Runs were hard to come by for the Glendale Desert Dogs on Friday night in a 1-0 road loss to the Scottsdale Scorpions in the Arizona Fall League, True Blue LA reported. Glendale managed just five hits over the course of the contest, every single one of them a single. Dodgers prospects accounted for three of those five base knocks, highlighting a night where offense was at a premium.
Desert Dogs Struggle Offensively While Relief Pitchers Neutralize Scottsdale Threats
Third baseman Chase Harlan contributed two hits to the cause, while second baseman Charles Davalan reached base safely twice with a single and a walk. Despite those individual efforts, the Desert Dogs simply could not push a runner across home plate against Scottsdale pitching.
The pitching side told a different story for Glendale, particularly when left-hander Cody Morse took the mound in relief. Morse inherited runners on first and second base with two outs in the sixth inning and promptly neutralized the threat by inducing a groundout. He then returned for a scoreless seventh frame, working around a walk while collecting a strikeout.
Morse Extends Flawless Arizona Fall League Run
The left-hander has been nearly spotless through his nine appearances in the Arizona Fall League. Morse has allowed only one unearned run across eight innings of work, yielding just two hits and five walks. That performance leaves him with a pristine 0.00 ERA.
Along with that run prevention, Morse has racked up 14 strikeouts among the 33 batters he has faced, translating to a tidy 42.4-percent strikeout rate.
He mixes three pitches: a mid-90s four-seam fastball with seven feet of extension, an 83-85 mph sweeper and a firm upper-80s changeup with negative vertical break.
