Round Rock

The Express swept a pair of 7 inning games from New Orleans last night. In the first game, Reggie Abercrombie hit his 8th homer of the year to lead the Express to a 3-2 win. Reggie has hit .336 in the month of May with 18 RBI.

In game 2, Chance Douglass doubled and scored a run at the plate. He also picked up the win by only allowing 3 hits and 2 walks in 6 innings of shutout baseball. Chad Pronto was given the save despite giving up a triple and two hit batters in his one inning of work. Read the rest of this entry »

Is Roy injured? Cooper reiterated on Wednesday that the right-hander is healthy.

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Astros 1
Turdinals 6

W: Wainwright (5-2) | L: Rodriguez (1-1)

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Eny Cabreja made his triumphant return to the rotation Wednesday night, seeing action for the first time since April 19th. Unfortunately for everyone on the side of Good, this was a Road Start, and it was therefore Road Wandy who took the hill.

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The games take second fiddle to the player news today, let’s start our trip around the farm in Salem.

Salem

The Avs took an 8-4 loss last night. Pankovits had this to say about starter Joel Santo

“In his last two or three outings he’s pitched pretty well,” Pankovits said. “He fell behind but he’s been able to make some pitches to put people away. Tonight he wasn’t able to do that.

“Even though he has a good arm and he’s able to throw in the low 90s, you’ve still got to be able to command your pitches.”

Erick Abreu will start Thursday’s game for Polin Trinidad who was called up to Corpus Christi. Sergio Severino will join the Avs from Lexington.
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We are nearing the end of May and it is time to peek in on the Hooks and see how they are doing down in the 8 team Texas League. Through 50 games, they are .500 (25-25) and in 3rd place in the Texas League South, 8 games out of 1st. All stats and rankings were as of the 5/27/08. Read the rest of this entry »

Cooper told Sampson “just not to think of it as a demotion. He’s got a chance to help us. Instead of one time a week, (now) it could be three times a week or four times. He might be an early guy. He might be anywhere, really.”

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