Tennessee Baseball Fall Scrimmage Notes And Stats: Oct. 16

Fall ball keeps chugging along for Tennessee baseball as the Vols were back at Lindsey Nelson Stadium on Wednesday evening for a six inning scrimmage. The scrimmage started early so I missed almost the entire first inning and a half so some stats are a bit limited but I was able to glean one key nugget from the first inning when I wasn’t there.

It’s important to note that this was not a super formal scrimmage. Pitchers are on pitch counts and each pitcher has designated innings to throw. So there was a half inning that ended before three outs were recorded because the pitcher had hit his pitch count.

Let’s start with a few players who were not in action on Wednesday. Utility man Dalton Bargo, middle infielder Gavin Kilen and middle infielder Ariel Antigua all did not go through the scrimmage.

Ole Miss transfer Andrew Fischer continues to rake this fall and he went deep to right-center field in his final at-bat of the day. He’s now gone deep three straight scrimmages including a walk-off homer during Sunday night’s scrimmage. His power has lived up to the hype this fall.

Colby Backus, Cannon Peebles and Levi Clark also went deep in the scrimmage with the freshman Clark taking Liam Doyle deep and Backus taking Marcus Phillips to the second deck of the porches. It wasn’t Phillips best performance as walks proved to be a problem. That was a big issue for him a season ago.

I’ve been impressed by Peebles this fall. Just has been a real steady approach with a lot of walks. Between Peebles and Stone Lawless, the Vols have some strong options behind the plate.

The final numbers don’t look great for Andrew Behnke but I thought he had a nice. Day was overall effective but extra-base hits by Brennon Seigler and Hunter Ensley got him. Speaking of Seigler, the freshman from Farragut had the best day I’ve seen him have this fall with a pair of base knocks.

With that, it’s on to the stats. A number of players have a plate appearance missing due to the action I missed so apologies about that. I went ahead and outlined which players it was that have one plate appearance missing.

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Home (Orange)

Jay Abernathy — 0/2, K (One PA missing)

Alex Perry — 1/1, RBI, R (One PA missing)

Reese Chapman — 1/2 (One PA missing)

Stone Lawless — 0/2 (One PA missing)

Manny Marin — 0/1, 2 BB, SB, K (One PA missing)

Blake Grimmer — 1/3, K

Hunter Ensley — 1/3, 2B

Brooks Wright — 1/2, BB, K

Dane Morrow — 0/2, K

Brennon Seigler — 2/2, 3B, R

Pitching: 

LHP Liam Doyle — I missed the first five outs Doyle recorded so I’m not even going to list his stats. But he allowed one run on a solo home run by Levi Clark while facing just 10 batters in three innings pitched

LHP Andrew Behnke — 3.0 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 4 K