By Josh Sperber, South Bend Cubs South Bend took Griffin Conine's walkoff home run last night personally, and a hot start in the first showed that. The Cubs'
Honorable Mention: Ed Howard reached base another three times, here with a good swing hanging back on a breaking ball:
Ed Howard is two for two tonight including this RBI single pic.twitter.com/tG6AlhYnC5
After some real struggles against the Rays’ Low-A affiliate in week one, Howard has looked much better this week, reaching base now in eight of his last 16 plate appearances
Other miscellany: Ben Leeper had his most comfortable pro outing, coming into a bases loaded, two out situation and getting seven outs for the Double-A Smokies. Leeper was 94-97 with the fastball, 87-89 with a slider that he showed a willingness to throw in any count … the Iowa Cubs bullpen kept them in the game facing just one over the minimum in four innings of work. Ryan Meisinger (who is racking up strikeouts, got the win, but shouts also to Kyle Ryan and Michael Rucker … The South Bend offense was a dynamo yesterday, but I had to cut it off somewhere. That means Cole Roederer falls here despite re
Chicago Cubs Minor League Wrap: May 14
South Bend snaps their losing streak and the other three affiliates go in the other direction.
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Kohl Stewart was dominating over four innings of work. Unfortunately, he came out to pitch the fifth inning and wasn’t quite so good, giving up a three-run home run to Nick Gordon and a solo home run to Brent Rooker.
The final line for Stewart was four runs on five hits over five innings. He walked two and struck out three.
Dakota Mekkes pitched two strong innings of scoreless relief, allowing just one hit and one walk. He struck out two.
South Bend Cubs lose 5th straight May 13, 2021
by Max Thoma, South Bend Cubs
BELOIT, WI – The South Bend Cubs (2-5) dropped their fifth straight game Wednesday night, losing 8-3 to the Beloit Snappers (4-4) despite getting out to an early 2-0 lead.
The bottom of the order got things going in the third with Scott McKeon getting hit by a pitch and Reivaj Garcia singling down the line in left to start the inning. DJ Artis doubled in a run in his first game back with South Bend after starting the year in triple-a Iowa. Delvin Zinn followed by driving in Garcia on a sacrifice fly to center to make it 2-0.
Tennessee Smokies
Starter
Javier Assad pitched well over 2.2 innings, allowing no runs and just one hit. Assad struck out two and walked no one. He threw 37 pitches, of which 25 were strikes.
Montgomery took the lead in the top of the fifth when they scored two unearned runs off of reliever
Ryan Kellogg. The Smokies scored three runs in the bottom of the inning to take a 3-2 lead.
Bryan Hudson pitched two innings and gave up the lead when he gave up an RBI double in the seventh. He got the win when the Smokies retook the lead in the bottom of the eighth. Hudson pitched two innings and allowed one run on one hit and one walk. He also hit one batter. Hudson struck out two.