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# Around the Farm: 4/17/19, Bubba out, Martinez promoted
- URL: https://theprospecttimes.com/around-the-farm-4-17-19/
- Published: 2019-04-18T11:00:08.000Z
- Updated: 2019-04-18T11:00:08.000Z
- Author: Heath Criswell
- Tags: Hickory Crawdads, Around the farm, Bubba Thompson, Julio Pablo Martinez promoted, #Migrated-1752558658676, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-07-15 05:51

## Around the Farm 4/17/19

There are a couple of headlines? involving a couple of top Rangers prospects.

**Bubba Thompson** will be out 4 weeks after surgery for his hamate bone. This is the same type of injury that **Delino DeShields** had last year.

> Down East OF Bubba Thompson has been placed on the injured list with a fractured left hamate bone. He will have surgery and be sidelined for 4 weeks. Julio Pablo Martinez has been promoted from Hickory to Down East.
> 
> ? TR Sullivan (@Sullivan\_Ranger) [April 17, 2019](https://twitter.com/Sullivan%5FRanger/status/1118590877146996736?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=theprospecttimes.com)

The other news is **Julio Pablo Martinez** was [promoted](https://theprospecttimes.com/julio-pablo-martinez-promoted/) to Down East.

The Rangers also signed free agent right-handed pitcher **Jen-Ho Tseng** to a minor league contract. He played for the Cubs in 3 games in 2017-18\. He will go to extended spring in Arizona to begin throwing program.

Let's go ahead and recap some highlights of the games.

## Nashville Sounds (4-10)

The Sounds lost to the Round Rock Express 8-2.

[**Richelson Pena** ](https://m.milb.com/milb/iphone/player/606467?ref=theprospecttimes.com)(1-2, 4.82) got the start and pitched 6.2 innings allowing 7 runs on 8 hits, including a home run. He struck out 5 while throwing 88 pitches.

#### Line-up

**Eli White**, who started at Center Field, went 3-5 with a run and a strikeout. His average is .231.

**Willie Calhoun** went 1-4 with an RBI and 2 strikeouts. His average is at .255.

**Chase d'Arnaud** went 3-4 bringing his batting average to .545.

## Frisco RoughRiders (8-5)

The RoughRiders were shut out by the Corpus Christi Hooks 8-0.

**Jonathan Hern?ndez** (1-1, 3.45) got the start and pitched 5 innings allowing 3 runs on 5 hits, 3 walks and 6 strikeouts. 2 of the 5 hits were home runs.

**Blake Bass** (2.70) pitched 1.2 innings out of the pen and allowed 3 runs, 2 earned on 3 hits, 3 walks and 2 strikeouts. These were the first runs that he has allowed so far this year.

#### Line-up

This line-up only managed to get 4 hits and **Alex Kowalczyk** got 2 of those 4\. He was 2-4 with 1 strikeout and he is hitting .429 on the year.

**Eliezer Alvarez** and **Tony Sanchez** had 1 hit a piece.

## Down East Wood Ducks (10-4)

It took 11 innings but the Wood Ducks beat the Salem Red Sox by a final of 5-4.

Left-handed pitcher **[Jake Latz](https://m.milb.com/milb/iphone/player/656641?ref=theprospecttimes.com)** (0.00) got the start for the Wood Ducks. He pitched 3 innings, allowing 1 un-earned run on 2 hits, 2 walks and 2 strikeouts.

The Wood Ducks used a total of 7 pitchers.

Right-handed pitcher **Cole Uvila** came on in relief and pitched 1.1 innings and struck out all 4 batters!

![DeMarcus Evans, photo credit: daniel.photography23 via Instagram](https://theprospecttimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/6cf4825fc049ea77150f92afa5cf6d77.jpg)

**DeMarcus Evans** (1-0, 3.18) got both a blown save and the win. He pitched 2 innings, allowing 2 runs, only 1 earned on 2 hits. He also walked 1 and struck out 3.

**Francisco Villegas** pitched a shutout inning and allowed 1 hit to get his 1st save.

#### The Wood Ducks committed 4 errors. 2 throwing and 2 fielding errors.

### Line-up

**Julio Pablo Martinez** went 0-5 with 3 strikeouts in his Wood Ducks Debut.

**Leody Taveras** went 2-4 with an RBI, 1 walk and 2 strikeouts. He is hitting .373.

**Diosbel Arias** is heating up. He went 2-4 with a run and an RBI and 2 strikeouts. He is currently hitting .327 on the year.

**Yonny Hernandez** hit a sac-fly in the top of the 11th that scored **Ryan Dorow**. *Hern?ndez* ended up going 1-1 with a run, 2 RBI and a walk. He is batting an even .300.

*Eric Jenkins* and *Ryan Dorow* each had a hit.

## Hickory Crawdads (10-3)

The Crawdads beat the Asheville Tourists 6-4.

The ***Hans Crouse*** (2-0, 1.26) got the start and the win for the Crawdads. He pitched 6.2 innings and allowed 2 runs on 3 hits, including a home run. *Crouse* struck out 8 batters and didn't give any free passes and threw 79 pitches, 58 for strikes.

**Grant Anderson** (2.84) earned his 2nd Hold of the year. He pitched 1.1 shutout innings throwing 12 pitches, 8 for strikes.

#### Line-up

[**Frainyer Chavez**](https://m.milb.com/milb/iphone/player/669413?ref=theprospecttimes.com) went 2-4 with 2 runs and has his average up to .219.

**Curtis Terry** is a guy that you need to pay attention to. He has been hot lately and today was no exception. *Terry* hit his 4th home run of the year, going 2-4 with 4 RBI. His average is at .313 with a 1.041 OPS.

[**Miguel Aparicio**](https://m.milb.com/milb/iphone/player/665918?ref=theprospecttimes.com) had a good game. At the plate he went 1-3 with 2 RBI, hitting his 1st home run of the year. He also had an outfield assist as well.

Thank you for reading Around the Farm 4/17/19!