Gant Great and Bats Erupt Late for Bingo

New Hampshire Fisher Cats @ Binghamton Mets

May 16, 2015

John Anderson @ John Gant

Teams	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
New Hampshire	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		1	5	0
Binghamton	0	0	1	0	0	4	1	0	X		6	13	3

W: Gant (2-3, 4.18 ERA); L: Burns (2-3, 8.41 ERA); S: Kolarek (1, 4.71 ERA)

MiLB.com Boxscore

The Highlights:

Pitchers

John Gant – 6 IP, 4 H, R, 2 BB, 4 SO, 101 Pitches (62 Strikes), 8 GO: 5 FO

Adam Kolarek – 3 IP, H, SO, 6 GO: 2 FO

Batters

Gavin Cecchini – 2-4, BB, GIDP, 2 E (9)

Jared King – 1-5, RBI (21)

Josh Rodriguez – 1-3, R, 3B, BB, SO

Jayce Boyd – 2-4, 2 R, 2 RBI (15), SB (2)

David Cooper – 1-4, R

Dustin Lawley – 2-4, 2B (12), RBI (15), SB (6), SO

Aderlin Rodriguez – 1-4, 2 RBI (17)

Albert Cordero – 1-4, R, SO

Eudy Pina – 2-3, R, BB

Recap

            The B-Mets and Fisher Cats were locked in a tight pitching battle for the first 6 innings Saturday afternoon, but then Binghamton used a 4-run outburst to pull head for good. John Gant allowed a run on two hits in the 1^st, and then settled in for a great start, allowing only two more hits and two walks the rest of the way. Adam Kolarek came in for a 3-inning save, allowing one only hit during the appearance, and extending his scoreless innings streak to 14-straight. Every Mets batter had a hit in the game, with four players provided two. It was not all good news for Binghamton, however, as Brandon Nimmo appears headed for the DL.

            Check out the scoring highlights and more on Gant below. This series wraps up Sunday afternoon at 1:05 PM, with Seth Lugo scheduled to pitch for Binghamton.

Scoring Highlights

            Gavin Cecchini picked up his first hit of the game leading off the 1^st, but never moved beyond 1B.

            Eudy Pina and Cecchini led off the 3^rd inning with consecutive singles, and Pina eventually came around to score on a groundout.

            Josh Rodriguez got the 6^th inning rally started with a triple to the RF wall. Jayce Boyd and David Cooper would follow with back-to-back singles, and then both came home on a single back up the middle from Aderlin Rodriguez.  The B-Mets would collect three more hits in the inning, but left the bases loaded.

            After Boyd led off the 7^th with a single, Dustin Lawley doubled him home.

Cheech errors

Pitcher Coverage

John Gant

            Gant had a very strong start against the Fisher Cats, hitting 91 MPH with his fastball throughout the start, and getting some swinging strikes with each of his slider, curveball, and changeup. He had to work around a couple of sloppy play from Cecchini throughout the start, and a dropped fly ball from Pina in RF, but nothing seemed to faze him in this game. Andy Fermin hit a one-out double off of Gant in the 1^st, and then came home to score on the next pitch, but Gant just kept attacking and got groundball outs from the final two batters of the frame. He worked a 1-2-3 inning in the 2^nd, 3^rd, and 5^th, although he had to pick someone off in the 3^rd. I thought he was squeezed on two pitches in his first walk, but then his second walk came on five pitches, although it was raining pretty hard at that point. He would get a visit from the pitching coach after the walk, as he was nearing 100 pitches, with rain, and the walk came after Pina’s error. He gets a lot of weak contact, and has a nice curveball/changeup. He’s adding a slider to his repertoire, and it looks like it can be another weapon for him in time, but it’s not there yet.

K1

K2 - 91 MPH

K3

K4

Bonus

Adam Kolarek

            So, I guess he’s back now? Let’s see how the league adjusts to him, but this is promising.

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