Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Today's Rays pitchers

Montgomery's Victor Mateo, after dominating in his last start, tries to make it two in a row today at Huntsville. Mateo threw seven shutout innings to win last week at Birmingham. It was just his second quality start.

Since only two of four teams played Monday, there is no Ranking the Rays today.

DUR (Chris Archer 4-2, 4.38) at Norfolk (Tsuyoshi Wada 0-0, 6.75), 5:35
MGM (Victor Mateo 2-4, 6.86) at Huntsville (Arcenio Leon 0-3, 5.96), 6:43
CHA (Jesse Hahn 0-0, 1.13/Roberto Gomez 2-5, 7.58) vs. Clearwater (?), 4
BWG off

Monday, May 20, 2013

Monday's Rays roundup

Clearwater at Stone CrabsRained out.

West Michigan 7, Hot Rods 6 (11)
Joey Rickard
homered to lead off the game, walked three times, stole and scored twice. Jordan Harrison, after the Rods took the lead in the top of the ninth, blew a save in the bottom of the ninth.

Monday: Stars 3, Biscuits 0

Rene Tosoni's three-run double in the eighth inning gave the Huntsville Stars a 3-0 win over the Biscuits on Monday in Huntsville.

Tosoni hit a two-out pitch from Matt Nevarez into the right-center field gap to cap a three-hit inning. Huntsville finished with just eight hits.

Biscuits starter Enny Romero gave up four hits over six shutout innings with three walks and eight strikeouts. Marquis Fleming (2-1) pitched the seventh but left after the Stars opened the eighth with a double and single.

Huntsville's Andy Moye (2-5) went eight innings with just five hits allowed before Casey Medlen worked a perfect ninth.

Bradley leads BayBear sweep of Southern awards

The Mobile BayBears sport both of this week's Southern League award winners: pitcher Archie Bradley and third baseman Nick Evans.

Uber prospect Bradley won both of his starts for the week and, after four Double-A starts, is 3-0 with an 0.90 ERA. Over the last week, the right-hander gave up one run and seven hits over 12 innings.

Bradley was the seventh overall pick in the 2011 draft and ranked third on Baseball America's preseason list of Arizona prospects.

Evans was 10-for-22 with four home runs, six runs scored and five RBIs. This year, he's hitting .303 and has seven homers, 23 runs and 19 RBIs.

Ames takes Midwest League honors

Bowling Green right-hander Jeff Ames, who is starting this morning at West Michigan, was the week's top pitcher in the Midwest League.

Ames threw six shutout innings last Monday in his only start for the week. He gave up two hits with one walk and five strikeouts.

Entering today, Ames was 5-0 with a 1.22 ERA, had a 17-inning scoreless streak and had won four straight starts.

UPDATE: Ames gave up five runs on 10 hits in 5 1/3 innings today. His scoreless streak ended at 20 innings when West Michigan posted two runs in the fourth.