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AFL Recap: Three Pirates Each Reach Base Once in Saguaros Loss

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The Surprise Saguaros won 5-4 on Wednesday afternoon to move to 13-7 on the season, giving them the best record in the Arizona Fall League with ten games left in the schedule. The lineup on Thursday had Nick Gonzales, Blake Sabol and Henry Davis. Quinn Priester was listed as the starter since Monday, and even the original lineup for this game had him starting, but he’s now listed for Friday afternoon’s game. Here’s Thursday’s recap.

Nick Gonzales played third base and batted second. He struck out swinging in the first inning and then again in the third inning. He singled on a line drive to center field in the sixth. He grounded out to third base in the seventh. He finished 1-for-4 and is now hitting .271 with an .896 OPS

Henry Davis batted fourth and served as the DH. He struck out to start the second inning, then walked in the fourth. He flew out to center field in the fifth, then flew out to center field again in the eighth. Davis went 0-for-3 with a walk. He’s now batting .256 with an .877 OPS.

Blake Sabol batted sixth and played left field. He popped out to second base in the second inning. He flew out to center field to start the fourth inning. He singled on a line drive to center field in the sixth. Sabol flew out to right field in the eighth. He finished 1-for-4 and now has a .235 average and a .719 OPS.

Surprise lost 6-3

Here’s the boxscore

Surprise plays Friday afternoon at 3:35 PM ET. You can live stream the game here. As mentioned above, it should be Quinn Priester pitching, though we saw how that worked out for tonight’s game.

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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