5/16/15 MINORS FINAL: Hursh earns 1st 2015 win in style

[rico43]

SATURDAY'S GAMES

ALL TIMES EDT

CLASS AAA

Louisville 3 Gwinnett 1

SP: Texeira 4 IP, 5 H, 1 ER, 3 BB, 3 K.
LP: Fisher (0-1) 1 IP, 1 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 1 K. (first run allowed in 2015)
Thomas 3 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 6 K. (0.00)
Kazmar 3-4, 3B, R; Hunter 2-3, 2B, RBI; A. Garcia 0-4.

CLASS AA

Mississippi 1, Pensacola 0

WP: Hursh (1-3) 6 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 4 K
R. Kelly (Save, 9) 1 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K.
Rohm 1-4, HR, RBI.
(First-inning homer; first Class AA HR in over 500 ABs)

ADVANCED CLASS A

Myrtle Beach 3, Carolina 2 (12)

SP: Barker 4.1 IP, 6 H, 2 ER, 2 BB, 4 K.
Nesseth 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 3 K. (Braves debut)
LP: Otero (0-1) 2 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 1 K.
Briceno 1-4, HR (1st), RBI; Curcio 2-6, RBI; Reed Harper 0-4 (debut).

CLASS A

Rome 6, Asheville 3

WP: Grosser (2-1) 5.1 IP, 5 H, 3 ER, 2 BB, 1 K.
Kinman (Save, 2) 2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 2 K.
Daris 1-3, 3B, R, RBI; Albies 1-4, R, SB; Edgerton 2-5, 2B, R, RBI; Davidson 3-4, R (.233).

MOVES: Wang goes onto Gwinnett DL to make room for Texeira.
Free agent pitcher Mike Nesseth assigned to Carolina; released by Phillies on May 14th.
He's right, 6-5, 210, looks like he should be a beast; Nebraska Cornhusker.

[Russ2dollas]

Peterson hurt? Haven't seen him play for mudcats in a while

[Garmel]

Peterson hurt? Haven't seen him play for mudcats in a while

He went on the DL after the Mudcats' bus accident.

[Russ2dollas]

He went on the DL after the Mudcats' bus accident.

serious? he was really raking

[Garmel]

serious? he was really raking

Yep. Lucas Sims also went on the DL because of that accident.

[clvclv]

Davidson with 3 hits, Curcio with 2, and 6 strong IP from Hursh - wonder if he's feeling the heat about being moved to the pen?

[Braves1976]

Hursh with a solid game tonight, Kennelly caught him this time and it made a difference as I expected. O'Dowd had been catching him a lot and he's simply a bad catcher, but O'Dowd can hit and has some speed.

[Braves1976]

BTW, Rio Ruiz continues to struggle, he hasn't had a hit in 8 or so games now. He was 0-3 with a strikeout tonight and is now hitting .168 on the season.

[cajunrevenge]

Why is R Kelly saving games for our AA team?

[thethe]

Curio might be a fast mover. All of a sudden we have a bunch of positional prospects. A lot of that has to do with Wrens tenure so I have to acknowledge that.

[50PoundHead]

Why is R Kelly saving games for our AA team?

Because he can fly. He can touch the sky.

[rico43]

Hursh postgame quote:

"It was definitely the best I've felt all year," said Hursh, who threw 48 of 83 pitches for strikes and induced 10 ground-ball outs. "I commanded my fastball the way that I wanted to. I haven't been able to do that effectively this year, so I just focused on my fastball command and kept the ball down. I threw a lot of sinkers and pounded the zone to get ground balls."