It’s been a couple of months
since we did an update on Delhi, Ontario’s Brock Dykxhoorn. For those who may
not have been following our other posts on the young pitcher, Dykxhoorn is
currently in his second full season of professional baseball in the Houston
Astros organization. After spending 2015 with the Quad Cities River Bandits of
the Midwest League, he is pitching for the Lancaster JetHawks in the California
League this year.
But before we take a look at his
performance, let’s look at how the JetHawks are doing. They finished the first
half of the season with a .500 record—35 wins and 35 losses, landing in third place
in the South Division, eight games behind the division winner High Desert
Mavericks, and therefore missing out on the first-half playoff spot.
The JetHawks still have a shot
at the postseason, however, if they can capture the best record in the second
half. And right now, they are in first place after 32 games with a 21-11
record, good enough for a 1 ½ game lead over the Lake Elsinore Storm. Should
they fail to hold that lead, they can still qualify as a Wild Card if they can
manage the best record of all the teams in the division who didn’t finish first
in either the first or second halves. When you consider that there are only
five teams in the division, they have a pretty good shot.
Now, as for our Canadian kid, he
pitched in five games over the course of June, totalling 25 2/3 innings and
posting a 1-1 record and recording 21 strikeouts. His best effort of June was
his final start of the month, on the 29th against High Desert when
he pitched eight innings, allowed two earned runs on five hits and struck out
four on his way to picking up the victory.
July has seen Dykxhoorn hit a
bit of a rough patch. While he posted a 2-1 win/loss record this month, his ERA
has jumped to 5.02 for the season. He pitched in 20 1/3 innings in four games in
July, and struck out nine. His last start this past Tuesday, was his best
performance of the month as he pitched 5 2/3 innings, struck out three and
surrendered only one run in defeating Lake Elsinore.
For the season, Dykxhoorn has a
7-3 record, has posted a 5.02 ERA and struck out 63 batters in 89 2/3 innings.
He is within seven strikeouts of reaching 200 for his minor league career and
two wins shy of 20. Achieving both before the end of the season is a
probability.
Our next update will be at the
end of August and we will have a better idea of the JetHawks chances of making
the postseason as the regular season ends on September 5th.
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