Captains Blank Dragons 1-0
Greg Folgia fired a strike to Roberto Perez to gun down the tying run at the plate in the top of the ninth and the Lake County Captains shut out the Dayton Dragon 1-0 on Tuesday. The Captains collected only two hits in the game.
The Captains manufactured the lone run of the game in the bottom of the first inning when Delvi Cid singled and went to second...
The reality TV circuit has covered just about every genre of the entertainment industry imaginable. From singing and dance competitions, to former rock stars looking for love, to boxers looking to be contenders and so on, just about everything you can think of from an entertainment perspective has been covered.
Everything that is except for one. Baseball.
All that is about to change...
Last Monday, I received an email in my IndiansProspectInsider.com inbox, my first one. The sender was listed as Robert Campbell, a person not known to me. Nothing unusual, though, I thought-I probably won’t know anyone who would send an email to that address. So, I opened it. Here’s the first line:
We at the Cleveland Indians have identified you as a devoted fan and an influential member...
Kinston Beats Potomac in 15 innings
Kyle Bellows hit a grand slam in the top of the 15th inning as Kinston beat Potomac 10-6 Monday night in Woodbridge, Virginia. The 15 frames were the most the K-Tribe has gone since a 16 inning afair back on April 10th in 2008. The game time of 5 was the longest game for the K-Tribe in more than half a decade. The K-Tribe is now 5-1 in extra inning games...
Kinston's Joe Gardner is the Carolina League Pitcher of the Week. Gardner picked up a win on Wednesday when he pitched six innings of one hit ball against the Salem Red Sox. Gardner struck out eight during the outing.
Just called up from Low A Lake County on May 8, Gardner is 2-0 with a 0.00 ERA. The UC Santa Barbra product has not given up an earned run in three starts this season, striking...
Aeros pitcher Scott Barnes was named Eastern League Pitcher of the Week today for the week ending May 23rd. The left-handed Barnes is the first Akron player this season to win a weekly award from the EL. He will be starting again tonight against the first-place Altoona Curve.
Barnes made just one start last week but it was one of the finest in his brief Double-A career. The 22-year-old delivered...
For the second straight week the Aeros got to debut a top-prized pitching prospect and for the second straight week, it was a successful debut. Alex White reached the Akron level pretty quickly and if he keeps up, he may not be needed in Akron for long. The Aeros also had success in winning games, grabbing two series wins over Harrisburg and Altoona.
Here is everything you need to know...
White Leads Aeros to 5-2 Victory
Alex White made his Double-A debut and guided the Aeros to a 5-2 win over Harrisburg Sunday in front of 6,825 fans at Canal Park. Cleveland
It's a busy one here on Tobacco Road. Daylong preparations are being made for what should be a Super Bowl-like event here at the Boudreau household. After six years of hatches, random numbers, smoke monsters, polar bears in the tropics, flashbacks, flash-sideways, time travel and several other questions and oddities, Lost comes to an end tonight. The way I figure it, most Cleveland fans are just...
Perez Leads Captains to Walk Off Win
Roberto Perez singled home Chun Chen in the bottom of the ninth inning to break a 3-3 tie as the Lake County Captains rallied back to defeat the South Bend Silver Hawks 4-3 on Saturday. The Captains were hit out hit eleven to four in the game.
The Captains started the scoring early when Casey Frawley lead off the first inning with a walk and went...
The Aeros made a roster move today as OF Nick Weglarz was transferred to Class AAA Columbus and OF Jerad Head was received from Columbus.
Weglarz was batting .285 on the season for the Aeros with a team-leading seven home runs and 27 RBI. He had appeared in 37 games and also played 105 games last season for Akron. The 22-year-old slugger was the Indians third-round draft pick in June 2005...
"Minor Happenings" is a weekly column which covers the important developments and news in the Indians farm system. While most of the information in this report is from my own research and through interviews I have conducted with organizational personnel, some information in this report is collected and summarized from the various news outlets that cover each team.
Lots of movement in the system...
With the Captains off to such a great start, and the weather warming up and the Indians woes, I anticipate we will be seeing a lot of new folks at Classic Park. I’ve overheard a number of questions from new fans over the years about the Captains, minor league baseball and the difference between the majors and the minors. So I thought I would try to answer some of them here, with an emphasis on...
Tomlin shines in win over G-Braves
The Columbus Clippers defeated the Gwinnett Braves 8-1 on Friday night at Coolray Field. This is his third win in a row.The Clippers clinched the series win with tonight
High-A Kinston right-handed pitcher Alex White has been promoted to Double-A Akron.
White went 2-3 with a 2.86 ERA in eight starts for the K-Tribe this season. His 2.86 ERA is currently the fifth lowest in the Carolina League and his .204 batting average against is the third lowest in the league (second among starters). hE gave up just 14 earned runs in 44 innings of work for Kinston, striking...
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