51s Lose Big To The Grizzlies

Fresno Grizzlies @ Las Vegas 51s

July 22, 2015

Mike Hauschild @ Darin Gorski

Teams	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Fresno	0	3	0	0	4	1	0	3	1		12	14	1
Las Vegas	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2		4	7	1

W: Hauschild (4-2, 3.32 ERA); L: Gorski (8-7, 5.05 ERA)

MiLB.com Boxscore

It was a cloudy night in Las Vegas

The Highlights:

Pitchers

Darin Gorski (L 8-7, 5.05 ERA) – 5 IP, 8 H, 7 R, 2 BB, 8 SO, HR, HBP, 93 Pitches (60 Strikes), 2 GO: 3 FO

Chase Bradford (3.59 ERA) – 1 IP, 2 H, R, 3 GO

Scott Rice (2.22 ERA) – 1 IP, BB, SO, 1 GO

John Church (4.84 ERA) – 1 IP, 2 H, 3 R, 2 HR, HBP, 2 GO

Zack Thornton (3.74 ERA) – 1 IP, 2 H, R, BB, SO

Batters

Dilson Herrera – 1-4, 2 R, RBI (18), BB, SO

Jayce Boyd – 2-5, 2 2B (8), 2 RBI (9), 2 SO

Brandon Allen – 2-4, R, 2B (19)

Brooks Conrad – 1-4, R, SO

Cory Vaughn – 1-4, 2B (10), 3 SO

Recap

            Darin Gorski came into Wednesday night’s start on a roll – he had a 1.82 ERA over his previous 4 starts – but was smacked around by Fresno in the 2^nd and 4^th innings, which left the 51s in a hole too big to climb out of. The 51s offense managed only one hit over the first 5 innings, struggling to make hard contact against Grizllies starter Mike Hauschild, who had one of his best starts of the season. Even after Gorski left, the Grizzlies kept adding on against the Las Vegas pen, with Scott Rice the only 51s pitcher who had a scoreless outing in this game.

            Gorski started his night by striking out the side in the 1^st inning, so it looked like he’d keep on rolling Wednesday night. But then the first 3 Fresno batters reached against him in the 2^nd, and all 3 would come around to score. Gorski has a track record of running into one big inning during his starts, so when he retired 9 of the next 10 batters, it looked like he would be able to bounce back from the 2^nd to give Las Vegas some length. But then Robbie Grossman hit a one out solo homerun against Gorski in the 5^th, and the Grizzlies would add 3 more runs on back-to-back triples with two outs. The 51s pen was plenty rested after Matthew Bowman’s complete game shutout Tuesday night, so the extra work was no problem, but I’m sure Wally Backman was hoping for better results from his crew.

            Jayce Boyd doubled Dilson Herrera (walk) to 3B in the 6^th, and Herrera came home on an RBI groundout to get the 51s on the scoreboard. Boyd was playing in the field for the first time since 7/4, and he’d add an RBI double to bring home Dilson from 1B in the 8^th inning. The 51s would load the bases with 0 outs in the 9^th, and 2 runs would come home, but it was far too little too late.

            This series wraps up Thursday night at 10:05 PM with Dillon Gee (3-1, 6.59 ERA) scheduled to pitch for the Las Vegas 51s.

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