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Stauffer Stifles Round Rock In Series Opener


Las Vegas 51s @ Round Rock Express


August 27, 2015



Teams
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

R
H
E
Las Vegas
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
0

2
6
1
Round Rock
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

0
4
0
W: Stauffer (4-0, 2.23 ERA); L: Coello (7-5, 3.63 ERA); Save: Church (5, 4.13 ERA)


The Highlights:

Pitchers

Tim Stauffer – 8.1 IP, 4 H, 5 SO, 101 Pitches (71 Strikes), 10 GO: 7 FO
Dario Alvarez (H, 4, 0.93 ERA) – 0.1 IP, 2 GO: 1 FO, 1 IR – 0 S
John Church – 0.1 IP, SO, 1 IR – 0 S

Robert Coello – 7 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 3 BB, 4 SO, HR, 98 Pitches (62 Strikes), 8 GO: 5 FO
Alex Claudio (2.93 ERA) – 0.2 IP, H, 2 GO
Roman Mendez (2.94 ERA) – 0.1 IP, SO, 1 IR – 0 S
Francisco Mendoza (2.76 ERA) – 1 IP, H, SO, 1 GO

Batters

Dilson Herrera – 1-4, SB (10)
Eric Campbell – 1-3, R, 2B (9), BB, 2 SO
Kirk Nieuwenhuis – 1-3, R, HR (8), 2 RBI (29), BB
Johnny Monell – 2-4, SO, CS
Travis Taijeron – 1-3, SO

Recap


            Tim Stauffer continued his great pitching run for Las Vegas Thursday night by finishing just shy of a complete game shutout. After a rough start to the season relieving in the big leagues, Stauffer has turned things around big-time since becoming a starter again for Las Vegas. His stuff isn’t overwhelming anyone, but he’s hitting his spots, and outthinking these young PCL hitters. The only well-struck hit that he allowed all night was a double over Kirk’s head leading off the 7th inning, and Stauffer would stifle the next 3 batters to escape the jam. Las Vegas jumped ahead in this game thanks to a two run blast from Kirk in the 4th inning, but otherwise they could get little going against Round Rock starter Robert Coello. Stauffer would allow a leadoff single and surpass 100 pitches with one out in the 9th, so Wally chose to go to his pen for the final two outs in a 2-0 game during a pennant race. Dario Alvarez induced a lineout to SS, and then John Church came in to strikeout Ed Lucas, which finished the game.
            This series continues Friday night at 8:05 PM, with Seth Lugo (2-0, 3.06 ERA) scheduled to pitch opposite Francisco Mendoza (1-0, 2.76 ERA).


Scoring Highlights


            All of the scoring from this game took place in the 4th inning, when Kirk Nieuwenhuis launched a two run blast to RF.


            Dilson Herrera added a single in the 8th.



Defensive Highlights


            Daniel Muno was tested at SS all night long, mostly doing a good job filling in for Reynolds, although he did commit one error – he took his eyes off the ball a moment too soon, and the ball snuck under his glove. Here he starts a 6-4-3 double play in the 5th, one batter after his error (the next batter would hit a groundout to Muno too).



Pitcher Coverage


Table 1 – Stauffer pitch stats by inning

1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
7th
8th
9th
Total
Total
10
12
10
11
12
7
21
11
7
101
Strikes
6
11
6
9
7
6
14
8
4
71
Swinging*
1
3
0
1
0
0
5
1
0
11
*10.9% Swinging strike rate



John Church records the final out.



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