News & Notes

Cahill picked up the win for USA baseball in a warm up game before the Olympics. He worked four scoreless innings as USA beat Canada 7-2.

Robert Swindle, the Phillies reliever has been promoted to AAA where's he's struggled just a little. Giving up 7 runs in 29 innings his era has "ballooned" to 2.17. He pretty much can get either righties or lefties out, and still making hitters work for their runs. K'ing 40 and only walking 6. Though he will give up hits, 27 in 23 games. He's sort of a fun guy to watch, at least he is for me.

08.03.2008 AAA

Sacramento Rivercats - Triple A
CAL North, Pacific Coast League
26-18, 2nd place, 1 games back
.
Line Up:
Patterson     2B
Denorfia      CF
Rogowski, C   1B
Murton        LF
Powell         C
Knoedler      PR
Conrad        3B
Bankston      DH
Robnett       RF
Pennington    SS
.
Recap:
Saarloos had an excellent start, tossing 8 inning one run ball, while
striking out 9.  Marshall pitching the 9th and vultured the win as the
Cats rallied for 3 in the 9th.
.
Murton, Bankston and Robnett all had rbi's.  Outside of Patterson,
who is currently hitting .324 there's not much hitting in Sacramento.
.
Buck update:  According to the Rivercats beat writer, Buck has been placed
on the DL with symtoms associated with his earlier concussion.

08.03.2008 AA

Midland Rockhounds - Double A
CAL North, Texas League
26-18, 2nd place, 1 games back
.
Line Up:
Donovan, T    CF
Herrera, J    DH
Cunningham    LF
Everidge      3B
Leslie, M     3B
Doolittle     1B
Zeringue      RF
Recker         C
Sellers       2B
Martinez, F   SS
.
Recap:
The Hounds scored 3 in the first and that was all they needed to win
their 10th game in a row.  Simmons went 6.1, surrounding 2 runs, while
giving up 7 hits, striking out 3 and walking 2.  Simmons seems to give
up hits, but has the ability to get out of jams.  Lansford pitching the final
2.2 innings earning his second save of the season.  I guess Jared is the new
closer.
.
Martinez hit a the only homer of the game.  Herrera continues to show improvement.
If he can comeback and contribute, it would be a big boost to the A's farm system.
He went 2 for 3, scoring 2 with a walk and a strikeout.  Cunningham also went 2/3
scoring 2 with a double along with a walk and a strikeout.  Doolittle had a double
and 2 rbi's.
.
>>Tommy Everidge received the Texas League Player of the Week award for July 27th -
August 2nd.  Everidge helped lead the RockHounds to a perfect 7-0 record with 11
RBI's a pair of homeruns and a .469 batting average.  Tommy Everidge's feat is
even more remarkable, since he has been thrusted into playing third base for most
of the week due to a shortened roster.<< .

And for rumvee (if you're reading this) Brett Wallace was the Midwest League player
of the week posting a line of:
429 (12-28), 6 R, 2 2B, 0 3B, 2 HR, 9 RBI, 1 BB, 6 SO, 2 SB, .714 SLG

08.03.2008 A+

Stockton Ports - Class A Advanced
CAL North, California League
20-22, 3rd place, 4.5 games back
.
Line Up:
Gilbert       LF
Mitchell      DH
Cardenas      SS
Carter        1B
Spencer       RF
Donaldson     3B
Brown, C      CF
Padron, R      C
Valdez, A     2B
.
Recap:
Banwart could not get out of the 5th, only going 4.2 innings while
allwoing 4 runs, 3 earned with 4 K's and 3 walks.  He was relieved
by Benacka who got the win win the Ports rallied in the 7th to take
the lead, which they never relinquished.  Demel pitched the 9th and
got his 16th save.
.
Spencer continues his torrid hitting, his BA is still over .400  He
and Brown both went yard.  Donaldson walked and scored.  Cardenas got
a hit and scored a run.
.
Carter commited his 20th error of the season.

08.03.2008 A

Kane County Cougars - Class A
MID Western, Midwest League
19-23, 7th place, 6 games back
.
Line Up:
Hollingsworth LF
Richard       SS
Cobb          CF
Johnson       RF
Keough-PH     RF
Smith, J       C
Dowling       1B
Paramore      DH
Frash         3B
Ray           2B
.
Recap:
Richmond started for the Cougars and if not his best outing, one
of them.  He went 7.2 innings and allowed 1 run, which was unearned,
striking out 6 and walking 1. Walters got the final out of the 8th
and Espinal pitched a perfect 9th as Kane County beat West Michigan 7-1.
.
Richard continues to be the best hitter on the team but cannot field,
committing his 20th error of the season and leading to the only Whitecaps'
run.  Both Cobb and Dowling had sacrafice flies.
.
No homeruns were hit in the game.