Saturday’s opponents: Five games on the Marlins’ side of the complex.
Sunday’s opponents: New York Mets (Memphis and Springfield at Port St. Lucie with Palm Beach and Quad Cities at Jupiter).
Memphis lost to New Orleans, 5-2
Memphis pitching
Clayton Mortensen 3 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 2 K’s
Ian Ostlund, 2 IP,1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K
Charlie Manning, 1.2 IP, 1H, 0 R, 2 BB, 3 K’s
Royce Ring, 0.2 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 1ER, 2 BB, 1 K
Memphis hitting
Jarrett Hoffpauir 3-for-4 with a double and RBI
Tyler Greene 3-for-4 with a run scored and SB
Nick Stavinoha, 2-for-4 with a walk
Springfield lost to Jacksonville, 13-10
Springfield pitching
Brandon Dickson, 3 IP, 6 H, 5 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 1 K
Eddie Degerman, 1 IP, 1H, 4 ER, 3 BB, 3 K’s
Trey Hearne, 2 IP, 1 BB, 3 K’s
Ken Maiques, 0.2 IP, 2 H, 4 ER, 2 BB, 1 K
Francisco Samuel one scoreless inning
Springfield hitting
Brett Wallace, 4-for-5 with 3 HR’s, 5 RBIs
Daniel Descalso 2-for-3 with a double, run scored and RBI
Tony Cruz 2-for-3 with a double, HR and 3 RBIs
Antonio DeJesus, Daryl Jones, Andrew Brown and Brandon Buckman all singled
Palm Beach defeated Jupiter, 13-5
Palm Beach pitching
Nick Additon 2.2 IP , 8 H, 5 ER, 2 BB, 4 K’s
Ryan Kulik, 3 IP, 1 BB, 3 K’s
Thomas Eager, 1 IP, 2 H, 1 K
Davis Bilardello, 1 IP, 1 H
Casey Mulligan 1 IP, 1H
Palm Beach hitting
Adron Chambers, 3-for-5 with a double and 3 runs scored
Curt Smith, 3-for-4 with a run and RBI
Tommy Pham tripled twice and had 3 RBIs
Jermaine Curtis, 3-for-4 with a double and 2 RBIs
Francisco Rivera double
Oliver Marmol singled and walked in his two plate appearances
Greensboro defeated Quad Cities #1, 6-2
QC #1 pitching
George Brown 2.1 IP, 1 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 4 K’s
Hector Cardenas, 2.1 IP, 4 H, 3 ER, 3 BB, 1K
Chuckie Fick, 2.1 IP, 2 H, 2 K’s
Matt Frevert, 1 IP, 1 K
Jorge Rondon, 1 IP, 1 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 1 K
QC#1 hitting
Chris Swauger 2-for-3
Osvaldo Morales, 2-for-4 with two doubles
Xavier Scruggs, 2-for-4 with a double
Edwin Gomez and Ryde Rodriguez had RBI singles
Paul Cruz and Alex Castellanos also singled
Quad Cities #2 defeated Marlins 5th club, 7-2
QC #2 pitching
Kevin Thomas (pictured) 3 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 1 K
Anthony Ferrara, 2.2 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 3 BB, 2 K’s
Jason Buursma, 1.1 IP, 1 K
Daniel Richardson, 1.1 IP, 1 H, 1 ER, 2 BB
Santo Maertz, 0.2 IP
QC #2 hitting
Brett Lilley doubled twice and walked twice
Brian Buck 3-for-4 with a double, triple, two runs scored and two RBIs
Beau Riportella hit a two-run HR
Travis Mitchell singled twice
Roberto De La Cruz hit a long solo HR to LF through the wind
Jarred Bogany, Jairo Martinez, Michael Swinson and Ivan Castro all singled
These game accounts as above are provided through the courtesy of the St. Louis Cardinals by Director of Minor League Operations John Vuch.
For Pham is that 4 triples in 2 days – seems like his name is listed everyday for multiple hits. Hope he is this year’s version of 2008 Jones – as far as a breakout season goes.
A lot of HRs – Wallace, Hill, Riportella, De La Cruz
Smith and Chambers continue to hit
2nd day in row Greene has 3 hits
Thanks for the updates.
Three homers by Wallace? Wow!
de la Cruz hit a “long home run though the wind.” When a bonus baby does this, the Cards must be encouraged.
Roberto de la Cruz hails from a town famed for baseball, San Pedro de Macoris. San Pedor has yielded Sammy Sosa, Blue Jays SS Tony Frenandez, SS Mariano Duncan, OF George Bell, OF Alfonso Soriano, former Cards pitcher Juaquin Andujar and Dodger/Cards 1B Pedro Guerrero, Cards pitcher Jose Jimenez. Among many others.
San Pedro is a center for sugar making. A lad becomes a baseball player or he harvests sugar cane with a machete.
Next weekend, a fictional movie is being nationally released, timed for onset of the baseball season. It is aptly called “Sugar.” Its about a kid from San Pedro who signs with a US baseball team and plays in the Midwest League. It got awards at the Sundance Film festival a year back.
Its nice that the Cards inked a stud player out of San Pedro. If he is truly good, he could move up the system fast.
Some more noted players from San Pedro: Robinson Cano with the Yankees, Juan Samuel who used to play for the Phillies, and from the 1970s, Rico Carty of the Braves.
Recently notorious Jose Rijo helped with the movie, coaching the actor who plays Sugar how to throw some pitches.
The Cards have not homegrown an impact position player out of the Dominican (excluding Pujols and Polanco, who were signed in the States). It would be fun if Roberto de la Cruz changed this luck.