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Prospect Watch: Three Starting Pitchers Trying to Get on Track on Sunday

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Altoona is going to have a hard time getting their game in today (just like the Pirates) unless the weather forecast changed a lot since I wrote this up. If they do play, Carmen Mlodzinski will get the start. All four games are early afternoon starts. A little update with the title and probables now listed. Sean Sullivan replaced Adrian Florencio as the starter in Greensboro. Sullivan, as you can see in the stats below, was doing well before today’s game.

TRIPLE-A: INDIANAPOLIS INDIANS

Minor League Season Preview: 2022 Indianapolis Indians

Game Time: 2:08 PM

Box Score: LINK

Starting Pitcher: Osvaldo Bido (0-1, 3.00)

  • Final Line:  3.2 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 4, BB, 3 SO

Notable Performances:

Ji-hwan Bae 1-for-4, HR, RBI

Travis Swaggerty 1-for-4

Hoy Park 0-for-3, BB

Rodolfo Castro 0-for-4

Canaan Smith-Njigba 1-for-3, BB

Game Recap:

Osvaldo Bido sure has been impossible to hit this season. The problem is that he’s not hitting the strike zone enough. After throwing 3.2 no-hit innings on Tuesday, finishing with five walks, Bido gave up one hit and four walks in 3.2 innings on Sunday. He came into the day with a .170 BAA. The only run he allowed was unearned, giving him a 2.41 ERA on the season. Cam Vieaux did some impressive relief work with 3.1 shutout innings and four strikeouts. Hunter Stratton tossed a scoreless eighth, allowing one hit, along with three strikeouts. Yerry De Los Santos struck out the side on 12 pitches in the ninth for the save. Indianapolis won this game 3-1. They got on the board with the first batter of the game, as Ji-hwan Bae hit his third home run of the season. They only picked up four more hits the rest of the day and the other two runs both scored on errors. Bligh Madris had a good game, with a single, double, walk and stolen base in his three plate appearances. Canaan Smith-Njigba has a single, walk and run scored.

DOUBLE-A: ALTOONA CURVE

Minor League Season Preview: 2022 Altoona Curve

Game Time: 2:05 PM

Box Score: LINK

Starting Pitcher: Carmen Mlodzinski (0-1, 5.28)

  • Final Line:  5 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 7 SO

Notable Performances:

Jared Triolo 0-for-3, BB

Nick Gonzales 0-for-4

Liover Peguero 2-for-3, BB

Connor Scott 1-for-4, RBI

Lolo Sanchez 2-for-4

Tucupita Marcano 0-for-3

Game Recap:

Carmen Mlodzinski has had a slow start to his season, but he put together a decent outing on Sunday, which is a step in the right direction. In five innings, he allowed two earned runs on five hits and one walk, with seven strikeouts. He threw 78 pitches, with 50 going for strikes. He now has a 4.87 ERA, down 41 points from the start of the day.  Noe Toribio threw two scoreless on two strikeouts and one hit. Austin Roberts allowed a run in the eighth, as Altoona lost 3-1. The Curve had nine runners and two hits with runners in scoring position, but they had just that one run, which scored in the second inning on a Connor Scott single. Lolo Sanchez had two hits, including the only extra-base hit, his second double. Liover Peguero continued his strong start, collecting two hits and a walk, while scoring the lone run.

HIGH-A: GREENSBORO GRASSHOPPERS

Minor League Season Preview: 2022 Greensboro Grasshoppers

Game Time: 2:00 PM

Box Score: LINK

Starting Pitcher: Sean Sullivan (0-0, 2.61)

  • Final Line:  4 IP, 3 H, 3 ER, 1 BB, 4 SO

Notable Performances:

Sammy Siani 0-for-3

Matt Gorski 1-for-2, HR, RBI

Maikol Escotto 1-for-5, SB

Jack Herman 2-for-3, 2 2B

Endy Rodriguez 3-for-5, HR, 2 RBI

Hudson Head 2-for-5, 2B, SB

Dariel Lopez 1-for-3, HR, 2 RBI, BB

Game Recap:

Sean Sullivan wasn’t the listed start on Sunday, but he ended up in the role and allowed three runs on three hits and a walk in four innings. He also hit two batters, while throwing 50 of his 73 pitches for strikes. He now has a 3.77 ERA. Ricky DeVito followed him in the fifth and threw two scoreless innings on a hit and two walks. Cameron Junker got the strange win, allowing three unearned runs in his only inning of work. Tyler Samaniego and Jack Carey finished off the 7-6 win with one scoreless inning each.

Greensboro got their scoring started with an RBI single by Ernny Ordonez in the second inning. In the fourth, Dariel Lopez hit his second homer of the season, a two-run shot. Endy Rodriguez did the same thing in the seventh, hitting a two-run homer that was his second of the season. Ordonez then singled in the sixth run. Tied at 6-6 in the eighth, Matt Gorski hit his sixth home run. He came on in the sixth inning as a pinch-hitter for Sammy Siani. Endy Rodriguez had three hits. Jack Herman collected two doubles, his first two of the season. Hudson Head hit his fourth double and stole his second base.

LOW-A: BRADENTON MARAUDERS

Minor League Season Preview: 2022 Bradenton Marauders

Game Time: 12:00 PM

Box Score: LINK

Starting Pitcher: Joelvis Del Rosario (0-1, 7.45)

  • Final Line:  5 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 3 SO

Notable Performances:

Tsung-Che Cheng 2-for-5, 2B

Jase Bowen 1-for-5

Alexander Mojica 0-for-4, BB

Rodolfo Nolasco 0-for-3, 2 BB, RBI

Juan Jerez 1-for-5, SB

Game Recap:

Joelvis Del Rosario got the start on Sunday and worked around a tough fourth inning that started with an error to put together five solid innings. He allowed one earned run on three hits and two walks, giving him a 5.52 season ERA. Johan Montero made his first appearance of the season after joining the club from Extended Spring Training and he tossed two scoreless innings on one hit and one strikeout. Jake Sweeney allowed two runs on two hits and a hit batter in the eighth inning. Carlos Lomeli took over in the ninth and got the win with two scoreless innings.

Bradenton pitchers combined for just four strikeouts, while their hitters hung another big number on the board (16). However, the final score showed a 5-4 victory for the Marauders. Brenden Dixon singled home two runs in the third inning. He then doubled in a run in the fifth, before scoring on a bases loaded walk. After Dunedin tied it up, Luke Brown ended the game with a walk-off single in the tenth. Dixon had three hits. Tsung-Che Cheng hit his fifth double. He also had a single and a run scored. Jakob Goldfarb had two hits.

Xavier Concepcion was placed on the 7-day injured list today after pitching a rough inning+ last night.

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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