The Mesa Solar Sox (14-14) went 3-1 in their fifth week of the of Arizona Fall League. The AFL was limited to just four games this week due to the Rising Stars game on Saturday. The AFL East, who rostered right-hander Gerrit Cole and Outfielder Robbie Grossman, lost 11-2. The Solar Sox trail Salt River (17-11) by three games in the AFL East.<\/p>\n
Here is a break down on how the Pirates prospects have done this week:<\/p>\n
So far this season, Baker has is 1-1 with a 7.94 ERA (11.1 innings) with nine walks and 13 strikeouts.<\/p>\n
Cole\u2019s second start came in the AFL Rising Stars game on Saturday. Cole got the start for the AFL East against the Seattle Mariners first round pick (2nd<\/sup> overall) in the 2011 draft, lefty Danny Hultzen. Cole, however, didn\u2019t last an inning as Hultzen cruised through two. Cole allowed a leadoff double to right field then issued a first-pitch solo-homer to quickly trail 2-0. The third batter Cole faced singled to short and advanced to second on the bad throw by Junior Lake. Cole retired his first batter, Mike Olt with a strikeout\u00a0but the struggles continued. A walk and a stolen base followed before Cole gave up his second homer of the inning –a three-run shot to center field. Cole was pulled from the game after throwing 29 pitches, just 16 of them strikes. All in all, Cole allowed five runs on four hits with a walk and a strikeout.<\/p>\n “I’m going to go back and look at it, but they seem to hit us all pretty well,” Cole told Jesse Sanchez of MLB.com. “It was a fun atmosphere. Even though I didn’t pitch well, I was still able to enjoy that part of it. I was excited, but it didn’t go as planned. You move on.”<\/p>\n In four starts this season, Cole is 2-0 with a 3.00 ERA (12.0 innings) with three walks and 14 strikeouts.<\/p>\n In nine appearances (13.0 innings), Colla has a 4.85 ERA with one save.<\/p>\n In five appearances (4.1 innings), Inman has allowed five runs on four hits with one walk and two strikeouts.<\/p>\n Photo credit: MILB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Mesa Solar Sox (14-14) went 3-1 in their fifth week of the of Arizona Fall League. The AFL was limited to just four games this week due to the Rising Stars game on Saturday. The AFL East, who rostered right-hander Gerrit Cole and Outfielder Robbie Grossman, lost 11-2. The Solar Sox trail Salt River […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1576,1367,1098,1580,1625,1577,1579,425,619,1425],"class_list":["post-8562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-professional","tag-afl","tag-brock-holt","tag-gerrit-cole","tag-jarek-cunningham","tag-jeff-inman","tag-michael-colla","tag-nathan-baker","tag-pirates","tag-pittsburgh","tag-robbie-grossman"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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