Savannah Sand Gnats @ Greenville Drive
May 6, 2015
Corey Oswalt @ Jeffry Frenandez
Teams
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Savannah
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W: Oswalt (3-0, 4.76
ERA); L: Fernandez (0-4, 4.91 ERA); S: Baldonado (1, 1.88 ERA)
The Highlights:
Pitchers
Corey Oswalt – 6 IP,
6 H, 3 R, BB, 7 SO, HBP, 93 Pitches (60 Strikes), 10 GO: 1 FO
Alberto Baldonado –
3 IP, 2 H, BB, 3 SO, 3 GO: 2 FO
Batters
Luis Guillorme – 2-5, R, RBI (10), SO, GIDP
John Mora – 1-4, R, HR (2), 2 RBI (14), HBP
Jean Rodriguez – 1-4, R, BB, SB (2), SO
Stefan Sabol – 1-4, 2B (7), BB, 2 SO
Wuilmer Becerra – 1-5, R, RBI (13)
Tomas Nido – 1-5, R, HR (2), 2 RBI (6), SO, GIDP
Jon Leroux – 2-4, R, 2B (3), BB, SO
Eudor Garcia – 3-5, R, 2B (1), SO
Vicente Lupo – 1-3, R, 2B (3), RBI (5), SO
Recap
The
Sand Gnats made a big announcement regarding their lineup Wednesday afternoon,
as Eudor Garcia was promoted to replace struggling Pedro Perez, and he provided
an immediate boost to the offense. Perez is still just 20, and did have five
extra base hits in his 20 games with Savannah (4 doubles, 1 homerun), but it’s
unclear where he’ll be spending the rest of 2015. Garcia had a great day at the
plate coming out of extended spring training, picking up a hit in each of his
final three trips to the plate, and nearly hitting his first professional
homerun. The Greenville lineup is full of talented and toolsy players, like
Rafael Devers, who is an 18 year old with 55/60 power (per fangraphs). But that
didn’t matter to Corey Oswalt, who got a strikeout or groundball from 18 of 26
batters faced (69%), retiring 17 of those batters. Oswalt didn’t make many
mistakes on the night, generally hitting Nido’s glove with great accuracy, but
these talented Drive hitters punished a few of the ones he did make, finishing
with 5 extra base hits (4 doubles, 1 homerun). Alberto Baldonado came in for
the final three innings of the game, which earned him the save – I wonder if he’ll
get a start or two soon. He had one 3-walk appearance that still skews his SSS of results, but he's been very effective out of the pen so far, with a 36.5 K%.
This
series continues Thursday night at 7:05 PM, with Brad Wieck scheduled to start
for Savannah, who is looking to win 3 in a row.
Luis
Guillorme led off the 3rd with a single lined into LF, and then came
home on a homerun from John Mora, his second of the year.
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| Camera's did not show Mora's swing, but that is where it ended up |
After
Eudor Garcia reached on a two-out fielding error by the left fielder, he came
home to score for the first time in 2015 on Vicente Lupo’s third double of the
year. Luis Guillorme brought Lupo home with his second single of the game.
Garcia
hit a single that moved Jon Leroux (walk) to 2B, but the Sand Gnats couldn’t
advance them further.
Stefan
Sabol hit a one-out double in the 7th, and then went to 3B on a
single from Wuilmer Becerra, but Tomas Nido hit into a 6-4-3 double play to end
the threat.
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| Hit it way too hard for Lupo to score |
Leroux
and Garcia hit back-to-back doubles leading off the 8th.
J.C.
Rodriguez led off the 9th with an infield single, moved to 2B on a
pickoff attempt throwing error, to 3B on a groundout from Sabol, and scored
when Becerra reached on a fielder’s choice. Nido brought home Becerra with his
second blast of the year. Garcia would cap his great debut with a single lined
into CF.
Bonus
Luis Guillorme!
Oswalt Coverage
1st inning – 7 Pitches (5 Strikes), 3 GO
2nd inning – H, 2 SO, 17 Pitches (12 Strikes),
GB, CS, 1 LOBster
3rd inning – 2 SO, 13 Pitches (8 Strikes), 1 GO
4th inning – 2 R, 3 H, 2 2B, 3B, BB, SO, 27
Pitches (18 Strikes), 2 LOBsters
Leadoff
double was lined just fair down the RF line. Dubon would come home to score on
a broken-bat slow grounder to Guillorme. Devers nearly hooked a blast down the
RF line, but it went foul, and then he’d pull a grounder down the line and fly
around the bases until he reached 3B. Chavis crushed his RBI double to CF,
which is one of the toughest HR spots in pro baseball – tall wall and some
awkward angles, reaching 420 feet at its deepest. He’d get a mound visit after
the double, but lost the next batter to a walk on 3-2.
5th inning – HBP, 12 Pitches (6 strikes), 2 GO: 1
FO, 1 LOBster
6th inning – R, 2 H, 2 2B, 2 SO, 17 Pitches (11
Strikes), 1 GO, 1 LOBster
Devers
is just really impressive, showing easy power hitting one to the LF warning
track with one out in the 6th.
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