
2020. Week 10. (26-32)
Some roster moves as Harold Ramírez was demoted to AAA. Melky Cabrera was called up to the majors, let´s see if he can spark a little life in our offense.
Our 30th loss of the year came after another disappointing performance by the offense. At Petco Park, we only scored 1 run, thanks to a Kike Hernandez single and gave up 2. Zac Gallen was the starter and gave up the only two runs of the Padres as Franmil Reyes hit a 2 run homer off him in the sixth. He was credited with his 6th loss of the season. The bullpen of the Padres was great and struck out 6 Marlins in 3 innings. Keller and Urias finished the game and didn't allow a run.
League news: Dellin Betances, with the Phillies, had a torn flexor tendon and will undergo TJ surgery. He will miss the rest of the season.
We solved the Padres and won the first game of the week. It was a one-run win by 3-2. Dallas Keuchel went 6.1 IP and earned just one run. Bautista and Urias held the Padres and Tommy Eveld earned his second saved of the season, after striking out the side on the ninth inning. Rio Ruiz had a good offensive game and went 2 for 3 with 2 bases on balls, 1 double and 2 RBI´s.
Rio Ruiz had a very good offensive performance as he had two homers and drove in 3 runs. Trey Mancini had another homer, his ninth of the year and is trying to break out of his slump. Mike Ford and James McCann also had two-hit games. Yamamoto had another shutout effort as he went 6.1 IP with 5 K´s. Keller had a terrible outing and gave up 4 earned runs in 0.1 innings but Houston and Eveld bailed him out and we got the win.
League news: Jimmy Yacobonis was shipped from Kansas to Oakland in exchange for minor leaguer Skyle Bolt. The Rays acquired Lorenzo Cain from the Brewers, in exchange, the Brewers received Nicholas Castellanos and Nate Lowe.
We´ve lost the last game of the series in San Diego by 6 to 10. The pitching staff struggled, starting with Perez that gave up 5 runs in 3 innings. Alcantara and Anderson couldn't stop the Padres offense. Will Smith had his fourth homer of the year. Mike Ford drove in 2 runs in 2 innings.
The amateur draft was today: We choose for the #1 pick: SS Drew Browser out of High School. We also had the #5 pick and we went for 2B Tanner Allen out of College.
We played against Arizona for the first time this season. We´ve managed a one-run win thanks to a great performance by our pitching staff. The runs by the DiamondBacks were unearned. Caleb Smith lowered his season ERA to 3.88 and Zack Houston got his first save of the year. Jorge Soler had his 11th homer of the year, he leads the team in that category.
Our second win in a row and the second time the runs of the opposing team had come by our defense errors. This time Yolmer Sanchez made a bad throw in the ninth and allowed two runs to score, otherwise it would have been another shutout win for us. Zac Gallen, had his best start of the year as he went 8.1 innings allowing 8 hits and punching out 3. Tommy Eveld had the final out of the game and earned his 4th save of the year. Mike Ford had a three-run homer, his sixth of the year, on the second inning off Kyle Freeland. It was another good game for Victor Victor Mesa who went 2 for 4 with a double.
We outhit Arizona but we failed to deliver a clutch hit. Mike Ford had a homer, a solo shot in the 8th inning, and all the players in the lineup had a hit. That was not enough as Dallas Keuchel allowed 3 runs in 6 innings. Bautista and Urias had a clean 7th and 8th but we couldn't turn the game around and will finish the week with an L.
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