There were performances-a-plenty that could be found merely in San Jose’s 17 run barrage against Lancaster. Speedster Darren Ford racked up four hits and five RBI, Buster Posey hit his fifth HR, Conor Gillaspie racked up four hits and five RBI, Roger Kieschnick added three hits and three RBI and, oh yeah, Thomas Neal hit for the cycle and scored four runs. In other action, Yefri Carvajal hit his third HR, Logan Forsythe and Luis Exposito each hit their second and Jesus Montero blasted two dingers.
None of these performances can hold a candle to the performance of 20 year old Brewers prospect Evan Anundsen who went the distance in a no-hit effort against Daytona walking just one and striking out 10. Andundsen has accrued a 2-2 record with a 1.44 ERA and 8 BB/25 K in his first four starts. Anundsen is a finesse-type pitcher with a fastball that sits in the high 80′s, a curve and change. He induces a great number of ground ball outs (2.71/FO in ’08) and efficiently controls the strike zone. There aren’t any cards of Anundsen’s out right now and, while this performance was truly dominant, he doesn’t profile as a dominant front-line pitcher at the major league level. Regardless, when 2009 is all said and done, this performance will go down as one of the season’s best.
High-A Player of the Day—EVAN ANUNDSEN
Other Notable Performances
Hitting:
- Darren Ford—4-7 2B 5 RBI
- Buster Posey—2-6 HR(5) RBI
- Thomas Neal—4-5 (CYCLE) HR(4) 2B 3B RBI 4R BB
- Conor Gillaspie—4-5 2 2B 4 RBI 3R BB
- Roger Kieschnick—3-5 3 RBI 2R 3B BB
- Alex Liddi—4-5 2B 2R
- Kuo Hui Lo—2-4 2B 2 RBI BB R
- Steven Caseres—3-4 3R
- Christian Lara—3-4 HR(1) 3 RBI 3R
- Logan Forsythe—2-3 HR(2) RBI 2R 2 BB
- Yefri Carvajal—1-5 HR(3) 2 RBI
- Jeremy Moore—3-4 RBI SB(3)
- Andrew Romine—2-4 2B R RBI
- Kyle Greene—2-4 HR(2) 2 RBI 2R
- Charlie Blackmon—3-6 3B R SB(6)
- Mitch Moreland—3-5 HR(4) 2 RBI BB
- Kraig Binick—3-5 HR(3) 3 RBI SB(6)
- Kyle Shelton—2-3 2 2B 3R
- Luis Exposito—1-3 HR(2) 2 RBI BB
- Tim Fedroff—3-4 RBI R
- Matt McBride—2-4 RBI R
- Pedro Alvarez—2-6 R 2 RBI
- Cody Johnson—1-4 HR(7) RBI
- Johnny Giavotella—2-5 3B 2R
- Jeff Bianchi—2-3 RBI R BB SB(4)
- David Espinosa—2-3 HR(1) 2 RBI BB
- Michael Burgess—2-4 R SB(5)
- Jesus Montero—2-4 2 HR(4) 2 RBI 2R
- Caleb Gindl—2-3 RBI BB
- Ben Revere—3-4 RBI 2 BB SB(10)
- Curt Smith—3-6 2 RBI
- Shane Peterson—3-6 2B R SB(1)
- Greg Sexton—2-3 2 RBI BB R
- Fidel Hernandez—4-6 3R
- Dominic Brown—3-4 3B 3 RBI BB
- Freddy Galvis—2-5 2B 2R BB
- John Tolisano—2-5 HR(1) 2 RBI 2R
- Eric Thames—2-4 2B 2R RBI
- Ike Davis—1-2 HR(1) RBI 2 BB
- Kirk Nieuwenhuis—3-5 HR(2) 2 RBI 2B 2R
Pitching:
- Jeremy Horst—6 IP 5H 2 BB 5K
- David Newmann—5.1 IP 3H ER 2 BB 9K
- Tyler Robertson—4 IP 2H 2 ER 4 BB 5K
- Evan Anundsen—9 IP 0H BB 10K W(2-2)
- Wilkin De La Rosa—5 IP 3H BB 7K W(1-0)
- Tim Bascom—6 IP 7H 2 ER 2K W(2-2)
- Chris Withrow—5 IP 6H 3 ER 3 BB 7K W(2-1)
- Patrick McAneney—5 IP 3H BB 7K W(3-0)
- Michael Kirkman—6 IP 6H 2 ER BB 4K
