JDP Hits Double and HR on his way to LAD (in Miami)

Hello, I am Mark! This is Jeff's post, but you know I was going to weigh in after several commenters informed me how the Dodgers were not going to call up Josue DePaula and I was dumb for saying that. Mor on that later! They can just put those two words which started the last sentence together!

MLBTR has this:

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/los-angeles-dodgers

The Dodgers have to drop someone off the active roster.... I'll be in Dayton tonight covering the Loons. Take it away, Jeff!

OKC Comets 8 – Sugar Land Space Cowboys 6

OKC continues to roll.  They have now won 11 in row.  OKC extended its PCL second half lead and is now 2.0 games ahead of second-place Sugar Land with 10 games remaining in the regular season…The Comets are now a season-best 25 games above .500. 

RHSP Gavin Stone started for OKC.  He was not able to get out of the 1st inning.  He threw 32 pitches, 15 for strikes in 0.2 IP.  Stone struck out the first batter he faced, walked the next two, and then a 3-run HR.  He faced two more batters: a strikeout and a single.  RHRP Chris Campos relieved Stone. 

OKC tied it up in the bottom of the first.  With 1 out, RF James Tibbs III and LF Ryan Ward walked.  With 2 outs, 1B Matt Gorski and SS Noah Miller both walked bringing in a run.  2B Austin Gauthier singled to score two more to tie the game.  

With Campos back on the bump, he allowed a solo HR in the 2nd.  He also struck out the side. 

In the bottom of the 2nd, C Ben Rortvedt, DH Zach Ehrhard, and JTIII each singled to load the bases.  After one out, 3B Ryan Fitzgerald hit a bases clearing double (32), and a 6-4 lead.  

RHRP Edwin Díaz entered in the 3rd.   He walked the first batter, struck out the 2nd, and walked the 3rd batter.  A WP put runners on 2nd and 3rd with one out.  A groundout brought home one run.  LHRP Kris Bubic relieved Díaz and struck out the one batter he faced to end the inning.  

OKC picked up a pair in the 6th.  Rortvedt led off with a single.  With one out, JTIII and Ward walked to load the bases.  Rortvedt scored on SF from Fitzgerald with JTIII to 3rd.  JTIII scored on a WP. 

LHP Jackson Ferris figured to be the bulk pitcher tonight, finished the game for Oklahoma City in relief, tossing 6.0 innings with one run, two hits, two walks and seven strikeouts for his first professional save. He retired a stretch of 11 straight batters from the fourth through seventh innings. Ferris matched an Oklahoma City high for strikeouts by a reliever this season, matching his own total Aug. 8 at Salt Lake. Over his last five games, Ferris has allowed four runs in 28.1 innings with 35 strikeouts. 

 ·      Ryan Ward – 2-3, 2 BB, 1 run

·      Austin Gauthier – 2-3, 2 RBI

·      Ben Rortvedt – 2-4, 2 runs

·      Doubles – Ryan Fitzgerald (32), Noah Miller (20) 

Box Score 

Tulsa Drillers 10 – NW Arkansas (KC) 1

 Tulsa got on the board with the 2nd hitter of the game.  LF Josue De Paula slugged his 27th HR of the season.  This was the first of four HR for the Texas League HR leader. 

RHSP Aidan Foeller made his sixth start on the mound since joining the Drillers and worked 2 1/3 innings, allowing one run on four hits.  He did not walk a batter and struck out two.  His Double-A ERA is now 1.57 in 28 2/3 innings pitched. 

In the 1st, a 2 out single and double tied the score.  

In the 4th, C Griffin Lockwood-Powell hit a one out single.  3B Logan Wagner followed with a 2-run HR (5). 

UDFA LHRP Alex Walsh picked up Foeller with 1 out in the 3rd.  Walsh was brilliant for his 2.2 IP.  He did not allow a baserunner and got 3 outs.   

LHRP Christian Suarez followed Walsh.  While Suarez was not as dominant as Walsh, he was still effective.  Suarez allowed a hit and BB with 2 K over his 2.0 IP. 

In the 7th, with 2 outs, SS Sean McLain hit his 7th HR.  RF Jose Izarra singled.  He stole 2nd and continued to 3rd on a throwing error.  2B Taylor Young hit an infield single to score Izarra.  Taylor scored on JDP’s double (37). 

In the 8th, Wagner hit his 2nd HR of the game, 6th of the season.  

IN the 9th, McLain, Izarra, Young, and JDP each walked.  One run scored and the bases loaded.  1B Jake Gelof then hit a 2-run double (23).  

RHRP Jacob Kmatz closed it out by retiring all six batters he faced in two scoreless innings.  Kmatz now has a 1.53 ERA in 12 games with the Drillers and a 23:2 strikeout to walk ratio.     

·      Josue De Paula – 2-4, 1 BB, 1 run, 3 RBI, double (37), HR (27)

·      Logan Wagner – 3-5, 2 runs, 3 RBI, double (4), 2 HR (6)

·      Sean McLain – 1-3, 1 BB, 2 runs, 1 RBI, HR (7)

·      Jake Gelof – 1-4, 1 BB, 2 runs, double (23) 

JDP now has 104 RBI and 106 runs scored this season.  It is the third most runs scored in the 49-season history of the Drillers franchise and tied for the third most RBI. 

Box Score