Devil Rays Minor League Baseball Blog

Matthew Walker was hit hard and he took his second loss of the season in a 9-5 loss to Palm Beach.  He gave up eight runs on seven hits and two walks with two strikeouts in 1 1/3 innings.

Chrisian Lopez was the only Ray with two hits and one of them was a solo homerun.  James Hall singled and drove in two runs.

Vero Beach was shut down at the plate in their 7-1 loss to Brevard County.  They picked up just two hits one of those was a triple by Christian Lopez that he scored on.

Jacob McGee took the loss and he dropped to 1-1.  He gave up four runs on six hits and three walks with one strikeouts.

Rhyne Hughes had a big game at the plate today in Vero Beach’s 6-4 win over Daytona.  He went three for four with a double, two runs and an RBI.  Neil Walton and Jackson Brennan each drove in two runs and Christian Lopez scored twice.

Wade Davis was hit hard in his loss but the bullpen did their job and the hitters put together some late rallies.  He gave up four runs (three earned) on five hits and two walks with six strikeouts in 4 1/3 innings.  Jino Gonzalez picked up the win with 1 2/3 innings of shutout ball.

Vero Beach lost to St. Lucie 5-3 and all of the runs were driven in by Christian Lopez.  He went two for four with three RBIs.  Patrick Cottrell went one for two with two walks and two runs.

Jeffrey Kamrath took the loss when he gave up three runs in seventh.  He threw in relief of Matthew Walker, who struck out five in five innings.

The Devil Rays were held to just six hits in a shutout loss to St. Lucie.  Christian Lopez had two of those hits and all six Devil Ray hits were singles.

Wade Davis threw five shutout innings in his start but Jino Gonzalez followed that up by giving up three runs.  Jonathon Beltre was impressive as he struck out the side in the ninth.