Contemplating the Crawdads

(Jake Brigham, photo courtesy of John Setzler)

4/16/09, Hickory 3, Greenville 4 (box score)

Your Hickory Crawdads finished their series against the Greenville, SC Drive last night. Martin Perez was credited with the loss after entering the game for 4 innings of relief. Jake Brigham proved to be the better Crawdads pitcher last night going 4 innings, allowing 3h, 1BB, 1ER, 5k's. Despite his excellent outing, Brigham never pitched with a lead as the Crawdads could not score a run until the 7th inning. Brigham has now pitched 9.1 innings this season allowing only a single earned run with 9 strikeouts.

At 21 years old, the 6'3", 215 lb Brigham is attempting to return from Tommy John surgery that kept him off the field last year.

-Perez's outing looked something like this...

5th- single, groundout, double, groundout, groundout
6th- double, flyout, k, k
7th- walk, triple, sac fly, walk, k, k
8th- k, flyout, k

-Boy, it's a shame David Paisano can't hit his weight. Many agree that Paisano defends centerfield at a major league level but the 21 year old has never hit above .260 for a single season. To David's credit, He did slap a pair of singles in the final game of the series.

-Clark Murphy still hasn't walked this season.

-Lonestarball'r Dirkatron compiled more observations from the last two games of the series. I highly recommend you check them out here.