Seddon Impact
Published on June 25, 2016 under Texas League (TL1)
Midland RockHounds News Release
It is widely accepted that the toughest single jump a professional baseball player will make in his career is that from Single-A to Double-A.
In 2015, Joel Seddon posted an outstanding 3.59 earned run average for the Stockton Ports of the California League, perhaps the most hitter-friendly league in the minors. In making the transition to the Double-A level with the RockHounds, Seddon struggled out of the gate, giving up 19 runs in his first three appearances (a 17.69 ERA). Since then, he has continued to make strides (including two outstanding starts against the Texas League's best team, the Corpus Christi Hooks) while also encountering a speed bump or two along the way. On Friday night at Security Bank Ballpark, his perseverance paid off ... big time. Seddon pitched scoreless eight innings, allowing one hit and two walks, as the 'Hounds blanked the San Antonio Missions, 7-0, on a combined one-hitter.
The only hit that Seddon allowed was a clean, but contested, single to left from Nick Schulz in the second inning, a ball that just eluded the diving effort of third baseman Matt Chapman. After the base hit, Seddon (back by a solid, errorless defense) allowed only a two-out walk to Felipe Blanco in the third and a leadoff walk to Luis Tejada in the sixth. He retired 16 of the last 17 batters he faced.
The clubs were scoreless (each with just two base runners) through three innings before the 'Hounds got on the board on a Franklin Barreto single and an RBI double from Viosergy Rosa in the fourth. Chapman doubled in the last of the fifth and Yairo Munoz drove him in with a single (Munoz later scored on a wild pitch). Barreto's two-run single in the single in the seventh made the score 5-0 and Tyler Marincov's solo home run in the eighth built the lead to 6-0. Munoz's third hit, an RBI double scoring Chapman (who had walked), capped the scoring.
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