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11/2 AFL update – Tuesday’s game
Josh Vitters hit a RBI double but it wasn’t enough as Mesa lost, 7-5, on Tuesday to Surprise in Arizona Fall League play. Vitters is batting .343. Trey McNutt started and gave up three runs on four hits, including three home runs, in three innings. He struck out three. Andrew Cashner followed McNutt, and gave up two runs on three hits in one inning. Mesa faces Phoenix on Wednesday with first pitch scheduled for 12:35 p.m. MT.
Also on Tuesday, McNutt, pitcher Chris Carpenter and shortstop Junior Lake were named to the Arizona Fall League Rising Stars team.
– Carrie Muskat
10/30 AFL & winter ball update
Josh Vitters was 3-for-4 with one RBI, hitting a solo homer, and Junior Lake also homered to help Mesa beat Peoria, 8-5, on Saturday. Andrew Cashner pitched in relief, his first appearance since Oct. 14, and gave up three runs on thre hits over one innings. Cashner threw 15 pitches, 12 for strikes. Chris Carpenter was credited with a hold, giving up one hit in one scoreless inning. After an off day Sunday, Mesa returns to action Monday at Phoenix. First pitch is scheduled for 12:35 p.m. MT.
In Venezuela, Bryan LaHair was 3-for-5 with three RBIs in Magallanes’ 6-5, 12-inning win over Caracas. LaHair hit two doubles, and now has 12 RBIs for the season.
– Carrie Muskat
10/26 AFL update
DJ LeMahieu had two hits, including a RBI double, and Chris Carpenter pitched two scoreless innings, striking out three, in Mesa’s 10-5 win over Scottsdale in Arizona Fall League play Wednesday. Marcus Hatley, another Cubs prospect, gave up two runs on three hits in 1 1/3 innings of relief for the Solar Sox. On Thursday, Mesa travels to Scottsdale. First pitch is scheduled for 12:35 p.m. MT. Andrew Cashner was slated to pitch in the game in relief.
– Carrie Muskat
10/20 AFL update – Thursday’s game
Josh Vitters was 1-for-3 and scored a run in Mesa’s 4-1 win over Scottsdale in Arizona Fall League play on Thursday. Vitters, who was the DH, is batting .395 in the AFL. He was the only Cubs prospect who played Thursday. On Friday, Mesa plays host to Phoenix at HoHoKam Park. Expect Andrew Cashner to see some action.
– Carrie Muskat
10/15 AFL & winter ball update
Josh Vitters went 4-for-5 and scored two runs and DJ LeMahieu had two hits, including a two-run homer, but it wasn’t enough as Mesa lost 16-8 to Surprise in Arizona Fall League play Friday. Vitters is batting .405 in the AFL. Junior Lake, another Cubs prospect, hit a solo homer for Mesa. Marcus Hatley took the loss, giving up four runs on five hits over 1 2/3 innings. Andrew Cashner made his third AFL appearance, giving up two runs on two hits in one inning. He walked one and struck out one. Mesa travels to Surprise Saturday to face the Saguaros.
In the Dominican Republic, John Gaub gave up two runs on one hit and one walk in relief but Escogido held on for a 4-3 win over Licey. Catcher Steve Clevenger is also playing for the Leones and was 1-for-4 with a double in the season opener in the Dominican Winter Leagues.
In the Mexican Winter League play, Blake Parker struck out one in one-third of an inning in Hermosillo’s 15-9 win over Los Mochis. In two games, Parker has three strikeouts over 1 1/3 innings and has not given up a hit or run.
– Carrie Muskat
10/12 AFL roundup
Junior Lake went 2-for-4 and Andrew Cashner picked up the save in the Mesa Solar Sox’s 3-2 win over Scottsdale Tuesday in Arizona Fall League play. This was Cashner’s second AFL appearance, and he threw 13 pitches/eight strikes in one inning, giving up one hit. Josh Vitters was 1-for-4 and is batting .357 in the AFL. On Wednesday, the Solar Sox play host to the Peoria Javelinas at HoHoKam Stadium in Mesa. First pitch scheduled for 12:35 p.m. MT.
– Carrie Muskat
10/9 Vitters gets three hits in loss
Josh Vitters went 3-for-5 and DJ LeMahieu 2-for-5, and each drove in one run, in the Mesa Solar Sox’s 5-4 loss to Salt River in Arizona Fall League play Saturday. Junior Lake, another Cubs prospect playing for the Mesa team, was 1-for-3. Andrew Cashner made his first appearance and struck out one in one inning. Chris Carpenter took the loss, giving up an unearned run in the eighth. Vitters is now batting .381. Sunday is an off day for the AFL, and on Monday, the Solar Sox play a night game in Scottsdale.
– Carrie Muskat
10/6 AFL update – Thursday’s game
Josh Vitters went 2-for-4 with two RBIs but it wasn’t enough as the Mesa Solar Sox lost, 8-7, to Surprise on Thursday in Arizona Fall League play at HoHoKam Park. DJ LeMahieu was 1-for-5 and Junior Lake 0-for-5. On Friday, the Solar Sox play the Salt River Rafters at the new Salt River facility in Scottsdale.
Andrew Cashner was expected to make his first appearance in the AFL on Saturday at HoHoKam. Cashner will pitch one inning in his first two outings, then be stretched out to two innings, depending on pitch count. He’s building up arm strength after being sidelined this season with a strained right rotator cuff.
– Carrie Muskat
10/4 AFL gets underway
The Arizona Fall League gets underway on Tuesday with the Cubs prospects playing for the Mesa Solar Sox in Phoenix against the Desert Dogs. This is the AFL’s 20th season. Marcus Hatley, who pitched at Class A Peoria, high A Daytona and Double-A Tennessee this season, is slated to pitch in relief for the Mesa team. The Cubs’ Chris Carpenter is scheduled to throw Wednesday when the Solar Sox play at HoHoKam Park in Mesa, Andrew Cashner was to pitch Thursday, and Trey Mc Nutt was to start Friday. Other Cubs on the Mesa roster include third baseman/outfielder Josh Vitters, infielder Junior Lake and infielder DJ LeMahieu.
– Carrie Muskat
9/27 Cashner begins next phase in AFL
The Cubs’ season may end on Wednesday but Andrew Cashner will begin the second phase of his 2011 season next week when he joins the Arizona Fall League as a reliever. Cashner has been sidelined most of the year because of a strained right rotator cuff, felt after his first start April 5. He has been limited to a relief role since coming off the disabled list Sept. 5.
The plan in the AFL, which gets underway Oct. 4, is for Cashner to continue to pitch in relief. He will be limited as far as his pitch count but also may throw up to two innings per outing, Cubs pitching coach Mark Riggins said Tuesday. Can Cashner start again?
“I think he can,” Riggins said. “If he does start, we have to watch the number of innings. Medically, there is a certain amount of innings that you can jump up to before you run into some danger with stress on the arm so you kind of have to build up from year to year the number of innings.”
Where Cashner fits in the Cubs’ pitching plans in 2012 is still to be determined. He has a 1.86 ERA in six games. Maybe he’s better suited to pitching in relief? Maybe he could be the closer some day?
“Eventually, he could be,” Riggins said. “He has the ability for that plus his stuff, his composure on the mound, he throws strikes, he has command of three pitches. It’s not out of the question that he could do that at some point in his career. The thing about a closer is they don’t step in there and be a closer right away. It’s an earned spot on a staff. That’s in the future for us.”
– Carrie Muskat
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