Astros Prospect Report: April 10th, 2018

AAA: Fresno Grizzlies (3-3) lost 13-0 (BOX SCORE)

Not many games go into the 7th inning tied 0-0 with one team eventually winning by double digits. Well that happened last night. Hauschild started for Fresno and tossed 6 shutout innings striking out 9. The offense really struggled managing just four hits. Ramsey allowed Tacoma to take a 2-0 but it would get worse. Tacoma put up 11 runs in the 9th inning to blow it open 13-0 and they picked up the win in Fresno’s home opener.

• Tony Kemp, 2B: 1-for-4
• Drew Ferguson, CF: 2-for-4
• Tyler White, 3B: 1-for-3

• Mike Hauschild, RHP: 6.0 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 9 K
• Matt Ramsey, RHP: 1.0 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 2 K
• Jacob Dorris, RHP: 1.0 IP, 4 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 0 BB, 0 K
• Chris Nunn, LHP: 0.1 IP, 1 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 4 BB, 0 K
• Antonio Nunez, RHP: 0.0 IP, 0 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 3 BB, 0 K
• Tim Federowicz, RHP: 0.2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K

AA: Corpus Christi Hooks (2-4) lost 4-3 (BOX SCORE)

Unfortunate ending to a well played game for Corpus Christi. Josh James got the start and tossed 5 no hit innings with 9 strikeouts. He now has 16 K in 8 innings this season. Corpus got on the board in the 7th inning on a Yordan Alvarez solo HR, his first AA homer. The Hooks added two more runs in the 9th with a run scoring on a wild pitch and a Birk sac fly. The bullpen ran into trouble in the 9th inning though allowing 4 runs as Arkansas was able to walk it off.

• Carmen Benedetti, RF: 1-for-4
• Yuli Gurriel, DH: 1-for-4
• Yordan Alvarez, LF: 2-for-3, 2 R, HR, RBI, BB
• Taylor Jones, 1B: 0-for-2, 2 BB
• Randy Cesar, 3B: 1-for-4, 2B

• Josh James, RHP: 5.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 9 K
• Sean Stutzman, LHP: 1.2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 2 K
• Erasmo Pinales, RHP: 1.1 IP, 2 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 2 BB, 0 K
• Riley Ferrell, RHP: 0.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 0 K

A+: Buies Creek Astros (3-3) won 4-0 (BOX SCORE)

Abdiel Saldana made his season debut last night and was dominant tossing 6 shutout innings with 6 strikeouts. Anibal Siera got Buies Creek on the board in the 4th inning with a two out, two run double. Buies Creek added two more runs in the 5th on a Duarte RBI groundout and McCormick RBI single. This was more than enough for Saldana and the bullpen of Balaguer and Scheetz who helped toss a combined shutout.

• Josh Rojas, 1B: 1-for-4, R, 3B, BB, SB
• Abraham Toro-Hernandez, 3B: 0-for-3, R, 2 BB
• Osvaldo Duarte, 2B: 1-for-4, 3B, RBI, BB, SB
• Chas McCormick, LF: 1-for-4, RBI, BB
• Luis Payano, RF: 3-for-5, R
• Carlos Canelon, C: 0-for-2, R, 2 BB
• Anibal Sierra, SS: 1-for-4, 2B, 2 RBI

• Abdiel Saldana, RHP: 6.0 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 6 K (WIN)
• Jesus Balaguer, RHP: 2.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 2 K
• Kit Scheetz, LHP: 1.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 3 K

A: Quad Cities River Bandits (1-3) lost 3-1 (BOX SCORE)

Bukauskas made his season debut last night and while it didn’t go great, it wasn’t all terrible He allowed 2 runs in 3.2 innings and had 6 strikeouts, but he did walk 4. Mushinski was very good in relief tossing 3.1 scoreless innings with 5 strikeouts. The offense struggled scoring just 1 run on 2 hits as they dropped this one to Kane County.

• Corey Julks, RF: 1-for-5
• Adrian Tovalin, 3B: 1-for-4
• Michael Papierski, C: 0-for-2, 2 BB
• Cody Bohanek, SS: 0-for-2, 2 BB

• JB Bukauskas, RHP: 3.2 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 4 BB, 6 K
• Carlos Sanabria, RHP: 1.1 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 1 K
• Parker Mushinksi, LHP: 3.1 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 5 K
• Colin McKee, RHP: 0.2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K

Today’s starters according to MiLB.com:

FRE: Trent Thornton (0.00 ERA)

CC: OFF

BC: Abdiel Saldana (0.00 ERA)

QC: Cesar Rosado (0.00 ERA)