Prospects and Standouts for Friday’s Games

High-A Wilmington Blue Rocks

In Wilmington, Delaware, the Blue Rocks played a good game against the Hickory Crawdads (Rangers affiliate). Jake Irvin had a strong start going three innings with three strikeouts, no walks, and only two hits allowed. Former 2nd-round pick, Tim Cate, relieved Irvin for his first appearance of the season and was equally as good, filling up the zone and getting quick outs. Wilmington won 10-3. On the offensive side, Darren Baker led the charge with an RBI ground-rule double in the 3rd inning. Omar Meregildo followed him up in the 5th with an RBI double of his own, his fourth two bagger of the season. Meregildo has started the season very hot. Drew Mendoza was Doubles Drew again tonight.

Double-A Harrisburg Senators

In Harrisburg the starting pitching was dominant per usual. Cole Henry did what he does, throwing three hitless innings with five punch outs. Alex Troop took the reigns in the 4th inning and did a solid job as he’s done all April. Troop now has a 3.09 ERA in his first 11.2 innings pitched. Brady Lindsly, the former Oklahoma catcher for Cade Cavalli in college, was the offensive star for Harrisburg tonight with 3 hits that included a homer . Shortstop Jecksson Flores leads the team in batting average and he had another two-hit night raising his batting average to .318.

Triple-A Rochester Red Wings

Jackson Tetreault was tonight’s starter against Lehigh Valley, and finished 4 1/3 innings allowing just two earned runs on four hits with four strikeouts. Andrew Stevenson and Josh Palacios posted multi-hit nights. Stevenson’s 2-for-4 night marked his sixth multi-hit game of the season, tying Joey Meneses for the clubhouse lead in that category. Stay hot Donovan Casey as he went 1-3 with a walk. Nick Banks expanded his hitting streak to 12 games with a 2-for-4 game. He’s now 18-for-46 on the season to lead the Red Wings with a .383 batting average.

Farm System final notes 🎶

The Nats’ minor league system had quite the night. Literally dozens of stand-outs, and many of them are not names we discuss often enough.

Washington’s minor league farm system update!

All of the Nats’ minor league affiliates won tonight. What a night it was for Cole Henry, the Nats Top-3 pitching prospect was on a pitch count and threw a 3-inning no-hitter for Harrisburg Double-A. At High-A Wilmington, Tim Cate had a nice outing of 4.0 innings in relief with shutout work as he was on a pitch count also. Maybe the coolest play you will see involved Brady House and Jacob Young at Class-A Fredericksburg. House popped-up in foul territory near the 1st base dugout, and Young tagged up from third base and scored which then tallied for House one of the most unuusal Sac Fly and RBI you will ever see.

Class-A Fredericksburg “FredNats” Nationals

The FredNats brought the thump on offense again tonight scoring three in the first and four in the second with help from two extra-base hits from Boissiere who was a HR shy of a cycle, a Leandro Emiliani home run (he is on fire), and another multiple hit game from Brady House (again). Geraldi Diaz also smoked a two-run double to make it 7-0 early. Viandel Pena added 3 hits himself. Brendan Collins made his second start of the season and managed to hold the Cannon Ballers to 2 runs and Karlo Seijas pitched the final four innings yielding 3 runs in this 12-5 FredNats win.