Prevost Goes the Distance in Game One of a Friday Night Double-Header

Saturday, May 23, 2015

Prevost Goes the Distance in Game One of a Friday Night Double-Header

Savannah Sand Gnats @ Rome Braves

May 22, 2015

Game One

Josh Prevost @ Brandon Barker

Teams	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
Savannah	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	4	5	1
Rome	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	8	2

W: Prevost (2-4, 4.20 ERA); L: Barker (2-4, 3.82 ERA)

The Highlights:

Pitchers

Josh Prevost – 7 IP, 8 H, 2 R (1 ER), BB, 4 SO, 83 Pitches (61 Strikes), 8 GO: 6 FO

Batters

Luis Guillorme – 2-3, R, RBI (20), CS

John Mora – 1-3, 3B (3), 2 RBI (20)

Tomas Nido – 1-3

Patrick Biondi – 1-2, R, SB (8)

Recap

The Sand Gnats needed less than two hours to take care of the Rome Braves in game one of their Friday night double-header thanks to some quick work from starter Josh Prevost. The Sand Gnats bats were going down pretty quickly themselves, but they were able to scratch out 3 runs in the 4^th and an insurance run in the 5^th. Prevost’s complete game effort was a big lift to the Sand Gnats pitching staff, as game two starter Ricky Knapp would be on a limited pitch count, so he spared the pen. Check out more from this game below.

Scoring Highlights

The Sand Gnats rallied for 3 in the 4^th with the help of some errant throws. John Johnson led off with a walk, went to 2B on an errant pickoff throw, to 3B on a Luis Guillorme single, and then scored on a sac fly from J.C. Rodriguez. The next batter, Eudor Garcia, would reach on the second throwing error of the inning. Two batters later, John Mora tripled Guillorme and Garcia home.

Patrick Biondi hit a one out single in the 5^th, stole 2B, and then came around to score on a Guillorme single.

Josh Prevost Coverage

Table 1 – Pitch count by inning for Josh Prevost, with strikes in parenthesis

1^st	2^nd	3^rd	4^th	5^th	6^th	7th	Total
8 (6)	14 (8)	19 (16)	12 (7)	8 (7)	7 (5)	15 (12)	83 (61)

The very tall Prevost throws a heavy sinker that induces a lot of weak contact early in the AB, and he’s often averaged less than 3 pitches per batter faced in his starts this year. He’ll get some swinging strikes, and is very good with two strikes, but as long as he’s getting weak contact early in the AB, why change his strategy and look for strikeouts? The Braves hit almost everything to the right side of the field, with 9 ground balls + 1 pop out induced, against 6 fly outs. He allowed a one out triple to Joseph Daris on a groundball pulled over the 1B bag in the 3^rd, and would come home on a two-base throwing error from Tomas Nido with two outs in the frame – the ball was hit about 8 feet in front of the plate. The next batter singled to give Rome a 2-0 lead.