Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Reynoso gets call-up to Pelicans

Sleepless night for WRHS grad


Bellevue's Ryne Reynoso had a sleepless night Monday because of the excitement of being called up to a higher league in the Atlanta Braves pro baseball organization.

Reynoso, 22, ending his first year as a minor league baseball pitcher for the Rome (Ga.) Braves—a Class A affiliate of the Atlanta Braves—was pulled aside with two other pitchers by Braves scouts and brass.

Along with Rome teammates Brett Butts and Jorge Acosta, 2003 Wood River High School graduate Reynoso was promoted to the Myrtle Beach Pelicans team in the Class A Advanced Carolina League for the final seven games of the 2007 Pelicans baseball season.

The three relief pitchers received the good news after Monday's 4-3 Braves win over Charleston (S.C.) in South Atlantic League action. Reynoso got the save in the victory with one inning of scoreless work.

In fact, 6-2, 215-pound righthander Reynoso (3-4, 1.98 ERA, 71 K and 32 BB in 59 innings, 9 saves, 5 holds) has been on a hot streak out of the Braves bullpen. The Boston College product has five saves in the last 10 days as Rome (34-29 in the season's second half) is on a 7-3 roll in that span.

Reynoso left Rome at daybreak Tuesday to arrive in Myrtle Beach, S.C. for last night's Pelicans game against the Baltimore Orioles affiliate Frederick (Md.) Keys at BB&T Coastal Field. The Pelicans season ends Monday, Sept. 3.

Butts, 21, is a 6-1, 190-pound righty from Riverdale, Ga. and Acosta, 23, is a 5-11, 185-pound southpaw from Caracas, Venezuela. The trio will try to help a Pelicans squad (58-74) lodged in fourth place in the Southern Carolina League 23 games behind its Sept. 1-3 home opponent Kinston Indians (81-51), a Cleveland Indians affiliate.

Reynoso holds the all-time winning record for Wood River High School with a 23-5 career pitching mark. He won 11 of 13 games on the mound in his senior year of 2003 when Wood River (25-4-1) captured its first Idaho state high school baseball championship for coaches Lars Hovey and Larry Lloyd.

The son of Ron Reynoso and Pam Street pitched three years for Boston College before signing with the Atlanta Braves.




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