Autumn Dreamin

Iriarte was very good. Started off leaning on the slider, then they started looking for it after he hung a couple so he got them to whiff on the fastball instead. Defense was really solid, there were a couple of hard hit balls early that he got helped out on. 5IP is his longest outing of the season. McCullough got the W for his two innings of scoreless relief. Ramos is having some better at bats approach wise, but still visibly frustrated with his slump. Glove still looks good though, so at least he's not letting it carry over.

Barons rained out, they'll play two tomorrow. The other three affiliates win their games, giving up just 1 run a piece. Lots of promising pitching on the farm. The Knights are so much more watchable than last year (when not up against the Tides). Mendick might be making a case for Chicago. Brebbia has a scoreless 2K inning in his rehab appearance, Berroa has 5 straight scoreless outings after a rocky start.

Pham also getting reps in these AZ games for now.

Fantastic efficiency for Thorpe through 7 scoreless tonight, only 3K but lots of weak contact early in counts.

Great turn here from Colson

Duke Ellis walked, stole 2nd on the first pitch to the next batter, reached third when the throw got away, and scored on a sac fly on the next pitch. First to home in 2 pitches, still perfect (11/11) on SB attempts.

And Ramos hasn't even gotten going yet!

After 10 games, the Barons lead the Southern League in runs, HR (tied), and OBP. They are second in AVG, OPS, and SLG. Their team ERA (2.59) is top 3, and they have the second best run differential.

Unless the Braves' special org magic only works on former White Sox RHP specifically, I would expect Reylo to regress toward the mean just as I would expect Fried (8.74 ERA), Sale, and Morton to not look as rough as they have so far this season. I mean, maybe they do have something special with Chavez since all of his best stints over a 15 year career are with Atlanta...but I have absolutely no complaints about him not being on this roster lol.

Reylo with a third solid start vs. the Astros. The anemic Sox offense is the only one to score against him (1ER) in 18IP/3GS. Aaron Bummer got called in to finish up a 6-0 Braves lead in the 9th and gave up 2ER before getting the hook at 25 pitches after a two out walk. He actually was luckier than usual with some hard hit balls finding gloves:

There's been few defensive highlights from Burke, Ramos, and Zavala tonight. Colson also had a couple nice plays at short earlier.

First inning HRs for Mendick and Colas.

3 is wild, but I don't think top 10 is crazy. Looks like they could have Colson, Schultz, Thorpe, Quero, and Iriarte in their top 100.

Hopefully he's alright, the pitcher injury situation is bad enough as is.

Iriarte strikes out the side in the 3rd. 5Ks, no hits.

Maybe Schultz was just playing with this food? Strikes out the side on 10 pitches in the 4th, 6 Ks in a row now.

Another one for Colson too, 110 off the bat ?

He absolutely hates the Trash Pandas.

And just like that Schultz bounces back with 3Ks. Weird inning.

I love them, but I also like the Sox City Connects.