Segovia earns baseball-best 16th victory

Counting the five Class-A wins earlier this season, Reading pitcher Zach Segovia notched his 16th win last night in a 1-0 victory over Harrisburg. It’s the most in organized baseball.

Segovia, who’s 11-5 in Reading and went 5-1 at Class-A Clearwater, allowed two hits in seven shutout innings, with two walks and seven strikeouts. Joe Bisenius, the subject of yesterday’s post on Beerleaguer, pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for his third save.

Lidle takes the loss
Former Phillies pitcher Cory Lidle gave up two home rs and three earned runs in just four innings in the Yankees’ 7-4 loss to the Los Angeles Angels. Former Phillies catcher Sal Fasano added two RBIs for the Bombers, while Bobby Abreu went 1-for-4.

Abreu snaps home run drought
Something I missed – Bobby Abreu ended a stretch of 163 at-bats without a homer when he took Jon Garland deep in Wednesday’s game. That’s Abreu’s ninth home run of the season.

Mets feature ex-Phillies outfield
On Thursday night, the Mets started Ricky Ledee in left, Endy Chavez in center, and Michael Tucker in right, all ex-Phils from the previous two seasons. Tucker started last night’s game, Chavez came into the game to pinch run, and Ledee, who was acquired by the Mets this week, was called on to pinch hit. The Mets lost to the Nationals 2-1.

Wild Card update
With last night’s win, the Phillies are two games behind Cincinnati and Arizona in the NL Wild Card race. The Diamondbacks lost their game with Florida.

Arizona (58-56) –
Cincinnati (59-57) –
San Diego (58-57) 0.5
Houston (57-58) 1.5
Philadelphia (56-58) 2.0
Colorado (55-59) 3.0
San Francisco (54-60) 4.0
Milwaukee (54-61) 4.5

At the bottom of this list, the Brewers are starting to fall out of it. Former Phillies prospect Derrick Turnbow spoiled another one, taking the loss in 1-3 inning of so-called relief. Without Carlos Lee, who was traded to the Rangers for a package of players, they’re a below average club, and very rough in the bullpen. I wonder how long Turnbow and his 6.40 ERA will continue to hold a major-league job.

Indians designate Mota
In a move that has little to do with the Phillies, the Indians designated reliever Guillermo Mota for assignment. Mota was one of the four players received in the seven-player trade with Boston before the season. I mention it only because there had been some chatter about the Phillies possibly getting Mota back when they were shopping Jason Michaels. Mota went 1-3 with a 6.21 ERA in 34 appearances.

Comments

[MG]

Segovia's strong comeback this season has been one of the few worthy highlights in the Phils' minor leagues. Haven't seen him pitch personally but I would be willing to bet that he will get a long, hard look next spring.

At the very minimum, he probably get called up to T-AAA once the MLB roster expands Sept. 1 and the Phils need to backfill a few roster spots at SWB.

[Drama Queen]

Throughout the organization there have been some nice pitching performances. Their records might not look good because of lack of offensive support, but check out some of the ERA's and WHIPs up and down the Phils system.

If we can make room for Rick White, why not Mota?

I think Mathieson is poised to make us forget about last Sunday night's debacle.

[dane]

the Phils seem to have some good young arms in their minor league system with guys like segovia, happ, gonzalez, bisenius and i'm sure their are some others. looks like Gillick's plan of developing pitchers may work

[MG]

Don't get too excited by every pitcher who posts minor league numbers at A or AA. There still aren't alot of arms in this system who are ready to help the Phils this year or even in 2007.

[clout]

Second year after TJ surgery is the tell-tale and his performance this season indicates he'll be OK. Does that mean he'll be a successful major leaguer? NO. I think he should be in the Top 10 Phils prospects but despite what you read on here, the majority of prospects fail.

[Drama Queen]

Clout- bro you're pretty negative about everything it seems. I understand some of the negativity because it's obviously warranted, but to be negative about a pitching prospect...come on!