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Pawtucket red sox play by play9/2/2023 ![]() He's not ranked, where I looked, although I thought he had good swing-and-miss stuff. His 94-MPH fastball helped account for 4 Ks to surround a hit and a walk. Righty Kyle Martin pitched the next two innings for Pawtucket. He's 26 years old so his time is now, if ever. His fastball sits at 96 and he struck out five, so he's got a live arm and overall I was impressed enough to believe the ranking (which is a matter of taste, when it comes to relievers). He finished that third inning and went two more, surrendering a two-run blast in the top of the fifth. He's a multi-innings left-handed reliever this season and served in that long-relief capacity of necessity today. 26th ranked Williams Jerez came on in relief of Rodriguez. ![]() He's high ranked, and there's no way I would expect to pry him loose from the Yankees with any conceivable deadline deal, which someone on the forums here floated recently.īack to the PawSox. Those first 4 or 5 innings indicate to me that there's something to work with if he's called up. But he struck out 7 in that time, and I'm here to tell you, he looks like the real deal to me. His pitching line was a fairly pedestrian 5.1 innings with 5 hits plus two walks and one run, earned. His pitch count by that point had ballooned to 89, whereas it had stood at only 42 after 3 full innings. ![]() ![]() He was gone after another batter or two reached base and a run scored. But it got worse for him in the sixth - I noticed his fastball was around 91 - and a visit to the mound didn't seem to do any wonders, although the fastball ticked back up to 93. ![]() However, Sheffield weakened in the fifth, but managed to wriggle out of two-baserunner trouble with some apparently nasty stuff to get the last two batters out. The first hit he gave up, in the fourth, was just a squibber toward the third baseman who didn't even bother to attempt a throw. I was less able to guess his pitches quickly as they came out of his hand. If this lefty's rapid pace was any indication, he pitched with confidence. His fastball sat consistently at 94 and it was his out pitch, something good to see. Sheffield, by contrast, was solidly in command for the first four innings or so. He struck out 5 in just 2.1 innings, which sounds nice, but as I said, I'm skeptical. Anyway he gave up a run in the second inning on a homer. I haven't looked for an announced reason, but a blister would be my guess. Then again, perhaps I wasn't seeing him at his best: he seemed to be working annoyingly slowly, and then had to come out of the game barely into the third inning. If someone were to tell me we were thinking of using one of our trade chips to acquire him, I'd be disappointed. It was my impression he was getting away with deception, which possibly stops working so well at the major league level. From my angle down the first-base line, I could pretty easily tell when something off-speed was being delivered by Rodriguez (with the radar display to confirm or disprove my guess), but of course the batter has a tougher challenge. My seat was not located anywhere I can even pretend to tell you whether any of the pitchers use a curve, slider, straight change, or something exotic. The righthander's fastball touches 92, but his out-pitch seems to be offspeed. The PawSox starter, Fernando Rodriguez, doesn't show up in MLB.com's top-30 for the Red Sox. And a ranked prospect also closed the game for them. I'll tell you what I saw, and offer some opinions, and hopefully keep the two straight, one from another.Įven better luck: the Yankees AAA affiliate in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre was the opponent, and their #2 prospect, Justus Sheffield, was the starting pitcher. The pretext is scouting a trade candidate, but of course I am not a scout. As luck would have it, I could drop Mrs Ash at Logan Airport today and head down I-95 in time for the last game in Pawtucket before their All-Star Break. Red Sox relief prospect Ty Buttrey came up in one of the discussions about trade talks. ![]()
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