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AFL Recap: Strong Outing from Cody Ponce in Peoria Victory

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The Peoria Javelinas took on the Scottsdale Scorpions for the second straight night on Wednesday. Jared Oliva and Oneil Cruz were in the starting lineup, while Cody Ponce was the starting pitcher. After winning 3-2 on Tuesday, the Javelinas took another low scoring game, picking up a 3-1 victory. That gives them a 10-7 record.

Ponce threw a lot of strikes over five strong innings. He gave up one run on six hits, with no walks and five strikeouts. The only run he allowed was on a home run. He had a 7:0 GO/AO ratio and threw 51 of 69 pitches for strikes. In three starts, Ponce has allowed three runs over 14 innings (1.93 ERA) and his strikeout total in each game has matched his innings pitched.

Oliva, who was named to the Fall-Stars Game on Tuesday, batted third and played center field. He went 0-for-4 on this night, dropping him down to a .375 average and a 1.055 OPS.

Here’s a batting practice video of Oliva, courtesy of MLB Pipeline’s William Boor.

Cruz was the DH tonight, after playing five innings at shortstop yesterday, in what was his first game in a week. He went 1-for-3 with his first double (first extra-base hit), a walk and a run scored. He’s now batting .182 (6-for-33).

Here’s the boxscore

John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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