Red Sox MiLB Notebook: Kristian Campbell left Wednesday night’s game with injury
WooSox infielder Kristian Campbell left in the middle of the game on Wednesday with an apparent injury.
Following an at-bat in the bottom of the third inning, Campbell appeared to have tweaked something on a swing and was seen on NESN’s coverage shaking his arm as he was heading into the dugout.
After the game, WooSox skipper Chad Tracy told reporters that Campbell tweaked a muscle or had a spasm in his shoulder blade. Tracy doesn’t think it was a big deal and called it “very minor” and may give Campbell the day off on Thursday.
“But it’s something that scared him,” said Tracy on Campbell’s injury in the WooSox’ 7-0 win over the Mets on Wednesday night.
Jason Alexander hurled a gem for the WooSox on Wednesday.
The righty tossed seven scoreless innings, giving up two hits while walking no one and striking out 11 batters. Alexander flirted with a perfect game as he pitched into the fifth inning. Former WooSox infielder Yolmer Sanchez laced a one-out single in the fifth to end the no-hit bid.
Alexander flirted with a no-hitter earlier this season; ironically, it was against the Syracuse Mets.
On April 8, the WooSox played the only Triple-A game in the league against the Syracuse Mets. They took the field after the eclipse rolled through earlier in the afternoon, and Alexander was excellent in that start, retiring 19 of 21 hitters and tossing six scoreless and hitless frames.
The righty forced 11 swings and misses during his outing while tossing 71 pitches, 48 of them for strikes, pounding the zone, tossing his slider, sinker, changeup, and cutter.
The WooSox have sent 25 different players to Boston this season. Skipper Chad Tracy gets the honor of telling his players, many of them for the first time, that they’ll be promoted to the big leagues.
Last week, Tracy was able to tell Richard Fitts he was the latest WooSox player to play for the Red Sox.
"He [Fitts] was very excited," Tracy said to Spectrum 1 News on Wednesday. "Even the thought that he was in the cards and in the conversations was really cool to be able to tell him. All of us texted him later, once we knew it was becoming official [that] they were going to do that and he was going to start. We all reached out and congratulated him. He deserves it. He's been a stalwart in our rotation, and the last month, he's been exceptional here, so he deserved the opportunity."
The 24-year-old pitched well over the first five innings of his outing. He wasn’t overpowering with his stiff, but he was efficient using his four-seam heater. He hurled 5 2/3 innings, allowing just two runs, both unearned on six hits, while striking out two batters.
