Astros Minor League Recaps

Tuesday's Games

Midwest East All-Stars over Midwest West All-Stars 6-5
Starter Lance McCullers pitched one perfect inning for the West, striking out two. Jordan Jankowski allowed four runs (none earned) in a third of an inning and was charged with a blown save. Carlos Correa, the starter at short, was two-for-three with a strikeout.

Carolina All-Stars over California League All-Stars 12-2
Brady Rodgers pitched a perfect sixth for the Cal League All-Stars, striking out one. Andrew Aplin started the game and went one-for-three with a double. Matt Duffy also got a start at third and went one-for-three with a double, a sac fly RBI, a strikeout and an error. Preston Tucker entered the game in the sixth and was one-for-two with a double, a strikeout and a run scored.

Oklahoma City over New Orleans 3-1
Starter Brad Peacock (6.1IP 6H 1BB 5SO) pitched a beauty and was rewarded with the win. Eric Berger and Josh Zeid took it the rest of the way, with Zeid allowing the only New Orleans run in the ninth. The RedHawks did all of their scoring in the seventh by way of a little small ball and taking advantage of a couple of Zephyr errors. OKC only managed seven singles, two each from Jake Elmore and Che-Hsuan Lin (RBI), but it was enough.

San Antonio over Corpus Christi 8-4
Three errors and a passed ball came back to bite the Hooks as R.J. Alaniz (4IP 6H 4R/2ER 3BB 2SO) and Jorge de Leon (2.2IP 7H 3R/2ER 1BB 2SO) took the mound. Gonzalo Sanudo allowed the final run across in the ninth on a home run. Corpus Christi put one run across in the sixth on a Jonathan Meyer double and added three more in the eighth on a Domingo Santana double and a Meyer two-run home run. George Springer was three-for-four with a double, a run scored and two stolen bases (his 20th and 21st of the season).

Tri-City over Vermont 9-6
Tanner Bushue (4.1IP 4H 2R/2ER 1BB 3SO) got the start, and Albert Minnis got the win. Minnis only pitched two-thirds of an inning and allowed his inherited runner to score. Adrian Houser pitched two innings and was charged with four runs (three earned) on six hits, although two of those runs came across on Patrick Christensen's watch. Chia-Jen Lo was perfect in the ninth, striking out two and earning his first save. Tri-City scored early and often, first putting one run across in the second on a Luis Alvarez (2x3 BB R) double and one in the third on a Tony Kemp home run and then putting up crooked numbers in the fifth, sixth and seventh. Dan Gulbransen hit his first home run of the season, a two-run shot in the fifth. James Ramsay was two-for-four and scored a run.

DSL Astros over DSL Mariners 10-3
Geronimo Franzua (5IP 5H 2R 1BB 8SO) got the win and had plenty of breathing room as his team spotted him with seven runs in the second inning, an inning that featured four singles, a walk, a sac bunt, a throwing error, two wild pitches, a triple and a Hector Roa two-run home run. Luis Payano (2x4 BB 3RBI R), Arturo Michelena (2x5 2R) and Jarico Reynoso (2x4 RBI 2R) all hit triples in the game. Jesus Bermejo was two-for-four with an RBI and scored two runs.

Player of the Day: Jonathan Meyer has definitely found his power stroke of late. On Tuesday, he was two-for-four with a double, home run and three RBI. In his last 10 games, he is hitting .293 with a whopping .610 slugging percentage.

Pitcher of the Day: I'm going to have to go with the six and a third shutout innings from Brad Peacock. The RedHawks have gotten blown out a couple of times as of late so they needed a stopper and they got it in Peacock.