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AFL Recap: Ji-Hwan Bae Day!

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After dropping the opener of the Arizona Fall League season on Wednesday, Peoria was back at it on Thursday, this time at home against the Glendale Desert Dogs. Ji-hwan Bae was the only player for the Pittsburgh Pirates in the starting lineup. He batted second and played second base, the same spot/position as Nick Gonzales in the opener.

Bae walked in the first inning and scored a run, then did the same thing in the third inning. In the fourth inning, he lined out to first base. He walked again in the sixth and then scored from first on a double. In the eighth inning, he hit a two-run homer. Bae finished 1-for-2 with a homer, three walks, four runs scored and two RBIs.

Canaan Smith-Njigba pinch-hit with two outs in the ninth, representing the tying run, but he struck out to end the game.

Peoria lost 11-9. They have a night game tomorrow at 9:35 PM EDT at home against Salt River.

Here’s the boxscore

No Pirates have pitched yet and none of them are listed as the Friday/Saturday starters, so we could see a group of them go in relief during the same game in the next two days.

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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