Written by Al Ciammiachella

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Around the Farm takes a quick look at how some of the prospects in the Indians system performed in yesterday’s games. As always, the positions listed below are where the player was playing in yesterday’s game.

Another tough day yesterday, as the Indians, Clippers, Aeros, K-Tribe and Captains all lost yesterday. I was in attendance at the Akron-Bowie game, and got to see a great pitching performance…just not from Joe Gardner. Bowie’s starter Zack Clark went 8 2/3 innings, giving up just 3 hits and 1 ER. Impressive, but depressing at the same time.

Adam Miller, RP-KIN: 2 IP, H, 4 K

A dominant outing for Miller, who has now gone 3 consecutive appearances out of the K-Tribe bullpen without giving up a run. It’s still going to take a little while to bring his ERA down after giving up 3 ER in 1 IP in his initial outing this season, but he can certainly be forgiven if he had some butterflys pitching in a real, live game for the 1^st time since 2008. Miller now has 7 K and 3 BB in 5 IP in the Carolina League, and his outing last night was in relief of 2010 1^st round pick Drew Pomeranz. I can tell you with absolute certainty that this is the first time a 2003 1^st round pick has pitched in relief of a 2010 1^st round pick in the Carolina League this season. Miller last pitched for Kinston in 2005, and is trying to climb the organizational ladder once again after having fallen off the top rung due to a myriad of surgeries.

 

• Carlton Smith, RP-COL: 2 IP, ER, 2 H, 3 BB. After opening the season with 11 consecutive scoreless appearances, Smith has now allowed 5 ER in his past two outings. By all accounts, his stuff had not taken a huge leap forward, so this is probably just his luck evening out and his ERA normalizing.
• Jensen Lewis, RP-COL: 2 IP, ER, 3 H, 2 K, BB. Lewis has been living dangerously all season, with a 0.44 GO/AO ratio and more walks than strikeouts. He gave up a bomb last night and now has a 3.78 ERA.
• Lonnie Chisenhall, 3B-COL: 1-5, HR (3), RBI, R. Solid .325/.400/.525 over his last 10 games. Donald injury puts him next in the line of succession for the hot corner in Cleveland. 
• Josh Rodriguez, LF-COL: 1-2, HR (1), 2 RBI, BB, R, K. Welcome back, old friend. Rodriguez is now 2-13 since being reclaimed by the Clippers, and popped his 1^st HR yesterday.
• Cord Phelps, DH-COL: 1-5, K. If Nino Colla can get a t-shirt supporting Jack Hanahan for the all-star game (http://thetribedaily.spreadshirt.com/), I’m confused as to why no one has designed a Free Cord Phelps t-shirt yet.
• Jason Kipnis, 2B-COL: 1-4, 2B, BB. Even hotter than Chiz over his last 10, with a .341/.413/.512 line.
• Wes Hodges, 1B-COL: 2-4, 2B, RBI, R. Ok, I’ll admit it. Hodges has been on fire lately. He’s riding a 7 game hitting streak that’s seen him go 11-26 with a HR, 3 2B and 6 RBI.
• Joe Gardner, SP-AKR: 2 2/3 IP, 5 R (1 ER), 2 H, K, 4 BB. In addition to the 4 BB, Garnder also hit a batter. He was sitting between 89-91 with his fastball and had good movement, he just couldn’t keep the ball in the zone. He reminded me way too much of Bad Fausto last night.
• C.C. Lee, RP-AKR: 2 IP, ER, 3 H, 3 K. Lee was at 91-93 with his fastball and touched 94 a couple of times. Add to that a biting curve at 81-84, and you have yourself a real RP prospect. The run was earned, but it was created by a 2B that Jordan Henry broke in on only to have it go over his head and a seeing-eye single. He only had 1 ball hit hard off of him in his 2 IP.
• Jared Goedert, 1B-AKR: 1-4 ,HR (1), RBI, R, K. The rehabbing Goedert hit one waaaaay out and also hit one his 1^st AB that would have been long gone if it wasn’t foul by about 5 feet. He also made a crucial error at 1B to allow 2 unearned runs to score. But he’s a bat-1^st guy, so we’ll overlook the error in favor of the bomb.
• Drew Pomeranz, SP-KIN: L (1-1), 4 1/3 IP, 3 ER, 6 H, 6 K, 2 BB. One start after recording his 1^st professional win, Pomeranz recorded his 1^st professional loss. Some people just can’t handle success.
• Steven Wright, SP-LCC: 6 IP, 3 H, 9 K, 3 BB. An impressive 6 shutout innings for Wright, who must have really had the knuckler dancing last night in Dayton. Too bad the bullpen couldn’t hold it for him.
• Anthony Gallas, LF-LCC: 2-4, HR (4), RBI, R. The kid from Cleveland is raking lately, putting up a .436/.476/.667 line with a HR and 6 2B over his last 10 games.
• Alex Lavisky, DH-LCC: 2-4, 2 2B, K. Local products Lavisky and Gallas combined for 4 of the Captains 6 hits last night.