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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Apr 12, 2008 10:57 AM PDT

AAA: Fresno defeated Tucson 6-5

Fresno: 2B Manny Burriss: 2 for 5, R, 2B, RBI

Fresno: SS Ivan Ochoa: 2 for 4, R, BB, SO, CS

Fresno: CF Justin Leone: 2 for 4, 3B, 2 RBI, BB, SO

Fresno: 3B Julio Cordido: 2 for 4, R, 3B, 2 RBI

Tucson: 1B John Whitesell: 2 for 3, 3 R, 2 HR, 3 RBI, BB

Fresno: SP Pat Misch: 5.2 IP, 4 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 3 BB, 5 SO, 2 HR

Fresno: RP Kevin Gryboski: 2.0 IP, 0 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 2 SO, W (1-0)

Tucson: RP Clint Goocher: 0.2 IP, 4 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 1 BB, 2 SO, Hold (4), L (0-1)

Fresno won the game in the bottom of the ninth inning with a five run outburst. The Grizzlies were down four runs going into their last ups. Pat Misch allowed four runs in his start. Tucson's John Whitesell had three RBI against the lefty pitcher, with two home runs in the game.

Kevin Gryboski earned the win with two solid innings pitched. Julio Cordido collected his second RBI of the game when he tripled home Eliezer Alfonzo. Manny Burriss had an RBI double and later scored on Justin Leone's two-run triple.

AA: Connecticut lost to New Hampshire 5-4

Connecticut: 2B Travis Denker: 3 for 5, R, SO

Connecticut: 1B Travis Ishikawa: 1 for 5, R, RBI

Connecticut: LF-RF Carlos Sosa: 2 for 4, R, HR, 3 RBI

Connecticut: RF Eddy Martinez-Esteve: 2 for 4

New Hampshire: C Kyle Phillips: 1 for 4, R, 2 RBI

Connecticut: SP Dave McKae: 5.0 IP, 4 H, 4 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 5 SO

Connecticut: RP Kelvin Pichardo: 2.1 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 3 SO, L (0-1)

New Hampshire: SP Brandon Magee: 5.0 IP, 11 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 2 BB, 5 SO--WP

New Hampshire: RP Jo Matumoto: 3.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 SO, W (1-0)

New Hampshire and Connecticut played to a near tie, delayed by rain for nearly 45 minutes. New Hampshire broke the tie in the eighth inning to win the game. Jo Matumoto, the Blue Jays' Brazilian-Japanese pitcher, worked three innings in relief of starter Brandon Magee to earn the win.

Travis Ishikawa had a groundout RBI in the first inning. Henry Sosa had the big hit in the fifth inning, a three run home run. Sosa made the play at home too, getting an assist to gun down Josh Kreuzer trying to score. Connecticut starting pitcher Dave McKae allowed four runs over five innings. Trey Webb was ejected in the eighth inning by home plate umpire Victor Carapazza.

A+: San Jose defeated Bakersfield 8-2

San Jose: 2B Matt Downs: 2 for 5, R, 2 2B, 2 RBI

San Jose: 3B Ryan Rohlinger: 2 for 4, 2 RBI, BB

San Jose: DH Andy D'alessio: 2 for 4, 2 R, BB, SO

Bakersfield: 2B Jose Vallejo: 2 for 4, SB

San Jose: SP Tim Alderson: 5.0 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 2 ER, W (2-0)

Bakersfield: SP Beau Jones: 4.0 IP, 6 H, 7 R, 3 ER, 4 BB, 3 SO, L (0-2)

Tim Alderson is now 2-0 in the young season, throwing another excellent start for San Jose. The 19 year old pitcher went five innings and struck out five batters to get the win. Bakersfield posted two runs against Alderson in the second inning and that was all the Blaze would get out of Giants pitching. The San Jose bullpen went four innings without allowing a run for the rest of the way. Dan Griffin appeared in the game for three strikeouts in two innings.

San Jose's hitters scored seven runs early in the game. They took advantage of poor pitching from Bakersfield starter Beau Jones and some bad defense on the part of the Blaze. Jones walked in a run in the second inning and Matt Downs scored on a fielding error by Bakersfield third baseman John Whittleman Jr. Jones made a miscue in the third inning that allowed Andy D'alessio to score.

A-: Augusta defeated Lexington 9-4

Augusta: LF Ramon Corona: 4 for 4, 4 R, 3B, 3 HR, 5 RBI--HBP

Augusta: 2B Nick Noonan: 3 for 5, 2 R, 2 2B, RBI, SO

Augusta: DH Garrett Baker: 2 for 5, R, HR, 2 RBI

Augusta: 1B Angel Villalona: 2 for 4, RBI, SO

Lexington: 2B Matthew Cusick: 1 for 4, R, 3B, SO

Augusta: SP Waldis Joaquin: 3.1 IP, 4 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 1 BB, 4 SO

Augusta: RP Daniel Turpen: 3.0 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 SO, W (1-0)

Augusta: RP Joe Paterson: 1.2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 SO, Hold (1)

Lexington: RP Brett Robinson: 1.2 IP, 5 H, 4 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 1 SO, 1 HR, BS (1), L (0-1)

Augusta poured on the offense against Lexington. Ramon Corona hit three home runs and had an RBI triple. Corona's RBI output beat Lexington's four runs scored. Nick Noonan drove in an RBI and had two doubles. Daniel Turpen and Joe Paterson pitched in the game for Augusta, an act they brought to the Giants organization from their days as teammates in both high school and college in Oregon. Turpen would earn the win with three strong innings where he allowed two hits and no runs.

The defense was suspect for both teams in this game. Charlie Culberson has had a rough time in the field for the Greenjackets, with two more errors committed last night. Lexington made three errors, one that allowed Noonan to score a run in the sixth inning.

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I am mighty proud of my boy.

Proud adoptive parent of Tim Alderson.

by Anticon23 on Apr 12, 2008 11:01 AM PDT 0 recs

As you should be

The last 19-y-o who dominated in SJ turned out to be a pretty good pitcher.

You deserve to be struck out, when your first name's a verb.

by Cookyman on Apr 12, 2008 11:35 AM PDT up 0 recs

Henry Sosa had the big hit in the fifth inning, a three run home run.

That's impressive, especially for a pitcher.=)

You deserve to be struck out, when your first name's a verb.

by Cookyman on Apr 12, 2008 11:22 AM PDT 0 recs

Fucking hell, this is why I shouldn't do these things when I'm dead tired.

Carlos. It's Carlos Sosa.

"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.

by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Apr 12, 2008 11:28 AM PDT up 0 recs

Steve S

Would have gotten it right. Just sayin'.

BTW, where is Henry Sosa? Still recovering from that knee surgery?

You deserve to be struck out, when your first name's a verb.

by Cookyman on Apr 12, 2008 11:53 AM PDT up 0 recs

Oui

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by BruteSentiment on Apr 12, 2008 1:23 PM PDT up 0 recs

You never hear anything about Carlos Sosa, but I think the Giants' really like him, because they kept calling him back from minor league camp to play in exhibition games this spring. The HR last night, and four hits the night before. Maybe he'll get promoted to Fresno sooner rather than later, especially with the Giants continuing to call up the kids.

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by rxmeister on Apr 12, 2008 4:43 PM PDT up 0 recs

Bonds stands alone.

by nostocksjustbonds on Apr 12, 2008 11:23 AM PDT 0 recs

Report From Fresno

Fireworks are always better after a five run 9th inning comeback victory!

Misch was doing very well with his fastball last night, but didn't start throwing his curveball and changeup much until about the third inning, and still didn't use them too much when he did. He did seem to be a little off with his offspeed pitches. He was throwing 88-86 with the fastball, and his cut fastball was around 84. The curve was at 73-74, and the change in the 79-81 area (not enough velocity difference from the fastball). Both home runs Misch gave up were to the same guy, who was seeing him well. Outside of him, Misch was very effective.

Nate looked okay coming back from that small injury layoff. His one hit was originally scored an error, as it was a texas leaguer that banged off the shortstop's glove, but it was rightfully labeled a hit. Otherwise, Nate did a little too much flailing at the plate. Until the 9th, the Grizzlies weren't hitting many balls hard at all.

The 9th inning had two doubles and two triples, and a gutsy but perfectly executed bunt single by Ivan Ochoa to get the lead run on base. Justin Leone then came up, and nailed a ball deep to center. Tucson outfielder Tim Raines Jr. had to play it like a wide receiver....unfortunately for him, the wall played the part of safety, and he slammed into it as the ball was coming down. I don't know if it was in his glove or not when he hit the wall, but the ball came free and Raines was unable to get up for a few minutes after that. Leone chased Ochoa around the bases, and was right behind him coming home, but since the game officially ended with Ochoa's run, Leone got credit just for a single.

Raines was attended to by trainers for both squads, and about five minutes later got up and walked (slowly) off under his own power. I have no reports about an injury, but it doesn't seem too serious.

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by BruteSentiment on Apr 12, 2008 11:50 AM PDT 0 recs

Shoulder

I hear d Raines, Jr. hurt his shoulder but I don't know how serious.

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by Andy In Fresno on Apr 12, 2008 5:12 PM PDT up 0 recs

When do EME and John Boy Bowker come out and begin to play some serious ball?

by wilriv21 on Apr 12, 2008 12:06 PM PDT 0 recs

EME hit a hr today.

by zeisenbe on Apr 12, 2008 12:31 PM PDT up 0 recs

So did Bowker...for the big club

by m34josh on Apr 12, 2008 3:31 PM PDT up 0 recs

Good to see Denker hit a little, he had a rough week.

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by xanthan on Apr 12, 2008 12:16 PM PDT 0 recs

Thanks, Baron.

A few thoughts:

--Tim Alderson's outing last night was much more impressive than his first, in my opinion. Not only did he pick up five strikeouts, but he also got eight of his other 10 outs on groundballs.

--Joaquin looks like he's suffering some bad luck. Four strikeouts and one walk is pretty good. The problem is four of his five base runners scored.

by Dan from NM on Apr 12, 2008 12:32 PM PDT 0 recs

The efficiency other teams have had with baserunners ran throughout the system last night. 21 hits turned into 16 runs...that's pretty crazy, even taking into account walks and errors.

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by BruteSentiment on Apr 12, 2008 1:22 PM PDT up 0 recs

I thought Nate's timing looked off after being on the bench for awhile. Harper pinch hit ... hit it hard on the ground, but right at 1st baseman Josh Whitesell. Whitesell's first home run was a line shot over the 400 foot sign in dead center ... just high enough to clear the fence.

by grizzled on Apr 12, 2008 1:38 PM PDT 0 recs

RE: Augusta: 1B Angel Villalona: 2 for 4, RBI, SO

From the boxscore, it looks like he was actually 1 for 4, SO, No RBI.

by da5id on Apr 12, 2008 5:32 PM PDT 0 recs

Yeah. I did half of this Friday night at midnight after I'd been up since 5am, and did the other half before I left for SJ Muni today to speak to Alderson. So I fucked up. You'll understand.

by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Apr 12, 2008 9:04 PM PDT up 0 recs