B-Mets Slam Bowie

Bowie Baysox @ Binghamton Mets

August 4, 2015

Tyler Pill @ Sean Bierman

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

W: Pill (1-0, 1.69 ERA); L: Bierman (0-1, 9.00 ERA)

MiLB.com Boxscore

The Highlights:

Pitchers

Tyler Pill (W, 1-0, 1.69) – 5.1 IP, 5 H, R, 2 BB, 3 SO, 99 Pitches (57 Strikes), 4 GO: 7 FO

Jeff Walters (1.59 ERA) – 1.2 IP, 2 H, R, SO, 1 GO: 2 FO, 1 IR – 0 S

Beck Wheeler (4.14 ERA) – 2 IP, BB, 3 GO: 1 FO

Batters

Gavin Cecchini – 1-5, R, SO

Josh Rodriguez – 2-4, 2 R, HR (17), 4 RBI (66), SO

Brock Peterson – 1-3, 2B (12), RBI (38), BB

Joe Benson – 1-3, BB

Jonathan Galvez – 2-4, 2 R, HR (1), RBI (7), SO

Jared King – 2-3, 2 R, HR (4), 2 RBI (38), BB, SO

Recap

            With visions of the 2014 B-Mets flashing in my head, the battery of Tyler Pill and Xorge Carrillo combined to shutdown Bowie for the first 5 innings, by which point Binghamton had built a 7-0 lead. The B-Mets flexed their power Tuesday by connecting for 3 bombs to LF for 6 of the 8 Binghamton runs – see below for highlights of all 8, plus the game-ending double play. After Pill ran into some trouble in the 6^th inning, the B-Mets turned to Jeff Walters to bail him out and work the 7^th. Walters would allow a run to Bowie in the 7^th, but the B-Mets still had a 5-run lead at that point, and then Beck Wheeler was very sharp working the final two innings.

            Pill’s stuff plays up at sea level more than at the high elevation parks in the PCL, and he’s already proven that he can dominate AA – starting with his May 11^th start with Binghamton in 2014, Pill had a 3.42 ERA, 2.93 FIP, .646 OPS allowed, and 25.6 K%: 5.6 BB% through the end of the regular season – so he shouldn’t have trouble there to finish the season. Binghamton never used a CF camera, so I couldn’t see his stuff, but he wasn’t hit hard until the 6^th inning, when he allowed back-to-back doubles and a walk before being replaced.

            This series continues Wednesday night at 6:35 PM, with Robert Gsellman (5-5, 3.21 ERA) scheduled to pitch for Binghamton. Gsellman is 3-0 with a 0.68 ERA and .419 OPS allowed over his last 4 starts (26.1 IP), but only has 9 strikeouts in that span.

Scoring Highlights

            Brock Peterson doubled home Josh Rodriguez with two outs in the 1^st inning, after J Rod had kept the inning alive with a single.

            Jonathan Galvez and Jared King hit solo blasts in the 2^nd.

            After a walk and a pair of errors loaded the bases with 0 outs in the 5^th inning, J Rod launched a grand slam to give the B-Mets a 7-0 lead.

            King singled home Galvez to cap the Binghamton scoring in the 8^th.

Bonus Defense

            L.J. Mazzilli fielding a slow grounder in the 8^th inning, and then the game ended on a double play, which featured a nifty turn from Mazz.

Pitcher Coverage

Tyler Pill

Table 1 – Pill pitch stats by inning

	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	Total
Total	16	15	17	20	12	19	99
Strikes	11	6	11	12	8	8	57
Swinging*	4	1	2	0	0	2	9

*9.1% Swinging strike rate

First strikeout came on a 2-2 changeup in the dirt (swinging).

Second strikeout came on a 0-2 breaking ball in the dirt (swinging).

Third strikeout came on a 2-2 pitch (swinging).

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