May 21, 2014 – Game 1
Teams
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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R
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H
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E
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LOB
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Binghamton
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1
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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1
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8
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1
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6
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Portland
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3
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0
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1
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1
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0
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0
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X
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5
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9
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0
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8
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W: Couch (6-0, 2.39);
L: Cessa (0-1, 12.27)
The Highlights:
Pitchers
Keith Couch – 7 IP, 9
H, ER, BB, 2 SO, 88 pitches, 61 strikes (69%), 28 batters faced, 11 groundouts,
4 fly outs
Batters
Matt
Reynolds – 2-3
Matt
Clark – 2-3
Dustin
Lawley – 2-3, 2B (9), SI
Travis
Shaw – 2-3, 2 R, HR (9), RBI (32), BB, SO
Stefan
Welch – 2-4, R, 2B (7), HR (2), 3 RBI (19)
Recap:
With
six games in four days against Portland and Greg Peavey promoted to Las Vegas,
the BMets needed to promote Luis Cessa from St. Lucie for the spot start in
game 1 Wednesday night. The converted infielder had been pretty effective for
St. Lucie this season, especially over his last three starts (19 IP, 3 ER), but
was roughed up in his AA debut. Meanwhile, Portland starter Keith Couch was
pretty sharp and as advertised, keeping the ball down in the zone to produce
those 11 groundouts, with only one walk against two strikeouts. Hamilton
Bennett came in to make his second appearance of the season for the BMets
(both in this series), working 2.1 scoreless innings. This game started at 5 PM
ET and was over with time to spare before the Mets game – 7 inning affairs have
such a different feel.
Darrell
Ceciliani got things started quickly for the BMets, doubling into the
right-center field gap to lead off the game. He would score two batters later
on a Kevin
Plawecki fielder’s choice groundout, and the BMets were sitting pretty
early. Portland would bounce back for three runs of their own in the bottom of
the 1st, as former Met farmhand Stefan Welch turned on an 95 MPH
inside fastball and kept it just fair down the RF line for a bomb. Cessa got
two strikes on Mookie
Betts to lead off the inning, but ended up hitting him on his upper arm –
makes me wonder how differently things go for Cessa in a universe in which he
gets Betts. Travis Shaw led off the bottom of the 3rd with a line
drive homerun off the top of the CF wall. Welch followed with a hard hit
double, but Cessa retired the next three to prevent further damage.
Cessa’s outing would end with two
outs and two on in the 4th, with the run already in. Cessa got the
leadoff batter Heiker
Meneses to hit a slow chopper down the 3B line, but it was too far from Dustin
Lawley for a play at 1B. After a sac hit moved him to 2B, Mookie Betts
doubled him in with a line drive that one hopped the corner. Cessa would get
the last batter he faced, Shaw, to strike out swinging, but Mookie Betts advanced
to 3B thanks to a wild pitch. The ball didn’t actually bounce too far away from
Plawecki, and the BMets had Mookie stranded between 2B and 3B, but Plawecki
chose to throw to 2B instead of charge Betts, and Betts broke to 3B, sliding in
just ahead of the tag. After the 1st inning, the BMets only managed
to get two base runners on in the same inning once, when Matt Reynolds and Matt
Clark were stranded after singling in the 6th.
Looking
ahead, the 6-game series wraps up Thursday evening with the BMets sending Rainy
Lara pitching opposite Miguel
Pena, with a 6 PM ET scheduled start time. Lara is coming off his second
rough outing of the season last week against New Hampshire, as he gave up five
runs on eight hits (two homeruns) over 6.1 IP, although he managed a 7 K: 0 BB
ratio. Lara is a control specialist who has given up about a hit per inning
thus far this season. Pena has been very sharp in all but two of his outings,
though he has yet to last longer than 5.1 IP (which he reached in his last
outing) – he has 37 IP over 8 starts, or 4.2 IP/start. Too many baseball
choices tonight, not sure which games I will cover yet.
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