Manny Banuelos started for the Trenton Thunder last night. Being as he has had a breakout season after starting the year on the DL because of an appendectomy, I felt it appropriate to take some video.

I believe the hitter in the first video had an infield single, although I was interrupted halfway through the video to, uh, win a promotion (this is what happens when you arrive at a minor league park too early…friends and readers Brent and Mark ended up doing the Dizzy Bat Race!).

The hitter in the second video hits a clean single.

Banuelos had a couple really nasty pitches in there; sat 92ish according to the scouts sitting in front of us (Waterfront Park doesn’t display a gun), and hit 94; however, he threw a ton of pitches and had to leave the game relatively early, after 4.2 innings.

If you want to see photos from the game, you can do so here

(in this one I embarrissingly confess that yes, I am really bad at pitch identification. Part of it is that my eyes are not great, but it’s mostly that I’m just flat-out bad at it)