Enjoy… from the Ironpig’s Media Department. Will try to write more soon.
WORLEY, TRIPLE-A PHILS BLANK BUCS, 3-0
RHP Vance Worley made his first minor league spring start in style, as he and three Triple-A Phillies relievers shut out the Triple-A Tigers, 3-0, at Pirate City in Bradenton on Tuesday.
Worley — who went a respectable 1-0, 3.86 ERA in 4 G, 1 GS in Major League Camp – turned in 4.2 scoreless innings, scattering six hits while walking none and fanning five.
The relief corps of RHP Justin De Fratus (2.1 ip, 2 k), LHP Juan Perez (ip, bb, k) and RHP Matt Anderson (SV, ip) combined to go 4.1 innings of hitless baseball to complete the white-washing.
Worley, 23, is a top pitching prospect within the Phillies organization and a member of Philadelphia’s 40-Man Roster. The team’s third round pick in 2008 initially skipped Triple-A and made his Major League debut with a scoreless inning of relief on July 24 against Colorado. Sent to Lehigh Valley following that game, the 6’2″ right-hander went 1-3, 3.77 in eight starts as an IronPig. He was again recalled to Philadelphia following the minor league season and finished 1-1, 1.38 in five games, two starts in his first Major League season. While in Reading, Worley went 9-4, 3.20 in 19 starts and was selected as a 2010 Eastern League All-Star.
The offense mustered three runs on eight hits as 2B Harold Garcia (2-3, BB, R) managed the only multi-hit game. 3B Carlos Rivero (1-1, 2B) came off the bench for the team’s lone extra base hit and an RBI and CF Chris Frey went 0-4 but collected the only other RBI.
RF Rich Thompson, the IronPigs all-time stolen base leader, had two more swipes on Tuesday and is now a perfect six-for-six in stolen-base attempts this preseason.
The Triple-A Phillies (5-3) will next host the Triple-A Yankees on Wednesday at Yankees Complex in Tampa. Game-time is scheduled for 1 PM.
TRIPLE-A PHILLIES 3, TRIPLE-A PIRATES 0 (Unofficial Box):
PLAYER AB R H RBI
1. Frey, Christopher- CF 4 0 0 1
2. Hanzawa, Troy- SS 5 0 0 0
3. Larish, Jeffrey- 3B 2 0 0 0
Rivero, Carlos 1 1 1 1
4. Bozied, Tagg- DH 4 0 1 0
5. Rizzotti, Matt- 1B 4 0 1 0
6. Moss, Brandon- RF 2 0 0 0
Thompson, Rich 2 0 1 0
7. Miller, Matthew- LF 2 0 1 0
Kennelly, Timothy- LF 2 1 1 0
8. Suomi, John- C 2 0 0 0
Valle, Sebastian- C 1 0 0 0
9. Garcia, Harold- 2B 3 1 2 0E– Hanzawa (3), Rivero (1). 2B– Rivero (2). SB—Thompson 2 (6), Kennelly (1), Valle (1).
PITCHER IP H R ER BB K
Worley, Vance 4.2 6 0 0 0 5
De Fratus, Justin 2.1 0 0 0 0 2
Perez, Juan 1.0 0 0 0 1 1
Anderson, Matt SV, 1 1.0 0 0 0 0 0
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Did you blog while we were watching the movie?????
Keep cutting and pasting, it’s all good!
Perhaps I was too hard on Mr. Anderson. I’m going to try to find some comments about his velocity/control today.
BTW, anyone seen a sign of the 2011 Media Guide? The 2010 version is $2 on the web site now, but if anyone sees that the 2011 is out–please post and I’ll run over and get one.
Media guide scheduled to be on sale March 31st.
Sarge, didn’t you report that Rizzotti was destined for Reading? He seems to be getting a lot of time in these AAA spring games…
Rizzotti was assigned to minor league group #2 (AA) but that doesn’t mean he’s destined for Reading. Players in those groups move up and down as needed. The Phuture Phillies blog posted updated workout groups on the 21st and Rizzotti was now listed in group 1. The full updated list had this for group 1 (keep in mind there are still 10-12 guys in big league camp):
Catchers: Joel Naughton, John Suomi, Sebastian Valle
Infielders: Tagg Bozied, Harold Garcia, Troy Hanzawa, Tim Kennelly, Jeff Larish, Carlos Rivero, Matt Rizzotti.
Outfielders: Chris Frey, Matt Miller, Brandon Moss, Jeremy Slayden, Mike Spidale, Cory Sullivan, Rich Thompson
Pitchers: Matt Anderson, Phillipe Aumont, Brian Bass, Eddie Bonine, Nate Bump, Andrew Carpenter, Justin DeFratus, Ryan Edell, Ryan Feirabend, Brian Gordon, Jason Grilli, Dan Meyer, Drew Naylor, Juan Perez, Michael Schwimer, Mike Stutes, Vance Worley.
Of course, none of those catchers will likely be in AAA once Kratz, Sardinha and Gosewisch are reassigned.
One of the hottest Phillies hitters in the minor league games has been Joe Savery.
Updated news on Bocock hasn’t been very promising. I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that his wrist isn’t healing as expected and he was going to have another MRI.
WOO HOO!
Yeah, Richie’s been playing well. I look forward to watching him play again this year.
As far as Bocock: yes, I read that too. I think we’ll be OK–I’m not being sarcastic–as there’s a chance we’ll get Barfield. Orr’s good. Young Mr. Hanzawa (probably destined for Clearwater) has been playing well. Garcia’s been OK. We should be able to get two decent middle infielders out of that group with the outside chance that someone like Young or Martinez (rule 5) enters the mix.
Nice little update, Decal.
Great tweet by Jason Grilli just 15 minutes ago. Here it is:
“Good outing today. Keep on truckin! 2 IP 0 ER 0 BB 4Ks. Oink oink!
That’s good stuff! Not too many players looking forward to a spot on the Pigs
4 k out of 6 ab = 0 er
Make a note, Geometry Majors
When is Education Day?