Re: Minor Matters
Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2017 7:20 pm
I have no complaints if one of our draftees who we traded to win ourselves a pennant is doing well with his new organization:
Justus Sheffield was loving his teammates' work so much he couldn't watch anymore. During a six-run fourth inning, he had to take a break.
Sheffield followed the lengthy break with a shutdown inning, a common theme on Sunday afternoon, as the Yankees' No. 6 prospect tossed a three-hitter for his first career complete game in Double-A Trenton's 6-0 blanking of Erie in the first game of a doubleheader at Arm & Hammer Park.
Trenton completed a sweep with a 4-2 win in the nightcap. "I hold myself to a high standard every time out there and every time I'm out there, I'm shooting for the limits," Sheffield said. "I knew we had seven [innings] today and I wanted to get seven in. If we were just playing a normal game, I'm shooting for nine, even though that can be tough at times with the pitch count and things like that. I feel like if you set yourself at a high standard, you'll be able to be efficient, keep the pitch count low and pitch deep into games. That's one of my goals this year."
With that mindset, MLB.com's No. 68 overall prospect breezed through his 13th start of the season and dropped his ERA to 2.99. Sheffield allowed a leadoff single to Gabriel Quintana in the second inning and hit Mike Gerber with a pitch one out later but stranded both. The left-hander issued his only walk of the day to Harold Castro with one out in the third but also left him aboard.
Then came that fourth. After retiring the SeaWolves in order in the top half, Sheffield watched as his team sent 10 men to the plate and scored six runs in the bottom half -- or at least watched as long as he could.
"I went back under the stadium in the cages and threw a little bit, walked around, stretched out a little bit just so I stayed loose because I remember earlier in the season where it was kind of a long inning and I ended up going out there not feeling warm because I was sitting down for so long," he said. "I just didn't feel like I was feeling before that inning. I thought back to that and told myself, 'Let's get up, move around, get the arm moving.'"
Justus Sheffield was loving his teammates' work so much he couldn't watch anymore. During a six-run fourth inning, he had to take a break.
Sheffield followed the lengthy break with a shutdown inning, a common theme on Sunday afternoon, as the Yankees' No. 6 prospect tossed a three-hitter for his first career complete game in Double-A Trenton's 6-0 blanking of Erie in the first game of a doubleheader at Arm & Hammer Park.
Trenton completed a sweep with a 4-2 win in the nightcap. "I hold myself to a high standard every time out there and every time I'm out there, I'm shooting for the limits," Sheffield said. "I knew we had seven [innings] today and I wanted to get seven in. If we were just playing a normal game, I'm shooting for nine, even though that can be tough at times with the pitch count and things like that. I feel like if you set yourself at a high standard, you'll be able to be efficient, keep the pitch count low and pitch deep into games. That's one of my goals this year."
With that mindset, MLB.com's No. 68 overall prospect breezed through his 13th start of the season and dropped his ERA to 2.99. Sheffield allowed a leadoff single to Gabriel Quintana in the second inning and hit Mike Gerber with a pitch one out later but stranded both. The left-hander issued his only walk of the day to Harold Castro with one out in the third but also left him aboard.
Then came that fourth. After retiring the SeaWolves in order in the top half, Sheffield watched as his team sent 10 men to the plate and scored six runs in the bottom half -- or at least watched as long as he could.
"I went back under the stadium in the cages and threw a little bit, walked around, stretched out a little bit just so I stayed loose because I remember earlier in the season where it was kind of a long inning and I ended up going out there not feeling warm because I was sitting down for so long," he said. "I just didn't feel like I was feeling before that inning. I thought back to that and told myself, 'Let's get up, move around, get the arm moving.'"
