B-Mets Ride Good Pitching To Split Series With Harrisburg

Harrisburg Senators @ Binghamton Mets

April 13, 2016

Austen Williams @ Rainy Lara

Teams	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Harrisburg	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1	10	1
Binghamton	0	1	1	0	0	0	3	0	X		5	9	0

W: Lara (1-0, 0.00 ERA); L: Williams (0-1, 3.00 ERA)

MiLB.com Boxscore

The man. The myth. The legend. Dom Smith fouling a ball off.

The Highlights:

Pitchers

Rainy Lara – 5 IP, 7 H, BB, 3 K, 78 Pitches (55 Strikes), 3 GO: 4 FO

Kelly Secrest (0.00 ERA) – 1.2 IP, 2 BB, 2 K, 2 GO: 1 FO

Beck Wheeler (5.40 ERA) – 0.1 IP, BB, SO, 2 IR – 0 S

David Roseboom (6.00 ERA) – 2 IP, 3 H, R, BB, 1 GO: 3 FO – he was given a chance to hit and they walked him on 4 pitches

Batters

CF – Kyle Johnson – 2-5, 2 R, 2B (2), RBI (1), SO

2B – L.J. Mazzilli – 1-3, RBI (1), SF

3B – Niuman Romero – 1-4, GIDP

1B – Dominic Smith – 2-3, 2B (1), BB

SS – Derrik Gibson – 1-4, 2 SO

C – Xorge Carrillo – 1-4, R, 2B (2), SO

LF – Maikis De La Cruz – 1-2, R, 2B (2), RBI (1), 2 BB

Recapish

            The Binghamton Mets got back to .500 and earned a split in their rain-shortened series against Harrisburg Wednesday night, finishing their shortened home stand on a positive note. Rainy Lara is in his third season with the B-Mets, and he knows how to work a Double-A lineup at this point. He worked around trouble in multiple innings, and ultimately held Harrisburg scoreless for 5 innings while his team jumped ahead 2-0. After a forgettable night at the plate from Dominic Smith and the rest of the lineup in their loss Tuesday night, the B-Mets received a big performance from Dom in this game. B-Mets manager Pedro Lopez let a pair of lefties – Kelly Secrest and David Roseboom – handle most of the work out of the pen, only calling on righty Beck Wheeler when Secrest got into trouble during the 8^th.

Xorge Carrillo and Maikis De La Cruz picked up back-to-back doubles for a run in the 2^nd inning, and it was the second straight game with a double for both players. L.J. Mazzilli had his hands in everything for Binghamton: he singled to move Johnson over in the 3^rd, and KJ would eventually come around to score; he brought home a run with a sac fly; and he had a great night in the field. Johnson also had a big game for Binghamton, scoring that run and doubling home an insurance run in the 7^th.

I break this game down more below, so enjoy. The B-Mets start their first road trip Thursday in Erie. The game is scheduled to start at 6:35 PM, and Mickey Jannis is the expected starter for Binghamton.

Scoring Highlights

            Derrik Gibson led off the 2^nd inning with a single grounded sharply back up the middle, but he’d be erased when Stefan Sabol grounded into a double play. That loomed large when Xorge Carrillo and Maikis De La Cruz followed with back-to-back doubles for a 1-0 lead – it could’ve been more.

            Kyle Johnson and L.J. Mazzilli hit back-to-back singles leading off the 3^rd inning. It looked like the B-Mets were primed for a big inning, but they’d have to trade a run for a double play from Niuman Romero. Dominic Smith followed with a single to LF, his second hit of the year.

            Smith picked up his first legal extra base hit of the season in the 6^th, but the next 3 B-Mets batters went down swinging. Smith had previously doubled in a game this past weekend, but he never touched the 1B bag on his way to 2B, and the appeal play got him.

            Maikis and pinch-hitting Matt Oberste would lead off the 7^th with walks, and then both came around to score. Johnson doubled home Maikis, and Mazzilli brought home Oberste with a sac fly.

Defensive Highlights

            L.J. Mazzilli turned in 3 nice plays at 2B Wednesday night: starting a double play in the 1^st, diving to apply the tag for the third out before a runner came home in the 3^rd, and then showing nice range on a grounder up the middle in the 7^th.

Pitcher Coverage

Table 1 – Lara pitch stats by inning

	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	Total
Total	6	18	27	17	10	78
Strikes	4	16	16	12	7	55
Swinging*	0	1	3	3	1	8

*10.1% Swinging strike rate

First pitch strike to 13/20 batters faced (65%)

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