Double-A team throws no-hitter, loses 7-5 on 5 walks, 4 hit batters
MADISON, Ala. (AP) — The Los Angeles Angels Double-A Rocket City Trash Pandas allowed one hit in a doubleheader and solely bought a break up.
Three pitchers mixed on a seven-inning, no-hitter for the Trash Pandas solely to lose 7-5 to the Cincinnati Reds’ Chattanooga Lookouts in Saturday’s opener after wildness brought on a seven-run prime of the seventh.
Rocket City pitchers walked 5, hit 4 batters and threw a run-scoring wild pitch within the seventh inning and had been damage by a dropped fly ball with the bases loaded on what might have been the ultimate out.
Coleman Crow, a 22-year-old right-hander who was a Twenty eighth-round decide within the 2019 newbie draft, left with a 3-0 lead after six innings and 78 pitches. He struck out six and walked two.
Ben Joyce, a third-round draft decide final summer season, relieved. The 22-year-old right-hander walked his first two batters, induced a popup and walked a 3rd.
After a strikeout, Joyce (0-1) compelled in a run together with his fourth stroll and bought Jose Torres to fly to heart. Jeremiah Jackson, a second-round draft decide in 2018, dropped the ball for an error that put the Lookouts forward 4-3. Jackson, 23, was an infielder earlier than the Angels began giving him outfield time final season.
Eric Torres, a 23-year-old left-hander who was a 14th-round decide in 2021, relieved and hit three straight batters with pitches, the final forcing in a run. Torres compelled in one other run with a four-pitch stroll, then threw a wild pitch that elevated the result in 7-3. He hit one other batter earlier than an inning-ending strikeout.
Edgar Quero, a Cuban catching prospect who turned 20 on Thursday, hit a two-run single within the backside half towards Stevie Branche.
Andy Fisher (1-0) struck out two in an ideal sixth. Pedro Garcia relieved with two on and one out within the seventh and struck out Jackson and Tucker Flint for his second save.
Rocket City gained the second recreation 3-0 on a one-hitter. Sam Bachman, the ninth general decide in final 12 months’s draft, allowed one hit in 5 innings — Rece Hinds’ leadoff double within the second — struck out 9 and walked none. Brett Kerry completed with two hitless innings and 4 strikeouts.
