Mountaineer Tracker: Greenwood saves Cards bullpen, Carpenter makes rehab appearance

Greenwood pitches against LA.
(Times Union photo)

6/28 Mountaineer Tracker: Two former Mountaineers made major-league appearances while it was a night of offense down on the farm, with three different Vermont alumni driving in at least two runs. Our player of the night is Nick Greenwood, who made an excellent relief appearance for the St. Louis Cardinals to save the bullpen from a potentially long day. He went four scoreless innings and allowed just three hits to the Dodgers after starter Lance Lynn gave up seven runs in an ugly 9-1 loss.

MLB
Greenwood went four shutout innings to salvage the St. Louis Cardinals bullpen, KMOV.com reports. He ate up four innings in the middle of a blowout to give relief options for the starters in the days to come, all who have struggled lately. Darin Mastroianni had a two-run home run for the Toronto Blue Jays on a 1-3 night in a 4-3 loss to the White Sox. Mastroianni hit his blast off of Chicago ace Chris Sale after being promoted from Triple-A Buffalo before the game.

AAA
Micah Johnson, who was recently named to the Futures League rosters, raised his season average in Triple-A to .278 with a 2-4 performance for the Charlotte Knights. Johnson hit a triple, scored a run and drove in four. He was promoted to the Knights after hitting .329 in Double-A and has heated up as of late, hitting .381 over the last ten games.  Matt Duffy is hitting .301 over 28 games for the Oklahoma City RedHawks after a 2-4 performance last night. Normally in the majors, David Carpenter appeared in one inning for the Gwinnett Braves as he's rehabbing a strained right biceps. Carpenter threw one inning and struck out one batter in a 1-2-3 first.

AA
Kevin Vance made his second consecutive scoreless relief appearance for the Birmingham Barons with two innings of work. He gave up one hit and walked two but struck out two to lower his season ERA to 4.79 over 23 games and 35 2/3 innings.

A+
Jantzen Witte hit a two-run home run for the Salem Red Sox, his first home run since moving up to Class A-Advanced from Greenville, where he was named a Midseason All-Star. Derek Jones went 1-3 with a two-run single for the Modesto Nuts as he's hitting .254 over 70 games with 25 RBIs.

A
Aaron Barbosa continued his recent hot streak, raising his average to .475 over the last ten games with a 3-4 night with a RBI for the Clinton LumberKings. Barbosa is hitting .359 over 21 games after being called up from the rookie level. A promotion to Advanced A could very well be in store in the coming weeks.

R/SS
Brian O'Grady went 1-4 to bring his season average through eight games with the Billings Mustangs in the Rookie Pioneer league. He drove in a run and also picked up a walk. Kevin Krause enjoyed a monster game for the short-season Jamestown Jammers as he went 2-3 with two doubles, a run and four RBIs in his eighth game. He's been hitting the ball extremely well with a .281 mark with 14 RBIs and seven extra base hits.