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The player moves I know of:
Indianapolis:
Lost Cole Tucker (Pirates)
Added Nick Mears, Tanner Anderson, Ethan Paul (from Altoona), Fabricio Macias (from Greensboro)
Altoona:
Lost Rodolfo Castro (Pirates), Oneil Cruz (IL), Roansy Contreras (IL), Brendt Citta (IL), Ethan Paul (Indianapolis)
Added Nathan Kirby, Ji-Hwan Bae (from FCL rehab), Chase Murray (from Greensboro), Claudio Finol (from FCL)
Greensboro:
Lost Macias, Murray, Kyle Wilkie (to Bradenton)
Added Blake Sabol (from Bradenton)
Bradenton:
Lost Sabol
Added Wilkie
INDIANAPOLIS
(7:05pm)
Starting Pitcher: Mitch Keller 5 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 4 K
Notable Performances:
Will Craig 1-4
Game Recap:
Indianapolis (27-27) got a strong start from Mitch Keller, but couldn’t get any offense and lost to Columbus, 1-0. Keller allowed a pair of one-out singles in the first, but fanned the next two batters and went on to retire the last 14 batters he faced. In five innings, he threw 69 pitches, 48 for strikes. Austin Davis followed with two scoreless innings and Shea Spitzbarth with one. Joe Jacques gave up the game’s only run in the bottom of the ninth. Indy’s offense was limited to three singles and two walks.
ALTOONA
(6:30pm)
Starting Pitcher: Cam Vieaux 5 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 5 K
Notable Performances:
Jonah Davis 4-5, HR (6), 3 R, 3 RBI (batting 214/331/452)
Cal Mitchell 0-5
Mason Martin 3-5, 2 HR (15), 5 RBI
Canaan Smith-Njigba 1-5
Game Recap:
Altoona (30-23) lost a chunk of its lineup to promotion and injury, but bombed Akron pitching anyway in a 12-9 win. Jonah Davis and Mason Martin had big games. Davis went 4-for-5 with three runs and three RBIs. The hits included his sixth home run. Martin belted two longballs for the second time in four games. He’s homered in each of those games, a total of six, and now has 15 on the year. In this game he was 3-for-5 and drove in five runs. That gives him 45 in just 49 games and he’s slugging .611. Cam Vieaux had an outstanding start, giving up just two hits over five innings. He retired the first 11 batters he faced before giving up a solo homer, the only run he allowed in five innings. Vieaux left with a 7-1 lead, thanks in part to a three-run shot by Martin in the third off a lefty. The Curve bullpen struggled, as Oddy Nunez and John O’Reilly gave up six runs over two combined innings. The Curve kept scoring, though, as Davis homered with a man on in the sixth and Martin hit a solo shot in the seventh off another lefty. Cristofer Melendez threw the last two innings and fanned four, but also gave up a two-run shot. Chase Murray made his AA debut, going 2-for-4 as the DH.
GREENSBORO
(6:30pm)
Boxscore
Starting Pitcher: Quinn Priester 5 IP, 2 H, 2 ER, 2 BB, 3 K
Notable Performances:
Matt Fraizer 2-5, 2 HR (13), 4 RBI
Nick Gonzales 2-3, 3B, HR (5), BB
Liover Peguero 0-4
Game Recap:
Greensboro (32-23) beat Asheville, 7-5, on a walkoff home run by Matt Fraizer in the ninth, Fraizer’s second home run of the game. Quinn Priester had a mostly good start, although he’s still not throwing a ton of strikes. Priester started the second inning with two walks, then gave up two runs on a single and a ground out. The only other baserunner he allowed was a one-out triple in the fourth, and he followed that with a pair of strikeouts. Greensboro got single runs in each of the first three innings. Nick Gonzales hit his fifth blast of the year in the first and Matt Gorski led off the second with his eighth. In the third, Gonzales tripled and scored on a wild pitch. Steven Jennings gave up a pair of runs in the seventh to put Asheville ahead, 4-3, but in the bottom of the inning Fraizer followed a leadoff walk to Grant Koch with his 12th bomb of the year to make it 5-4. Will Kobos threw the last two innings and fanned six, but he gave up a home run with two out in the top of the ninth to tie the game. In the bottom half, Koch again led off with a walk and Fraizer belted number 13 to end it.
BRADENTON
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Postponed, doubleheader Thursday.
FCL PIRATES BLACK
Boxscore
Starting Pitcher: TBD
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Postponed, to be made up August 3.
FCL PIRATES GOLD
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Starting Pitcher: TBD
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Postponed, to be made up August 3.
