6/19 Gameday Thread: Chasing Aldo

There are games today people. I mean the Sea Dogs got rained out, but we other minor league teams.
- Checks box scores -

Franchy K'd 3 times
Downs, Chavis, & Wong all went hitless and each K'd twice
Shugart got shelled and Greenville losing 9-0
Aldo didn't make his scheduled start.

Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
The dead rising from the grave!
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!

Was wondering with Aldo earlier if/how they’re going to monitor his innings this year. His career high was 61 innings in 2019 and he’s coming off a year with no game action. He’s already at 31 innings, so is this a load management thing or is there an injury we didn’t hear about?

Rafaela playing 2B today after playing 3B yesterday. I had missed this, but Northcut has been pretty bad since the first series, save for the series in Fredericksburg where everybody hit. Wonder if he's about to start losing PT to Lopez, with Rafaela shifting into the IF more.

Howlett also still has just two plate appearances against pitchers who are younger than he is.

Seeing his eighth-inning homer tonight, it struck me that he seems to do a lot of his damage late. Upon review, entering tonight he was just .179/.267/.359 in the first three innings of a game in 45 plate appearances.

Howlett's HR was opposite way to RCF and well over 400' off the scoreboard