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AFL Recap: Mitchell Tolman Homers, Drives In Four Runs in Glendale Victory

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Glendale came into Monday’s action riding a three-game winning streak and they need to win every game this week for a chance at the playoffs. Coming into the day, they trailed first place Peoria by three games, with four games left on the schedule. Mitchell Tolman was in the lineup on Monday and Brandon Waddell came out of the bullpen, as Glendale won 10-3 over Mesa.

Mitchell Tolman was in a 2-for-29 slump going into action last Friday. He went 1-for-3 with a walk that day, then picked up three hits on Saturday. After the team had off on Sunday, he picked right back up where he left off. Tolman hit a three-run homer in his first at-bat on Monday to give Glendale a 4-0 lead. By his second at-bat, the game was out of hand already. Tolman made it 9-0 with an RBI ground out. He was called out on strikes in the fifth inning,  then grounded out to shortstop in the seventh, leaving him 1-for-4 with four RBIs.

Brandon Waddell came out for the top of the fifth inning. He allowed a lead-off single, then picked up a strikeout for the first out. Waddell walked the next batter, then served up a single to load the bases. He picked up another strikeout for the second out, then got himself into trouble. Waddell got the next batter to hit the ball back to him, but he threw it away for an error, which scored two runs. That was followed by a wild pitch to bring in a third run. Waddell then picked up his third strikeout to end the inning. He threw 28 pitches in the frame, 18 for strikes.

John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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