In nine starts at AA Akron and eight at Advanced A Kinston, the right-handed White has allowed just 69 hits in 97 innings.
Alex White has a combined 5-7 record -- but a 2.23 ERA -- at Kinston and Akron this season. FARM REPORT
AAA Columbus Clippers
Mud Hens 6, Clippers 4: Columbus 1B Jordan Brown (.301) had three hits, 2B Josh Rodriguez (.342) had two hits, and DH Luis Valbuena (.302) homered Wednesday but the Clippers dropped the International League game to visiting Toledo.
Notes: RH starter Carlos Carrasco is 7-3 with a 4.38 ERA. He's been hurt by the long ball, giving up 15 home runs in 96 2/3 innings. ... Going into Wednesday night's game, 2B Luis Valbuena was batting .300 (12-for-40) with two doubles, one triple and two home runs since being sent down by the Indians. ... 3B Jared Goedert (.324) had 12 homers in just 111 at bats -- one per every 9.25 at bats -- since being promted from Akron. He also had 12 doubles and 27 RBI. ... LF Jordan Brown (.291) had 38 RBI in just 182 at bats.
AA Akron Aeros
Aeros 10, Thunder 2: Akron 1B Matt McBride (.271) had four hits, including his 11th home run of the season, and five RBI to lead the Aeros to the Eastern League win at Canal Park.
McBride, who Monday was named the EL Player of the Week, also had two doubles and scored three times. DH Beau Mills (.219) had two hits and two RBI for the Aeros. Akron left-handed starter Eric Berger (4-4, 4.74) threw five scoreless innings, allowing three hits and six walks.
Notes: LH starter Nick Hagadone was placed on the disabled list retroactive to July 5 with left shoulder discomfort and IF Carlos Rivero (left wrist sprain) was activated from the disabled list. Hagadone, who had Tommy John reconstructive elbow surgery in June, 2008, is a combined 2-3 with a 3.56 ERA this season at Akron and Kinston. With the Indians still treating his arm with caution, Hagadone has pitched 60 2/3 innings in 16 starts, striking out 69 and allowing just 51 hits and four homers, but walking 47. He pitched four innings on Sunday, striking out three and yielding three hits and two walks. ... Rivero went into Wednesday night's game batting .234 with three homers and 24 RBI in 67 games. ... RH starter Alex White, the Indians' first-round pick in the 2009 draft, is 3-4 with the Aeros, but has a 1.70 ERA. Combining his time with Advanced A Kinston, White is 5-7 with a 2.23 ERA, allowing just 69 hits in 97 innings, while fanning 69 and walking 34. ... LH starter Scott Barnes is 4-4 with a 4.31 ERA in his last nine starts, spanning 48 innings. In that stretch, Barnes has struck out 46, walked 20 and given up 42 hits. He was 0-4 with a 7.20 ERA in 30 innings over his first seven starts.
Advanced A Kinston Indians
Red Sox 4, Indians 1: Salem held the K-Tribe to five hits in winning the Carolina League game in Kinston, N.C. Indians 3B Kyle Bellows (.261) had two hits, including his 13th double of the season.
T.J. House (2-6, 3.83) started and took the loss. The left-hander went six innings and gave up four earned runs on four hits and two walks. He fanned two.
Notes: LH starter T.J. McFarland is 9-2 with a 1.94 ERA in 15 games -- the last 10 in the starting rotation. He's allowed just five homers, 19 walks and 71 hits in 83 2/3 innings, striking out 56. Batters are hitting .225 against McFarland; just .190 with runners on base. ... RH reliever Matthew Langwell allowed five earned runs on six hits in 1/3 inning during the Indians' 11-3 loss to Frederick on Monday night. That lifted his ERA from 1.75 to 2.97. Going into Wednesday night's game, Langwell was 4-2 with two saves. He had struck out 38 and walked 11 in 36 1/3 innings. ... OF Abner Abreu was 10-for-34 (.294) in his last eight games, with two of his three homers. Abreu was batting .246, but leading the team with 36 RBI.
A Lake County Captains
Captains 3, TinCaps 1: Lake County 2B Kyle Smith (.275) hit his third home run of the season, and Captains pitchers did not allow an earned run in beating Fort Wayne in a Midwest League game in Eastlake. Righty Brett Brach (2.98) started for the Captains and went 5.1 innings. He allowed four hits and an unearned run while striking out five.
Reliever Francisco Jimenez (6-1, 3.53) got the win. The lefty gave up two hits in 2.1 innings. Righty Preston Guilmet (2.61) got the final four outs, three by strikeout, to record his seventh save.
Notes: LH Matt Packer is 4-1 with a 1.29 ERA in his last seven starts, striking out 46 and walking six in 42 innings, while allowing 37 hits and two homers. Overall, Packer has pitched in 20 games, the last nine in the starting rotation, and is 6-4 with a 1.83 ERA. He has struck out 70 and walked nine in 69 innings. Opponents have a .220 batting average against him, including .163 with runners on base. ... LH Clayton Cook is 3-0 with an 0.96 ERA in his last five starts, spanning 28 innings. He's struck out 26, walked seven and given up 20 hits. ... IF Casey Frawley was batting .263 with 17 doubles, four triples, six homers and 35 RBI going into Wednesday night's game, though he was 4-for-34 (.118) in his last nine games.
A Mahoning Valley Scrappers
The Indians’ New York-Penn League affiliate was idle Wednesday.
Notes: RHP Owen Dew is 1-0 with a 1.15 ERA in three starts, pitching 15 2/3 innings while yielding eight hits and two walks and fanning nine. ... RH relievers Takafumi Nakamura and James Ehlert have both pitched well in their five games. Nakamura is 1-0 with a 1.54 ERA in 11 2/3 innings. He's struck out 11, walked two and given up eight hits. Ehlert is 0-1 with a save and 1.80 ERA in 10 innings. He's fanned 12, while giving up one walk and 11 hits.
Independent Lake Erie Crushers
Crushers 4, Freedom 3: Lake Erie’s Lee Huggins clobbered his fourth homer of the season to help the Crushers win the Frontier League game in Florence, Ky.
The Crushers’ Matt Smith pitched seven innings and struck out nine in notching his sixth win of the season.
Notes: RHP Josh Roberts is 4-0 with a 2.29 ERA in nine starts spanning 59 innings. He's struck out 34, walked 19 and allowed 48 hits. ... LHP Esmelvin Jimenez went into Wednesday night's game with a 4-2 record and 3.19 ERA in five starts and seven relief outings. He had pitched 42 1/3 innings, allowing 37 hits and 14 walks while fanning 27.