Phils Top Prospect Enjoys Another Strong Outing
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Phils Top Prospect Enjoys Another Strong Outing
READING -- Reading righthander Trevor May, No. 1 in The Inquirer/Daily News ranking of the Phillies Top 25 minor league prospects, improved to 4-0 with Wednesday’s 1-0 win over the Richmond Flying Squirrels at First Energy Stadium.
May, pitched six shutout innings, allowing just one hit. He walked two and struck out seven. One reason he only pitched six innings was that May threw 90 pitches, 55 for strikes.
His no-hitter was broken up with one out in the fifth inning on a single by right fielder Juan Perez.
“I felt confident in all my pitches,” said May, who lowered his ERA to 2.35. “Even more so than feeling good body-wise and feel-wise with my pitches, I felt relaxed and definitely confident that I could throw all my pitches for strikes.”
May, who has never thrown a professional no-hitter, said he didn’t think about it. He said the only thing that mattered was giving Reading the chance to win, which he certainly did for the fourth time in four outings.
Is there anyone there who can HIT? What's Jiwan James doing now? He looked great when we were there Opening Day.— PhillySubsMac- James is hitting .315 with 3 HR, 11 RBI and .913 OPS. 1B Darin Ruff .391, 2 HR, 9 RBI and .987 OPS.— EL Zorro
- In another news, after putting together a few good games where his BA went all the way to .270 after an bad start, Brown had an very bad game yesterday. He struck out twice (15 to lead the team) and made 2 errors in LF (3 in 18 games). That will project to around 20 in a full season. Yikes.— EL Zorro
- I pray that I'm wrong, but can anyone else see a trade being made midseason for offense involving Trevor May (and other pitching)? With the current uncertain Hamels situation and the still-aces-but-not-getting-any-younger Lee and Halladay, that would be a huge mistake. The much-maligned (amazing how the posts have changed in the last few days)veterans the Phils have picked up are only going to get better as the season progresses.— dwp66
- I hope not, but we can afford to trade May, sort of, because pitching is our strength at all levels. Reading is loaded with May, Cloyd, Pettibone, Buchanan and Rodriguez. The combine ERA before today's morning game was around 2.70. Buchanan just completed 6 innings allowing 1 run on 3 hits. They lost the game in the ninth 2-1. We also have good young pitching at Clearwater.— EL Zorro
- Clearwater has some interesting power arms in the pen. Until Whatcott was called up to Reading, he along with Hector Neri, Tyler Knigge and closer Lisalverto Bonilla had pitched a combined 42 innings giving up only two earned runs and striking out 42 so far this season.— Dull
