Down on the Farm

Meatball’s out and Phil Hughes lines right up to start on Tuesday. I mean really, are the baseball gods going to have to buy ad space in the Stadium to get their point across any more???

Triple-A Scranton (6-2 win over Pawtucket)
Alberto Gonzalez: 1 for 3, 1 2B – .308-.357-.423-.780 for the supposed all glove/no hit shortstop
Bronson Sardinha: 1 for 4, 1 RBI, 1 K
Eric Duncan: 0 for 3, 1 R, 1 BB, 1 K
Angel Chavez: 2 for 4, 2 R, 1 RBI
Shelley Duncan: 1 for 3, 1 R, 1 HR, 3 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K – leads the league in RBI (9) despite missing 3 of 9 games
Ross Ohlendorf: 4 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 6 BB, 4 K, 2 WP, 6-2 GB/FB – only 45 of 84 pitches were strikes (53.6%)
TJ Beam: 2.2 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 K, 0-5 GB/FB
Ron Villone: 1.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 3 K
Chris Britton: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K

Double-A Trenton (2-0 win over Connecticut)
Brett Gardner: 0 for 4, 1 K – on base streak ends at 7 games. so much for that…
Justin Christian: 1 for 3, 1 BB, 1 K, 1 SB
Matt Carson: 2 for 3, 1 R, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 1 SB
Jeff Marquez: 6 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 3 K, 9-6 GB/FB – for a guy who supposedly has a devilish sinker, he’s never put up great GB/FB ratios…
Scott Patterson: 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 K

High-A Tampa (13-3 win over Sarasota) this one was over after the top of the 2nd
Reegie Corona: 3 for 5, 1 R, 2 RBI, 1 BB
Tim Battle: 2 for 6, 1 R, 1 2B, 2 RBI, 3 K – that’s 12 K in 8 games….
Jose Tabata: 1 for 6, 2 RBI, 1 K, 1 SB – still leads the league in BA, OBP and OPS
Juan Miranda: 1 for 4, 2 R, 2 BB, 2 K
Colin Curtis: 2 for 4, 3 R, 1 2B, 1 BB, 1 HBP
Marcos Vechionacci: 2 for 4, 2 R, 1 2B, 2 RBI
Francisco Cervelli: 2 for 5, 1 2B, 2 RBI, 1 PB – an extremely pleasant surprise so far…
Kevin Russo: 3 for 5, 1 R, 2 RBI, 1 E (fielding)
Elvys Quezada: 5 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 5 K
Josh Schmidt: 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 K

Low-A Charleston (10-4 loss to Augusta)
Austin Jackson: 0 for 4, 1 BB, 1 K – 12 K in 9 games, the race to 100 K’s is on with Battle
Mitch Hilligoss: 0 for 3, 1 R, 1 BB, 1 K
Andres Perez: 1 for 4, 1 R, 1 2B, 2 K
Seth Fortenberry: 0 for 3, 1 BB – Fortenberry hitting cleanup??? what in the world is going on here…
Eduardo Nunez: 1 for 4, 2 RBI
Josue Calzado: 2 for 4, 1 2B, 1 RBI
Wilmer Pino: 1 for 3, 1 R, 1 BB – .357-.438-.536-.974 this year after .294-.360-.376-.736 the previous 2 years combined…
Mike Dunn: 2.2 IP, 2 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 3 BB, 6 K
Edgar Soto: 3 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 4 K, 5-0 GB/FB
Nick Peterson: .2 IP, 1 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 23 BB, 1 K – 3 of those ER came when he was relieved by Luke Trubee, who allowed all 3 inherited runners to score

I missed his line yesterday, so here it is:
Tim Lincecum: 7IP, 4 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 9 K, 8-4 GB/FB