DotF: Abreu makes season debut in Tampa’s win

SS Thairo Estrada will join Triple-A Scranton tomorrow and OF Clint Frazier could join them as soon as Tuesday, reports Conor Foley. Both have been rehabbing with High-A Tampa. Estrada’s been out after getting shot in the hip during a botched robbery over the winter. Frazier has the concussion.

Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders Game One (4-0 loss to Lehigh Valley)

• SS Tyler Wade: 1-4, 2 K
• 3B Brandon Drury: 1-3, 1 2B, 1 BB, 2 K — here’s video of the double
• DH Mike Ford: 0-3
• 2B Abi Avelino: 0-2, 1 BB — with Thairo coming up, Avelino is going to Trenton to play shortstop everyday, according to Foley
• RHP Chance Adams: 6 IP, 6 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 1 BB, 5 K, 1 HR, 1 HB, 4/6 GB/FB — 58 of 92 pitches were strikes (63%) … he’s allowed at least three runs in four of his five starts this season … last year he allowed three runs only seven times in 27 starts

Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders Game Two (3-0 loss to Lehigh Valley in seven innings) makeup of yesterday’s rainout … shut out in both ends of a doubleheader? rough

• SS Tyler Wade: 0-3, 2 K
• DH Brandon Drury: 1-3, 1 2B, 1 K — here’s video of the double … he is 6-for-13 (.462) in three rehab games so far … RailRiders manager Bobby Mitchell told Foley that Drury will play with them again tomorrow, so he’s not coming back just yet
  
• 1B Mike Ford: 0-2, 1 BB, 2 K
• C Kyle Higashioka: 0-3, 1 K — 3-for-30 (.100) in his last eight games
• 2B Abi Avelino: 0-2, 1 K
• LHP Ryan Bollinger: 4 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 2 K, 2 HB, 5/4 GB/FB — 51 of 74 pitches were strikes (69%), plus he picked a runner off first … journeyman southpaw is back up from Extended Spring Training to make the doubleheader spot start

The Double-A Trenton Thunder had their game suspended due to rain in the middle of the third inning. Here’s the box score. Not much happened before the rain. A makeup date has not yet been announced.

High-A Tampa Tarpons (9-5 win over Charlotte)

• SS Thairo Estrada: 1-5, 1 R
• LF Clint Frazier: 2-4, 2 R, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 1 HBP — here’s some grainy video of the homer … 3-for-15 (.200) with one double, one homer, three walks, and three strikeouts in four rehab games so far
  
• CF Estevan Florial: 3-5, 2 R, 2 K — had been in a 10-for-48 (.208) skid
• DH Adam Lind: 3-5, 2 R, 1 HR, 2 RBI — 10-for-17 (.589) with one double, one homer, two walks, and one strikeout in five games so far
• 1B Brandon Wagner: 2-3, 1 R, 1 2B, 2 RBI, 1 BB
• RF Isiah Gilliam: 2-4, 1 R, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 1 K — threw a runner out at third … third dinger of the season
• 2B Diego Castillo: 2-4, 1 RBI
• RHP Albert Abreu: 3.2 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 3 K, 1 HR, 3/3 GB/FB — 40 of 61 pitches were strikes (66%) … season debut after having his appendix removed during Spring Training
  

Low-A Charleston RiverDogs (2-0 loss to Greenville)

• SS Wilkerman Garcia: 0-1, 1 BB, 1 K
• 3B Oswaldo Cabrera & RF Leonardo Molina: both 1-4, 1 K — Cabrera got caught stealing
• CF Pablo Olivares: 0-4, 1 K
• RHP Nick Nelson: 7 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 5 K, 1 HB, 8/0 GB/FB — 59 of 84 pitches were strikes (70%) … 34.7 K% and 6.9 BB% so far this year after 24.3 K% and 11.1 BB% at this level last year