OKC Comets 3 – Sugar Land Space Cowboys (Houston) 2
Bobby Miller drew the start against Houston’s Lance McCullers, Jr. on a rehab assignment in the 3rd and final game of the series.
OKC started the scoring in the 2nd inning. Kody Hoese had a one out single and moved to 2nd on a WP. Hunter Feduccia drew a walk. Both Hoese and Feduccia scored on a Ryan Ward double and a 2-0 lead.
Bobby Miller got through 4.2 scoreless innings before reaching 78 pitches…time for automatic removal. Logan Boyer relieved Miller and completed the 5th. In his 4.2 IP, Miller allowed 2 singles, 2 BB, with 4 K. Of his 78 pitches, 46 were strikes (59%). A lot of 5-6-7 pitches to batters. His fastball sat 97-98 with a peak at 98.8 MPH.
Ben Harris relieved Boyer and gave up a solo HR to Jesus Bastidas in the 6th inning. Julien Fernandez relieved Harris and gave up the tying run in the 7th on a BB and run scoring triple.
In the 9th, Austin Gauthier and Chris Okey led off with singles. Hyeseong Kim moved both runners up on a sacrifice bunt. Dalton Rushing drew the intentional free pass to load the bases. Alex Freeland followed that with an unintentional BB to force in the go-ahead and eventual winning run.
Jack Little entered the 9th in a save situation. He did allow a single and BB, but no runs. Little got the save in the 3-2 victory.
OKC starts a 6-game series at home against El Paso Chihuahuas (San Diego) on Tuesday.
- Chris Okey – 2-4
- Ryan Ward – 1-4, double, 2 RBI
- Alex Freeland – 1-4, 1 BB, 1 RBI
- Hunter Feduccia – 2 BB, 1 RBI, 1 run
- Kody Hoese – 1-4, 1 BB, 1 run
- Austin Gauthier – 1-4, 1 run
Box Score
Watched the first few innings. Looked to me like Miller was overthrowing the ball a lot.
Good stuff. Appreciate these.
Jeff–Who is the AA 3B? Went to sleep not knowing and still don’t know.
Sasaki says he’s having trouble adjusting to the pitch clock and low quality American baseballs.
Yeah, that’s probably true, but did you see those rings?
RIP my good friend and drummer for our pickin on the porch group, Butch Klipp. Colorado native and avid fisherman. RIP Butch, you will be missed. Butch is on the far right in the photo. This is before he got his drum pad. Carrying all that drum hardware was a chore.
Really appreciate the reports from OKC.
I noticed that Kim played CF in this one, with Outman shifting to RF.
They’re competing for next-man-up, in part because of Edman’s versatility. But if Teo or Conforto get hurt, Outman should have the edge….
Nice start for Miller. He’d be a good fit for a few contenders–and maybe still a good fit for the Dodgers.
Now let’s see what Glasnow and May can do…
Some early hitting stats:
Edman leads the team in AB, HR & Total Bases
Ohtani leads in H & SB [his 1 is the only on the team] & is tied with Smith in BB]
Conforto leads in 2B
Teo leads in RBI
Betts leads in AVG, SLG & OPS
Smith leads in OBP & is tied with Ohtani in BB]
Freeman is 2nd in SLG
Betts is 2nd in OBP
Smith is 2nd in AVG & OPS
Pages in 2nd in BB
Would any of the Dodgers hitters benefit from the Torpedo Bat????
I have my office door closed and am watching the Red Sox/O’s game right now.
Waiting for Devers to come up again.
Red Sox nation is about to drown in their chowdah.
“The Office of the Commissioner of Baseball announced today that Atlanta Braves outfielder Jurickson Profar has received an 80-game suspension without pay after testing positive for Chorionic Gonadotrophin (hCG), a performance enhancing substance”.
The torpedo bat.
I may have told this story before but it’s worth telling again.
A good buddy of mine in Oklahoma taught me how to find the sweet spot on a bat. I never knew, and assumed it was where the barrel is the thickest. It is not.
How to find it:
Hold the bat with two fingers toward the center. Take a wooden spoon, or some other similar hard object, and start tapping the bat from the end toward the label. You will feel the bat vibrate with each tap until you get to the sweet spot, which is closer to the label than you might think. And the bat is actually narrower there. What the torpedo bat has done is moved the widest part of the barrel down to where the sweet spot actually is. It’s ingenious. And I’m blown away nobody has thought of this until now.
Request on a topic: Is Andy Pages the answer at CF?
He doesn’t need to be great, mind you, but is he good enough?
Nice job by Glasnow and the pen last night. I really like this Dreyer kid. Teo and Kike do it again. Last time they did that, they sent the Dodgers to the NLCS.
https://x.com/brownsonjacob2/status/1907149106503356795?s=46
Still on pace for 162-0.
Some thoughts on last night’s game:
Glasnow was awesome, especially the first inning. They talked about the work he’s put in on his mechanics and it looks good to me. One of the things I promoted and looked for in both hitters and pitchers is Balance, Posture and Alignment. Balance includes staying over your belly-button at three critical phased; at lift and load over the rubber, at front foot strike and at release. Tyler showed up perfectly at all 3 phases and it was especially evident as the ball came out of his hand. He pitched downhill and just powered that 4-seamer 12 to 6 through the strike zone. There was no flying open early which apparently he worked on. He lost it temporarily with runners on. Since he throws everything from the stretch, that wasn’t a difference but he seemed to outrun his arm and not staying back when he went to a slide-step. But he got it back and was mostly great with his mechanics for his 5 innings and on par with his pitch count. Very nice to see.
Jesus, what happened to Dan Belino’s strike zone for a few hitters. Did he take a cat-nap?
Who was the Dodger scout that sold Ned Colletti to draft Grant Holmes in the first round in the 2014 draft for $2.5 million? The guy’s a midget to start with. Good for him to finally make the show after 10-years in the minor leaguer, but unless something drastic changed he doesn’t look like a first rounder.
Teo’s signing was the best Dodger move of the off-season.
A quick tip for Muncy; please try harder to throw the ball to Edman in the air at 2nd base on a potential double play. Tommy has bailed Max out 2 game in a row from short-hopping the ball into right field.
I’m liking Conforto’s swing more and more.
Orel made mention of on Ohtani’s slide into second for second time. I was thinking the same thing. For a change he didn’t rely on sticking his left hand in the dirt to slide. Back in the day, we were taught to slide touching your butt and back on the dirt and throwing the hands in the air. That keeps that damaged elbow from more injury.
What is the exact job description of the Dodger’s “Skills Coach?”
Jesse Chavez was DFAd by the Braves this afternoon. Brett DeGues was picked up off of waivers by the Phillies.
In the least surprising news of the day, Manny Machado and Tatis offered their support for Jurickson Profar after his 80 game suspension for testing positive for a banned substance. Tatis, of course, had his own PED suspension in 2022.
Birds of a feather. And some wondered what was wrong in the Padres clubhouse and why the team fell apart?
Dodgers released a lineup that sits Max and Conforto against Sales, going with Rojas and Taylor instead.
Will this be Taylor’s first action of the season?