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Los Angeles Dodgers prospects go back-to-back, twice

By Jason Burke

LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 19: A glove and a Los Angeles Dodgers cap lay on the tarp during batting practice prior to the MLB game against the Colorado Rockies at Dodger Stadium on August 19, 2008 in Los Angeles, California. The Rockies defeated the Dodgers 8-3. (Photo by Victor Decolongon/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 19: A glove and a Los Angeles Dodgers cap lay on the tarp during batting practice prior to the MLB game against the Colorado Rockies at Dodger Stadium on August 19, 2008 in Los Angeles, California. The Rockies defeated the Dodgers 8-3. (Photo by Victor Decolongon/Getty Images) /
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The Los Angeles Dodgers cannot be stopped at the big league level, and now some of their farmhands are joining in on the fun.

The Los Angeles Dodgers have one of the best farm systems in baseball, and that’s after providing Cody Bellinger, Corey Seager and Joc Pederson to the big league club over the last three seasons.

On Thursday night in Dayton, Ohio, a pair of Great Lakes Loons went back-to-back twice in the same inning. Part of an eleven run first for the Loons, Cody Thomas and Carlos Rincon clobbered a pair of pitches over the fence before an out was recorded to begin the game. Before the final out was recorded in that same inning, Thomas and Rincon provided an encore performance.

This has to be up there in terms of rarity with Fernando Tatis‘s two grand slams in the same inning feat back in 1999 as a member of the St. Louis Cardinals.

Thomas added a third home run in the fifth inning, giving him 18 on the season and finished the evening 3-for-5 with seven RBI. He was subsequently plunked in the back in the seventh.

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Due to the night that Thomas had in front of him, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ number 24 prospect, Rincon, finished the night 2-for-5 with those two homers and two RBI. Those two home runs also gives Rincon 18 homers on the season.

According to MLB Pipeline, Rincon’s power and his arm are his best tools, both ranking as 55’s on the 20-80 scout scale.

What’s interesting about the double dip from last night is that the first set of homers came off of rehabbing big leaguer and one-time presumptive future ace of the Cincinnati Reds, Anthony DeSclafani. Last season DeSclafani missed time with an oblique injury, and this season he’s missed time until very recently with a partial tear of his UCL. The final line for the rehabbing righty on Thursday: 1/3 of an inning, 8 hits, 8 earned, no walks, no strikeouts, three homers allowed.

The third home run DeSclafani allowed was to the eighth place hitter, Jared Walker, who believe it or not, also had two homers in the game.

The Cincinnati Reds tweeted out after the game that DeSclafani was pulled due to right forearm discomfort and that he would be examined in Cincinnati on Friday.

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Also of note from this game: Jose Siri, the Reds 24th ranked prospect, extended his hit streak to 39 with a double in the eighth. After hitting just .208 in April, Siri has recorded averages of .309, .294, .344 and so far in August is batting .250. Overall that average stands at .295 this season.

The Loons beat up on the Dragons 16-5 to pull to within two games of .500 in the second half. Dayton on the other hand holds the worst second half record in the Midwest League at 13-25.

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