Athletics Minor League Baseball Blog

Kane County beat Wisconsin 6-2 and Henry Alberto Rodriguez improved to 2-3 with a decent start.  He gave up two runs on two hits and two walks with six strikeouts in five innings.

Greg Dowling had a nice day at the plate.  He went two for four with a double, two RBIs and a run.

The Cougars managed just six hits in their 5-2 loss to Clinton.  Larry Cobb had three of those hits and he also drove in one of the runs with a solo homerun.

Henry Alberto Rodriguez took the loss and he dropped to 1-3 on the season. He gave up two runs on five hits and three walks with four strikeouts in four innings.

The Cougars topped the Rattlers 8-4 and it was a nice team effort in the win.  Four different hitters drove in two runs and three different players scored twice.  Oddly, Jermaine Mitchell was the only player with three hits and he did neither of those two things.

Henry Alberto Rodriguez picked up the win with five shutout innings.  He gave up two runs on four hits and he struck out six.

Kane County couldn’t get their hitters going in a shutout loss against one of the best left handers in the minors, Clayton Kershaw.  All three hits were singled and they were all by different Cougars.

A pretty good sart by Trevor Cahill went to waste in the 4-0 loss.  He threw six shutout innings and he gave up three hits.  Henry Alberto Rodriguez took the loss and he gave up three runs in 3 2/3 innings.