Big Night From The B-Mets Bats Leads To A 9-5 Win

Binghamton Mets @ New Hampshire Fisher Cats

August 21, 2015

Gabriel Ynoa @ Scott Barnes

Teams	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Binghamton	2	0	2	1	1	0	3	0	0		9	16	1
New Hampshire	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	2		5	9	0

W: Ynoa (9-8, 3.88 ERA); L: Barnes (2-5, 5.07 ERA)

MiLB.com Boxscore

The Highlights:

Pitchers

Gabriel Ynoa (3.88 ERA) – 6 IP, 8 H, 3 R, 2 BB, 2 SO, 95 Pitches (62 Strikes), 8 GO: 4 FO

Jeff Walters (1.64 ERA) – 1 IP, SO, 2 FO

Akeel Morris (3.18 ERA) – 1 IP, 2 BB, SO, 2 GO

Josh Smoker (2.16 ERA) – 1 IP, H, 2 R, 2 BB, SO, 1 GO: 1 FO

Scott Barnes – 4.2 IP, 12 H, 6 R, 5 SO, HR, 80 Pitches (56 Strikes), 4 GO: 1 FO

Cory Burns (6.70 ERA) – 2.1 IP, 4 H, 3 R, 2 BB, SO, HBP, 38 Pitches (22 Strikes), 1 GO: 1 FO

Gregory Infante (9.00 ERA) – 2 IP, 2 GO: 2 FO

Batters

L.J. Mazzilli – 3-5, R, 2B (17)

T.J. Rivera – 2-4, R, 2B (7), 2 RBI (22), HBP

Joe Benson – 1-4, R, RBI (17), BB, SO

Brock Peterson – 2-5, R, 3B (2)

Jonathan Galvez – 2-4, 2 R, 2B (4), HR (2), 3 RBI (12), BB, SO

Xorge Carrillo – 1-5, R

Jared King – 3-4, 2 R, 2 2B (13), RBI (44), CS/PO

Gilbert Gomez – 2-4, 2B (4), 2 RBI (12), SO

Roemon Fields – 1-5, RBI (9), 2 SO

Melky Mesa – 3-4, R, 2B (7), BB

K.C. Hobson – 1-5, R, 2B (15), 2 SO

Derrick Chung – 1-4, 2B (4), 3 RBI (5)

Matt Newman – 1-4, 2B (12), RBI (41), BB

Recap

            The B-Mets offensive attack never let up Friday night in New Hampshire, which led to 9 runs on 16 hits as they won the opener against the Fisher Cats. B-Mets starter Gabriel Ynoa allowed multiple walks for first time since 6/22 (a span of 9 starts between occurrences), but this was the fourth time in his last five outings that he surrendered more hits than IP (he has a 4.55 ERA with 40 hits over 29.2 IP total over his last 5 starts). Ynoa still proved more than capable of holding onto the big league handed to him by the B-Mets offense, limiting the Cats to 3 runs over 6 innings for a ‘quality start’. Gavin Cecchini was given a game off for the first time in nearly two months, and T.J. Rivera would commit an error filling in for him at SS, but Ynoa worked around it. Every B-Mets player had a hit except Vince Belnome, including 6 players with multiple hits, because it was just one of those nights when everything was turning up B-Mets – check out the scoring highlights below. Jeff Walters and Akeel Morris threw scoreless innings in relief of Ynoa, but a pair of one out walks in the 9th would come back to burn Josh Smoker.

            This series continues Saturday night at 6:05 PM, with Mickey Jannis (AA debut) and Tyler Pill (3-0, 1.59 ERA) scheduled to pitch for the B-Mets in a double-header.

Scoring Highlights

            The B-Mets got the scoring started right away, with T.J. Rivera doubling home L.J. Mazzilli (single) from 1B on the fifth pitch of the game. After Rivera came home on an RBI groundout, Brock Peterson picked up his second triple since joining the B-Mets.

            Jared King hit a one out single in the 2^nd inning, but then got picked off and caught stealing 2B. Gilbert Gomez followed with a double, but he’d be thrown out trying to score on a single from L.J. Mazzilli. So, in the 2^nd, the B-Mets picked up 3 straight hits, including a double, and score 0 runs.

            Joe Benson and Peterson hit back-to-back singles in the 3^rd inning, and then Jonathan Galvez doubled them both home two batters later.

If you're going to stay and watch it, the ball better be leaving the park

            King led off the 4^th inning with a double, and then Rivera single him home with a two out single to CF.

            The Fisher Cats got a pair of runs back in the 4^th inning, with a leadoff single from Melky Mesa sparking the rally. After Ryan Schimpf replaced him on the base paths by hitting into a force out, K.C. Hobson doubled him to 3B, and Derrick Chung brought him home with a sac fly. Matt Newman followed with an RBI double to make it a 5-2 game.

            Galvez hit a solo blast with two outs in the 5^th inning.

            L.J. Mazzilli hit his 17^th double of the season with two outs in the 6^th, but the B-Mets would leave the bases loaded in the frame.

            A two out walk to Jorge Flores led to a third run for New Hampshire in the 6^th. Shane Optiz singled him to 2B, and then Roemon fields brought him home with an RBI single to CF.

            The B-Mets scored 3 runs in the 7^th inning when 4 straight batters reached with one out: Galvez walked, Xorge Carrillo singled him to 2B, King double him home, and then Gomez singled home both Carrillo and King.

            Josh Smoker lost control early in his 9^th inning appearance for Binghamton, walking back-to-back batters with one out, and then he was be burned by a two run double off the bat of Chung.

Pitcher Coverage

Gabriel Ynoa

Table 1 – Ynoa pitch stats by inning

	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	Total
Total	16	15	7	17	17	23	95
Strikes	10	8	7	13	10	14	62
Swinging*	4	3	0	1	1	0	9

*9.5% Swinging strike rate

First strikeout was on a 1-2 changeup (swinging), low in the zone.

Second strikeout was on a 3-2 pitch (swinging).

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