GRIZZ REPORT - 06-14

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thanks Jesse, here's the latest son to Fresno Grizzlies. I'm
Tim Slack. Fitzer Light drive into center field, Bernard coming around,
Fixer walks it off. Grizlyes win. Streaky can often lean
negative in the baseball world, but three different kinds of
streaks have highlighted the last month in Fresno. Jacob Hinderlighter

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put together a nineteen game hit streak towards the end
of May, tied for the longest in the California League
this season. The undrafted free agent signing out of Clemson
is hitting a team best two to ninety eight and
has restarted his streak with seven consecutive games, including three
straight multi hit games the past week. For all that
hitting Tuesday night, he added a career milestone to one

(00:45):
pitch and he drives it into right field that goes Washington,
Washington at the warning track leaps.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
It's gone.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
First home run for Jacob Hinderlighter, first of the year,
first of his pro rare. Fellow Clemson product Blake Right,
a fourth round pick in twenty twenty four, has raised
his average forty points over the last two weeks, now
up to two seventy eight. Right has six multi hit
games in the last two and a half series and

(01:15):
hit his first two home runs of the season against
Vicelia in the last week of May.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Obviously, with a long season, it's just a process. So
just trying to make daily improvements in my game each
and every day, and it definitely feels like it's it's
starting to come together. But you know, in the game
of baseball, I can't get too high, I can't get
too low. So trying to stay neutral, keep going, staying positive,
and just keep playing good baseball.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
The other offensive streak to be aware of is powerful
Kelvin Hidalgo's extra base streak. Hidalgo, at top thirty prospect
in the Rocky System according to MLB dot Com, has
tied the California League mark with six straight games with
at least one extra base hit. Also has a seven
game extra base streak. And he drives this one into

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left center field. Long run and this one's over the
head of Washington up against the Soulfi sign. Make it
eight in a row. Kelvin Hidalgo the leadoff double. He
is red hot. The key part is the infielder is
continuing to heat up. He hit two twenty in April,
to seventy in May, and currently three point thirty three

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through the first two weeks of June with seven extra
base hits. But the strength of the Presno Grizzlies has
been the bullpen night payoff pitch fastball right there called
strike three. It's a glorious Thursday night. The Grizzlies are victorious,
and then Blastic shut the door in the night with
three strikeouts. He struck out the side and picked up

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his league leading eleventh saved. Nathan Blastic leads the California
League and has only missed one opportunity this season.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Every time I want the ball, every game, I want
the ball, even that they get the days i'm down,
I want to pitch, so I think that kind of
helps me. So the more that I do get touches,
it kind of helps build confidence and can grow from
e Childing.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
The right handed, Blastic has been particularly tough on lefties
who are hitting just one sixty seven against him. He
was handed a couple of tough losses in Stockton, but
both were extra inning games which involved automatic runners and
a string of defensive mistakes from the usually stout Grizzlies defense.
Blastic had a stretch of ten straight appearances without yielding

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an earned run, something that turned into quite the mo
for the Grizzlies bullpen. Fidel u Joa set the mark
in the California League with eleven consecutive scoreless oudeeds and
posted a team best one point six to nine ERA
in twenty twenty five. He's allowed runs in just four
of his twenty two appearances this season. That's the latest

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here with the Fresno Grizzlies. I'm Tim Slack to you
at the ballpark. Jesse