Minor League Blogs

William Juarez improved to 2-2 on the season with a nice start in the Las Vegas’ 4-2 win over Memphis.  He gave up one run on six hits with four strikeouts in six innings.
Mitch Jones hit a two run shot and that was his nineteenth homerun of the season for the big first baseman.  Matt [...]

The good news is, Las Vegas scored ten runs against Memphis.  The bad news is, the pitching gave up fourteen in a high scoring game.  B.J. LaMura took the loss and he gave up six runs in just 1 1/3 innings.  D.J. Houlton gave up five runs in his four inning start.
Matt Kemp went four [...]

Williams Juarez dropped to 1-2 on the season with a rough start in the 6-3 loss to Nashville. He gave up four runs on six hits and four walks with five strikeouts in 5 2/3 innings.
Mitch Jones hit a two run homer in the loss.  Matt Kemp went two for four and he scored a [...]

Las Vegas lost 11-7 and Hong-Chih Kuo took the loss in a rough start.  He gave up five runs on six hits and two walks with five strikeouts in 4 2/3 innings.  Eric Stults was also knocked around and he gave up six runs in 3 1/3 innings.
Matt Kemp went three for four with a [...]

William Juarez was unhittable in Vegas’ 7-4 win over Portland.  He gave up just two walks in six no-hit innings and he struck out ten to pick up the win.  He improved to 1-1 on the season.
Matt Kemp went four for five with a double and two runs. Mitch Jones was a perfect three for [...]

A pretty good start by D.J. Houlton went to waste in Vegas’ 5-3 loss to Tacoma.  He gave up five hits and two walks with six striekouts in six innings.  Matt White then gave up two runs in his one innings and Eric Hull took the loss after he gave up three more in the [...]

Travis Smith took the loss in Las Vegas’ 5-3 loss to Tacoma and he dropped to 2-2 on the season.  He gave up five runs on eight hits and two walks with three strikeouts in five innings.
Matt Kemp provided most of the offense with a two run homer and that was his second of the [...]

Las Vegas blew out Tacoma 9-3 and Matt Kemp and Mitch Jones led the way at the plate.  Kemp homered, tripled and drove in four runs while Jones hit a three run shot.
Luis Gonzalez picked up the win with two innings of solid relief.  Three other relievers combined to throw three inings of shutout ball.

It’s hard to believe that the 51s actually had the lead in this one. They were up 6-4 before three different relievers gave up two runs each in the seventh, eighth and nine innings in the 10-6 loss.  It’s not like they blew a great start by Joe Mays (fours runs on seven hits in [...]