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Prospect Watch: Indianapolis Wins with Nice Games from Bolton, Swaggerty and Bae

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Indianapolis is the last team on the schedule in the minors for the Pirates. They are playing a night game tonight. They have already been eliminated from the playoffs, so basically this is just nine more games to get some time in for prospects, including the ones joining the team from Altoona.

YESTERDAY’S RESULTS

Prospect Watch: Indy, Altoona Undone By Pitching Meltdowns

TRIPLE-A: INDIANAPOLIS INDIANS

Game Time: 6:35 PM

Box Score: LINK

Starting Pitcher: Cody Bolton (4-2, 3.14)

  • Final Line:  3 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 5 SO

Notable Performances:

David Bednar 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 SO

Tucupita Marcano 1-for-3, HR, 2 RBI, 2 BB

Ji-hwan Bae 2-for-4, 2B, RBI, BB, 2 SB

Blake Sabol 0-for-4, BB

Travis Swaggerty 3-for-4, 2B, 2 RBI, SB

Game Recap:

Indianapolis won 9-1 on Monday. Cody Bolton started and allowed two hits over three shutout innings, with no walks and five strikeouts. He now has a 3.01 ERA for the season in 74.1 innings, with 81 strikeouts. David Bednar followed with his third rehab outing. He tossed a shutout inning on 14 pitches (11 strikes), with one hit and two strikeouts. Zach Matson tossed two shutout innings. Travis MacGregor allowed one run in two innings. Eric Hanhold struck out three batters in the ninth to finish out the game. Indianapolis pitchers combined for 15 strikeouts. The Indians got two-run homers from Tucupita Marcano and Brendt Citta to lead the offense. Marcano had two walks, while Citta hit his ninth double. Travis Swaggerty had three hits and drove in two runs. He hit his 15th double and stole his 17th base. Ji-hwan Bae had a productive game, going 2-for-4 with his 22nd double, a walk, three runs scored and two steals, giving him 29 steals on the season.

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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