In the AFL the Peoria Javelinas beat the Scottsdale Scorpions 5-0: Box Score - Recap - Game Story
Phil Hughes made his final start in the AFL and pitched great to pick up his second win of the winter. He held the Scorpions scoreless over 5 innings allowing just two singles. He did not walk a batter and struck out 10. He threw 76 pitches, 53 for strikes.
He finished Winter Ball with a 2-0 record and a 3.00 ERA. In 30 innings pitched he allowed 11 runs (10 earned) on 21 hits, walked 13, and struck out 38. Batters hit just .198 against him.
Kevin Russo went 1-for-4 with a HR, 2 RBI, a walk, and a run scored.
Other Yankees are playing in the Venezuelan, Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Dominican winter leagues. Here's a run down of the players in each league:
Venezuelan League: Francisco Cervelli is playing for Cardenales de Lara. Reegie Corona is on Navegantes del Magallanes.
Puerto Rican League: Ian Kennedy and Jonathan Albaladejo are on Indios de Mayaguez. Jose Molina is on Leones de Ponce.
Dominican League: Matt Carson, Melky Cabrera, and Wilkins Arias are playing for Aguilas Cibaenas. And Amaury Sanit is playing for Tigres del Licey.
Mexican League: Justin Christian is playing for Caneros de los Mochis. Ramiro Pena is playing for Tomateros de Culiacan. And Walter Ibarra is on Naranjeros de Hermosillo.
You can check out all of their Winter Ball stats here.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
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7 Comments:
Get off of Phil's D*ck already!
He is playing against a bunch of kids!
He can not play at a high level and that is clear as day.
Hes throwing against a bunch of high school ball players, he should have 10 K's. This is NOT impressive!
He is only 22 yrs old. Even Al Leiter said ya can't rush kids, especially pitchers. Let him start at least in AAA next year. He will mature and be just fine. Yanks can't find a lot of homegrown outstanding pitching talent because they usually draft very low. Pirates, Rays, KC should have a bevy of arms. We've seen Rays already do.
Anonymous number 1 is very stupid, anonymous number 2 is very smart. Performing well in the AFL is generally seen as a good thing. Its not "a bunch of high school kids" as dumb-anonymous said, but rather a group of talented prospects from high levels of other team's systems. Add in the fact that Hughes HAS performed well against major leaguers when he's been healhty and dumb-anonymous just looks, well, dumb...
Smart-anonymous makes several good points. We shouldn't rush Hughes and should let him develop. Remember, he's only 22.
Anon 1,
There are 122 pitchers in the Arizona Fall League, 108 are older than Hughes. He's the kid in that group, not the other way around.
And no, he's not pitching against High School players.
Anyway, thanks Anon 2 and Nick for being the voices of reason.
Anon, I forgot to mention this before, but exactly how was I "on Phil's dick"?
All I did was report what he did yesterday in the AFL, like I've done all winter with Yankees in Winter Ball.
I'm seriously beginning to think some Yankees fans actually are rooting for Hughes to fail.
Great way for Phil to end the fall. He needs to build off this going into next season.
And anonymous 1, you are an idiot.
anon1- Sox fan or Mets fan?
Seriously, at least if you're going to knock Hughes, get the facts straight. Fall ball isn't high schoolers. It's most rehab work, extra work for guys who missed a lot of the regular season, prospects who want more work, etc. Hughes is only 22, people expected too much of him too fast.
It's like Greg said - I think some Yankee fans WANT the guy to fail. Maybe because they wanted to trade him for Santana, I don't know.
Either way, get a grip, speak intelligently, use less than 5 exclamation points per post and maybe someone will take you seriously.
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