Phillies Prospect Watch: Ramon Marquez Rocketing Up the Pipeline

Phillies prospects went 0-4 on Friday, July 3, their best chance at victory coming in another excellent High-A start for 20-year-old Ramon Marquez.

The BlueClaws suffered a bad break, their game called due to a power outage after six innings; they trailed 1-0 at the time. Marquez fanned nine batters in five innings, allowing just one run.

He now has 20 strikeouts and a 2.40 ERA across 15 innings since promotion to High-A and has climbed from No. 26 to No. 9 on the Phillies’ MLB Pipeline list since the season started. Nick Biddison’s two singles, meanwhile accounted for most of the BlueClaws’ offense.

Triple-A Lehigh Valley lost 11-5, recent left-handed signee Kolby Allard shelled for seven runs in 4.2 innings. Center fielder Dylan Moore walked and came a homer shy of the cycle; infielder Robert Moore hit a three-run homer, and second baseman Christian Cairo reached base three times.

Double-A Reading lost 12-4, solo home runs from Pedro León and Raylin Heredia (his 16th this season and fourth in the last eight games) not enough to reverse a rough start from Braydon Tucker and a bullpen blowup in the late innings. Alex Binelas went 3-for-4 with a pair of doubles, adding another RBI.

Single-A Clearwater amassed 11 hits and four walks, but a 1-for-11 clip with runners in scoring position doomed them to a loss. Left fielder Nathan Humphreys doubled and homered, center fielder Griffin Burkholder (3-for-5) also cleared the fences, and third baseman Nolan Beltran reached base four times.

Lefty Zuher Yousuf covered four scoreless innings out of the bullpen, fanning five batters.