Wednesday’s opponents: New York Mets (Memphis and Springfield at Jupiter with Palm Beach and Quad Cities at Port St. Lucie) plus Quad Cities 2 entertained the Long Island Storm.
Thursday’s opponents: Partial schedule with Memphis and Springfield at Port St. Lucie against the Mets. It will be the final Florida game for the Triple-A club as they head to Memphis to entertain the big-league Cardinals on Friday night and Saturday afternoon.
Thursday is a camp day for Palm Beach and Quad Cities as they face off again.
All five clubs lost Wednesday’s contests, their first sweep of the spring, whether positive or negative, with the latter the case on this day. Following are the current won-loss records of the teams this spring. The group in total fell five games under .500.
Memphis: 5-8-0
Springfield: 5-7-1
Palm Beach: 6-6-1
Quad Cities #1: 4-7-2
Quad Cities #2: 5-2-1
Total: 25-30-5
The following game summaries are provided through the courtesy of the St. Louis Cardinals by Director of Minor League Operations John Vuch.
Memphis lost to Buffalo, 6-0
Memphis pitching
Blake Hawksworth, 5 IP, 7 H, 2 ER, 2 BB, 5 K’s
Katsuhiko Maekawa, 3 IP, 2 H, 2 ER. 2 BB. 4 K’s
Chris Perez, 1 IP, 2 H, 2 ER, 0 BB, 1 K
Memphis hitting
Nick Stavinoha (pictured) 2-for-3, double and walk
Antonio DeJesus, David Freese, Bryan Anderson, Casey Rowlett all 1-for-3
Brian Barton 1-for-4
Springfield lost to Binghamton, 9-1
Springfield pitching
Brad Furnish 4.2 IP, 6 H, 4 ER, 3 BB, 1 K
Elvis Hernandez 1.1 IP, 2 H, 1 unearned run, 0 BB, 1 K
Ken Maiques 1.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB
Francisco Samuel 0.2 IP, 2 H, 3 ER, 3 BB
Pete Parise 0.2 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 1 K
Springfield hitting
Tyler Henley, 3-for-4 with a run scored
Daniel Descalso 2-for-4
Brett Wallace, Andrew Brown, James Rapoport all 1-for-4
Palm Beach lost to St. Lucie, 3-2
Palm Beach pitching
Ryan Kulik 4 IP, 5 H, 2 ER, 1 BB, 2 K’s
Blake King 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 1 K
Sam Freeman 2 IP, 2 H, 1ER, 3 BB
Thomas Eager one perfect inning with three groundball outs
Adam Reifer, 1 IP, 1 BB, 1 K
Palm Beach hitting
Nick Derba 1-for-2 with a double and walk
Jermaine Curtis, 1-for-3 with a double
Charlie Kingrey 1-for-3 with a run scored
Quad Cities#1 lost to Savannah, 4-0
QC #1 pitching
Scott McGregor 4 IP, 6 H, 3 ER, 0 BB, 1 K
Kevin Thomas 3 IP, 1 H, 0 BB, 2 K’s
Jose Rada, 1 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 1 K
Ramon Delgado, 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 2 K’s
QC#1 hitting
Paul Cruz 2-for-4
Alex Castellanos and Roberto Espinoza both 1-for-3
Quad Cities #2 lost to Long Island Storm, 7-1
QC #2 pitching
Reynier Gonzalez 2.2 IP, 5 H, 5 ER, 3 BB, 1 K
Randy Santos retired the only hitter he faced
Senger Peralta 1.2 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K
Matt Frevert 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 3 K’s
Marco Gonzalez 1 IP, 1 H, 1 ER, 2 K’s
Kristhiam Linares 0.2 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 1 K’s
QC #2 hitting
Edwin Gomez 1-for-3 with a double
Frederick Parejo 1-for-4 with a double
Jose Garcia 1-for-3 with an RBI
Brett Lilly 1-for-3 with a walk
Travis Mitchell and Beau Riportella 1-for-4
Yunior Castillo 1-for-3