Alvarado and Allen Combine to Lead the 51s over the River Cats (with gifs!)

Las Vegas 51s @ Sacramento River Cats

June 27, 2014

Carlos Alvarado @ Matt Buschmann

Teams	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Las Vegas	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	1	0		4	6	2
Sacramento	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0		1	7	0

MiLB.com Boxscore

The Highlights:

Pitchers

Giancarlo Alvarado (W, 3-3) – 5.2 IP, 4 H, R, 5 BB, 2 SO, HBP, 97 Pitches (59 Strikes), 29 BF, 7 GO: 8 FO

Chase Bradford (H, 2) – 2.1 IP, 3 H, BB, SO

Buddy Carlyle (S, 2) – 1 IP, SO

Batters

Matt ∂en Dekker – 1-3, 2 R, 3B (4), BB

Matt Reynolds – 2-4, R, 2B (6), RBI (5)

Wilmer Flores – 1-3, 2 RBI (27), BB

Brandon Allen – 1-2, R, HR (7), RBI (25), 2 BB

Recap in gifs:

            The Las Vegas 51s won on the heels of a strong start from the veteran Alvarado and relief combo of Bradford and Carlyle. Offensively, Brandon Allen turned on a pitch for a long homerun to leadoff the top of the 5^th, and Matt “The Machine” Reynolds just kept on hitting. Below are the top highlights from the game.

            Alvarado had only two strikeouts on the night:

Luis Exposito struck out swinging to end the 2^nd.

 

Exposito struck out swinging on this 1-2 pitch 

Colin Walsh for the second out in the 4^th.

 

Walsh struck out swinging on this 2-2 pitch

            After M∂D walked to lead off the 4^th, Reynolds followed with a single to LF.

 

Reynolds lines a single to LF

            Brown loaded up the bases with this single to LF.

 

Brown followed with a single to LF

            Flores drove in the first two runs of the night with this single to LF.

 

Flores gives the 51s a lead

            Allen led off the 5^th with a long HR to RF.

 

Allen unloads on this pitch

            Reynolds hit this hustle double leading off the 6^th.

 

Reynolds ended up on second base on this hit

            M∂D led off the 8^th with this triple off of former Mets top draft pick Philip Humber.

 

M∂D would score the 51s final run after this triple

            With one out in the 9^th, M∂D flashed the leather with this nice diving catch.

M∂D robs Freiman of extra bases

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