Peek-a-boo: Sousa has a win for you! (Kim Contreras/South Side Hit Pen)
Glendale Desert Dogs 1, Scottsdale Scorpions 0
Bennett Sousa (RP) IP, H, eight pitches/six strikes, W (1-0) (0.00 ERA)
Gavin Sheets (1B) 0-for-3 (.000 BA)
Micker Adolfo (RF) 0-for-2, BB, 2 K, outfield assist (RF to 2B) (.167 BA)
Blake Rutherford (LF) 0-for-2, 2 K (.100 BA)
No offense to Bennett Sousa or the very untidy Glendale offense (not looking it up but the Desert Dogs have to be hitting like .100 so far this season), but I can’t bury the lede here either.
MICKER ADOLFO IS BACK IN THE FIELD!
AND MICKER ADOLFO IS ROCKING IT IN THE FIELD!
Adolfo handled three chances in right field on Saturday night, without event. Wait, without event? Wrong! With one big-time event, namely gunning down a runner at second base! Yep, the big fella trotted out his big arm in the fifth, gunning down Joey Bart trying to stretch a single into a double. Hey, AFL, revise your scouting reports on Micker’s dead arm, eh? Or better yet, don’t (nothing to see here).
The other story tonight was Sousa, who’s been about the only White Sox farmhand worth a lick in this first week of AFL play. Sousa threw only two pitches outside of the strike zone on Saturday, throwing a scoreless eighth inning that allowed him to claim the win when Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman Omar Estevez repo manned Elehuris Montero home with a double in the bottom of the frame.
As for Gavin Sheets and Blake Rutherford, move on, nothing to see here …
South Side Hit Pen 
Well, so much for Rutherford and Sheets building trade value in the AFL. They’d be lucky to be throw-in pieces in any trade at this rate.
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