Wilmer Flores Stays Hot and Bullpen Holds on After Hour+ Rain Delay | Astromets Mind

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Wilmer Flores Stays Hot and Bullpen Holds on After Hour+ Rain Delay




May 6, 2014


Teams
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

R
H
E
LOB
Las Vegas
3
1
0
0
3
0
0
0
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8
1
3
Salt Lake
0
2
2
0
1
0
1
0
0

6
11
0
5


The Highlights:
Pitchers
Goeddel – 1 IP, BB, SO, 21 pitches, 12 strikes, 4 batters faced, 1 groundout
Carreno – 2.1 IPm 3 H, 2 R (1 ER), 2 BB, 44 pitches, 32 strikes, 11 batters faced, 2 fly outs (Shouldn’t he be the pitcher of record, having finished the 5th?)
Edgin – 1 IP, 2 SO, 12 pitches, 10 strikes, 1 groundout
Black – 1 IP, 3 H, 20 pitches, 12 strikes, 5 batters faced, 1 groundout, 1 fly out

Batters
Campbell – 2-5, 2 R, SO
FloreSS – 2-4, 2 R, 4 RBI (23), 2B, (4), HR (5), E (7, throw) – more details on the throwing error when I’ve seen the replay
Dykstra – 1-2, R, 2 RBI (26), HR (4), 2 BB
Centeno – 3-4, 2 R, RBI (9), HR (1)


Recap:

            
The 51s got back to their winning ways Tuesday night in the opener of a four game series against the bees. Neither starter was having a particularly strong outing through the first 3.5 innings, at which point the rain was coming down too hard to keep playing. After over an hour delay, both starters were out of the games and the 51s would pounce out to a lead thanks to a 3-run homerun from SS Wilmer Flores, his 4th homerun of the road trip (4 games). The 51s bullpen was able to hold onto the lead, with Josh Edgin coming in for an impressive 8th and Vic Black holding on for the save in the 9th.
            Flores would get the scoring started in the 1st inning, doubling in Eric Campbell with a liner into the left-center field gap. He would score on an absolute bomb of a HR from Allan Dykstra, who hit it out over the wall in RF. Juan Centeno would tack on a run in the top of the 2nd with a solo shot that just got over the RF wall, his third professional homerun in 1,219 professional plate appearances – within a week Wilfredo Tovar hitting a homerun for Binghamton! After a strong 1st inning, Dana Eveland gave up a couple of hard hits in the bottom of the 2nd, including a 2-run homerun to Luis Martinez. Eveland would give up another couple of hard hits in the bottom of the 3rd, including another 2-run homerun, this time to Roberto Lopez. Bees starter Jarrett Grube actually settled in after the rough inning, retiring eleven of the final thirteen 51s hitters he would face.
            Erik Goeddel was the first out of the 51s bullpen after the rain delay and looked good, but he took a ball off the foot for the third out of the inning and obviously did not come back for a second inning. Haven’t heard anything about him yet, so hopefully it was more precautionary. Josh Edgin looked the best he has all season, getting the last two swinging on nasty breaking balls at the bottom of the zone. Shawn O’Malley got a hustle double with one out in the 9th on a liner towards the RF line. Unfortunately for the Bees, O’Malley tried to push the envelope and was thrown out trying to steal 3B, thanks to a nice throw from Juan Centeno. On the one hand, it increases the probability of scoring at least one run by nearly 26%, but on the other hand, he could score on most hits to the OF, and the next two batters were able to get singles up the middle. Black would finish the game by getting Efren Navarro to fly out to CF.
            Looking ahead, the 51s send Jacob ∂eGrom to the hill Wednesday night opposite Bees starter Matt Shoemaker. Shoemaker got the win in his last start despite allowing ten hits in 6.2 IP. ∂eGrom is coming off a win in what was an overall very strong start against Reno his last time out, with rumors swirling around Queens that a promotion to the Mets bullpen is only weeks away for him. Game time scheduled for 8:35 PM ET and can be watched on MiLB.tv for users or listened to with MiLB.com radio feeds for free. If you’re interested in 51s coverage, Russ Langer does a great job of calling the games on the streams mentioned.





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