Phil Hughes' third start for Trenton was somewhat inconsistent. He pitched 5 innings and ended up walking 4 men. Prior to this start, he had only walked three in total in his previous 2 starts and 2 in total in his 5 starts at Tampa. He also gave up a solo home run, only the third that he's given up in his professional career (he gave up the second in his last start).

There are still some postives there. Outside of the homerun, Hughes only gave up 2 other hits and did strike out 5 while lowering his AA ERA to 3.71. It'll be interesting to see how he does in his next couple of starts at AA as he continues to make adjustments. Naturally, Yankees fans everywhere watch with baited breath as we would love to see our own version of Francisco Liriano/Cole Hamels/Matt Cain/etc.

T.J. Beam then came in for 4 shutout innings and continued his dominating work so far this year. He hasn't given up a run since his first appearance of the year on April 7th. If you add in J.B. Cox's relief work this year (1 ER, 10 H, 5 BB, 14 K in his last 17.3 innings), Trenton has had one heck of a 1-2 punch in the bullpen this year and a promotion to AAA shouldn't be too far off for either player.