On Wednesday night in Venezuela, Jose Osuna went 0-for-4 with two strikeouts. That dropped him down to a .239 average and a .685 OPS. He is third in the league with 31 strikeouts.
Elvis Escobar singled as a pinch-hitter in the eighth inning, then finished the game in right field. He was thrown out trying to steal by former Pirate minor leaguer Francisco Diaz. After a prolonged slump, Escobar has gone 6-for-17 with three doubles in his last five games.
In the Dominican, Willy Garcia went 0-for-3 with a walk. He started for the second game in a row, after getting just 14 plate appearances during the first month of the season. He was 1-for-5 with three strikeouts on Tuesday.
Alen Hanson remains out of the lineup due to a wrist injury according to his team in the Dominican. He is listed as day-to-day. Hanson joined his team on November 11th and played four days in a row, going 1-for-15 at the plate. During that fourth game, he left for a defensive replacement in the sixth inning and has not returned to action. He had two plays in the field during the fifth inning and committed an error, so it’s possible he got hurt on one of those plays.
In Australia on Thursday, Sam Kennelly went 0-for-4, making his fifth straight start at third base to open the season. He is 3-for-19 with a walk and an RBI.
Happy Thanksgiving.