B-Mets Have A Rocky Start To Series With The Cats

New Britain Rock Cats @ Binghamton Mets

July 27, 2015

Ryan Carpenter @ Gabriel Ynoa

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

W: Carpenter (6-11, 3.88 ERA); L: Ynoa (7-7, 3.75 ERA); Save: House (20, 3.60 ERA)

MiLB.com Boxscore

The Highlights:

Pitchers

Gabriel Ynoa – 6 IP, 8 H, 3 R, BB, 6 SO, HR, 102 Pitches (70 Strikes), 6 GO: 2 FO

Beck Wheeler (4.39 ERA) – 1 IP, SO, 2 GO

Josh Smoker (0.96 ERA) – 2 IP, H, R (0 ER), BB, 4 SO, 2 GO

Batters

Gavin Cecchini – 2-4

Travis d’Arnaud – 1-3, SO

Brock Peterson – 1-4, R, 2B (11), SO

Josh Rodriguez – 1-3, BB, SO

L.J.Mazzilli – 1-4, RBI (10)

Jonathan Galvez – 1-3, SO

Recap

            The B-Mets return home did not go well Monday night, as they lost to the Rock Cats 4-1 despite a quality start from Gabriel Ynoa. After knocking Cats starter Ryan Carpenter out after 4 innings during his last start, the B-Mets could not get anything going against him in this game, scratching out only the 2^nd inning run. The Cats got to Ynoa early, making him throw 45 pitches over the first two innings, and smacking a pair of extra base hits off of him for two runs in the 2^nd inning. Ynoa would settle in nicely as he finished out his 6 innings, missing bats at an impressive rate over the final 3 innings. Pedro Lopez turned to Beck Wheeler and Josh Smoker to keep the game close in relief of Ynoa, but Smoker couldn’t work around a missed catch error in the 9^th, and the Cats added an insurance run to make it a 4-1 game. The run would prove irrelevant though, as Binghamton never got anything going at the plate late in the game.

            This series continues Tuesday night at 6:35 PM, with Michael Fulmer (5-2, 2.03 ERA) scheduled to pitch for the B-Mets.

Scoring Highlights

            Travis d’Arnaud reached on a single in the 1^st inning.

            Brock Peterson led off the 2^nd inning with a double to LF, and then L.J. Mazzilli singled him home two batters later.

            Gavin Cecchini hit a one out single in the 3^rd inning, and a two out single in the 5^th inning.

Bonus Defense

            Gavin Cecchini was hardly challenged in this game, but he made this nice play in the 1^st.

Pitcher Coverage

Gabriel Ynoa

Table 1 – Pitch stats by inning

	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	Total
Total	18	27	6	20	14	17	102
Strikes	9	20	5	16	9	11	70
Swinging*	1	3	0	2	3	5	14

*13.7% Swinging strike rate

First strikeout came on a 2-2 fastball at 92 MPH (swinging).

Second strikeout came on a 0-2 missed bunt attempt.

The next four came in a row, starting with the second out of the 5^th inning.

Third strikeout came on a 2-2 breaking ball in the dirt (swinging).

Fourth strikeout came on a 1-2 fastball (swinging).

Fifth strikeout came on a 0-2 changeup that was way outside (swinging).

Sixth strikeout came on a 3-2 breaking ball (swinging).

He also picked off a runner at 2B in this game.

Josh Smoker

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