[DOWN ON THE FARM] Hellickson Picks Up Another Win
Andrew Friedman, Evan Meek, Gary Gaetti, Jeremy Hellickson May 20th. 2008, 7:33amDurham (DNP)
Montgomery 11, Tennessee 5.Mike Prochaska as victorious in his first start since his demotion from Durham. He allowed 3 run in 6.2 innings…Ronnie Merrill and Gabby Martinez homered for the Biscuits. Martinez drove in 4 on 3 hits.
Vero Beach 6, Tampa 5. Jeremy Hellickson improved to 5-0, but did allow 4 runs in 5 innings. He did improve on his strikeout to walk ratio with 3 more Ks and no walks. He is now up to 61 strikeouts to only 3 walks…Willy Aybar was 1-4 on his rehab assignment. He played third base.
Columbus 11, Augusta 2. Josh Johnson (no relation to Josh Johnson, the catcher), worked 5 innings of 2-run ball to pick up his 2nd win…Jackson Brennan was 2-2 with 3 walks and 2 runs scored…Maiko Loyola was 2-4 and drove in 3.
NOTES FROM DOWN ON THE FARM…
- Beyond the Boxscore talks to Kiley McDaniel about Jeremy Hellickson. [Beyond the Boxscore]
…a big breakout year for him, so he’s a good guy to cover. Very impressive command, approach, and composure, all those little things the scouts love that tend to project favorably. The stuff was also impressive on one look despite a smallish frame, with a 91-93 mph fastball, flashing an above-average to plus breaking ball and good feel for a change that flashed above-average. He’s the real deal and I’m glad I’m seeing him now since he shouldn’t be in the FSL very long.
- WRAL takes a closer look at the Durham Bulls hitting coach, Gary Gaetti. [WRAL]
- One site wonders if Andrew Friedman wonders about the “cash considerations” Andrew Friedman acepted from the Pirates for Evan Meek. They come up with a list of things that Meek would have been worth trading for. [Doubt About It]
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I was at that game in Tampa and thought Hellickson looked even worse than his line indicates. Lots of screaming line drives and deep flies to the warning track. The 2 home runs were no-doubters. And even when he did go to 0-2 or 1-2 he couldn’t put hitters away, often going to 3-2 and then giving up a hit or hard hit ball.
Tiffany looked great in his first inning. Pinpoint control and unhittable pitches. And despite the 3 walks and one solid line drive hit, my impression was positive. He got an awful lot of swings and misses-and some bad swings-at what I thought was a mixture of solid fastballs and excellent curves.
By the way, the paper says 723 attended. I doubt there were 200.
thanks for the recap
MLB Extra Innings is not showing tonights game or tomorrow’s. WTF? Why would they do this to us? I am seriously pissed.
i did notice that. by my count these are just the 3rd and 4th games this season and one of those was this past saturday bc Fox has a National black out on all games.
We will be live-blogging the game. not quite Staats and Magrane, but we’ll do our best