Final developments in the Akron win: Ka'ai Tom 3 hits, all singles. Now at 221/289/382 4 of 8 in steals. 20K 3 BB. Kind of like other Akron OFs of recent vintage Bryson Myles and Jordan Smith.

Henry Martinez with a perfect inning for the save. No one's got on base against him in his 3 1/3 Eastern League innings, Briefly in Lynchurg 7 innings, 3 hits, 1 run, 3 walks 10 K.

BA notes:

CLE AAA Chang, Yu SS 4 1 1 0 .269 2B (7), BB (8)
CLE AAA Haase, Eric C 5 1 1 0 .298 3B (2)
CLE AAA Mejia, Francisco PH-LF 2 0 0 0 .182 what's going on with Mejia?
CLE HiA Capel, Conner CF 3 0 0 0 .314 BB (11)
CLE HiA Ice, Logan C 4 0 1 0 .175 2B (3)
CLE LoA Benson, Will RF 4 0 0 0 .192 BB (18)
CLE LoA Gonzalez, Oscar DH 5 0 0 0 .247
CLE LoA Jones, Nolan 3B 2 1 0 0 .163 3 BB (13)
CLE MAJ Gonzalez, Erik 3B 4 1 3 0 .333 2B (1), 3B (1)
No pitchers

Here's how the Captains starters have fared this year to date. If I'm lucky I didn't just waste a couple minutes editing this so it would line up. [not too well, but it looks great on my screen!] It shows that Morgan and McCarty and Tati all strike out more than 1 per inning. Perez walks way too many; Hillman and McCarty walk fewer too many. Hockin and Tati and Morgan and Vasquez are pretty conservative with walks.

Player W L ERA IP H R ER HR HB BB SO WHIP
Elijah Morgan 1 0 1.37 26.1 19 5 4 0 1 5 35 0.91
Gregori Vasquez 1 1 2.57 21.0 16 7 6 0 0 5 19 1.00
Kirk McCarty 1 1 8.55 20.0 27 19 19 3 0 13 25 2.00
Grant Hockin 1 3 6.27 18.2 22 15 13 1 1 4 16 1.39
Francisco Perez 1 1 7.00 18.0 22 14 14 0 0 19 14 2.28
Juan Hillman 0 3 6.11 17.2 20 21 12 1 2 10 17 1.70
Felix Tati 0 1 1.88 14.1 14 3 3 1 0 3 19 1.19

Today's schedule starters:

For Columbus, since Plutko is in Cleveland, its Thomas B. Dewey in his place
For Akron, veteran Mr. Paulson promoted from Lynchburg, replacing Mike Peoples who's on the DL.
For Lynchburg, Justin Garza puts his 1.35 ERA on the line.
It says at milb.com that Grant Hockin is going for Lake County. I had just read that he went on the DL. But he's listed on active roster.

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Lake County Captains transaction
LHP Skylar Arias promoted from extended spring training

Lynchburg Hillcats transactions
INF Gavin Collins placed on 7-day DL
RHP James Karinchak promoted from Lake County
INF Alexis Pantoja assigned from Akron

Akron Rubberducks transactions
INF Alexis Pantoja assigned to Lynchburg

Columbus Clippers transactions
INF Eric Stamets activated from 7-day DL

Bieber is making his AAA debut tonight against Uncle Dennis' Charlotte Knights, who have the second best ballpark in AAA.

Glad to see:

Bieber in Columbus
Stamets off the DL
Karinchak promoted. There could be a starting role for him there with Paulson shipped up to Akron. Not sure if they're reading to extend his innings that much yet.

Hillbilly wrote:Bieber is making his AAA debut tonight against Uncle Dennis' Charlotte Knights, who have the second best ballpark in AAA.

Best....Dammit the Best! Come to Charlotte and I will take you to a game!

If I ever get out your way, UD, I will definitely meet you for a game. Haven't seen you in forever. I would enjoy that.

Nice debut

Columbus Clippers
Player IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA
Shane Bieber 6.0 2 1 1 2 5 1 1.50

2 walks in one game!! In fact two walks back to back in the 2nd inning a couple batters after a home run. But then Bieber got back into his groove and retried 11 in a row and 14 of his final 15.

Bieber didn't get the win but Chang's 2 run homer in the 9th gave the edge to the Clippers.

Meanwhile Bobby Bradley's bat is waking up. 2 homers [5 for the year] and a double [#4] produce 5 RBI and lead Akron to a 15-0 rout. Loopstok with his 4th homer and a single. Calica double and 2 singles. Castro single and double. Marabell and Kreiger each a pair of singles.

another 2 single game for Mitch Longo, that makes 5 multi-hit games in his last 6. Now at 299/354/402

Garza not so hot, 5 6 4 3 2 4 HR 2.16
Krauth just fine 2 perfect innings 3 K 0.63 that makes 26 strikeouts in 14 1/3 innings, 5 hits. Time to return to Akron.

An Indians-type 7-11 loss by Lake County. two hits each by Austen Wade and Oscar Gonzalez Team was a woeful 4-21 with RISP Nolan Jones 0-4 with 2 walks, hitting .151. Benson had the night off.

The game started OK with a solid start by Elijah Morgan: 7 3 3 3 1 7 1.89
Kyle Nelson charged with his first run, but it was unearned