Guardians Minor League Recap: Is Blasco for Real?

Columbus Clippers 6, Scranton Railriders 3Clippers improve to 41-32Don’t look now, but catching prospect Kody Huff has quietly been having a great season in Columbus as well. Huff was perfect at the plate on Saturday, going 1-for-1 with a home run and three walks, raising his season OPS to .929, which is second on the team only to Cooper ingle.

Speaking of Ingle, he walked and had an RBI from a sacrifice fly.Other standouts for the day were Ralphy Velazquez, who went 2-for-4, and C.J.

Kayfus, who went 1-fo-3 with a walk.This game saw the activation of top pitching prospect Yorman Gomez and he was solid, striking out eight batters and walking zero in 3.2 innings.

He allowed two runs on four hits.Trenton Denholm followed with one run allowed in 3.2 additional innings and Franco Aleman finished off the game with 1.

2 perfect innings and three strikeouts to earn his eight save.Akron RubberDucks 1, Altoona Curve 3 (F/10)RubberDucks fall to 34-33There wasn’t much to say about this one on the offense end. Juan Benjamin had the best game, going 1-for-3 with a double, a steal and a walk.

Jose Devers also went 1-for-3 with a walk.Starting pitcher Josh Hartle was excellent, allowing one run (zero earned) on just two hits in 6.1 innings pitched.

He struck out four and walked three.Jack Jasiak followed with 1.2 scoreless innings and four strikeouts and Jack Carey initially pitched a scoreless ninth inning, but then gave up two runs in the top of the 10th and Akron was unable to answer.

Hill City Howlers 10, Augusta GreenJackets 11Howlers fall to 31-37There was plenty of offense for Hill City, just not enough pitching on Saturday. Luis De La Cruz paved the way, going an impressive 4-for-5 from the field with a home run and a double, just missing the cycle by a triple. He also stole a base.

Dauri Fernandez singled, walked twice and stole two bases while Anthony Martinez doubled and walked twice. Martinez has a .945 OPS at Hill City and should be playing at Lake County right now.

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