PawSox Place Two Pitchers on IL All-Star Team
July 3, 2013 - International League (IL1)
Pawtucket Red Sox News Release
The Pawtucket Red Sox are pleased to announce RH starter Rubby De La Rosa and RH reliever Anthony Carter have both been selected to the International League All-Star Team for the 2013 Triple-A All-Star Game that will be played on Wednesday, July 17 at 9:05 pm EST at Aces Ballpark in downtown Reno, Nevada. The 2013 International League All-Star team is made up of 13 elected players who have received the most votes from ballots submitted by league managers & coaches (1/3), media representatives (1/3), and online fan voting (1/3). The elected players are joined by 17 additional All-Stars selected by the IL office. Each of the IL's 14 clubs will be represented in Reno, NV.
The 2013 Triple-A Game marks the 16th straight year that All-Star teams from the International League and the Pacific Coast League will face each other (the International League leads the series by an 8-7 margin since the game changed to the current IL vs. PCL format). The game will be played the night after the Major League All-Star Game and will be televised live on MLB Network and broadcast on the PawSox Radio Network (920 AM WHJJ the flagship).
RHP Rubby De La Rosa, 24, is 2-1 with a 2.47 ERA in 15 starts for the PawSox this season. Because he is coming off Tommy John surgery in August of 2011, De La Rosa has been on a limited pitch count for much of the first half of this season and thus falls less than 10-innings short of qualifying for the International League ERA race. He would be 2nd with his 2.47 ERA but does not qualify yet because he has thrown 58.1 innings and 67.2 IP is needed to be among the IL leaders. Rubby's full line through July 2 - 58.1 IP, 39 H, 17 R, 16 ER, 25 BB, 61 SO - opponents are hitting just .191 against him (that would be best in the league if he qualified).
De La Rosa had a streak of 21 consecutive scoreless innings from June 8 - July 2 (parts of five starts) come to an end in the 2nd-inning on July 2 vs. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. In his first three starts this season he had a 13.50 ERA (10 ER in 6.2 IP) but since then in his last 12 starts combined he has a 1.05 ERA (6 ER in 51.2 IP) with 54 SO while going 2-1. In 4 starts in May he was 0-1 despite a 0.56 ERA and in 5 starts in June he went 2-0 with a 1.01 ERA. His longest outing of the season came on June 22 at Toledo when he fired 6 scoreless innings allowing 1 hit with no walks and 7 strikeouts (ND in 5-4 Sox win).
Rubby, a native of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, was acquired from the Los Angeles Dodgers along with OF Jerry Sands on October 4, 2012 to complete the trade last August 25th that sent Adrian Gonzalez, Carl Crawford, Josh Beckett, and Nick Punto from Boston to LA for Allen Webster, James Loney, and Ivan De Jesus, Jr. De La Rosa was recalled to Boston this June 14 but did not pitch and was optioned back to Pawtucket on June 16. He appeared in 14 games for the Dodgers during the 2011 and 2012 seasons (4-5, 3.96).
RHP Anthony Carter, 27, has been the PawSox closer this season and is 13-for-14 in save opportunities this year (his 13 SV are tied for 4th in the International League). Carter is 1-0 with a 4.64 ERA in a team-high 30 relief appearances - 33 IP, 32 H, 17 R, 17 ER, 15 BB, 44 SO. His 25 games finished are 4th most in the league. He has pitched very well since the middle of April allowing just 7 runs in 26 innings (2.42 ERA) in his last 23 games with 12 saves. Carter, a Georgia native, was signed by the Red Sox as a minor league free agent last December 2. He spent his first seven professional seasons in the White Sox organization pitching most of 2011 and all of 2012 out of the Charlotte (AAA) bullpen.
Two former PawSox players are also on the IL All-Star roster. DH Mauro Gomez (Buffalo), who is hitting .244 but leads the league with 24 HR, and LHP Kris Johnson (Indianapolis), who is 7-4 with a 2.89 ERA, played for the PawSox in 2012 and from 2009-2011 respectively.
Some other notable PawSox players who have appeared in the Triple-A All-Star Game since the event began in 1988 include: INF Tim Naehring (1990), 3B Scott Cooper & OF Phil Plantier (1991), RHP Brian Rose (1997), OF Trot Nixon (1998), RHP Tomo Ohka (2000), RHP Bronson Arroyo (2003), OF Brandon Moss (2007), and RHP Clay Buchholz (2009, although Buchholz did not attend as he was called-up to Boston). Last year Pawtucket had four players elected to the IL All-Star Team...catcher Ryan Lavarnway, SS Pedro Ciriaco, DH Mauro Gomez, and pitcher Justin Germano.
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