5:55 PM — A few things…Craig Heyer is set to pitch Thursday, and Igawa stays in the rotation for Friday.
Damon Sublett has been throwing sides lately. Doesn’t sound like it’s anything too serious in terms of a conversion to pitcher, but it’s certainly noteworthy.
And…add this to the story queue (see: Norton, Tim and Sanchez, Tony)…I spoke to Manny Banuelos about how he learned the English language. On-field stuff has been hammered to death with him…so I figured why not.
4:05 PM — In the “let’s guess Betances’ pitch count” game for today, keep in mind that he threw 73 pitches his last time. He may go…gasp, dare I say, 80 today?
3:45 PM — Kei Igawa pitched Like a Bosh on Sunday…no word on if he’ll start again on Friday.
Lineups are in…
READING
Freddy Galvis, SS
Matt Miller, RF
Matt Rizzotti, DH
Cody Overbeck, 1B
Carlos Rivero, 3B
Derrick Mitchell, CF
Michael Spidale, LF
Paco Figueroa, 2B
Tuffy Gosewich, C
Josh Zeid, P
TRENTON
Austin Krum, LF
Jose Pirela, SS
Bradley Suttle, 3B
Jose Gil, C
Cody Johnson, DH
Melky Mesa, CF
Corban Joseph, 2B
Addison Maruszak, 1B
Ray Kruml, RF
Dellin Betances, P
2:45 PM — Heard from Alan Horne today. The 2007 Eastern League Pitcher of the Year is now ahead of schedule and is scheduled to face hitters for the first time tomorrow in extended spring training. He anticipates getting into an extended spring game as early as next week, and he’ll likely stay there until his pitch count gets built up. Horne is very optimistic and says he feels very good.
More pre-game notes when I get to the ballpark…
Mike Ashmore, mashmore98 AT gmail.com
May 9, 2011 at 7:34 pm |
[...] Weird note from Mike Ashmore in Trenton: Outfielder Damon Sublett has been throwing side sessions. Ashmore says it doesn’t appear to be a serious attempt to convert him to the mound — [...]
May 9, 2011 at 10:00 pm |
[...] to think that he’ll contribute much if anything at this point. In much more interesting news, Mike Ashmore says Damon Sublett has been throwing side sessions. Yes, the same Damon Sublett that’s played [...]
May 9, 2011 at 10:10 pm |
[...] Weird note from Mike Ashmore in Trenton: Outfielder Damon Sublett has been throwing side sessions. Ashmore says it doesn’t appear to be a serious attempt to convert him to the mound — [...]