-off-the-table curveball that he used to punch out several Inland Empire hitters.
He mentioned after the game that he was happy with how it went, but he had no timetable yet for his next outing.
Niko Perez had 3 hits for Rancho last night to raise his average up to .294, OPS of .808. Perez has hits in 7 games in a row, in 11 out of 12, and has 6 multi-hit games in his last 12 games played. He has 2 3-hit games just this month.
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