Friday, June 26, 2009

Susdorf, Slayden still hot-Drabek to pitch in St. Louis

Steve Susdorf had 3 more hits, including 2 doubles, and a walk Thursday night and the Threshers took a 7-6, 12-inning win in Jupiter to open their second half. Steve is now 9 for 18 since his promotion from Lakewood. Matt Rizzotti had 2 hits, including his 7th home run and drove in 3 runs, and Fidel Hernandez (.273) and Javis Diaz (.294) also chipped in with 2 hits each. Drew Naylor started and went 6.1 innings, allowing 6 runs (only 4 earned) on 9 hits and 2 walks, Chris Kissock recorded 8 outs without allowing a hit, Walter Tejeda tossed 2 scoreless frames and picked up the win, and Santo Hernandez got through the 12th despite walking 2 to record his 2nd save with Clearwater.

Meanwhile, over in Reading, Jeremy Slayden continues to make his case, picking up 3 more hits to increase his average to .467 for the R-Phils, in support of Kyle Drabek in Reading's 9-3 win over New Hampshire. "Slay" is 14 for 30 since being reassigned to Reading and, in my opinion, should be getting these at bats in Lehigh Valley. Jeremy has played at each level in the Phillies chain, improving with each step, and has earned a spot in the IronPigs everyday line-up.

As for Drabek, this kid is unstoppable!! Thursday night he went 7.1 innings, allowing just 3 runs on 6 hits and a walk, striking out 9, to improve to 4-0 for Reading (8-1, 2.46 overall). Congratulations to Kyle, who has been selected to pitch for the USA team in the "Future Stars Game " at the major league All-Star festivities in St Louis next month!!!

One more item of note, Jon Pettibone threw 6 shut out innings for Williamsport Thursday night against Mahoning Valley in the Scrappers 6-1 win. Pettibone has now thrown 11 consecutive scoreless frames in his 2 starts, giving up just 6 hits, striking out 12. Shortstop Jeremy Barnes had 3 more hits and is off to a .393 start for the Crosscutters.

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