Guardians Farm Report: Richardson Strikes Out Six Over Five Scoreless Innings In Arizona Complex League Tuesday

Here is a recap of what happened with the Guardians minor league teams last night

Todd Paquette | Jul 6, 2022

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Cleveland Guardians

The three Cleveland Guardians Rookie League teams took center stage on Tuesday as the four full season minor league teams had the day off.

Arizona Complex League Guardians

ACL Guardians 3 ACL Cubs 2

Cleveland Guardians 19-year-old right-handed pitching prospect Alonzo Richardson struck out six allowing just three hits over five scoreless innings Tuesday night vs the Cubs.

Richardson hasn't allowed more than two earned runs in any of his five outings so far on the season in the Arizona Complex League. His 2.05 ERA currently third best in the ACL.

#Guardians 19yr old RHP prospect Alonzo Richardson kept his strong start to the season going Tuesday night in the Arizona Complex League throwing 5.0 scoreless innings against the Cubs.

Line - 5.0(IP) 3H 0R 0ER 2BB 6SO

2022 - 22.0(IP) 19H 8R 5ER 7BB 24SO 2.05 ERA#ForTheLand pic.twitter.com/mVENmp6zI5
— Guardians Prospective (@CleGuardPro) July 6, 2022

The ACL Guardians would score all three of their runs in the seventh inning with the big hit coming off the bat of 18-year-old catching prospect Manuel Mejias base hit that drove in one run with a second run scoring on a throwing error on the play.

19-year-old infield prospect Maick Collado continued his impressive start to his season reaching base in all five plate appearances going 1-for-1 with four walks in the contest scoring a run and stealing a base. Collado is hitting .342 with a .458 OBP and a .932 OPS through his first 11 games.

The ACL Guardians improve to 14-8 on the season.

Top Performers:

Maick Collado 1-1 R 4BB SB
Manuel Mejias 1-3 RBI BB
Wuilfredo Antunez 1-4 R 3B BB SB
Juan Benjamin 1-5 R RBI SB
Lexer Saduy 0-2 2BB SB
Alonzo Richardson 5.0(IP) 3H 0R 0ER 2BB 6SO
Sergio Morillo 2.0(IP) 0H 0R 0ER 1BB 2SO (Rehab)

Dominican Summer League Guardians (Blue)

DSL Astros (Blue) 6 DSL Guardians (Blue) 5

The Dominican Summer League (Blue) squad would drop a close one to the Astros (Blue) team seeing their record drop below .500 for the first time this season at 11-12.

Guardians 17-year-old catching prospect Jose Cedeno playing in his first professional season had two hits on the day. Both Cedeno's hits would go for extra bases as he would hit his sixth double and first triple on the year while driving in a run. Cedeno would also walk once and come around to score two runs.

Through his first 15 career games Cedeno ranks fourth in the Dominican Summer League in AVG at .412 and OBP at .537, seventh in OPS at 1.164 and 10th in SLG at .627 on the season.

#Guardians 17yr old (C) prospect Jose Cedeno continued his hot start to his career going (2-3 2R 2B 3B RBI BB) today vs the Astros in the Dominican Summer League.

Cedeno's DSL league ranks:

4) AVG .412
4) OBP .537
7) OPS 1.164
10) SLG .627#ForTheLand pic.twitter.com/oRkogUTxkr
— Guardians Prospective (@CleGuardPro) July 5, 2022

Starting pitcher 18-year-old right-hander Evelio Hernandez also playing in his first professional season looked sharp again striking out six over four innings allowing just one unearned on three base hits. Hernandez lowered his ERA to 1.38 on the year over 13.0 innings to go along with 15 strikeouts.

Top Performers:

Jose Cedeno 2-3 2R 2B 3B RBI BB
Reyden Hidalgo 2-3 R RBI
Erickson Sarita 1-3 R BB
Oscar Cedeno 1-2 BB SB
Evelio Hernandez 4.0(IP) 3H 1R 0ER 3BB 6SO
Wagner Castillo 2.1(IP) 0H 1R 0ER 0BB 0SO

Dominican Summer League Guardians (Red)

DSL Astros (Orange) 7 DSL Guardians (Red) 1

The Dominican Summer League (Red) team's struggles continued on Tuesday as they could only muster one run on four base hits against the Astros (Orange) squad and fall to 7-16 on the year with the loss.

On offense 18-year-old infield/outfield prospect Emerson Purroy would go 1-for-3 with a double and steal two bases in the game. 17-year-old outfield prospect Ronald Pena would reach base three times on a base hit and two walks and steal two bases of his own.