JUST MAYBE ... A free agent steal
Right-hander Matt Hartman earned a 3.1 inning save Thursday night for Rome, allowing no runs on two hits while striking out six. His only other 2019 appearance was for Florida on April 27, when he allowed only one hit over five innings in an emergency relief outing. For those of you who are math challenged, that's 8.2 shutout innings so far for his 2019.
Hartman was signed as a free agent last July 31 out of Westmont College, but that isn't even half the story. He originally signed and played for the University of Arizona, transferred, and partway through his first season at Westmont, needed Tommy John surgery. He had thrown two complete game shutouts leading up to his injury. His Braves debut was a low-key series of five pitch-limited starts at Danville last season (0-1, 2.83, 15.2 innings). He walked 10 while striking out eight. This year, he has only three walks against eight strikeouts in his 8.2 innings for far.
He is a big boy -- 6-3, 220 -- and pitched out of the bullpen for Arizona as a freshman.
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I call your attention to Travis Demeritte. He's now hitting .307 with seven homers and 29 RBI in 35 games at Gwinnett. And "only" 35 strikeouts in 35 games. This is a significant improvement. He's still only 24.
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FRIDAY SCOREBOARD
All Times Eastern
CLASS AAA
Gwinnett 7, Pawtucket 5
WP: Allard (3-2) 5.2 IP, 8 H, 4 ER, 2 BB, 3 K
Burrows 1.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 2 K
Dayton 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K
Minter (Save, 1) 1 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K
Demeritte 2-4, HR (7th), 2 RBI
Duvall 1-3, HR (13th), 2 RBI, 2 BB
Lopez 2-4, 2B, HR (1st), 3 RBI
CLASS AA
Birmingham 4, Mississippi 2
LP: Joey Wentz (1-3) 6 IP, 4 H, 2 ER, 2 BB, 5 K
Aro 2 IP, 2 H, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K
Pache 1-4, 2B
Didder 1-2, R, RBI
Waters 1-4, RBI, SB
ADVANCED CLASS A
Jupiter 8, Florida 6
LP: Tarnok (1-3) 5.1 IP, 8 H, 5 ER, 1 BB, 5 K
Shetter 2.2 IP, 5 H, 2 ER, 0 BB, 3 K
Borkovich 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 K
Delgado 3-5, 2 R
I. Wilson 1-3, R
Unroe 2-5, 2B, 2 R, RBI
Contreras 1-5, 2B, R, 2 RBI
CLASS A
Rome 11, Columbia 3
WP: Javier (2-2) 7 IP, 4 H, 3 ER, 1 BB, 6 K
Mejia 2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K
Cullen 4-4, 2B, 3B, 3 R, 2 RBI
Harris 2-5, 2B, 2 R, 2 RBI (.385)
Dean 2-3, 2B, 2 R, 2 RBI, SB, 2 BB
Benson 3-5, 2 2B, R, 2 RBI
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