Judge, Severino have big days in Charleston win

RHP Bryan Mitchell was named the Double-A Eastern League Pitcher of the Week. Not a bad week for him. He struck out 12 in six innings on Monday, turned 23 on Saturday, got called up to the big leagues on Sunday, and was named Pitcher of the Week today. That one day in the show gave him a $41,000 raise for the year. Not bad. (h/t Andy in Sunny Daytona)

According to Josh Norris, VP of Baseball Ops Mark Newman said OF Slade Heathcott (knee) and 1B Greg Bird (back) are about two weeks from returning while RHP Danny Burawa (unknown) and LHP Nik Turley (arm) are still a ways off. No word on RHP Ty Hensley (hernia), RHP Jose Campos (taking it easy), and RHP Jose Ramirez (oblique).

Triple-A Scranton (4-2 loss to Lehigh Valley)

• DH Corban Joseph, 3B Russ Canzler & CF Adonis Garcia: all 1-4 — CoJo drove in a run and struck out … Canzler struck out and committed a fielding error … Garcia scored a run
• RF Ramon Flores, LF Zoilo Almonte & C Austin Romine: all 0-3, 1 BB — Zoilo stole a base … Flores and Romine both struck out once
• 2B Jose Pirela: 1-2, 1 R, 2 BB, 1 SB — first two walks of the season
• RHP Chris Leroux: 4 IP, 5 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 1 BB, 5 K, 6/1 GB/FB — 48 of 70 pitches were strikes (69%)
• LHP Fred Lewis: 1.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 2 K, 1 WP, 2 HB, 3/1 GB/FB — 28 of 43 pitches were strikes (65%)
• RHP Mark Montgomery: 1.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 K, 0/1 GB/FB — 14 of 20 pitches were strikes

Double-A Trenton (5-2 win over Akron)

• CF Mason Williams: 0-3, 1 BB
• LF Ben Gamel: 2-4, 2 R, 1 3B, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K
• C Gary Sanchez: 1-4
• 3B Tyler Austin: 2-4, 1 R, 1 3B, 1 RBI, 2 E (fielding, throwing) — third base again
• 2B Rob Refsnyder: 1-4, 1 RBI, 1 K
• LHP Jeremy Bleich: 5.1 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 4 K, 8/4 GB/FB — 54 of 88 pitches were strikes (61%)
• SwP Pat Venditte: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 2 K, 1/0 GB/FB — 11 of 18 pitches were strikes (61%) … ten strikeouts in eight innings

High-A Tampa (2-1 win over Brevard County)

• CF Jake Cave: 2-4, 1 2B, 1 K — ten hits in his last 20 at-bats (that’s good)
• SS Cito Culver & C Peter O’Brien: both 0-3, 1 BB, 1 K — Culver scored a run
• 3B Eric Jagielo: 1-4
• DH Dante Bichette Jr.: 2-4, 1 R — 14 hits in his last 29 at-bats (that’s also good)
• 2B Angelo Gumbs: 1-3, 2 RBI, 1 K —16-for-43 (.372) during his 11-game hitting streak
• LHP Eric Wooten: 6 IP, 8 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 3 K, 1 HB, 10/3 GB/FB, 1 E (throwing)

Low-A Charleston (4-1 win over Lakewood)

• SS Abi Avelino: 2-5, 1 2B, 1 K, 1 CS — quietly 10-for-27 (.370) in his last six games
• DH Aaron Judge: 2-2, 1 R, 1 3B, 2 BB — Keith Law was the game and said the triple was off the center field wall 400 feet away … he also took some batting practice video
• 3B Miguel Andujar: 0-3, 1 HBP
• LF Michael O’Neill: 0-3, 1 R, 1 BB, 3 K — scored the go-ahead run in the ninth on a walk, sac bunt, error, passed ball
• 2B Gosuke Katoh: 0-2, 1 R, 2 BB, 1 K, 1 CS, 1 E (throwing) — some batting practice video from Law
• C Eduardo de Oleo: 2-4, 1 R, 1 HR, 2 RBI,1 PB — dingered in some insurance runs in the ninth
• RHP Luis Severino: 5.2 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 8 K, 7/1 GB/FB — Law said he “topped out 95, plus changeup“
• RHP Jaron Long: 2.1 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 4/2 GB/FB — his father was at the game, in case you were wondering what the hitting coach did with his off- day