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If they have been waiting for him to get hot and confidence rise - this is it.

Even drew a walk in that span.
Bring him up

Prospect perfmorances from Thursday

LE MAJ #3 Bo Naylor, C 1 0 0 0 0.248
CLE AAA #4 George Valera, OF 4 0 1 1 0.205
CLE AAA #5 Brayan Rocchio, SS 4 1 2 0 0.279
CLE AA #8 Angel Martinez, SS 3 1 1 1 0.224 2B (13),
CLE MAJ #10 Will Brennan, OF 4 0 2 0 0.275 2B (14),
CLE AA #14 Jose Tena, SS 3 1 1 0 0.225 BB (29), SB (11),
CLE HiA # 15 Jake Fox, 2B 5 1 2 0 0.207 3B (2), CS (4),
CLE AA #16 Juan Brito, 2B 4 0 0 0 0.284
CLE AAA #20 Jhonkensy Noel, OF 4 1 2 1 0.198 2B (12), [had a good June, but I can't access the splits at the moment]
CLE LoA #23 Angel Genao, SS 1 0 0 0 0.242
CLE AA #25 Petey Halpin, OF 4 0 0 0 0.254
CLE HiA #28 Justin Boyd, OF 2 0 0 0 0.128 2 BB (6), [highly unimpressive Kwan-ype OF we got for Will Benson]
CLE AA #30 Bryan Lavastida, C 4 0 1 0 0.259

CLE AAA #17 Nic Enright, RHP 1.0 0 0 0 1 0 6.66 W (3-1)
CLE HiA #19 Parker Messick, LHP 4.1 8 7 7 3 4 3.84 L (3-3) his Lake County debut; now we know why he spent 1/2 year in Low A

Veteran incompetent RH Eichoff working badly or the Clippers; 3 homes 5 runs in 4 innings.
Totally unknown infielder Daniel Schneemann having a very good year after numerous nondescript years in the G's farm system He hit his 7th homer today, now battng 306 with OPS nearing 900. If Fry deserves a chance, let this guy get a shot too. Perhaps he also could pitch a scoreless inning in a blowout loss.
Meanwhile super prospect George Valera is now at 148 and awaiting his next injury.

Akron took the opener 1-0. Even when he pitches shutout ball, Doug Nikhazy walks 5 in 5 innings.
J Rod single double 276/833
A Martinez 3 singles 228/651

Game 2 scoreless after 2. Rodriguez with a single. Tanner Burns 2 scoreless.

With the smoke clearing, Lake County also playing 2 and took the opener 4-2. Burgos HR 6. Jake Fox 3 hits, 219/644. At least he's on the way up, slowly, and he is also one of the youngest in the league so don't write him off.
Morgan Ellerts who I recently discovered has been pitching very well, was OK 1 scoreless, 1 hit 1 walk

Game 2 scoreless after 2.

The usually light hitting Hillcats hold a 12-0 lead on 14 hits, but as usual without a homerun.
Jose Devers 2 doubles and a single, up to250
Juan Benjamin double single 3 rbi 273
Big 6-6 Austin Peterson with a stellar 8 innings [no one ptiches 8 innings in Class A] 2 hits, 0 runs, no walks, only 2 strikeouts.

Chourio was 3-6 today with a pair of runs and a pair of doubles. Hitting .357 with an ops at .971

Arizona is a hitters paradise.

Lake County trailed Fort Wayne 6-3 in the bottom of the 8th. Frias 0-3 on the day, put the Captains on top 7-6 with his 5th homer on the season, a grand slam. The lead was short lived as Fort Wayne put 4 on the board in top of the 9th. Nate Furman's 2 out throwing error kept the inning alive for Fort Wayne as they went on to score 4.

Brayan Rocchio, SS, Guardians: Rocchio finished a home run shy of the cycle in Triple-A Columbus’ 19-2 win over Nashville. The 22-year-old middle infielder doubled twice, tripled, drove in two and scored three runs.

As you can guess with that score, Rocchio wasn't the only guy with a big day at the plate. Oscar Gonzalez continues to prove he's ready for a return: he homered, singled twice and drove in 6 runs.
2 singles and a double for Valera
Lavastida returned to AAA singled 2 walks 2 rbi
some familiar pitchers:
Logan Allen 3 scoreless innings, no hit 2 walks 49 pitches; still not too efficient
Plesac 3 innings 4 hits 2 runs a homerun ERA in AAA drops to 7.03
Karinchak 1 inning 1 walk 1 balk 1 strikeout 18 pitches

akron won 4-3
Halpin triple 250/676 OPS
Tena single walk 234/655 following up on a very solid June
Martinez walk 232/659
Rodriguez 2 hits 288/655. He has 13 homers including one the day before when he went 2 for 4 with 5 rbi
Brito single double walk 299 844 after a cooling off spell
another familiar name on the mound:
Battenfield 3 0 0 0 4 5

Lake County lost 7-4.
In his second start in High A Parker Messick was again ineffective: 5 8 6 6 1 4 2 homers.
The 2022 class is looking really terrible. DeLauter is finally back in action, although not yesterday [on Monday: single homer hitting 286/857 in 4 games]. Campbell is out for the year. Messick was next. Then some singles hitters: Lampe barely over 200 [208/631], Furman who was tough out in Lynchburg not in LC [196/559] Lipscomb still in Lynchburg.

Lynchburg also lost 4-2
Lipscomb 2 singles and caught stealing: 259/706
Genoa 0-4 slips to 219/560

our Arizonans won 11-0
Nelson Aranguren 4 hits including a double, a C-1B
Rafael Ramirez 17 year old SS previously praised by AA went 3-3 with a walk a steal and a sac fly
Chourio OF 1-4 and walk 350/967
Evelio Hernandez first start in AZ 5 2/3 2 0 0 0 5 in the DR last year and this he fanned 79 in 58 innings

shutout on the Hot Sheet, which isn't surprising since the only Hot Hitter recently has been Gonzalez and he's not eligible as a major league veteran.