At The Plate – The Smokies could only manage six hits, but worked seven walks en route to beating Huntsville 4-1. Arismendy Alcantara had quite the day at the plate and on the base paths. Alcantara was 1-for-1 with three walks, four(!) stolen bases, two errors (oops), and a run scored. Christian Villanueva had the big blow in this one going 1-for-3 with a walk, a home run, three RBI’s, and a run scored. Justin Bour was 1-for-2 with two walks, and a run scored.
On The Mound – Eric Jokisch was outstanding today going six scoreless innings giving up three hits with no walks while striking out seven to earn his second win of the season. Zach Rosscup was solid out of the pen going two scoreless innings giving up one hit while walking one. Brian Schlitter had trouble with his command in the ninth giving up one run, unearned, on no hits while walking two.
At The Plate – After giving up fifteen runs on twenty-seven hits a day ago the D-Cubs got some payback today. Daytona scored thirteen runs on twelve hits with seven different players registering at least one hit, the Cubs also walked eleven(!) times. Zeke DeVoss got things started at the top going 1-for-2 with three walks, a stolen base, a caught stealing, a double, and two runs scored. Javier Baez looks to be coming around at the plate as he had a monster game today going 3-for-6 with a home run, two RBI’s and three runs scored. Dustin Geiger continues to pound the ball as of late, he went 3-for-5 with a double, a home run, four RBI’s and two runs scored. Ben Carhart was 2-for-5 with two RBI’s in the win.
On The Mound – The D-Cubs pitching bounced back nicely today. Yao-Lin Wang got the start going four innings giving up one run on three hits while walking one and striking two. Austin Kirk came out the pen today and actually went more innings than Yao-Lin in this one. Kirk went five innings to get the win, he gave up one run on three hits while walking two and striking out four.
NOTES: Kane County and Iowa were both rained out
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