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Viva El Redbirdos

Memphis All-Stars twinkle at mid-summer classic.


Dakota Hudson, Daniel Poncedeleon, and Patrick Wisdom represented the Memphis Redbirds at last night's AAA All-Star Game in Columbus, Ohio. Appropriate for a football town, the score was 12-7, with the Pacific Coast team (Memphis' league) vanquishing the wildly inappropriately named International League squad.

Here's a very brief recap of just the dudes you care about.

Dakota got the starting honors and pitched well, despite giving up 3 hits and an earned run.

His one inning went thusly:

  • Hard ground-out on a nice play by the 3Bman
  • Fliner to CF
  • Strikeout on a slider (or changeup)
  • Sharply struck single in the hole; 1st and 2nd, 2 out
  • Seeing-eye single between 1Bman & 2Bman, 1 run scored
  • Pop-out to 3BmanThanks Dakota, enjoy the rest of the game.

That's 1 inning (18 pitches; 14 strikes), 3 hits, 1 ER, 0 BB, 1 K

Poncedeleon started the third and was lights out. No bullet-list needed here. Looking youthful as hell, Ponce K'd the side with well-placed 94 mph heat mixed with 77 mph sweeping curves. Of his 15 pitches, 9 were strikes (9 very effective strikes.) Mic drop; night done.

Wisdom entered to pinch hit in the 6th. He got fooled a bit on a changeup, dribbling an easy grounder to 3B for an out.
The Box Score says he had 1 more AB and struck out. (I left before this, so I'll trust the box score.)

Bonus Coverage: Wait--Kean Wong? I know a Wong. Could it be?
Heck yes! Durham Bull Kean Wong, Kolten's li'l bruh, was the starting 2B-man (duh!), and hitting left-handed (of course!), gathered 3 hits on the night: 2 doubles and a single, going 3-4 with 2 RBI. All that was good enough to earn him MVP for his team (the other side got an MVP too; awww.) Apparently, voters overlooked his TOOTBLAN after trying to stretch his second double into a triple. (Like big bruh!)

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