6/30 Gameday Thread: I Said Hey-O, This is Brayan Bello

I'm just hoping any lightning is metaphorical.

Bad storms in the PM, hopefully will pass by 7:05.

Went to the park last night thinking I’d see Bello, but they switched him off with Winckowski. should have checked first.. Lots of hard hit balls,

Brandon Walter should be pitching tonight for Salem according to the MiLB box. He threw 4 innings with 2 hits, 9 Ks, and 0 walks last appearance so I'd expect a no-hitter against Fredericksburg tonight. 

2nd time in a few weeks but I'm about to head down to Greenville again to catch tonight's game. I have to put the pictures up from the last time, but the mobile site isn't easy to use and I rarely crack open my personal laptop.

Yeah, i tried desktop mode, but the icon for attach photos becomes illegible in desktop mode and the screen just becomes a Hot mess. I just need to sit in front of my other lap top for like 2 minutes, I just keep forgetting.

I link everything from its external hosting on SmugMug using a laptop, so unfortunately I'm little help with mobile uploading.

Meanwhile, guessing there will be a slight delay in New Hampshire as we have no baselines yet. Nor any bases. But the tarp has been pulled!

Tarp making its appearance again in New Hampshire as the rain returns.

Brandon Walter is showing some nice velocity early. First couple innings he was 94-96 and touching 97-98. Third inning was more around 92-94 but still hitting 97.

Edit: Walter is probably done after 4. Was sitting 91-93 with the fastball before a mound visit where I assume they told him he was done after the inning and he started reaching back for 96 again. I was at a bad position to see the shape of pitches but he had some swing and misses on his off speed stuff.

Davis and Northcut both homered again after last night. Northcut’s was a bomb to center. Stephen Scott just hit a home run as I type this after coming in for Luke Bandy who left early.

So apparently Brandon Walter is becoming a thing. Got a decent report on him from a scout in FXBG tonight.

Was at Salem again tonight. Still trying to hit a couple of more games while they're in town but the weather does not look like it's going to cooperate. Kind of a more meh game tonight. They only scored 9 runs. No Jimenez, Yorke, Lopez, or Rafaela meant a lot of organizational guys in the lineup. I didn't see Jimenez, Yorke, or Rafaela in the dugout with the team so Rafaela may be banged up too. 

Thoughts:

Walter looked pretty good to me. I posted a bit on him earlier, but I honestly liked what I saw. He's got pretty good velo for a lefty and the offspeed stuff was playing too. I'll be interested to hear what the scout said. 

Kwiatowski was not impressive. Stuff is meh and he got hit around because he wasn't getting any swing and misses. 

Scroggins looked decent. Mid-90s fastball and was getting some swing and misses on his high 80s offspeed stuff. 

Lugo did not look as sharp today, both in the field and at the plate. Definitely needs to add strength. 

I've seen Davis homer twice and double in the last two games but he has also swung and missed a lot at some very hittable fastballs. He's still overmatching Low-A pitchers most of the time but there was more than one AB where the pitcher just pumped 88-90 mph fastballs by him repeatedly. 

I'm a Northcut fan. He's reached base 7 times in the past two games (3 hits, 3 walks, HBP) and he's just putting together really good at bats. He didn't strike out in any of the 11 plate appearances that I've seen him in so far, which is a step in the right direction. He's homered in each of the last two games and they've both been bombs. 

Other random thoughts: The umpiring crew has been BAD over the last two games and it almost boiled over for the FredNats manager. There were a couple of really bad calls on the field and it ticked off a very hot and grumpy crowd. I had Salem manager Luke Montz' family sitting behind me during the game and his daughters (both well under 6 yo by the looks of it) kept trying to talk to their dad during the game. Very cute.