Justin Jones Jumps to Harrisburg Senators

MLN Newswire - www.mlntherawfeed.com -WOODBRIDGE, Va.— The Potomac Nationals announced today that pitcher Justin Jones has jumped to Double-A Harrisburg. Additionally, right-hander Zack Segovia has been promoted from Low-A Hagerstown.

 Jones has performed well during his brief stay with Potomac this season
 going 3-1 with a 1.48 ERA in four games started. The Norfolk, Va., native
 pitched perhaps his best game as a National against Frederick on June 20th
 by throwing 8 2/3 innings and allowing only one run. The left-hander
 continues his ascent through the Washington farm system recovering from
 off-season knee surgery. He started the season with Low-A Hagerstown where
 he went 1-0 in two starts.

 The 23-year-old embarks on his second stint with the Senators after
 spending part of the 2007 season with Harrisburg where he made three
 starts going 2-0 with a 5.19 ERA. Jones, selected from the Minnesota Twins
 in the 2006 Minor League Rule 5 Draft owns a 35-28 career record in seven
 seasons of professional baseball and has never pitched above Double-A

 Segovia, a 2002 second round draft pick, spent the first six years of his
 career in the Philadelphia Phillies organization before the Nationals
 signed him as a minor league free agent this season. The Dallas, Texas
 native made one start for Hagerstown this year prior to his promotion to
 the P-Nats, lasting five innings and suffering the loss.



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 The right-hander earned a spot Philadelphia’s 2007 Opening Day Roster out
 of Spring Training. The 25-year-old made his Major League debut on April
 8, 2007 against the Florida Marlins pitching five innings while allowing
 eight hits and five runs in a losing effort.

 Segovia pitched for the U.S. Junior National Team in the summer of 2001
 striking out 15 batters in eight innings while not allowing an earned run.

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