Fall and Winter League Updates

The Salt River Rafters continued their dominance with another win yesterday, giving them an 8-2 record.  The only Astros player involved in the win was Jacob Goebbert, who went 1-3 with a double, a run scored, a walk, two strikeouts and an error.  His double in the 7th sparked a 4-run rally by the Rafters, giving them enough of a lead to hold on for the win.

Today
Salt River will play Phoenix at 8:35 CST

Here is a link to the full list of all Astros currently listed on Winter League rosters.

VENEZUELAN LEAGUE

Caracas over Lara 10-3
This game was all but over in the bottom of the 1st.  You owe it to yourself to look at this play-by-play of that frame.  Oswaldo Navarro went 1-5 with a HR and 2 RBI's for Lara, while Wladimir Sutil went 1-2 with a walk, a hit-by-pitch and scored 2 runs for Caracas.

Zulia over Magallanes 3-2
Arcenio Leon pitched 2 innings (0H 0R 1BB 1SO) and got the win for Zulia.

DOMINICAN LEAGUE

Toros over Estrellas 5-0
Jonathan Aristil got the hold, pitching 2.1 innings (0H 0R 1BB 1SO) for the Toros.

Escogido over Licey 4-3
Anderson Hernandez went 0-3 with a walk and scored a run and Domingo Santana went 0-1 with a SO in a pinch hitting appearance for Licey, while Sammy Gervacio got his one batter with a SO.  Brett Wallace went 1-3 with a double, an RBI and 2 SO's for Escogido, while David Carpenter got the hold (1.1IP 1H 1R/ER).

Aguilas over Gigantes 10-9
This game was tied at 2-2 through the 7th when I went to bed.  The Gigantes scored 3 in the 8th and 4 in the 9th while the Aguilas went crazy with 8 in the bottom of the 9th for the win. For the Gigantes, Jimmy Paredes (playing at 3B) went 1-5 with a double, an RBI and 2 SO's and Erick Abreu pitched 1.1 perfect innings with 2 SO's.  Brian Bogusevic went 2-4 with a double and 2 SO's for the Aguilas, while Jonathan Villar, coming in to pinch run, scored a run and later walked in his one plate appearance.

MEXICAN PACIFIC LEAGUE

Luis Durano went 2-5 in Obregon's win over Mexicali.