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Lot of fresh blood in our starting lineup today as we begin the second half against Winston-Salem! Tyler Freeman, Will Benson, and Mitch Reeves all making their Hillcats debuts today. Catch all of the action live with @Max_Gun at https://tunein.com/radio/Lynchburg-Hill ... EmbedTitle …

Thanks, I hadn't been checking on that joint team; How do I know which of the guys are ours?

5 doubles, 2 homers in 52 AB's is pretty impressive power

So the Clippers finished their suspended game then played their regular one.

In first game Johnson went 1-4 with a homer. ... And Yu Chang, back from IL and playing 2B, hit a homer too. ... Bradley was 2-4, both singles. ... And Sandlin pitches a perfect 2/3 of an inning.

In game two Bobby Bradley went Hulk Smash. 2-3 with 2 homers. ... Allen 1-4. ... Johnson 0-3 with a BB.

Akron actually won big. My boy Mitch Longo has a double and 2 homers. ... Tom was 2-4 with a homer. ... Krauth 2 scoreless innings.

Not a great debut by Lynchburg’s new improved lineup as they were shutout. ... Freeman 0-4. ... Jones 1-3. ... Oscar 0-2 ... Benson 0-3.

Captains were rained out.

Scrappers won. ... Rocchio 0-3 with walk and SB. ... Delgado 1-4 ... Valera 2-4

AZL Red ... Valdes 0-2 ... Díaz 2-4, he’s been hot in early going. ... Bartlett 1-2

AZL Blue lost as well. ... Bracho with a homer

DSL Indians beat Cubs, which should avenge our World Series loss. ... Martinez 0-4. ... Rodriguez 2-5. ... Burgos 1-2, double, and 2 walks.

Our DSL coop team was slaughtered. ... Sanquinten 0-4 with 3 K.

[Well as I was writing this, HB was writing his; but I'll go ahead anyway despite the duplications; I overlooked Bracho in fact the AZL teams in general]

Gabriel Rod. 2 hits for the other DSL team

Valera 2 singles for the Scrappers. DeOleo a 3 run HR, 3rd baseman, is an old guy on this roster at age 21; hitting 350 OPS 1008

Freeman 0-4 Benson 0-3 in Lynchburg debuts. McCarty 2 6 3 3 1 1 5.40. Jones single and walk. Gonzalez drew a walk, that makes 4 BB in June after 2 in May and none in April.

Adam Scott, LHP from 2018 draft, promoted to Akron. Not much of a debut either 5 2/3 9 6 6 0 4. Tom HR 12, single, walk; triple in the other game; OPS for June 1006, down slightly from May. Mitch Longo with his best game of the season with 2 homers [that makes 3 for the season] and a double

Chang's 2nd homer in 2 days; good to have his bat back. Johnson's 3rd AAA homer.
Bradley had 2 singles in the DH opener before the 2 HR nightcap. He's 13-31 in his last 8 games, including 7 homeruns. Could be a better time to bring him up to Cleveland? Sandlin retired the two he faced.

Sorry Civ, I thought I was only one up.

Some this and that ...

Our injured young prospect pitcher Burgos (we have two Burgos pitchers and a hitter or two as well) who was injury earlier was throwing on flat ground in Goodyear yesterday.

Bobby Bradley has a 6 game hit streak going, three multiple home run games in his last 6 game, and just hit homers 23 and 24.

Scrappers 1st baseman De Oleo hit a home run out of the ballpark in West Virginia yesterday. And admired his work a bit too long, and opposing catcher let him know when he crossed the plate.

Raymond Burgos, the pitcher, was my breakout pitcher for 2019 and he started pretty well, before he was sidelined.
Steven Kwan was my breakout position player and had a great first month. Now he's settled in at much less than stellar level. He'll be sharing the Lynchburg OF with Benson and Gonzalez.

BA's two cents on yesterday's games. Bradley is not one of their highlighted players of the day since another 2 homer game for him is kind of ho hum by now.

CLE AA Clement, Ernie SS 4 1 0 0 .278
CLE AAA Bradley, Bobby DH 3 2 2 3 .297 2 HR (24), BB (23) [2 singles in the second game]
CLE AAA Johnson, Daniel CF 3 1 0 0 .292 BB (9) [homered in the second game]
CLE HiA Benson, Will LF 3 0 0 0 .000
CLE HiA Freeman, Tyler SS 4 0 0 0 .000
CLE HiA Gonzalez, Oscar RF 2 0 0 0 .330 BB (7)
CLE HiA Jones, Nolan 3B 3 0 1 0 .279 BB (54)
CLE MAJ Mercado, Oscar LF 3 1 1 0 .316 BB (7)
CLE R Bracho, Aaron DH 5 1 1 2 .182 HR (1)
CLE SS Delgado, Raynel 2B 4 1 1 0 .238
CLE SS Rocchio, Brayan SS 3 0 0 0 .208 BB (2), SB (2)
CLE SS Rodriguez, Johnathan RF 4 0 0 0 .318
CLE SS Valera, George CF 4 1 2 0 .269
CLE HiA McCarty, Kirk 2.0 6 3 3 1 1 5.40 L (0-1)

Bradley’s first homer last night, deep the opposite way to left-center.

https://t.co/18nKdzeK48

His second homer, a monster out of the park to Nationwide Avenue in right.

https://t.co/FsZXINvqHB

He's still on the clippers as far as I can determine.

It was kind of predictable that the New Look Hillcats, loaded with offensive talent, managed two hits in the first inning and nothing else all night long in their premiere night together.

Angel Martinez with a double and single in the DSL today. Now hitting 377. OPS 1063. Gabriel Rod. hitless
Not aware if any of their pitchers are worthy of note. They get battered around pretty regularly.
Sanquintin went 0-4 on their team and is hitting 179 OPS 627

No big names on the hill today. Starters are: Woji; Tully; Garza; Ponticelli; TBD; Turner; and a couple TBD in Arizona

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The Indians' 2016 draft:

1st round: Will Benson (just promoted to High-A, destroying baseballs this year)
2nd: Nolan Jones (team's No. 2 prospect)
3rd: Aaron Civale (MLB debut tomorrow)
4th: Shane Bieber
5th: Conner Capel (traded for Oscar Mercado)
12th: Zach Plesac

Rusty says I guess the team can do more than just trade for talent !

I wanted to thank all of you that post the minor league info. I enjoy it every morning with my coffee. Love all the summaries and insight! Thanks again.

Good to see you around, Pat! You have your eye on someone on the farm? Who you like?

In DSL action A.Martinez was 2-4 with a double. ... Sanquinten 0-4.

In AZL, the blue team exploded for 17 runs. ... Bracho had a single and walk. ... Tena 3-5 with a double ... Noel was 3-3 with 2 home runs and 6 rbi. ... And Brennan was 3-5 with double and walk.

On red team, Valdes was 1-3. ... Bartlett 1-4 with double.

Scrappers were smacked around. Rocchio has started slow, 0-4 to drop to .179. ... Delgado 1-4 a double. ... Valera 0-2 with 2 walks.

Captains played 2, and beat that team up north both times. ... Naylor 0-3 with a walk in game 1. ... Fermin was 3-6 in both games.

Lynchburg won and new improved offense showed up. ... Freeman 2-4 with double and walk. ... Jones 1-4 with a walk. ... OscarG 3-4 with 3 rbi. ... Benson 1-5 but it was his first high-A homer.

Akron took a beating. ... Longo 1-5 after big day yesterday. ... my boy Tully from OSU got killed, 6 ER. ... Broom threw 2.1 shutout innings.

And lastly, the Clippers opened up a can, winning 14-0. ... Wojawhatever threw 7 shutout innings, 8 K. ... Allen 2-5 with a home run. ... Johnson 1-4 and a walk. ... Bradley 0-3 and a walk. ... Haase 2-4 and his 18th homer.