A look at how the current top 30 prospects did today. If a player is in the majors and loses his prospect eligibility, he will be removed. Everyone below him will be shifted up a spot, and a new player will be added to the bottom of the list. If a player is out for the season, he will be removed and everyone below him will move up a spot. Removing these guys doesn’t mean they have lost prospect status. It is just an attempt to get 30 active prospects on the list. Rankings are from the 2016 mid-season update, and links on each name go to their Pirates Prospects player pages.
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24. Adrian Valerio, SS – Bristol – [insert_php]
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29. Frank Duncan, RHP, Indianapolis – [insert_php]
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INDIANAPOLIS — All seemed to be going well, but then came the fifth inning.
Drew Hutchison worked around a few problems in the first four innings, but then things started to fall apart in the fifth inning.
A main reason for the downturn wasn’t evident until after the game: Hutchison’s thumb on his throwing hand was taped up after having a callus burst open in the fifth inning on a pitch.
Hutchison pitched 4.2 innings, allowing five earned runs — all of which came in the fifth inning. He gave up seven hits, striking out five and walking three.
The fifth inning started simple enough with Jordany Valdespin being thrown out on a bunt attempt. But the next six batters reached base and Hutchison allowed five runs and recorded just one more out before being pulled later in the inning.
“I felt really good [in the first four innings] and obviously didn’t pitch well after that,” Hutchison said. “It was very frustrating and I was trying to get through the inning. I just wasn’t able to get through it with the lead and by putting them down. It’s just frustrating.”
The open callus made it difficult to grip the ball and Hutchison struggled with his command from that point forward.
“It was just real frustrating from that point on,” Hutchison said. “I tried to make pitches to get through it and obviously didn’t make enough good ones to get through it.”
Toledo catcher John Hicks doubled over leftfielder Austin Meadows with one out in the fifth inning, and Argenis Diaz reached on an infield single. Then Hutchison’s control left him and he walked the next two batters — Alex Presley and Chad Huffman — on nine total pitches. The second walk was with the bases loaded and allowed a run to score. Steven Moya had an RBI single, and Dean Green added a two-run single — both on elevated fastballs.
Meadows made his first Triple-A start in leftfield, and just the third of his career at the position. He saved more runs from being scored in the fifth inning with a nice, but awkward looking, sliding catch that dug up a piece of the turf, to rob Dixon Machado of a hit. The play did score a run and that ended Hutchison’s outing.
The final stats of the fifth inning weren’t kind to Hutchison. He needed 34 pitches to record just two outs, while in the game he threw 53 of his 88 pitches for a strike.
“I thought he was aggressive in the first four innings,” Indianapolis manager Dean Treanor said. “And then as soon as they got a runner on I think things snowballed. But he lost some aggressiveness and it looked like he was trying to be too fine with every pitch.”
Hutchison pitched relatively well in the first four innings, with one exception: the lead-off hitters. Presley singled to open the game, but was thrown out by Elias Diaz trying to steal second. Diaz threw out three runners in the three games he played against Toledo in this series.
Green walked to open the second inning and Machado singled. Hutchison got a foul out to third baseman Max Moroff, struck out Valdespin and induced a groundout by John Hicks.
Hutchison retired the side in order in the third inning, the only time he did so against Toledo. He worked around a two-out double by Machado in the fourth inning by striking out Jacoby Jones with an 84 MPH slider.
All was not bad for the Indians in its 6-5 loss to Toledo, as a popular name — Josh Bell — regained some of the offensive production that has escaped him since returning to Triple-A.
Bell hit a grand slam in the first inning after working a full count. He added a single later in the game and finished 2-for-4 with the four RBIs. Entering the game, Bell was hitting .230 with two doubles, no home runs and two RBIs since returning from the Pirates.
He had a relatively quiet night at first base. But in the ninth inning Green singled down the rightfield line past Bell for a game-winning RBI that scored Presley. By no means was the play anywhere close to an error, but at the same time it could also be considered a play Bell needs to make.
Pedro Florimon walked with the bases loaded, which scored Max Moroff in the sixth inning. Florimon was 2-for-4 and is hitting .417 [10-for-24] with runners in scoring position with two outs.
Indianapolis closer Jorge Rondon allowed an RBI single to Green in the ninth inning that proved to be the winning run. Prior to the game, Rondon had allowed just one earned run in 25.1 innings of work at Victory Field. – Brian Peloza
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Altoona has off on Monday.
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Bradenton won 5-4 in 11 innings, as Kevin Kramer brought home the winning run with a walk-off single. Stephen Tarpley started this game and had a decent outings, allowing three runs over 6.2 innings. He gave up six hits, including a solo homer in the first inning. Tarpley didn’t walk any batters and picked up six strikeouts. He threw 94 pitches, with 60 going for strikes. He now has a 4.20 ERA in 83.2 innings, picking up 78 strikeouts. Despite starting his season on May 10th, he now ranks 20th in the league in strikeouts. That’s with a limited pitch count when he first returned to action, and one start that was suspended after one inning.
Kevin Kramer had a nice game besides the game-winning hit. He finished with three hits on the day, including his 23rd double. He also drove in three runs. Jordan Luplow walked three times and scored a run. He ranks eighth in the league in walks. Connor Joe had two singles and two walks. Taylor Gushue drove in two runs. Cole Tucker had a single and a walk to extend his on base streak to 13 games. Justin Maffei had a pair of doubles.
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West Virginia has been rained out. They will play a doubleheader tomorrow.
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Morgantown saw their bats break out yesterday in a 9-1 win over Williamsport, then they followed that up with a 3-0 loss on Monday night. Luis Escobar started this game and went six innings, allowing two runs on seven hits and one walk, with six strikeouts. He threw 89 pitches, with 57 going for strikes.
Escobar had control issues early in the season, but has now walked one batter in each of his last four outings. This game was actually a lot better than his last appearance, when he missed the zone badly on 8-10 pitches. He was around the plate more often tonight, and was still mixing his pitches well, going to his curve more often than last time out, when he went heavy with his changeup. Escobar gave up some hard hit balls, a few that were caught deep in the outfield, one towering shot that went 400+ feet down the right field line, though it was foul. He also gave up a long home run to the same batter who hit the long foul ball, just in a different at-bat.
Escobar was very effective with his curve, using it as an out pitch. The fastball got up in the zone a few times and led to most of the damage. Besides the home run, he also allowed three doubles. So there were good signs and bad signs to this outing. The final stat line shows how good his control was, along with the effectiveness of his curve, but he was lucky to just give up two runs.
Will Craig extended his hit streak to 16 games with a single in the ninth inning. Morgantown had eight hits on the night, all singles. Kevin Mahala, Albert Baur and Nick King each had a pair of hits.
Sandy Santos showed why he is such a frustrating player in this game. He is very toolsy, but makes too many mistakes and they were on display tonight. On a nice catch in center field, he turned around and threw the ball to no one in particular and it allowed two runners to move up, when the runner from first should have been held. Then in the seventh, he dropped a fairly easy catch to his left. For some reason, this is currently ruled a single and a two-base error to Matt Diorio, but I have to imagine that changes since Diorio was an innocent bystander and Santos clearly should have caught the ball. Then in the eighth inning, Santos walked, which was followed by a two-out single from Nick King. That play ended with Santos being thrown out at third base. Not only did the throw beat him, he slid past the bag by a few feet. Just an extremely poorly played game from a very talented player who does things like this too often.
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Bristol got a strong outing from Ike Schlabach, which was wasted in the ninth in a 5-4 loss to Kingsport. Schlabach threw five shutout innings, allowing two singles, which were hit by the first two batters of the game. After that, he faced just 14 batters to get 15 outs, recording a double play in the first inning. He had two strikeouts and a 7-4 GO/AO ratio. This was a nice bounce back from Schlabach, who allowed seven runs on eight hits over 3.2 innings in his last start.
Adrian Valerio had his best game in awhile, collecting three hits and driving in three runs. He came into this game with a .176 average and a .430 OPS in his last 23 games. Raul Siri and Julio de la Cruz each had two hits and scored a run. Siri also drew a walk and stole his eighth base of the season. Michael de la Cruz walked twice, scored twice, and stole his eighth base.
Bristol led 4-1 going into the ninth, when Jordan Jess was called upon to finish the game. He ended up allowing three singles, a double, a home run and a walk before he was removed with two outs and the score 5-4.
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The GCL Pirates were rained out on Monday. They will play a doubleheader tomorrow.
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The DSL Pirates won 10-9 on Monday to keep the slimmest playoff hopes in baseball alive. They have a 22-33 record with 17 games left in the season. The Pirates were up 9-3 after six innings and needed an insurance run in the eighth just to hold on for the win. Sergio Cubilete started and went four innings, allowing three runs, which were all unearned. He was followed by Wilmer Contreras, who was one of the Top Performers from last week, but didn’t have it in this game. He allowed four runs in 2.2 innings.
Another Top Performer from this week continued his recent hot streak. Jeremias Portorreal went 2-for-3 with a double, a walk, two runs scored and an outfield assist. He has hits in 11 of his last 12 games, and has reached base in 22 of his last 23 games.
Rodolfo Castro hit a three-run homer in the second inning, his second home run of the season. It was just the fifth home run this season from a DSL Pirates player. Larry Alcime had two hits and drove in two runs. He collected his second triple, stole his third base and scored a run.
