Shane Smith and Tanner McDougal both opened their rehab stints with the Winston-Salem Dash on Wednesday night, and both looked the way one would hope after a months-long layoff.
Returning from a rotator cuff strain and pitching for the first time since April 30, Smith pitched two scoreless innings. More importantly, he avoided walking or hitting a batter, which is something he'd failed to do in any of his seven outings, over which he issued 24 free passes over 22 innings.
Returning from a flexor strain and pitching for the first time since April 29, McDougal struck out two of the three batters he faced in a scoreless 15-pitch eighth. If the White Sox are giving McDougal a look out of the bullpen in anticipation of stretch-run plans -- and one would think that if it were entirely business as usual for McDougal, he would have made a rehab start a day before or after Smith did -- he made a positive first impression.
Charlotte 2, Memphis 0 (8 innings)
- Rikuu Nishida went 0-for-3 with a walk and a strikeout.
- Ryan Galanie was 1-for-4 with a stolen base.
- Jonathan Cannon: 6 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 4 K, 58 of 80 pitches for strikes.
Birmingham 6, Montgomery 5
- Caleb Bonemer went 0-for-4 with a strikeout.
- Anthony DePino was 2-for-4 with his 10th Double-A homer and a strikeout.
- Colby Shelton, 1-for-3 with a double and a walk.
- Lucas Gordon: 5 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 3 BB, 5 K, 1 HR, 1 WP, 1 HBP, 54 of 93 pitches for strikes.
- Pierce George: 0.2 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 0 K, 8 of 18 pitches for strikes.
Winston-Salem 12, Greenville 4
- Jeral Perez went 0-for-4 with a walk and a strikeout.
- George Wolkow was 0-for-3 with two walks and two strikeouts.
- Shane Smith: 2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K, 24 of 34 pitches for strikes.
- Tanner McDougal: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K, 9 of 15 pitches for strikes.
Wilson 9, Kannapolis 6
- Jaden Fauske went 1-for-5 with a strikeout and two stolen bases.
- Matthew Boughton and Alexander Albertus both were 0-for-5 with two strikeouts.
- Nick McLain, 2-for-4 with a homer and a strikeout.
- Christian Gonzalez made his Kannapolis debut, singled, walking twice and hitting a sac fly, resulting in the rare 1.000/.750/1.000 line.
- Truman Pauley: 5 IP, 4 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 3 BB, 5 K, 1 HR, 45 of 76 pitches for strikes.
ACL Dodgers 4, ACL White Sox 1 (7 innings)
- Alejandro Cruz went 1-for-3 with a stirkeout.
- Yordani Soto and Jose Mendoza both were 0-for-3 with two strikeouts.
- Eduardo Herrera, 0-for-2 with a K.
- Christian Oppor in relief: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 3 K
