Sunday, July 27th: Corey Avant Impresses in Lansing Loss while Bleday Homers Again for Vegas

 

Prospect Of The Day: Pitcher Corey Avant (5 IP/2 H/0 ER/2 BB/7 K)

MIDWEST LEAGUE  (HIGH-A)

Lansing Lugnuts               0

Lake County Captains   1

LP: Lin 1-1 / 3.06

On a day when all the A’s affiliates went down to defeat, RHP Corey Avant turned in the best performance of the day. The 23-year-old righty allowed just 2 hits and 2 walks and struck out 7 while throwing 5 scoreless frames, and he left with the game a scoreless tie. Avant threw 77 pitches, 47 for strikes and, in the month of July, he’s compiled an ERA of 1.80 in 25 innings of work over 5 starts. 19-year-old Taiwanese LHP Wei-En Lin allowed 1 run in 2 2/3 innings of relief to suffer the loss. First baseman Darlyn Montero and right fielder Jared Dickey both singled to provide Lansing’s only hits in the loss.

 

PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE  (TRIPLE-A)

Las Vegas Aviators              6

Sacramento River Cats   13

LP: Morris 3-4 / 5.86

HR: Bleday (6)

CF JJ Bleday: 1-5, HR

DH Willie MacIver: 3-4, 2B, BB, RBI

3B Alejo Lopez: 2-5, 2 2B, R

RHP Kade Morris: 1 IP/2 H/3 ER/2 BB/0 K/Loss

RHP Jack Cushing: 2 IP/6 H/6 R/4 ER/1 BB/2 K

RHP Luis Morales: 3 IP/1 H/0 ER/0 BB/5 K

 

TEXAS LEAGUE  (DOUBLE-A)

Midland RockHounds   1

San Antonio Missions     6

LP: Robinson 1-6 / 5.29

DH Shane McGuire: 2-3, HBP

3B Colby Halter: 2-4

LF Clark Elliott: 1-4, 3B, R

RHP Kyle Robinson: 4 IP/9 H/5 ER/1 BB/3 K/Loss

LHP CD Pelham: 1 IP/0 H/0 ER/0 BB/2 K

RHP Yorlin Calderon: 1 IP/0 H/0 ER/0 BB/0 K

 

CALIFORNIA LEAGUE  (SINGLE-A)

Lake Elsinore Storm   9

Stockton Ports              1

LP: Novotny 2-3 / 2.91

LF Cameron Leary: 1-3, BB, SB, RBI

DH Dylan Fien: 1-4

LHP Tucker Novotny: 4.1 IP/6 H/6 ER/3 BB/2 K/Loss

RHP Blake Hammond: 1.2 IP/3 H/1 ER/3 BB/2 K

LHP Riley Huge: 1.2 IP/0 H/0 ER/1 BB/5 K

 

Monday’s Games:

No Games Scheduled

 

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