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CIV: You live in the Akron area, right? I was wondering if you ever go to any A̶e̶r̶o̶s̶ Ducks games?

Two games were rained out. Here are highlights for Akron and Lake County

CLE AA Gonzalez, Erik SS 4 0 1 0 .277
CLE AA Naquin, Tyler CF 5 0 1 0 .125 [second game back from injury]
CLE LoA Mejia, Francisco C 3 1 2 2 .163 2 2B (4), BB (4) [coming along; he's only 19 so he earns some time. plus he's one of my favorites]
CLE LoA Allen, Greg 2 0 0 0 .200 2 bb (7), cs (2)
CLE LoA Brady, Sean 5 6 2 2 0 6 3.60

Bradley still out of the lineup.

A pair of lefties starting for Columbus today: I hope someone is watching them for possible move up to Cleveland. Bruce Chen and Michael Roth with the starts. Both have been pretty decent, Marcum and Maronde, too. Maronde and Roth are on the 40 man roster so promotions are uncomplicated. The other two would require bumping someone off.
Only in AA, but Cody Anderson also on the roster has had 3 fine starts and is working today, too. He's a Righty, but I don't care which arm the pitcher uses if he's better than House.

Clips won first game 7-1. Moncrief was 3-3 with a homer and 3 ribbies. Chen allows 3 hits and a run in 7 innings. 5 K

Complete game 1-run allowed by Bruce Chen, 3 hits, no walks.

Lindor has 2 hits and a walk. Moncrief 3 hits include a homerun. 2 singles for CF Tyler Holt, hitting 333 [about double the avg of the major league CF]. Urshela singles and doubles.

start of the second game, Michael Roth has allowed 2 runs in 2 innings. Aguillar with his 4th Homer.

Lindor making a serious early run for the Hot Prospect list, adds another 2 hits in the nightcap and brings the avg over 300. Single and double for Swisher.
Roth finishes 5 innings with just the 2 runs surrendered. Austin Adams and Armstrong each with a shutout inning.

Another good, although a bit abbreviated, start for Cody Anderson, 5 2/3 5 1 0 1 5 ERA 1.13
single and double and walk for Naquin.
Akron won its one game. Clippers won two.

Lynchburg is only 3 innings in. Nellie Rodriguez with a 2 run homer, his 2nd. 6 of his 11 hits are for extra bases.
Mike Papi's 1-hit a game streak ended with a hitless Saturday but he has an early single today. The big guy still has managed only a pair of doubles as his only xb hits in 62 at bats.

Just realized that is the second game of two for Hillcats. Zimmer had 3 hits In the opener. NRod hit his first homer of the season in the earlier game.

Best start of his professional life for Dace Kime. He fanned 12 and walked no one in 7 2-hit scoreless innings. He's in his return year at Lake County, I think he should move up to Lynchburg; moving Adam Plutko [who pitched 1/2 season for Carolina last year] up to Akron; and moving Cody Anderson [who had a forgettable debut season at Akron] up to Columbus.

2 singles and a walk for Yu Chiang Chang. His 255 average leads the team.

J.R. wrote:CIV: You live in the Akron area, right? I was wondering if you ever go to any A̶e̶r̶o̶s̶ Ducks games?

So I guess not?

Sunday lines noted by BA:

CLE AA Naquin, Tyler CF 3 2 2 1 .273 2B (1), 2 BB (3)
CLE AAA Aguilar, Jesus DH 3 1 1 2 .219 HR (4), BB (5)
CLE AAA Lindor, Francisco SS 3 0 2 0 .302 BB (8), SB (6), CS (2)
CLE AAA Moncrief, Carlos RF 3 3 3 3 .233 HR (2)
CLE AAA Urshela, Giovanny 3B 3 2 2 0 .500 2B (1) [healthy, hitting, we know he can field]
CLE HiA Frazier, Clint CF 3 0 1 1 .277
CLE HiA Papi, Mike LF 3 0 2 0 .155 BB (10) [2 hits in a game!!]
CLE HiA Rodriguez, Nellie 1B 4 1 1 2 .185 HR (2)
CLE HiA Zimmer, Bradley DH 4 0 2 1 .322 2B (1), SB (9) [doing some of everything on offense]
CLE LoA Chang, Yu-Cheng SS 4 1 2 0 .255 BB (4)
CLE LoA Mejia, Francisco DH 4 0 1 1 .170
CLE LoA Paulino, Dorssys LF 4 0 1 0 .158

CLE AA Anderson, Cody 5.2 5 1 0 1 5 1.13 W (2-1) [looking good]
CLE AAA Adams, Austin 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00
CLE AAA Armstrong, Shawn 1 1 0 0 0 1 5.06 Sv (5)
CLE LoA Kime, Dace 7 2 0 0 0 12 1.85 W (1-2) [great game, now do it again!]

Zimmer's ranking among Carolina League leaders:

Homeruns Number 1
On Base Pct No. 2
Steals No. 3
Slugging No. 3
OPS No. 5
Average No. 7