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Winter Leagues 12/10 — Big Night For Marte and Gimenez
Checking in with Pirates’ players and friends in winter league action….The Puero Rican League has the weekend off. VENEZUELAN LEAGUE Tiburones de La Guaira 8, Leones del Caracas 2… Read more
Winter Leagues 11/30 — Fox’s Walk-Off RBI, Many Other Hits
Looking in on Pirates’ players and friends in Wednesday’s winter league action: DOMINICAN LEAGUE Toros del Este 13, Gigantes del Cibao 4 Los Toros bulldozed Los Gigantes, beginning with… Read more
Winter Leagues 11/22 — New Pirates Diaz and Fox In The Games
After Monday off, the Winter Leagues are back in action, including some Pirates’ players and friends PUERTO RICAN LEAGUE Leones de Ponce 9, Criollos de Caguas 6 SS Benji… Read more
Winter Leagues 11/6 — Loss For Leroux, RBI’s For Farrell
Checking on Pirates’ players and friends in Sunday’s winter league play… The Australian League takes the early part of the week off, so their next games will be on Thursday… Read more
Winter Leagues 10/25 — Big Hits For Hague, Marte Homers
Looking at some Pirates players and friends in Monday’s winter league action: VENEZUELAN LEAGUE Caribes de Anzoategui 4, Bravos de Margarita 3 A run in the bottom of the 8th… Read more
Winter Leagues 10/20 – Five Walks In Five Innings For Claggett
The Dominican League had a scheduled day off today. VENEZUELAN LEAGUE Leones del Caracas 3, Bravos de Margarita 1 Anthony Claggett made the start for Los Bravos and allowed only… Read more
Winter Leagues 10/14-15 — Hague Hits, Hernandez Gets Hit
Catching up with the Pirates’ players and friends in the winter leagues: MEXICAN PACIFIC LEAGUE Algodoneros de Guasave 7, Venados de Mazatlan 4 A 6-run 3rd inning gave Guasave a… Read more
Caribbean Leagues Getting Started
The Caribbean League seasons are getting underway, and there are many Pirates and former Pirates on the rosters. The Mexican Pacific League opened their season on Tuesday night. OF Rogelios… Read more
Curve All-Stars Named; Alvarez Homers
Five Curve players have been named to the Eastern League /Western Division All-Star team. RHP Aaron Pribanic, LHP Jeff Locke, 2B Brock Holt, 3B Jeremy Farrell, and OF Starling Marte. Also, because the Curve won the Western Division last year, the Curve coaching staff will be coaching the division’s team : manager PJ Forbes, pitching coach Wally Whitehurst, hitting coach Brandon Moore, and trainer Mike Zaino. The game will be played on Wednesday July 13th at Manchester, NH (home of the Fisher Cats).
Friday’s action for the Pirates’ lower minor league affiliates …. the GCL Pirates’ game was postponed.
Bradenton Marauders 3, Palm Beach Cardinals 2
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Rehabbing 3B Pedro Alvarez provided the firepower, while Brandon Cumpton earned his first win with the Marauders tonight. The plan was for Joe Beimel, also on a rehab assignment, to pitch for one inning to begin the game. Beimel retired the Cardinals in order in the top of the 1st, with two strikeouts and a fly out. He then gave way to Cumpton, who pitched 6 scoreless innings, scattering 4 hits and 2 walks. Cumpton had two runners on base in only one inning, the 3rd, when two singles and a wild pitch put both runners into scoring position. Cumpton struck out the next batter to escape the jam.
The Marauders put two runners on base in the 1st when both RF Robbie Grossman and Alvarez walked, then again put two on in the 2nd, on a single by DH Adalberto Santos and a walk to C Jairo Marquez. 2B Jarek Cunningham also singled in the 3rd, but none of those runners could make it around to score. All of the Marauders’ runs came in the bottom of the 5th. Marquez led off with a double lined into center field. SS Benji Gonzalez dropped down a sacrifice bunt to move Marquez to third base. Cunningham doubled into left field, and Marquez scored easily from third. Then Alvarez blasted a 2-run homer over the left field wall to give the Marauders a 3-0 lead.
Cumpton came back out to begin the top of the 8th. He faced only two batters, though, giving up a single and a 2-run homer to bring the Cardinals within one run, 3-2. Cumpton was relieved by Duke Welker, who ended the 8th with three ground outs.
The Marauders would have liked an insurance run or two, but had only a walk by Grossman in the 7th, then a single by Cunningham and Santos reaching on catcher interference in the 8th. It turned out to not matter, as Welker pitched a scoreless 9th to seal the win and earn his second save of the season.
Alvarez Starts With GCL Pirates
The Pirates have optioned SS Pedro Ciriaco to AAA Indianapolis. This opens a roster spot for OF Alex Presley, who will be officially called up on Tuesday (the Pirates have a day off on Monday). UPDATE: Presley has officially been called up, and will join the Pirates in Toronto.
Also promoted: pitcher Rinku Singh has been promoted from the GCL Pirates to State College. Singh has pitched a total of 15 innings so far this season. Eleven of those came on 3 appaearances with the DSL team. He gave up 3 runs on 7 hits and 3 walks, with 7 strikeouts in the Dominican. In one appearance last week with the GCL Pirates, Singh pitched 4 scoreless innings and allowed only one hit, while striking out 5 batters. Singh pitched in one game for the Spikes at the end of the 2010 season. He went 2 innings in that game, and gave up only one hit, with one strikeout.
Monday’s game action:
GCL Pirates 1, GCL Phillies 0…. for 1.5 innings
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3B Pedro Alvarez made his first official rehab start this afternoon. It didn’t last long, though that had nothing to do with him: the game was suspended due to rain after just 1.5 innings. Alvarez was the Pirates’ lead-off batter. He got one trip to the plate, in which he grounded out to second base. CF Willy Garcia was the only batter on either team to reach base, when he blasted a solo homer in the top of the 2nd. Pirates’ starter Luis Heredia pitched to just 3 batters in the bottom of the first — two strikeouts and a pop out to C Joey Schoenfeld.
