Padres Report - July 24

Padres' Minor League Report – July 24th

Hitters:

AAA - Paul McAnulty --- 3-5; 2B (24), R, RBI - played 3B again, 41 of 104 H are XBH
AAA - Jon Knott --- 2-5; HR (23), R, 2 RBI -
AA - Luis Cruz --- 2-6; HR (9), R, RBI
Lo-A - Will Venable --- 2-3; 2B (29), 2 R, 3 RBI, 2 BB, SO
Lo-A - David Freese --- 2-4; 2 2B (5), 2 R, 2 RBI

Pitchers:

AA - Matt Ekstrom --- 7.0 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 5 SO, 0 HR
Hi-A - Josh Geer --- 4.2 IP, 9 H, 5 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 2 SO, 0 HR !
Rookie - Pablo Menchaca --- 5.0 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 4 SO, 0 HR

Commentary:

When I saw the 0-9 loss in Lake Elsinore I figured it was time to show that I’m not a raving optimist; I can report the negative as well as the positive… I figured I would post Joe Batter’s line of 0-4 w/ 3 SO… Except that Karl Gelinas, starting pitcher for the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes, went all 9 IP allowing 4 hits and 0 BB but only posting a single strike out… That’s not to say that Storm hitters deserve a pat on the back, I’m only saying it was a weird line.

I haven’t seen Chase Headley’s name in a box in the last couple nights. I Google’d his name in their “news” section and the last article with Chase in it was posted on July 5th. I’m wondering if he was promoted to Mobile and just given a couple days to get there…

What? You thought I’d let a performance like the one Will Venable had tonight go without comments. No way. My boy Venable is going OFF on Midwest pitchers to the tune of .321/.405/.465. That slugging percentage isn’t great, but the BA and on-base numbers are. He’s ready for a promotion.

Before I started posting these on my blog and was e-mailing them around to a few of you, I said that David Freese was about to go off on the Midwest League. He now has 6 XBH in his last 8 games.

By the way, nice win for the big league club.