Minor League Games - August 26, 2025

[julio]

AAA: Lehigh Valley (RHP Mitch Nuenborn) @ Omaha
AA: Chesapeake @ Reading (RHP Estibenzon Jimenez)
High A: Jersey Shore (RHP Reese Dutton) @ Aberdeen
Low A: Clearwater (RHP Luis Gonzalez) @ Daytona
FCL: Season Concluded
DSL: Season Concluded

Scores Here - https://www.mlb.com/milb/scores/2025-08-26/all/all/phillies

Boxes Here - https://www.mlb.com/prospects/stats/affiliates?teamId=143&date=08/26/2025

[kmc1019]

Crawford with another homer tonight (Tuesday 26th)! Also, Dante Nori seemingly promoted to Jersey Shore and battling leadoff.

[dcsman]

Was in Reading tonight. Miller stole his 50th(!) base of the season. I had no idea he was that fast. I’ll also add that he looked like he was very much struggling with breaking pitches. Struck out looking on a ball that hit the dirt a foot in front of home plate on one occasion.

Also, what’s up with Felix Reyes and why is nobody talking about him? He’s only 24 years old and is having a really great season at AA after a good season in A ball last year. He had a clutch hit late in the game for an RBI and would have had a HR in any other ballpark but hit high off the wall in CF early in the game. I think he’s batting .334 or something with 12 home runs and I honestly had never heard of him before tonight.

[phillychuck]

dcsman, how can you strike out looking at a ball that hits the dirt a foot in front of the plate? And we have been talking about Reyes in these threads...he doesn’t have any plate discipline, it might be hard on him as the pitching gets better and they don’t always throw it over the plate. His swing-and-miss numbers and chase rate don’t project for him to hold up as he advances. We will see, I guess.

[Lucky_Beagle]

dcsman, how can you strike out looking at a ball that hits the dirt a foot in front of the plate?

an umpire getting prepared for a call up to the majors!

[andyb]

Guessing this is an out in most MLB parks, but Crawford is at least getting the ball in the air more regularly. I really think there is 15-20 HR power in him.

Justin Crawford oppo taco? Justin Crawford oppo taco.

His sixth home run of the season goes just 345 feet, but it’s enough for a 2-run homer to give Lehigh Valley a first inning lead

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— Mitch_Rupert (@mitchrupert.bsky.social) August 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM

[andyb]

how can you strike out looking at a ball that hits the dirt a foot in front of the plate? And we have been talking about Reyes in these threads.

I am actually wondering about that too. Did you mean swinging at a ball in the dirt a foot in front of the plate? That is a pretty bad umpire then. I remember I played in a game when I was like 12 and it was getting dark close to 8 PM on a summer night and an ump called a strike on a ball that hit the plate. Bryce would have gotten thrown out of that 12-year-old game. That AB did not end well for me.

[Austinfan]

I'm less interested in Crawford's HRs (power will develop as he fills out that frame) but turning GBs into line drives. An incremental improvement in his swing could allow him to translate his AAA production to the show.

[bigegypt0417]

Which can be indicated by hitting for more power...I guess I'm interested in all of it.

[andyb]

Nori with a nice Jersey Shore debut. 1-3, 2 BB, SB

It does seem that the new tradition is to move players up for the last couple of weeks of a season to give them a taste of the level. This is fed by the draft forcing a bunch of player releases to adhere to the organizational roster limit and the extra length of AA and AAA seasons.

Would be nice of course if Burkholder were healthy enough to play every day in Clearwater now. He is clearly on the Roman Quinn development plan so far.

[dcsman]

As others have pointed out, yes, I misspoke. Miller swung and missed on a pitch that hit the dirt a foot in front of home plate. I forget if he struck out or not but there was another breaking ball in a different at-bat that was a strike that he just completely whiffed on.