A recap of Friday night time within the Dodgers minor leagues.
The participant of the day
Peter Heubeck had the perfect begin of his younger profession with 9 strikeouts in six scoreless innings Friday for Nice Lakes. He allowed simply two singles and two walks, and the six innings had been three outs longer than every other look as knowledgeable.
The 21-year-old righty has a 2.77 ERA in 12 begins for the Loons, with 72 strikeouts and 33 walks in 48⅔ innings, with a 19.2 % strikeout-minus-walk price. Heubeck additionally lowered his stroll price from 20 % in his first 5 begins this 12 months to 13.8 % over his final seven.
Triple-A Oklahoma Metropolis
Three innings of dangerous numbers early on proved an excessive amount of for Oklahoma Metropolis, whose comeback fell quick in a loss to the Sugar Land Area Cowboys (Astros).
Chris Vallimont allowed 9 runs and recorded 10 outs in his begin, giving up two runs within the first inning, 4 within the second, and three extra within the fourth.
All of the factors for Oklahoma Metropolis got here at house, and also you gave them an opportunity. Ryan Ward hit two of them, a three-run shot within the third inning and a solo shot within the ninth, and now leads the Pacific Coast League with 18 house runs (another than teammate Andre Lipcius), who’s much more spectacular contemplating. he missed three weeks on the injured listing.
Hunter Feduccia additionally hit a three-run house run for OKC, and Jonathan Araúz added a solo shot.
After Ward's house run within the ninth, Austin Gauthier walked with one out, however Feduccia — representing the tying run on the plate — grounded right into a double play to finish the sport.
Double-A Tulsa
After the Drillers continued to place up zeros since Tuesday, the offense lastly broke by with seven runs within the closing 4 innings on Friday in a loss to the Arkansas Vacationers (Mariners).
Tulsa has received the primary three video games of this collection, together with shutouts on Wednesday and Thursday. With a 2-0 lead within the fifth on Friday, the Drillers held Arkansas scoreless for 27 consecutive innings. Jerming Rosario was stable in his Double-A debut, working round 4 walks to strike out 5 in 4⅔ scoreless frames.
Michael Hobbs made the ultimate out of the fifth inning to carry the Vacationers scoreless, however then allowed a three-run house run within the sixth. Arkansas adopted with a run within the seventh and three unearned runs within the eighth, all off Christian Suarez.
Alex Freeland hit a two-run house run within the seventh inning to drag Tulsa to inside three, a part of a three-hit streak for the shortstop who has a .915 OPS since being promoted to Double-A.
Rosario began rather than Hyun-il Choi, who was scratched with a blister.
Excessive-A Nice Lakes
A 3-0 lead become a catastrophe when Nice Lakes allowed 4 runs within the backside of the ninth. loss to Dayton Dragons (Reds).
Kelvin Ramirez began the ninth inning by giving up three straight singles, with a balk and a wild pitch blended in. He received one out, however was then pulled with two runs already in. wild pitch as he walked his first batter. A fielder's alternative places the batter and the winner in scoring place with two outs. After an intentional stroll to load the bases, Wepf threw two wild pitches to permit each runners to attain, ending the sport in beautiful trend.
Third baseman Jake Gelof and catcher Nelson Quiroz every hit solo house runs for the Loons within the loss.
Low-A Rancho Cucamonga
Juan Alonso's two-run house run within the eighth inning broke a scoreless tie Quakes win over Fresno Grizzlies (Rockies).
Christian Zazueta had a really robust second begin for the Quakes, hanging out seven of his 15 batters confronted in 3⅔ scoreless innings, working round three hits and a stroll.
Roque Gutierrez adopted with 3⅓ scoreless innings of his personal, with 4 strikeouts and three walks. Pedro Santillan pitched a scoreless eighth and ninth in his Low-A debut, with three strikeouts and two walks to earn the save.
Quakes pitchers struck out 14 batters within the shutout win.
Transactions
Excessive-A: Infielder Jordan Thompsona Fifteenth-round draft select of LSU final 12 months, he was promoted to Nice Lakes after hitting .264 ..376/.491 with a 152 wRC+ for the Quakes with a team-high eight house runs and 30 RBI.
Low-A: Outfielder Jose Meza he was promoted to Rancho Cucamonga. The 21-year-old from Venezuela hit .368/.486/.575 in 26 video games within the Arizona Complicated League.
Arizona Complicated League: Mancini Jose Hernandez, who was acquired by commerce from the Pirates on Thursday, has been assigned to Arizona for now. This doesn’t use an alternative choice since Hernandez was already beneath possibility when Pittsburgh designated him for project final week.
Friday's outcomes
Saturday plan
- 4:05 pm PT: Nice Lakes (Jacob Meador) at Dayton (Ryan Cardona)
- 5 p.m.: Tulsa (Jared Karros) vs. Arkansas (Danny Wirchansky)
- 5:05 pm: Oklahoma Metropolis (River Ryan) at Sugar Land (Colton Gordon)
- 6:50 p.m.: Rancho Cucamonga (Sean Linan) at Fresno (McCade Brown)
River Ryan will make his first begin for Triple-A this season on Saturday after being sidelined for 2 months with again ache. He pitched 4 scoreless innings with eight strikeouts in two rehab begins for Arizona and Rancho Cucamonga.
Sean Linan will make his full-season league debut on Saturday night time when the 19-year-old from Colombia is promoted from the ACL to begin for the Quakes.
