Minor League Blogs

Ben Jukich improved to 6-4 on the season with a really nice start in the Bats 4-2 win over Toledo.  He gave up a run on six hits and three walks with five strikeouts in 5 2/3 innings.  Pedro Viola gave up a run in the ninth but he still held on to pick up [...]

Matt Maloney may have seen his specatcular ERA (now 2.30) go up, but it was still more then good enough for him to walk away with the win in the Bats 6-4 win over Gwinnett.  He gave up three runs on seven hits and two walk with six strikeouts in 6 2/3 innings.  Robert Manuel [...]

Matt Maloney fell to 4-4 despite a solid start in the Bats 3-2 loss to Charlotte.  He gave up three runs on seven hits with three strikeouts in the eight inning complete game.  He needed only 89 pitches and 70 of them were for strikes.
Drew Sutton went two for four with a double.  Kevin Barker [...]

The Bats had plenty of hitting stars in their 11-5 over Gwinnett.  Darnell McDonald went three for five with a pair of solo homers and three runs.  Kevin Barker went two for two with a double, a solo home run and two runs scored while Edwin Encarnacion belted a three run blast during his rehab [...]

The Bats lost a tough one as they went into extra frames and lost 6-3 in the tenth.  Robert Manuel took the loss and he fell to 3-3 after he gave up the three tenth inning runs.
Kevin Barker went one for three with a walk, a solo home run and two runs.  Craig Tatum went [...]

Three Bats pitchers combined to shutout the Braves in an impressive 5-0 win.  Sam LeCure picked up the win and he improved to 5-5.  He gave up four hits and two walks with five strikeouts in 6 2/3 innings.
Kevin Barker brought the big stick and he went two for four with a two run homer [...]

Chicks love the long ball and the Bats picked up three of them in a 6-4 win over Norfolk.  Drew Sutton belted a two run shot while Kevin Barker and Craig Tatum both went yard with a solo homers.
Ramon Ramirez picked up the win and he improved to 2-4 on the season. He gave up [...]

Ben Jukich was roughed up and he took the loss in the Bats 5-1 loss to Norfolk yesterday.  He gave up five runs on seven hits and two walks with six strikeouts in five innings.
Kevin Barker was the hitting star and he went two for three with a walk,  He also drove in the lone Bats [...]

The Bats almost let a late lead get away from them but a late inning flurry gave them the runs they needed in the 8-5 win.  Kevin Barker was one of the hitting stars and he belted a home run and he drove in three.  Wes Bankston went three for four with two doubles, a [...]

The Bats got it done in the ninth inning yesterday.  Down 6-5, Kevin Barker belted a two run single to give the Bats the lead.  Luis Bolivar had a nice day at the plate and he went three for four with a double, a triple and three runs.  Chris Valaika went two for with two doubles and [...]

Ben Jukich got it done today as the Bats picked up a win at home.  He improved to 2-0 and he gave up one run on seven hits and one walk with four strikeouts in six innings.  Josh Roenicke struck out two in a shutout ninth and he picked up his first save of the [...]

I’m no longer bitter about the trade, but I find it ironic that both Bill Bray and Gary Majewski, the guys we got when we traded Felipe Lopez and Austin Kearns, are both playing for Louisville.  Okay, maybe I am bitter about the trade still.
Still, it was Scott Sauerbeck who took the loss.  He gave [...]

The Chiefs took care of the Red Wins 5-3 and it was Kevin Barker who led the way at the plate.  He was a perfect three for three with a homerun, two RBIs and two runs.  Wayne Lydon doubled, drew two walks and drove in two runs.
Jordan De Jong picked up the win and he [...]

Jeremy Cummings dropped to 3-6 on the season with a rough start in the Chiefs’ 8-2 loss to Pawtucket.  He gave up four runs on six hits and one walk with five strikeouts in four innings of work.
Ray Olmedo went two for four with a double.  Kevin Barker doubled, drove in a run and scored.

Victor Zambrano improved to 2-1 on the season with a nice start in the Chiefs 7-2 win over Charlotte. He gave up two runs on two hits with three walks and eight strikeouts in seven innings.
Kevin Barker was the hitting star in the win.  He went two for four with a solo homerun and two runs.  [...]

Josh Banks improved to 6-4 on the season with a nice start in the Chief’s 6-4 win over Toledo.  He gave up two runs on five hits and a walk with six strikeouts in six solid innings.
Erik Kratz doubled and drove in two runs in the win.  Kevin Barker went three for three with a [...]

John Thomson fell to 2-4 on the season with a rough start in the Chiefs 12-3 loss to the Mud Hens.  He gave up six runs on seven hits and four walks with six strikeouts in five innings.
Kevin Barker went one for four with two RBIs.  Ryan Roberts went two for three with an RBI [...]

The Chiefs remained one of the hottest team in the minor leagues when they edged the Clippers in ten innings for their ninth straight win.  Curtis Thigpen drove in a run in the bottom of the ninth on a sac. fly to send the game into extra frames and then John-Ford Griffin tripled home Kevin [...]

Michael MacDonald got it done for the Chiefs in their 6-1 win over the Clippers.  He gave up one run on eight hits and two walks with one strikeout in seven innings of work.
Chad Mottola hit a two run homer in the win.  Kevin Barker went one for one with two walks, two RBIs and [...]

Michael MacDonald blew a 3-0 lead and he dropped his first start of the season in a 4-3 loss to Indianapolis.  He gave up four runs on seven hits and three walks with four strikeouts in seven innings of work.
Kevin Barker was the hitting star in the loss.  He went two for three with a [...]

The Chiefs took it to the Yankees today and won both ends of a doubleheader. In they first game, Kevin Barker had three hits and four RBIs and Curtis Thigpen had two hits, three runs and three RBIs in the 8-2 win.  Josh Banks picked up the win with a seven inning complete game.  He [...]

Syracuse scored two runs in the bottom of the eighth to tie the game and then they scored a single run in the bottom of the fourteenth to win it.  Kevin Barker doubled and drove in two runs and Russ Adams hit a oslo homerun in the 4-3 win.
Geremi Gonzalez threw five shutout innings and [...]

This was a tough loss.  The Chiefs were down 4-0 and then Kevin Barker, John Hattig and Sal Fasano hit back to back to back homeruns in the top of the seventh to tie it. Unfortunately, Blaine Neal gave up a ninth inning run as the Chiefs let this one slip.
Geremi Gonzalez was hit hard [...]