The Arizona Fall League schedule was light on Monday, with just one of the three games getting played and that one stopping after seven innings. Even in that shortened slate, the Atlanta Braves got a look at two prospects in the same game: Isaiah Drake started in left field for the Glendale Desert Dogs, and Owen Carey finished it there.
Scottsdale walked away with a 6-2 win over Glendale, though the score got a little stretched by the end. The game was tight through six innings.
Glendale pulled even at 2-2 in the top of the sixth, only for Scottsdale to answer with a run in the bottom half and take the lead right back. Then came a three-run burst in the bottom of the seventh, which ended up being the final frame before the game was called.
Drake’s night was a short one at the plate, but it gave a decent snapshot of the matchup he was seeing. In the second inning, he ran the count through a pair of foul balls off 97 MPH fastballs, then took a pitch low before going down swinging on an inside slider. His second trip came in the fourth with a runner on second and two outs, and he finished that at-bat by sending a 97 MPH exit velocity ground ball to the third baseman.
In the sixth, Carey pinch-hit for Drake and then stayed in the game in left field until the end. He started his first at-bat by taking a pitch for a ball, then put a low sinker on the ground for a 97 MPH exit velocity ball to the first baseman.
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