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BINGHAMTON, NY – Right-hander Roansy Contreras retired the first 17 batters he faced and matched his career-high with 11 strikeouts across six no-hit innings in Altoona’s 5-0 victory over Binghamton on Tuesday night. The 21-year-old from Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic once again used a mid-to-high 90’s fastball, devastating
BINGHAMTON, NY – Right-hander
Roansy Contreras retired the first 17 batters he faced and matched his career-high with 11 strikeouts across six no-hit innings in Altoona’s 5-0 victory over Binghamton on Tuesday night.
The 21-year-old from Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic once again used a mid-to-high 90’s fastball, devastating change-up, and a filthy curveball to carve up a veteran Binghamton lineup. Contreras needed just 50 pitches to work through his first five innings and finally allowed a baserunner when he walked reliever Thomas McIlraith and CF Desmond Lindsay with two outs in the sixth. With
J.C. Escarra drilled a game-tying solo home run to right field in the top of the eighth inning, sparking a comeback victory for the Bowie Baysox over the Altoona Curve, 2-1, on Opening Day at Peoples Natural Gas Field. Curve baseball returned to PNG Field for the
If there is one aspect of the Winter Meetings that isn’t hampered at all by the lack of actual meetings, it’s the Rule 5 Draft. Major League teams enter today with the knowledge of both whether or not they will make a pick, as well as who their selection would be. With a 40-man roster containing only 34 names, and a front office history of giving the Rule 5 the old college try, my bet is that we
do see the Chicago Cubs make at least one selection today.
Below this introduction, I’m live-blogging the draft as it rolls on.