posted on Monday, June 30, 2008 2:38 AM
by
Jim
Wrapping up a night with the Knights
Below is some video of Jason Bourgeois, Chris Getz and Dave Cook:
I didn't get video of their entire nights because I wanted to see some at-bats for myself, without worrying about how I'm working the camera. So I'll fill in some gaps and elaborate on what you're looking at:
Bourgeois: The first frame is a picture of him hitting a rocket to center, and picks up with video of him motoring around the bases. I missed his second triple, which was a line shot to the right-center gap. As you can see, he was crushing the ball all evening.
Getz: As luck would have it, I didn't get video of the highlight of his night, which was a solid line-drive double down the right-field line. You're seeing footage of his two cheap singles. As far as I can tell, he's going to make pitchers throw him strikes, but he's not going to hammer them.
Cook: They were working him low and away all night, but he showed he can go down and get it. The shot to right in the video is one of two warning-track flies he hit to the right side. Either Cook can be patient to a fault or the ump had a very large strike zone. Cook's body language after some of the called strikes indicated the latter.
Along with the above video and
the one of Clayton Richard, I put together
a small photo gallery -- including a few shots of Richmond's archaic, whack-assed stadium.
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Minor league roundup:- Norfolk 5, Charlotte 4
- Psuedo-starter Jack Egbert pitched decently, allowing three runs (two earned) on five hits over five innings, with two walks and strikeouts apiece.
- Chris Getz went 3-for-5 with a double and two runs scored.
- Nick Blasi and Danny Richar added two hits apiece.
- Birmingham 5, Mississippi 2
- Justin Cassell allowed one earned run on five hits over six innings, with one walk and three strikeouts.
- Miguel Negron and Javier Colina both had multi-hit games with homers.
- Winston-Salem 5, Salem 3 (12 innings)
- C.J. Retherford went 3-for-6 with a double, homer and four RBI.
- Paulo Orlando doubled and tripled.
- Michael Dubee allowed three runs over five innings.
- Steven Spurgeon, Henry Mabee, Ricky Brooks and Kanekoa Teixeria combined for seven shutout innings of relief.
- Kannapolis 7, Greensboro 3 (8 innings)
- Levi Maxwell went the distance, striking out six over seven innings.
- Dale Mollenhauer had three more hits out of the leadoff spot; Mark Fleisher had three more RBI.
- Logan Johnson, Christian Marrero and John Curtis each went deep.
- Great Falls 6, Billings 4
- Brent Morel went 2-for-3 with two runs scored.
- Nevin Griffith allowed three runs on six hits over 2 2/3 innings.
- Charlis Burdie threw two perfect innings of relief for the win.