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Saturday, May 12, 2007

Trenton Offense, It’s Faaaannnn-tastic

Injuries/News:

Nothing new.

AAA:

Ross Ohlendorf took a huge step back last night. He threw way too many hittable pitches and his opponents took advantage of this. The final line of 2.2-9-7-6-0-4-0 (IP-H-R-ER-BB-K-HR) is indicative of the fact that Ohlendorf does have the type of stuff to just toss the ball over the plate and get good results. He has to hit his spots.

Alberto Gonzalez was 0 for 4 with a strikeout and is now down to .246 for the year. He is 1 for his last 12. Eric Duncan had the night off.

AA:

Brett Smith continues to impress for Trenton: 7-5-3-2-0-7-0. Smith’s ERA is now 1.24 in 36.1 innings and has only given up 22 hits with 36:12 K:BB ratio, no homers allowed, and more than twice as many groundballs as flyballs. All of this tells you that Smith is dominating, and numbers-wise, there are no performance holes. I’m still not completely sold, but I’m beginning to contemplate buying.

A+:

The game was smoked out and will be continued today.

A-:

Austin Jackson’s hit streak concluded at 10 games with an 0 for 4 with 2 strikeouts night. Seth Fortenberry was 1 for 3 with a single and a walk and Wilmer Pino upped his average by going 1 for 4 with a single. Eduardo Nunez was 0 for 4. The most interesting part of the game was that several players were tossed prior to a pitch being thrown. Savannah and Charleston don’t like each other very much, which I guess is fitting with them being the Met and Yankee affiliates.

Spotlight On:

Tyler Clippard going for Scranton. The Yankees continue to take Rasner out at around 80 pitches, showing that they believe and probably rightly so, that he is getting the job done with smoke and mirrors. If Clippard continues to dominate, he may get a shot.