Syndergaard Strong, Satin and Vaughn Provide the Offense

Las Vegas 51s @ Iowa Cubs

August 12, 2014

Noah Syndergaard @ Felix Doubront

Teams	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Las Vegas	0	2	0	0	1	1	1	0	1	6	12	0
Iowa	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	2	0	5	10	0

W: Bradford (3-1, 3.62 ERA); L: Hatley (2-6, 4.43 ERA); Save: Germen (5)

MiLB.com Boxscore

The Highlights:

Pitchers

Syndergaard (4.76 ERA) – 6.1 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 2 BB, 8 SO, 108 Pitches (68 Strikes), 4 GO: 6 FO

Miguel Socolovich (H, 11, 3.58 ERA) – 0.2 IP, SO, 1 FO, 1 IR – 0 S

Gonzalez Germen (0.59 ERA) – 1 IP, H, BB, 2 SO, 1 GO

Batters

Matt Reynolds – 1-2, R, 2 BB, SAC

Josh Satin – 3-5, 2B (22), 2 RBI (41), SO

Kevin Plawecki – 2-5, R, SO

Cory Vaughn – 2-5, 2 R, 3B (1), HR (4), 2 RBI (19), 2 SO

Recap:

Noah Syndergaard continued his streak of effective pitching Tuesday night in Iowa, and the 51s held on for a late win in game one. Outside of a long 3^rd inning, Thor was working quickly and effectively all night, pitching until he was too close to his pitch limit to continue. Offensively, Josh Satin and Cory Vaughn carried the load with some huge performances. Vaughn got the scoring started when he tripled in Kevin Plawecki from 1B in the 2^nd, and Satin would provide the go-ahead RBI double in the 9^th to seal the deal. Miguel Socolovich came in to finish off a scoreless 7^th after Thor reached his pitch limit – Thor was allowed to come in and face two batters, walking the leadoff batter before striking out the last batter he’d face. Chase Bradford came in for the 8^th but could not hold onto the lead, taking his first blown save in 27 appearances since joining Las Vegas. Gonzalez Germen was able to hold onto the lead in the 9^th, although he had some trouble to deal with. Germen has been very effective and consistent since returning to Las Vegas.

Kevin Plawecki reached in the 2^nd with this single.

Plawecki's first hit of the night

Cory Vaughn would drive him in with this well placed triple – it would stop under a bullpen chair and the outfielder thought it was a dead ball.

Vaughn with the triple into the LF corner

With two outs, Seratelli would follow with this perfect bunt single to drive Vaughn home from 3B – ballsy.

Why doesn't he do this more often?

After Thor led off the 5^th with a single and Puello failed to bunt him over to 2B (really Wally?), Reynolds would follow with this single to LF.

Reynolds only hit of the night

Josh Satin would follow with this RBI hit up the middle.

Satin ties the game at 3

Cory Vaughn led off the 6^th inning with this long blast to LF – they didn’t show where it went but both the home and away announcers were impressed.

Vaughn with a long HR to LF

After Matt Reynolds led off the 7^th with a walk, Satin would line a single to CF on a hit’n’run play that would send Reynolds to 3B – Reynolds would score on a Brandon Allen sac fly.

Satin picks up his second hit of the night

Puello led off the 9^th with his only hit of the night.

Puello lines a single into CF

After Reynolds bunted Puello over to 2B, Satin would double him in with this fly ball off the right-center field wall.

The biggest hit of the night

Kevin Plawecki would load the bases up with this two out infield single, but Vaughn would fly out to end the inning with the bases loaded.

Kind of an odd play

Thor Pitch Coverage:

Table 1 – Breaking down pitch count by type and inning

Count (Strikes)	1^st	2^nd	3^rd	4^th	5^th	6^th	7^th	Total
Fastball	10 (7)	11 (7)	24 (14)	14 (11)	6 (3)	4 (2)	7 (3)	76 (47)
Change-up	1 (1)	2 (2)	5 (3)	2 (2)	3 (3)	2 (2)	0	15 (13)
Breaking Ball	1 (0)	2 (1)	2 (0)	2 (0)	6 (3)	3 (3)	1 (1)	17 (8)
Total	12 (8)	15 (10)	31 (17)	18 (13)	15 (9)	9 (7)	8 (4)	108 (68)

Table 2 – Breaking down pitch results by type

Strike %
Total	Call	Sw	Foul

BIP%
LD	GB	FB	PU

Results
AB	BABIP	ISO	K

Fastball

61.8

25.0

7.9

13.2

.417

.063

Change-up

86.7

46.7

13.3

.000

Breaking Ball

47.1

29.4

11.8

5.9

.000

1^st inning

1) CF Matt Szczur flied out to Puello (7/F)

a. Fastball, inside corner – strike 0-1

b. Fastball, outside – ball 1-1

c. Fastball, inner half

2) 2B Logan Watkins struck out swinging (K/Sw)

a. Fastball, inside corner – swinging strike 0-1

b. Fastball, high and outside – ball 1-1

c. Change-up, outer half – foul 1-2

d. Fastball, inside – ball 2-2

e. Fastball, ‘low and in’ – swinging strike 3

3) 3B Kris Bryant Flied out to Brown, who caught it as he reached the warning track (9/F)

a. Fastball, inside corner – foul 0-1

b. Curveball, low and outside corner – ball 1-1

c. Fastball, inside corner at the knees – strike 1-2

d. Fastball, inside corner

2^nd inning

1) 1B Mike Olt struck out swinging (K/Sw)

a. Fastball, outside corner at the knees – strike 0-1

b. Fastball, inside corner at the knees – strike 0-2

c. Curveball, down and away – ball 1-2

d. Curveball – foul 1-2

e. Fastball – foul 1-2

f. Fastball, belt high and outside corner – swinging strike 3

2) RF Brett Jackson hit a groundout to Seratelli (43/G)

a. Fastball, inside corner

3) C Rafael Lopez walked (BB)

a. Fastball, over the plate but low – ball 1-0

b. Change-up, outer half at the knees – swinging strike 1-1

c. Fastball, inside – foul 1-2

d. Fastball, up and away – ball 2-2

e. Fastball, up and away – ball 3-2

f. Fastball, way inside – ball 4

4) LF Ryan Kalish flied out to Vaughn (8/F)

a. Fastball, down the middle at the knees – strike 0-1

b. Change-up, outside corner

3^rd inning

1) SS Elliot Soto lined out to Seratelli (4/L)

a. Fastball, outside – ball 1-0

b. Fastball, outside – ball 2-0

c. Fastball, outside corner – strike 2-1

d. Fastball, inside corner but low – ball 3-1

e. Fastball, outside corner – strike 3-2

f. Fastball

Seratelli needed every inch he had to catch this liner

2) P Felix Doubront was HBP (HBP)

a. Fastball, inside – ball 1-0

b. Fastball, high and outside – ball 2-0

c. Fastball, down and in – ball 3-0

d. Fastball, hit his foot

3) Szczur singled through the SS hole – ‘Pasta Diving Reynolds’ (S7/G)

a. Fastball, low– ball 1-0

b. Fastball, over the middle – strike 1-1

c. Change-up, middle and below the knees – swinging strike 1-2

d. Fastball – foul 1-2

e. Fastball, middle

4) Watkins hit a weak groundout to Reynolds (63/G)

a. 97 MPH Fastball, outside corner at the knees – strike 0-1

b. 97 MPH Fastball, middle – foul 0-2

c. Change-up

5) Bryant reached on an RBI-infield single to Reynolds – Reynolds lost his footing on the play (S6/G)

a. Fastball, inside corner but low – ball 1-0

b. Change-up, inside corner but low – ball 2-0

c. Fastball, inner half at the knees – foul 2-1

d. Fastball, inside corner

Right as he's about to make the throw, would have been a tough play though

6) Olt lined a single into CF (S8/L)

a. Fastball, over the middle at the knees – strike 0-1

b. Curveball, outside – ball 1-1

c. Fastball

7) Jackson hit a groundout to Reynolds (63/G)

a. Change-up, down and in – swinging strike 0-1

b. Fastball, outside corner and low – ball 1-1

c. Fastball, belt high over the middle – foul 1-2

d. Curveball, bounced inside – ball 2-2

e. Change-up, bounced over the middle – ball 3-2

f. Fastball

4^th inning

1) Lopez doubled on a pop-fly down the LF line that was just out of reach of a diving Puello (D7/P)

a. Fastball – foul 0-1

b. Fastball, inside corner – strike 0-2

c. Fastball, inner half – foul 0-2

d. Curveball, down and in – ball 1-2

e. Fastball, inside corner

2) Kalish hit a groundout to Seratelli – Lopez to 3B (43/G)

a. Fastball, outside corner – strike 0-1

b. 97 MPH Fastball, low and inside – ball 1-1

c. Fastball, low and inside – ball 2-1

d. 86 MPH Change-up, middle – foul 2-2

e. Fastball, inside corner at the knees – foul 2-2

f. Change-up, outside corner

3) Soto drove in Lopez with a sac fly to CF – throw beat Lopez but bounced away from Plawecki (SF8/F)

a. Curveball, outside – ball 1-0

b. Fastball, outside corner – strike 1-1

c. Fastball

4) Doubront struck out swinging (K/Sw)

a. Fastball, outside – ball 1-0

b. Fastball, outside corner – strike 1-1

c. Fastball, outside corner – strike 1-2

d. Fastball, middle – swinging strike 3

5^th inning

1) Szczur struck out swinging (K/Sw)

a. Curveball, inside corner – strike 0-1

b. Fastball, inside corner – strike 0-2

c. 96 MPH Fastball, low – ball 1-2

d. Curveball, outside corner – swinging strike 3

2) Watkins singled up the middle (S8/G)

a. 97 MPH Fastball, outside corner

3) Bryant flied out to Brown (9/F)

a. Curveball, low – ball 1-0

b. Fastball, outside and low – ball 2-0

c. Curveball, outside corner – strike 2-1

d. Fastball, inner half

4) Olt struck out swinging (K/Sw)

a. Curveball, outside and low – ball 1-0

b. Change-up, outside corner at the knees – swinging strike 1-1

c. Fastball, outside – ball 2-1

d. Change-up, low and outside – swinging strike 2-2

e. Curveball, outside – ball 3-2

f. 86 MPH Change-up, outside corner below the knees – swinging strike 3

6^th inning

1) Jackson struck out looking (K/Lo)

a. Change-up – swinging strike 0-1

b. Curveball, at the knees – strike 0-2

c. Curveball – strike 3 looking

2) Lopes struck out swinging (K/Sw)

a. Fastball, outside – ball 1-0

b. Fastball, middle – strike 1-1

c. Curveball, outside corner – swinging strike 1-2

d. 96 MPH Fastball, outside corner – swinging strike 3

3) Kalish flied out to Brown (9/F)

a. Fastball, outside – ball 1-0

b. Change-up, outside corner

7^th inning

1) Soto walked (BB)

a. Fastball, high – ball 1-0

b. Fastball, outside – ball 2-0

c. Fastball, inside corner – strike 2-1

d. Fastball, outside and low – ball 3-1

e. Fastball, high – ball 4

2) PH Jorge Soler struck out looking (K/Lo)

a. 96 MPH Fastball, high and outside corner – swinging strike 0-1

b. 96 MPH Fastball, belt-high and outside corner – strike 0-2

c. Curveball, belt high and outside corner – strike 3 looking

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