Daily Farm Report - 4/19/13

After his first start being delayed last night, hard throwing top tier pitching prospect Carlos Martinez makes his first live start in Springfield. Arizona product Kurt Heyer made a strong impressive performance in Peoria.

Memphis 0, San Antonio 4.

• Not much offense from Memphis as they only recorded 4 hits and two walks as a team. Note Oscar Taveras was not in the lineup.
• Kolten Wong, Brock Peterson, and Chad Huffman all singled. Ryan Jackson and Jermaine Curtis both walked.
• Jaime Romak doubled.
• Lefty Tyler Lyons threw 6 innings allowed 7 hits on 4 runs all were earned while walking 1 and striking out 5. Lyons threw 70 pitches-47 for strikes and produced 6 groundouts against 3 flyouts.
• Makiel Cleto came on it relief of Lyons by tossing 2 scoreless innings his control is still an issue walked 2 but struck out 3 batters in the effort.

Springfield 3, Arkansas 2 in game one of the doubleheader.

• One of the peskiest hitters in the minors. Mike O'Neill was 2-3 with an RBI single, walked, and stole a base. O'Neil is now 13-for-46 on the young season that's a .283 clip.
• Pham, Lemmerman, and Rodriguez (stole a base and scored a run) all singled.
• Chris Swauger hit a two run homer his 2nd of the season.
• Carlos Martinez wasn't expected to throw many pitches or go deep in the game as he's still trying to build up innings in live action. Lasted 2 2/3 innings gave up 4 hits 1 run 1 earned threw 44 pitches.
• Anthony Ferrara piggy backed for Martinez. Earned his first win by going 3 innings of giving up 1 hit 1 earned 1 walk while striking 3 batters.
• The new Springfield closer Michael Blazek converted the save by recording a 4 out save.

Springfield 3, Arkansas 0 in game 2.

• Mike O'Neil and Xavier Scruggs singled while Tommy Pham and Jake Lemmerman walked.
• Minor league veteran Ruben Gotay was 1-3 with a double that scored two.
• Audry Perez was 1-3 with an RBI.
• Boone Whiting threw 5 frames gave up 4 hits on 1 walk and 6 strikeouts.
• Kevin Siegrist the top left handed pitching prospect in the organization. Struck the side twice in two innings.

Palm Beach 5, Bradenton 6

• James Ramsey had an hitless game but still contributed by walking twice and scoring a run. Ramsey has shown a lot of patient at the plate so far he's already walked 11 times in only 53 at bats and owns a .493 OBP doing so.
• Switch hitter Colin Walsh was 1-4 with an RBI single.
• Stephen Piscotty second game returning from the 7-Day DL was 2-4 pushes his AVG up to .423.
• Cody Stanley went 2-4 with an RBI single.
• Anthony Garcia was hitless as well but hit a sac fly already has 12 RBI's.
• Danny Stienstra was 3-4 with a double.
• Ronny Gil went 1-4 with an RBI single also swiped his 3rd bag.
• Tyler Melling pitched 5 1/3 innings surrendered 7 hits 3 runs 2 earned walked 1 struck out 6.
• Iden Nazario, and Jose Almarante 2 2/3 innings gave up 7 hits 3 earned runs combined

Peoria 4, Cedar Rapids 1

• Ildemaro Vargas was 2-5 with a run scored.
• Alex Mejia maintains his hot hitting by going 2-2 with 2 runs scored, hit an RBI single, and walked twice. Mejia is now batting .395.
• Breyvic Valera, and Patrick Wisdom singled. Jacob Wilson hit a sac fly.
• Jordan Walton goes 2-3 with a 2 run RBI double.
• Michael Swinson was 2-4 with a triple. That triple reminds me of his speed.
• Kurt Heyer was impressive in 7 solid innings displaying that great stamina by only giving up 4 hits on 1 run 1 earned walked none struck out 8 batters. Produced 8 groundouts against 4 flyouts.
• Zachary Petrick with yet another impressive outing. Gave up 3 hits on 2 strikeouts in 2 scoreless innings. In 9 2/3 innings he struck out 17 batters.