Steven Wright, Lin, And Thornburg Rehab In PawSox Loss With Rusney Castillo Going 4-5 And Accounting For Half Of Pawtucket’s Hits
The Boston Red Sox rehabbers continued their assignments on Wednesday with Triple-A Pawtucket
Boston’s trio this time was infielder Tzu-Wei Lin, knuckleballer Steven Wright, and reliever Tyler Thornburg. All three appeared in Pawtucket’s 10-8 loss against the Louisville Bats.
Rehabbers Once Again Can’t Help PawSox Overcome Opponents
Lin hit out of the 2-hole as the teams DH and went 0-4 at the plate with a walk, an rbi, a run scored, and two strikeouts. Lin has now appeared in four consecutive games with Pawtucket as he rehabs from a left knee sprain he suffered back on May 4th.
Wright came on in relief and went 3 innings allowing 2 base hits while striking out 1 batter. The knuckleballer has now appeared in two games for Pawtucket and is rehabbing from a knee injury that has plagued him since 2017. Between his two appearances he has thrown 4.2 innings allowing 1 earned run on 3 base hits while striking out 3 batters.
Thornburg worked 1.2 innings of hitless baseball but had control problems. The reliever walked 3 batters and was tagged for an earned run while striking out 2 batters. The former Brewer is rehabbing from a hip impingement he allegedly suffered on May 22nd. Thornburg like Wright has appeared in two rehab games with a collective 2.2 innings pitched allowing 1 earned run on no hits, 3 walks, and 3 strikeouts.
The Play-by-Play, Ryan Weber Struggles, Rusney Castillo Has 4-hit Ball-Game
The starter for Pawtucket was Ryan Weber who struggled lasting just 4 outs while allowing 7 runs, 6 earned, on 6 base hits while walking 2 and striking out 2 batters.
Much of this games runs came in the first two innings with 13 runs scored in those two innings alone. After Weber allowed a 4-spot in the bottom of the 1st inning Pawtucket’s offense was able to storm right back in the top of the 2nd.
With the bases loaded and a 4-2 score Chad De La Guerra blasted a grand slam to make it a 6-4 ball-game. But with Weber struggling the Bats took a 7-6 led in the bottom of the second and never looked back winning the ball-game 10-8.
Pawtucket despite scoring 8 runs only notched 8 hits on the ball-game and 6 of which came from two players.
In the lead-off it was Gorkys Hernandez staying hot going 2-4 with an RBI and a walk as he is hitting .385 in the month of June through 12 games. The other hitter of importance is Rusney Castillo who had 50% of Pawtucket’s hits going 4-5 with with 2-runs scored.
Up Next For Pawtucket
With the loss the PawSox are 27-37 on the season and 1-1 in this three-game set.
Pawtucket will look to win the series in the finale on Thursday with Erasmo Ramirez on the mound. Their preliminary rotation for their series at the Indianapolis Indians which starts on Friday is TBD, Kyle Hart, and Teddy Stankiewicz.
