From Amalie Benjamin’s “Minor League Notebook” today, this is how she reported on Dustin Richardson and Kyle Snyder:
Pitchers Dustin Richardson (Portland) and Kyle Snyder (Pawtucket) have made rehab appearances as they work toward coming off the disabled list . . .
Chock full of information, that sentence is. I know the Globe doesn’t like to focus much attention on the Minors and this Amalie spends more time focusing on one story (that of Luis Exposito, which is actually interesting if not a little lacking in substance) and she used the paragraph this sentence was in as a throwaway to add bits and pieces she probably culled from other resources, but would it kill her to be a little more specific?
Richardson pitched for Lowell the other night and Kyle pitched an inning with the Gulf Coast League Sox on Monday. Richardson faced 11 batters in a little over two innings. He struck out two, walked two and gave up one hit. Pitching one inning, Kyle faced three batters and struck out the first two – one looking and one swinging – and got the third batter to ground out.
See? That didn’t take up much space or time at all. 🙂
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