Binghamton Mets @ Erie SeaWolves
July 12, 2014
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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8
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9
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R
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H
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E
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Binghamton
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0
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0
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2
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1
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0
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1
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0
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0
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5
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9
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16
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0
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Erie
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0
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0
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0
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2
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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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3
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6
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2
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The Highlights:
Pitchers
Cory Mazzoni (W,
2-0, 4.50 ERA) – 7 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 3 BB, 9 SO, 104 Pitches (68 Strikes), 5 GO: 5
FO
Jack Leathersich (H,
4, 2.56 ERA) – 1 IP, 1 GO: 2 FO
Cody Satterwhite
(1.52 ERA) – 1 IP, 2 GO: 1 FO
Brian Burgamy – 1-2, R, 3 BB
T.J. Rivera – 1-5, R, SO
Darrell Ceciliani – 2-5, 2 R, RBI (35), 2 SO
Kai Gronauer – 2-4, R, HR (1), RBI (3), SO
Mazzoni Coverage:
This is the first time I’ve seen an
entire Mazzoni start and it was great. He mixed up his pitches and location
really well and was in control for most of the start. The one knock on him was
his obsession with runners on 1B, which arguably led to two of the two-out
walks. He was cruising along when he walked his first batter of the night in
the 4th (he would eventually come around to score) and started the
throws to 1B for the first time. He’d do it twice in the 5th inning,
both times after allowing a runner to 1B on a single. Erie did manage multiple
steals against the battery of Mazzoni and Gronauer, so perhaps Mazzoni was just
being pre-emptive with knowledge of their collective limitations, but it was a
stark contrast to the swift pace he kept with no one on base, and eventually
led to a meeting on the mound with Kai. He doesn’t have any one great pickoff move
that I saw, but he liked to mix up the timing of when he threw, and was pretty
quick to 1B for a righty. Getting back to his pitch selection, you can see
below that he really knew how to mix up his pitches to keep hitters off
balance. As a result, he barely allowed any hard contact, with the second
double being the only really hard hit ball all night. It was probably the best
start I’ve seen in the minor leagues this season, and I don’t think he’ll be
sticking around Binghamton for much longer. The PCL is a completely different
offensive environment than the EL, and those PCL hitters will be more advanced,
so there is no guarantee Mazzoni will make the jump successfully, but he’s
ready for the test.
Unfortunately, the MiLB.tv
announcer did not mention any velocities throughout the start, but Erie
provides a good angle for pitch identification. He threw almost exclusively
fastballs and change-ups, sprinkling in a breaking ball throughout the start.
He mostly had good control of the fastball and possibly throws two – I mention
some specifically that were “running to the 3B side”. It seemed like he could
locate the ‘straighter’ fastball wherever he wanted, but when he missed, he
missed off the plate. The fastball that seemed to run 3B side looked like it could
be a good pitch, but like one Mazzoni wasn’t completely in control of yet
(location or amount of run), and he didn’t throw too many. It could be a good
weapon against lefties if he could consistently throw it inside and have it run
back over the plate. He located his change-up well and got plenty of swinging
strikes with it.
Table 1 – Breaking down Mazzoni’s pitch count by type and
inning
Count
(Strikes)
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1st
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2nd
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3rd
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4th
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5th
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6th
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7th
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Total
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Fastball
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9 (6)
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6 (4)
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6 (3)
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13 (7)
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11 (8)
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3 (3)
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8 (5)
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56 (36)
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Change-up
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3 (2)
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2 (2)
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7 (7)
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7 (2)
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7 (4)
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4 (4)
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4 (3)
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34 (24)
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Breaking Ball
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2 (1)
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1 (1)
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2 (1)
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3 (2)
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2 (1)
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2 (2)
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1 (0)
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13 (8)
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Unknown
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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 (0)
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0
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0
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1 (0)
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Total
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14 (9)
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9 (7)
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15 (11)
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23 (11)
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21 (13)
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9 (9)
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13 (8)
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104 (68)
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Table 2 – Breaking down Mazzoni’s pitch results by type
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Fastball
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Change-up
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Breaking Ball
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Pitch by Pitch
1st inning
1)
Jamie Johnson strikes out swinging (K/Sw)
a.
Fastball, belt high and outside – ball 1-0
b.
Fastball, belt high and outside corner – strike
1-1
c.
Change-up, belt high and outside – ball 2-1
d.
Fastball, belt high and inside corner – foul 2-2
e.
Change-up, belt high and outside – swinging
strike 3
2)
Marcus
Lemon pops out (6/P)
a.
Fastball, knee high and outside corner – strike
0-1
b.
Fastball, thigh high and inside
3)
Daniel Fields strikes out swinging (K/Sw)
a.
Breaking ball, thigh high over the middle –
strike 0-1
b.
Fastball, knee high and inside corner – foul 0-2
c.
Fastball, thigh high and outside – ball 1-2
d.
Fastball, above the belt and inside – ball 2-2
e.
Breaking ball, in the dirt and inside – ball 3-2
f.
Change-up, knee high over the middle – foul 3-2
g.
Fastball, knee high and inside – swinging strike
3 (Couldn’t check his swing)
2nd inning
1)
Devon Travis flies out to CF (8/F)
a.
Fastball, knee high and outside corner – strike
0-1
b.
Fastball, shin high and outside – ball 1-1
c.
Fastball, knee high over the middle
2)
Ramon
Cabrera grounds out to Boyd (31/G)
a.
Fastball, knee high and outside corner – foul
0-1
b.
Change-up, thigh high and inside
3)
Corey Jones grounds out to Herrera (43/G)
a.
Fastball, knee high over the middle – foul 0-1
b.
Fastball, belt high and inside – ball 1-1
c.
Breaking ball, thigh high and inside corner –
foul 1-2
d.
Change-up, knee high over the middle
3rd inning
1)
Dean Green grounds out to Rivera (63/G)
a.
Fastball, knee high and outside corner – strike
0-1
b.
Change-up, thigh high and inside corner – foul
0-2
c.
Fastball, above the belt and inside corner –
foul 0-2
d.
Breaking ball, shin high and inside – ball 1-2
e.
Change-up, thigh high and outside corner
2)
Francisco
Martinez doubles to RF (D9/G)
a.
Fastball, thigh high and outside corner – foul
0-1
b.
Fastball, shin high and outside – ball 1-1
c.
Breaking ball, in the dirt over the middle –
swinging strike 1-2 (couldn’t check his swing)
(The ump gave the batter time as Mazzoni was coming home with a nasty
breaking ball, didn’t count)
d.
Change-up, knee high and outside corner
3)
Dixon Machado strikes out swinging (K/Sw)
a.
Change-up, thigh high and inside corner – strike
0-1
b.
Fastball, shin high and outside – ball 1-1
c.
Fastball, just below the knees over the middle –
ball 2-1
d.
Change-up, shin high and outside corner –
swinging strikes 2-2
e.
Change-up, knee high and outside corner –
swinging strike 3
4)
Johnson grounds out to Boyd (3u/G)
a.
Change-up, knee high and inside corner
4th inning
1)
Lemon flied out to CF (8/F)
a.
Fastball, above the belt and outside – ball 1-0
b.
Fastball, belt high and outside corner
2)
Fields
struck out swinging (K/Sw)
a.
Breaking ball, knee high and outside corner –
strike 0-1
b.
Change-up, knee high and outside corner – ball
1-1
c. Fastball, belt high and inside corner – swinging
strike 1-2
d.
Change-up, belt high and outside corner – ball
2-2
e.
Fastball, letter high and inside – swinging
strike 3
3)
Travis walked (BB)
a.
Fastball, above the belt and outside – ball 1-0
b.
Slider, thigh high and inside – ball 2-0
c.
Slider, knee high and outside corner – strike
2-1
d.
Fastball, thigh high and ran inside – ball 3-1
e.
Fastball, letter high over the middle – ball 4
4)
Cabrera walked (BB)
a.
Fastball, knee high and inside corner – strike
0-1
b.
Change-up, shin high and inside corner – ball
1-1
c.
Fastball, thigh high and ran outside – ball 2-1
d.
Change-up, shin high over the middle – ball 3-1
e.
Fastball, belt high and inside – ball 4
5)
Jones with a two-run double to RF (D9/F)
a.
Change-up, belt high and outside corner – strike
0-1
b.
Change-up, thigh high and outside corner – ball
1-1
c.
Change-up, knee high and inside corner
6)
Green struck out swinging (K/Sw)
a.
Fastball, knee high and inside corner – foul 0-1
b.
Fastball, thigh high and inside corner – foul
0-2
c. Fastball, above the belt and inside corner – swinging
strike 3
5th inning
1)
Martinez with an infield single that deflected
off of Mazzoni’s mitt – Herrera made a good attempt, but the runner was safe by
a step (S14/G)
a.
Slider, knee high and outside corner – swinging
strike 0-1
b.
Fastball, knee high and outside corner
2)
Machado
lined out to RF (9/L)
a.
Fastball, in the dirt and outside – ball 1-0
b.
Camera panned to the runner stealing 2B, called
down and in – ball 2-0
c.
Fastball, thigh high over the middle– foul 2-1
d.
Fastball, thigh high over the middle
3)
Johnson flied out to CF (8/F)
a.
Fastball, knee high and inside corner – foul 0-1
b.
Fastball, above the belt and outside corner –
ball 1-1
c.
Fastball, belt high and running outside – foul
1-2
d.
Fastball, thigh high and running to the outside
corner – foul 1-2
e.
Change-up, knee high over the middle
4)
Lemon lined an RBI single into RF (S9/L)
a.
Change-up, thigh high and over the middle
5)
Fields walked (BB)
a.
Fastball, knee high and outside corner – strike
0-1
b.
Change-up, belt high and outside – ball 1-1
c. Change-up, knee high and inside – swinging
strike 1-2
d.
Slider, shin high and inside – ball 2-2
e.
Fastball, thigh high and outside – ball 3-2
f.
Fastball, thigh high and outside corner – foul
3-2
g.
Change-up, shin high and inside– ball 4
6)
Travis flied out to CF (8/F)
a.
Change-up, shin high and inside corner – ball
1-0
b. Change-up, knee high over the middle
6th inning
1)
Cabrera lined a single into CF (S8/L)
a.
Fastball, thigh high and outside corner
2)
Jones
struck out swinging (K/Sw)
a.
Change-up, knee high and outside corner – strike
0-1
b.
Fastball, shin high over the middle – foul 0-2
c. Breaking ball, in the dirt and inside corner –
swinging strike 3
3)
Green struck out swinging (K/Sw)
a.
Change-up, thigh high and inside corner – foul
0-1
b.
Fastball, knee high and outside corner – strike
0-2
c.
Change-up, shin high and inside – swinging
strike 3
4)
Martinez grounded into a force out (64/G)
a.
Backdoor slider, thigh high and inside corner –
foul 0-1
b.
Change-up, belt high and inside corner
7th inning
1)
Machado flied out to RF (9/F)
a.
Fastball, thigh high and outside corner – strike
0-1
b.
Slider, shin high and outside – ball 1-1
c.
Fastball, thigh high and outside – ball 2-1
d.
Fastball, knee high and outside corner
2)
Johnson
struck out swinging (K/Sw)
a.
Fastball, knee high over the middle – strike 0-1
b.
Fastball, thigh high and outside – ball 1-1
c.
Fastball, knee high and inside corner – foul 1-2
d.
Change-up, knee high and outer half –
swinging strike 3
3)
Lemon struck out swinging (K/Sw)
a.
Fastball, thigh high and inside – foul 0-1
b.
Change-up, knee high and inside corner – foul
0-2
c.
Fastball, letter high and inside corner – ball
1-2
d.
Change-up, shin high and inside – ball 2-2
e.
Change-up, thigh high and outside corner –
swinging strike 3
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