Gavin Cross’ final college season came to an end on June 12, meaning the Virginia Tech product had to wait 35 days until he was selected ninth overall in the 2022 MLB Draft. It was another 18 days until his first professional game. With the waiting over, Cross is making
Only four days into his Double-A tenure, Christian Encarnacion-Strand is holding himself to a high standard. “Today, honestly, the focus was just honestly to have a better day than I did yesterday,” Encarnacion-Strand said. “Yesterday, I didn’t have really good day, didn’t have any hits yesterday, so today I just
The Tennessee Smokies had to wait nearly nine full years between their last two no-hitters. The wait for their next wasn’t even two months. Starting pitcher Anderson Espinoza set the tone, and relievers Samuel Reyes, Bryan King and Nicholas Padilla combined to go the rest of the way as Double-A
On May 1, Matt Russell got off to a good start. Six weeks later, he finished the job. In a quirk of scheduling, Russell got to pick up his own outing from a weather-suspended game and nearly went the distance combining for a wild line in the box score