Miami Palms Blog

July 21, 2020 – Progressive Field For eight innings Tuesday night, the Miami Palms played exactly the kind of baseball they needed to play. And for nine innings, they couldn't score. The result was one of the crueler losses of the season, a 2-0 defeat in Cleveland that dropped the Palms back to .500 at 51-51. The game remained scoreless through eight innings thanks to a pair of outstanding starting pitching performances. Manny Parra delivered arguably his best outing of the year, scattering four hits across seven shutout innings while striking out five. Parra navigated traffic in the middle innings and repeatedly worked out of trouble, keeping Cleveland's dangerous lineup quiet long enough for Miami's offense to find something. Unfortunately, that something never arrived. Aaron Civale dominated a short-handed Palms lineup, allowing just two hits in seven innings. Miami managed only three hits all night and never advanced a runner past second base. The best chance came in th...

CLEVELAND — The All-Star break was supposed to be a reset button. Instead, the Miami Palms arrived in Ohio and found themselves trapped in the same nightmare that closed the Pittsburgh series. The Cleveland Indians pounded out 22 hits , scored in four different innings, and rolled to a 15-1 victory Monday night at Progressive Field, handing the Palms their second consecutive lopsided defeat and dropping Miami back to 51-50 for the season. The loss means Miami has now surrendered 33 runs in its last two games. "There's no dressing that up," manager Scott Hatteberg said afterward. "We've got to pitch better. Period." The lone bright spot came from Frank Sohn , who continued his torrid July by launching a solo homer in the sixth inning. Sohn accounted for three of Miami's five total bases, finishing 2-for-2 with a walk and his ninth homer of the season. Unfortunately for the Palms, by then the game had long since been decided. Cleveland Lands the...

  July 19, 2020 — Coca-Cola Palms Park By Vin Castillo For five innings Sunday afternoon, the Miami Palms looked poised to complete a successful opening weekend of the second half. Four innings later, they were simply trying to get the final out. Pittsburgh erased an early 6-5 deficit with a devastating six-run sixth inning and followed it with another six-run seventh, rolling past the Palms 18-7 in one of the club's roughest losses of the season. The Pirates pounded out 27 hits , including two grand slams, turning what had been an entertaining back-and-forth contest into a long afternoon for a Miami pitching staff that had no answers once Pittsburgh's lineup got rolling. "We got punched in the mouth," manager Scott Hatteberg said afterward. "That's about as simple as I can put it." Early fireworks The game hardly looked headed toward disaster in the opening innings. Miami jumped in front in the first when Brett Gardner launched his ninth homer...

  Miami 9, Pittsburgh 4 July 18, 2020 — Coca-Cola Palms Park By Vin Castillo For four innings Saturday night, it looked like the Miami Palms might waste another strong offensive start. Then the fifth inning happened. The Palms sent 11 men to the plate, pounded out six hits, drew two walks, and turned a 4-2 deficit into a 9-4 lead in a stunning seven-run eruption that carried them to a 9-4 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. With the win, Miami improved to 51-48 and secured its first series victory of the second half. "We kept putting pressure on them," manager Scott Hatteberg said. "Eventually something was going to break." Miranda Keeps Making Noise The story before the game was Emilio Miranda's recall from AAA Jackson after Yairo Munoz landed on the injured list. The story after the game was Emilio Miranda. The young outfielder reached base four times, went 3-for-4, scored twice, doubled, homered, and drove in two runs. In just a handful of major l...