JETHAWKS NOTEBOOK: BROWN BACK ON TRACK MUCH-TRAVELED INFIELDER IS HEATING UP FOR JETHAWKS.Byline: Gideon Rubin Special to the Daily News LANCASTER - Neb Brown was on the JetHawks' parent Arizona Diamondbacks This article is about the baseball team. For other uses, see Diamondback. The Arizona Diamondbacks (also referred to as the D-backs) are a Major League Baseball team based in Phoenix, Arizona. They play in the West Division of the National League. prospect track when he suffered a season-ending ankle injury last year weeks after a midseason promotion from Lancaster to Double-A El Paso El Paso (ĕl pă`sō), city (1990 pop. 515,342), seat of El Paso co., extreme W Tex., on the Rio Grande opposite Juárez, Mex.; inc. 1873. (Texas). This year, he's been on track to just about everywhere in the Diamondbacks' system. In his second stint with the JetHawks after starting the season in Double-A Tennessee and playing briefly for Triple-A Tucson (Ariz.), Brown hopes his season finally is back on track. The JetHawks are hoping Brown's decisive three-run homer in the seventh inning of a 9-6 victory Sunday over the High Desert Mavericks The High Desert Mavericks are a minor league baseball team in Adelanto, California, USA. Their Major League parent club is the Seattle Mariners. They are a "high-A" class team in the California League, and had been a farm team of the Kansas City Royals since 2005 before the switch. was the kind of hit that can get their well-traveled infielder going just in time for their playoff push. Brown hadn't homered in 151 previous JetHawks at-bats. The JetHawks had runners at second and third with one out in the seventh when Brown drilled a high and inside 3-1 fastball off Mavericks reliever Greg Atencio. ``That was a milestone right there,'' Brown said. ``That's my first (homer) since April (in Tennessee). I was starting to wonder if I had any juice left. It works on your confidence. I'm glad that finally happened.'' The timing couldn't have been better for the JetHawks, who were looking to avoid a sweep at the hands of a team they're likely to face in the California League The California League is a minor league baseball league which operates throughout the state of California. Before 2002, it was classified as a "High-A" league, indicating its status as a Class A league with the highest level of competition within that classification, and the fifth Southern Division's Sept. 7-9 miniseries. The Mavericks had just tied the score after trailing 6-1 entering the seventh. ``It was a big hit for him and a big hit for us, too,'' JetHawks manager Bill Plummer William Francis Plummer (born March 21, 1947 in Oakland, CA) was a catcher for the Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, and the Seattle Mariners. While never a regular player (he was Johnny Bench's backup catcher during the Big Red Machine years), he did play solid defense. said. --Setting starters: The JetHawks' starting pitching probables are set for the divisional playoff, for which they're on the verge On the Verge (or The Geography of Yearning) is a play written by Eric Overmyer. It makes extensive use of esoteric language and pop culture references from the late nineteenth century to 1955. of qualifying. Right-handers A.J. Shappi (4-6, 4.90 ERA) and Garrett Mock Garrett Lee Mock, born April 25, 1983, in Houston, Texas, is a North American professional baseball player. He is a right-handed pitching prospect in the Washington Nationals organization. (12-7, 4.35) will start the first two games, and left-hander Matt Chico Matthew Bryan "Matt" Chico (born June 10, 1983 in Fullerton, California) is a left-handed starting pitcher for the Washington Nationals of Major League Baseball. A graduate of Fallbrook Union High School, Chico attended Palomar College and was selected by the Arizona Diamondbacks (7-2, 3.19) will start Game 3, if necessary. Right-hander Jon Castellanos (9-2, 4.52) has a less certain role. Plummer said he's considering using Castellanos out of the bullpen the last two games of the miniseries, although he'd prefer to save him for the Sept. 10 opener of the best-of-five divisional championships, assuming Lancaster gets that far. Castellanos' last regular-season start is Monday. ``If we've clinched (a playoff berth) by then,'' Plummer said, ``we may just use him for three innings INNINGS, estates. Lands gained from the sea by draining. Cunn. L. Dict. h. t.; Law of Sewers, 31. so we can use him in (the miniseries) if we need to.'' --Pitcher of the Week: Chico was the California League's Pitcher of the Week for Aug. 22-28, the second time he's won the honor this season. Chico was 1-0 with a 2.03 in two starts last week, striking out 15 batters and allowing four runs (three earned) on 10 hits and three walks in 13 1/3 innings. He's 6-0 with a 2.15 ERA in his past eight starts since snapping an eight-game winless streak July 20. Gideon Rubin, (818) 713-3607 gideon.rubin(at)dailynews.com |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion