Down On the Farm 6/26/10

DOTF Player of the Day: Louisville’s Travis Wood – 8 innings of 5 hit shutout baseball. He’s on a roll. AAA Louisville 7 – Norfolk 0 Travis Wood threw 8 innings of 5 hit shutout baseball, walking 1 and striking out 9, lowering his ERA to 3.12 and his WHIP to 1.08. In his last 8 starts, he’s thrown 56 innings with a 1.92 ERA. Chris Burke (HR), Wladimir Balentien, Todd Frazier and Chris Valaika all had two hits for the Bats. Ryan Hanigan was the DH, hitting in the #2 hole, and went 0-5. Gary Matthews Jr. did not play. AA Carolina 11 – Tennessee 4 2008′s 9th round pick, Dave Sappelt went 3-5 night in which he had a triple, homered, scored 3 times, and drove in 3 runs. Kris Negron had 2 hits and drove in 4 runs with a double, homer, and a walk. Devin Mesoraco, Eric Eymann, and Sean Danielson all contributed 2 hit nights also, on a night the Mudcats collected 13 hits. 28 year old Tom Cochran lowered his ERA to 2.53 with 5 innings of 1 run, 6 hit...