DotF: Florial has big game in Tampa’s loss

A few quick notes to get us started:

• RHP Domingo Acevedo is continuing to throw bullpens as he gets over his blister, reports Sean Miller. “Today, he threw his third or fourth side, and did a really nice job … There is still probably another side, probably a live side. So we are probably a week and a half away,” said Double-A Trenton manager Jay Bell.
• I missed this yesterday, but RHP Garrett Whitlock was named the Low-A South Atlantic League Pitcher of the Week. Last year’s 18th round pick has a 1.06 ERA (2.21 FIP) with 31.8% strikeouts and 5.6% walks in six starts and 34 innings so far this season. Whitlock was a potential top ten rounds pick last spring before a back injury.

Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (4-1 loss to Syracuse)

• SS Tyler Wade: 1-4, 2 K, 1 CS
• LF Clint Frazier: 1-4, 1 R
• DH Mike Ford: 1-3, 1 BB — 25/15 K/BB in 30 games this year after 72/94 K/BB in 126 games last year
• C Erik Kratz: 0-3, 1 BB, 1 K
• LHP Nestor Cortes: 4.1 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 3 K, 1 Balk, 4/3 GB/FB — 48 of 74 pitches were strikes (65%) … 19/13 K/BB in 20.2 innings this year

Double-A Trenton Thunder (2-0 loss to Reading)

• CF Rashad Crawford: 0-4, 3 K
• 2B Abi Avelino: 1-4, 1 2B, 1 K
• 3B Brandon Drury: 1-4, 2 K — Bell told Miller that Drury is going back up to Triple-A Scranton in two days to continue his rehab assignment when Trenton goes out on the road … I guess that means Drury will be back no earlier than this weekend
• RF Jhalan Jackson: 0-3, 1 BB
• RHP Dillon Tate: 7 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 3 K, 1 HB, 7/7 GB/FB — 68 of 100 pitches were strikes … very nice rebound after back-to-back tough starts

High-A Tampa Tarpons (5-3 loss to Daytona)

• SS Hoy Jun Park: 0-5, 1 K, 1 E (throwing)
• CF Estevan Florial: 3-5, 2 R, 1 K, 1 SB — he’s reached base in each of his last 25 games and in 27 of 28 games this season
• LF Isiah Gilliam: 1-5, 1 R, 1 K
• RF Alex Palma: 2-4, 1 K — 19-for-50 (.380) in his last 13 games
• 2B Diego Castillo: 0-3, 1 RBI, 1 BB
• RHP Freicer Perez: 2.2 IP, 6 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 3 BB, 2 K, 1 HR, 1 HB, 2/2 GB/FB — 41 of 75 pitches were strikes (55%) … 20/19 K in 24 innings this year … been a real grind so far, hopefully he figures it out soon

The Low-A Charleston RiverDogs had a scheduled off-day.