By BARRY LEWIS Sports Writer on Sep 18, 2013, at 2:45 PM Updated on 9/18 at 2:56 PM
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Former Tulsa Drillers pitcher Chad Bettis picked up his first major league win on Monday night in the Colorado Rockies' 6-2 ...
San Antonio defeated Arkansas 5-0 to win the Texas League Championship Series on Sunday at North Little Rock. San Antonio ...
Top Arizona Diamondbacks prospect and Broken Arrow graduate Archie Bradley was selected to Baseball America's 15-player Minor ...
Red Oak graduate Lane Adams went 2-for-4 and scored a run to help lead Omaha past Durham 2-1 in the Triple-A Championship Game on Tuesday night at Allentown, Pa.
Adams, who finished the regular season with Double-A Northwest Arkansas in the Texas League. also was a standout for Omaha in the Pacific Coast League finals. Omaha is a Kansas City Royals farm team.
Nine players from this year's Northwest Arkansas team played for Omaha in the playoffs. Omaha's manager is former Tulsa Drillers player Mike Jirschele. The losing pitcher was former Kansas City Royals prospect Jake Odorizzi.
Omaha's run to the title was remarkable after finishing the regular season with a 70-74 record. It wouldn't have even made the playoffs if St. Louis' top farm team, Memphis had not blown a 4-0 lead with two outs in ninth inning in the penultimate game of the regular season at Oklahoma City, and then also lost 2-1 at Oklahoma City in the finale.
It had to be a night of mixed emotions in Kansas City's organization. At the major league level, the Royals had to be pleased with starting pitcher Yordano Ventura's major league debut as he allowed only one run in 5 2/3 innings. But a 3-0 lead slipped away as Cleveland won 5-3.
Kansas City has come so far this season and it seemed as if it might be able to pull off a wild card berth, but that type of loss is one the Royals couldn't afford and might be looked back at as being the turning point if they don't qualify for the playoffs...
Broken Arrow graduate and Arizona Diamondbacks top prospect Archie Bradley received another honor as he was named Topps' Southern League player of the month for August. Bradley was 6-0 with a 1.24 ERA for Double-A Mobile during the month.
Earlier, it was announced that Topps honored Tulsa Drillers outfielder Kyle Parker and Arkansas outfielder Randal Grichuk as the Texas League's co-players of the month...
The Los Angeles Angels activated former Drillers infielder Chris Nelson off the disabled list.
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