A handful of Dodgers prospects excelled in an 8-1 victory over the minor league Angels in Tempe on Saturday in MLB's spring weekend, with every group having an opportunity to be featured in a significant league spring coaching stadium.
Thayron Liranzo labored his manner by means of three Cactus League video games with the Dodgers earlier than leaving for South Korea. The catcher began at first base in opposition to the Angels on Saturday, and hit a three-run residence run within the third inning.
Liranzo led the California League in residence runs (24), slugging proportion (.562) and OPS (.962) final season as a 20-year-old for Low-A Rancho Cucamonga. He was named a top-100 prospect in MLB getting into 2024 by Baseball Prospectus, FanGraphs, and The Athletic.
Change Liranzo hits the house run to left. He additionally drove a ball to the other discipline within the sixth inning, however any ideas of an Eddie Murray-esque feat of homering from each side of the plate in a single recreation died proper off the warning monitor .
Justin Wrobleski was a gradual power final 12 months for Excessive-A Nice Lakes, posting a 2.90 ERA in 25 video games, together with his 102⅓ innings the fourth most amongst Dodgers minor league pitchers. Wrobleski struck out 109 (26 %) and walked 35.
The left-hander, drafted by the Dodgers within the eleventh spherical in 2021, began Saturday, and after permitting one hit, retired his final six batters confronted. 4 outs got here through the strikeout, and one other was due to a nifty pitch from Wrobleski off the mound.
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Kendall George, the Dodgers' prime draft choose in 2023, doubled and scored the sport's first run within the third inning, then tripled to drive in one other within the fourth.
Josue De Paula singled residence George after every extra-base hit.
Jackson Ferris, acquired from the Dodgers within the Michael Busch commerce on Jan. 11, adopted Wrobleski on the mound and struck out three in his two innings. Ferris allowed one run, although it was unearned due to a throwing error by Liranzo.
Zyhir Hope, who additionally came visiting from the Cubs with Ferris, adopted in middle discipline for George, and he singled twice in his two at-bats, and stole a base.
2023 seventh-round draft choose Patrick Copen struck out 4 in his two scoreless innings.
Jared Karros additionally pitched a pair of scoreless frames, and Edgardo Henriquez closed out the sport by placing out all three batters he confronted within the ninth. In all, 5 Dodgers pitchers mixed for 14 strikeouts in 9 innings, with no earned runs allowed.
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