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AA – Beard, Beresford, Welch

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No hits so far for Stefan.

Hits are proving hard to get for our two infielders in AA.

James Beresford got his first for the season today when he went 1-4 in New Britain’s 9-2 win over Harrisburg.

Stefan Welch was 0-3 today and is still to record his first hit after 3 games played.

Hayden Beard has been put on the DL by the Padres.

ACT’s Hayden Beard continues to attract attention

MLB veteran and Padres Double-A pitching coach Tim Worrell likes Hayden Beard’s competitiveness

By Roberto Angotti/ABLblogger.com

With 14 years of Major League Baseball pitching experience under his belt, it was a no brainer for San Diego’s AA affiliate in San Antonio to call on Tim Worrell to fill the shoes of former Missions’ pitching coach Jimmy Jones, who was summoned to become the new Padres bullpen. Hired by the parent-club San Diego Padres in 2010, Worrell had been working in Peoria, Arizona with the organization’s players in extended spring training and on rehab assignment prior to reporting to the Texas League team. Having to leave his wife and six boys back home in Phoenix to take on pitching coach duties in San Antonio, it wouldn’t be long before Worrell would be adopted by his new baseball family of international pitchers led by AussieHayden Beard.

Hayden “Big Dog” Beard came off a strong 2011 campaign after pitching for Team Australia during
the Baseball World Cup in Panama as well as for
the Australian Baseball League’s Canberra Cavalry. During the 2011-12 Cavalry season, he earned himself ABL Player of the Week honours and a team-leading five wins with a 2.82 ERA. Heading into 2012 Padres Spring Training Camp, Beard looked radiant and as confident as ever. After leading High-A Lake Elsinore Storm to a 2011 Cal League Championship, it was natural for the right-handed hurler to saddle up for a promotion to Double-A San Antonio Missions. Although there were a few bumps in the road during the seemingly rough ride, the Aussie pitcher finished strong with a 6-5 record in just over 119 innings of work. Starting in 19 games, Beard gave his team a chance to win every outing. However, he relished after the All-Star break in his 12 bullpen appearances during which his strikeout totals accelerated to 69.

We caught up with family man Tim Worrell in the San Antonio Missions’ dugout recently and discussed how Padres pitching prospect Hayden Beard’s best years may have yet to come.

Roberto: 27-year-old Aussie pitcher Hayden Beard is a late bloomer because he had to sit out for three years due to nerve damage in his arm. The Padres obviously have faith in him by sending him your way in Double-A San Antonio. Having said that you reached the prime of your career at age 31, do you see some parallels between the two of you in showing him that there is light at the end of the tunnel?

Tim Worrell: Yeah, sure. Again, I never try to tell these guys where their careers could finish at. I’d be a dummy to tell them that. First off, he’s got a great live arm and great movement on his pitches. Sometimes he struggles a little bit with control and that obviously puts us in trouble. When we’re behind in the count regularly, it puts the hitters in hitter’s counts. But he’s definitely starting to get some of these approaches knowing that is an area he needs to work on. And that in itself ends up helping to control some of the results that end up happening to us. (You) can’t always control them all, but it does put us in a better position. And he is still working on fine-tuning his game. It wasn’t long ago that we sped him up a little quicker to the plate without giving up quality of stuff so that he could hold runners on first better. So there are definitely physical things we need to do and he needs to do to make his game better. But a lot of it is just believing and trusting his stuff.

Roberto: Watching his roommate Miles Mikolas get the call-up to the Padres, rubbing shoulders with last year’s surprise in the San Diego bullpen, Erik Hamren, and this year’s sensation, Nick Vincent, must have been inspirational for Hayden with the realization that he could be next. Having watched him pitch in Australia and in Lake Elsinore, the fact remains is that Hayden Beard is a great competitor. Now that he is paired up with you in San Antonio, I think it’s an awesome combination. I’m really happy that you guys are really able to work together in developing his craft.

Tim Worrell: Yep. And you brought up probably his number one attribute and that’s his competitiveness, which is probably the most important thing. Because a true competitor never gives in. We have to remind ourselves at times maybe that we are that. But they don’t give in, and they are always looking to get better and always looking to get the job done.

Hayden Beard pitches during the MLB offseason for his hometown Canberra Cavalry

Josh Spence unlucky in Loss; Hayden Beard earns Win

Josh Spence (above) has appeared in 31 games for the Tucson Padres but as starter only 4 times. He was the starter yesterday against Reno and in 6 innings gave up only 2 hits and 3 walks whilst striking out 3.

The T-Padres went into the 9th leading 3-0 so Josh had every reason to expect a win on his record. But that was not to be as the Padres gave up 4 runs in the 9th and blew the game. Still it was a good performance by the lefty.

Hayden Beard did get a win for the San Antonio Missions in their 4-2 result over Midland. Coming on in the 4th he tossed 3 innings allowing 2 runs on 4 hits (a 2RBI home run in the 4th did the damage) whilst collecting 3 Ks.

The win takes Hayden’s record to 6-5.

Scoreless outings from Atherton & Beard

Hayden Beard

Tim Atherton and Hayden Beard both produced scoreless innings in their last outings.

Tim threw the 8th(final) inning for the Beloit Snappers. He did allow 2 walks but denied any hits and struck out 1 in Beloit’s 5-0 loss to Cedar Rapids. In his 25 games (49.1 innings) this season Tim has a 2.55 ERA and a W1-2 record.

Hayden threw a scoreless 6th inning for the San Antonio Missions. He faced 4, inducing 2 groundouts and a strikeout. His only blemish was a HPB. The Missions went down to Corpus Christi 3-0.

Searle wins; Beard; Hogben’s awful August

Ryan Searle gets his 6th win

Ryan Searle picked up his 6th win of the year with a 5 inning effort in the Daytona Cubs 4-1 win over Tampa today.  He allowed 3 hits, 1 run whilst striking out 5. His record is W6-3, 4.61ERA

Kable Hogben will be glad when August is over. It has not been kind to him. Today he gave up 3 runs on 2 hits and 2 walks in 2.1 innings. His ERA for August has ballooned to 12.27, compared with 1.76 for July.

Before the All Star break he had a 2.97ERA, since the break he is 5.52.

Hayden Beard threw 1.2 scoreless innings for the San Antonio Missions in their 5-2 loss to Corpus Christi.

Hayden Beard improving; Aaron Sookee continues to struggle

Hayden Beard

In 5 of his his last 10 appearances Hayden Beard gave away no runs. Yesterday he allowed just 1 run on 1 hit in his 2 innings, with 1 strike out for the AA San Antonio Mission’s in their 5-2 loss to Arkansas.

His ERA for the season is 5.70 whilst his last 10 games have produced a 3.91ERA. Let the improvement continue.

Not the same situation for Aaron Sookee who was sent down to the AZL Angels in the hope that his performances would improve. He still appears to be struggling and yesterday gave up 5 runs (4 earned) on 5 hits in 2.2 innings raising his ERA to 6.52.

Beard & Lodge toss scoreless innings.Younis on DL

Hayden Beard

One is in AA, the other in Rookie Ball. But both threw scoreless innings today.

Hayden Beard threw 1.2 scoreless innings for the AA San Antonio Missions in their 2-1 loss to Springfield. He allowed only 1BB in his outing.

The Pirate’s Jackson Lodge also threw 1.2 scoreless innings for the GCL Pirates. It was Jackson’s 2nd scoreless outing this month. He gave up 2H whilst striking out 2 and has lowered his ERA to 3.23.

Jacob Younis has a type 2 slap tear in his left labrum (shoulder) and will be out action for a couple of weeks. Fortunately surgery is not required.

Trent Oeltjen increases batting streak, Hayden Beard, Stefan Welch

Trent Oeltjen increased his hitting streak today going 2-4, a triple and scoring a run. Trent is currently hitting .389 in his last 10 games and .305 overall.

Hayden Beard, San Antonio Missions, pitched a clean innings today taking his ERA to 6.24 and 4.47 in his last 10 games

Stefan Welch, Altoona Curve, has a batting AVG of .280 going 0-3  he has hit .250 in his last 10 games.

Liam Hendriks loses one, Beard, Lamb, Oeltjen

Liam loses one at AAA

Guess it had to happen eventually – Liam Hendriks was charged with his 1st AAA loss when Durham defeated Rochester 4-0. It was a tough loss for Liam who gave up 2 runs on 4H and 3 walks whilst striking out 6. He is now 7-1 with a 1.84ERA.

Trent Oeltjen extended his hitting streak to 5 games going 1-3 for the Isotopes today. He is hitting .378 in his last 10 games.

In his latest outing in AA Hayden Beard (left) gave up 2 runs on 6 hits over 4 innings, striking out 3. He is 4.35 in his last 10 games and 6.24 for the season.

In Cameron Lamb’s 2nd rehab game at Short Season A he struck out 2 in 2 innings allowing no hits, runs or walks. He has a 2.70ERA.

AA – Hayden Beard, Drew Naylor, Stefan Welch

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Hayden Beard was relieved in the 4th inning today after giving up 3 runs on 9 hits and a walk. Two runs came off 2 home runs in the 3rd. His 3.1 innings today leaves him with a 6.32ERA.

Drew Naylor who hasn’t pitched since May 26th remains on the Phillies DL.

Stefan Welch had an 0-4 day in Altoona’s 10-2 loss to Richmond lowering his AVG to .326.

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