Minor League Opening Night 5/4/21 (& 1st week games)

[MadThinker88]

Game info updates (courtesy Indians Prospective Twitter):

Lynchburg Hillcats 20yr old RHP Josh Wolf with a pretty impressive organizational debut tonight.
Line - 4.0(IP) 3H 1R 1ER 1BB 7SO (58 Pitches 36 Strikes)
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#Indians 22yr old RHP prospect Tanner Burns with a sensational pro-debut tonight for (High A) Lake County.
Line - 4.0(IP) 3H 0R 0ER 0BB 6SO (63 Pitches 48 Strikes)
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Scott Moss finishes out his first start of the season strong with three straight strike outs.
Line: 4 IP, 1 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, 4 K on 51 pitches
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[MadThinker88]

Game updates:

Columbus wins 10-0
Lake County wins 6-2

Akron leading 5-3 bottom of the 5th

 

[thestatman]

Hooray Scott Moss!. Couple other notes of interest in this game. Bobby Bradley hit a 3 run homer as the DH. Owen Miller went 3-4 with a walk and now is hitting 467......and he played first base...,,,,hmmmmm.

 

[MadThinker88]

UPDATE:

RDucks leading 8-3 going into top of the 8th..

Oscar Gonzalez with a solo shot in the 7th (gets same pitcher he hit the opening night walk-off homer off of).
Tyler Freeman hitting leadoff. 1-3 with triple. .300 on the season.
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EDIT:
Its gone final. RDucks win 8-3.

CLE affiliates go 4-0 on the night. So far a combine record of 14-2...

 

[thestatman]

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UPDATE:

RDucks leading 8-3 going into top of the 8th..

Oscar Gonzalez with a solo shot in the 7th (gets same pitcher he hit the opening night walk-off homer off of).
Tyler Freeman hitting leadoff. 1-3 with triple. .300 on the season.

Tribe farm looking for another sweep. Looks like 14-2 for the season. The Hillcats are slumping though...only scored 7 runs tonight. Time to fire the hitting coach.

 

[thestatman]

UPDATE:

RDucks leading 8-3 going into top of the 8th..

Oscar Gonzalez with a solo shot in the 7th (gets same pitcher he hit the opening night walk-off homer off of).
Tyler Freeman hitting leadoff. 1-3 with triple. .300 on the season.
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EDIT:
Its gone final. RDucks win 8-3.

CLE affiliates go 4-0 on the night. So far a combine record of 14-2...

Btw Mad, love your minor league reports.

 

[MadThinker88]

I took a peak at all the organization records after Friday's games....
Part curiosity & part dry run for the report on Monday...

So far CLE (14-2) & Tampa (12-3) are the only groups above 11 wins (a handful of teams have 11 or 10 wins).
Washington is in the cellar by a large margin (2-14)

 

[MadThinker88]

Info leading into the games on Saturday from Indians Prospective Twitter

#Indians MiLB affiliate starters for Saturday
Columbus - RHP Eli Morgan
Akron - RHP Shane McCarthy
Lake County - LHP Matt Turner
Lynchburg - RHP Sergio Morillo
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Currently:
#Indians minor league affiliates on fire!
Columbus 3-1
Akron 4-0
Lake County 3-1
Lynchburg 4-0

Combined Record 14-2
Combined ERA 2.60
Combined average runs per game 6.94

 

[Kevalier]

Very curious to see how Eli Morgan pitches, as he's the most intriguing starting pitcher in Columbus as far as I'm concerned.

 

[sportscoach]

Very curious to see how Eli Morgan pitches, as he's the most intriguing starting pitcher in Columbus as far as I'm concerned.

I see his floor as a Tomlin type of pitcher, (crafty softer throwing RH) With no solidified 5th starter right now, Morgan, Moss etc could get a shot to take it and run with it with a solid May...

 

[CDAV45]

I see his floor as a Tomlin type of pitcher, (crafty softer throwing RH) With no solidified 5th starter right now, Morgan, Moss etc could get a shot to take it and run with it with a solid May...

I pretty much thought the same, but there was word of a little velocity gain and a couple MPH here and there can make a big difference to a pitcher like Morgan. I watching and waiting anxiously.

 

[MadThinker88]

The Saturday nite games are starting to get underway.

Lynchburg already leads 1-0 in the top of 2nd...

 

[MadThinker88]

update time

Columbus trails 3-0 bottom of 4th. Eli Morgan is struggling. 4 hits & 4 more walks allowed (3K) in 3+IP so far.
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Akron trails 1-0 bottom of 4th but bases are loaded with no one out
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Lake County trails 2-0 bottom of 5th
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Lynchburg leads 2-1 in bottom of 6th..

Interesting tidbit: Hillcats SP Morillo allowed 1 run on no hits with 2 walks allowed, 3 HBP (all in same inning with 1 of the walks) & 5 Ks.

 

[sportscoach]

Columbus is still down 3-2 but back to back doubles by Krieger and Clement, Johnson's single and a sac fly by Bradley in the 5th. Clement is in LF and has been solid with the bat.

Akron is up 4-1 in the 6th, Lake County down 0-2 in the 8th (no timely hits for LC today) and Lynchburg is up 4-1 in the 8th. Holland had three stolen bases tonight...and they are 3-13 with runners in scoring position. Not sure any low A pitcher wants to face that crew...

 

[sportscoach]

Clippers tied the game In the 7th thanks to an error by Beau Taylor at the plate.

Krieger got a walk, Clement bunted him to 2nd, Johnson got a single, mercado hits it to the 3rd baseman and the throw home was mishandled...

Later in the inning, bases are loaded and Miller is up.... he hits a base clearing double! Clippers now lead 6-3!