Columbia Fireflies @ Charleston RiverDogs
April 10, 2016
Kevin Canelon @ Simon De la Rosa
Teams
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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8
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9
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R
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H
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E
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Columbia
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0
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2
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0
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1
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2
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0
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0
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0
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0
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5
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9
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0
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Charleston
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0
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0
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0
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2
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0
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0
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2
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0
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2
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6
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8
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1
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W: Schwaab (2-0,
0.00 ERA); L: Haggard (0-2, 20.25 ERA)
MiLB.com Boxscore
The Highlights:
Pitchers
Kevin Canelon (4.50 ERA) – 4 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 2 BB, 6 K, 78
Pitches (50 Strikes), 3 GO: 1 FO
Seth Davis (3.60 ERA) – 3 IP, 2 H, 2 R, BB, 4 K, HR, 47
Pitches (31 Strikes), 4 GO, HBP
Witt Haggard (BS, 1)(L, 0-2, 20.25 ERA) – 1 IP, H, 2 R, 3
BB, 2 K, 1 GO
Batters
CF – Ivan Wilson – 1-4, RBI (1), BB, 3 SO
RF – Kevin Kaczmarski – 1-4, 2 RBI (2), BB, SO
2B – Vinny Siena – 3-5, 2B (2), 2 SO
DH – Dash Winningham – 1-4, R
3B – David Thompson – 1-4, R, 3B (1), RBI (6), HBP, SO, GIDP
LF – Joe Tuschak – 2-4, 2 R, 2 2B (2)
Recapish
The
Fireflies wild first week in Charleston continued Sunday evening, as the
RiverDogs walked off with a 9th inning win for the third time in 4
games. Fireflies starter Kevin Canelon was very sharp over the first 3 innings,
but ran out of steam a little during the 4th, allowing a pair of
runs on 3 straight doubles. RiverDogs starter Simon De la Rosa showed off an
impressive slider in the 1st inning, but his stuff wasn’t as good
when he went out for the 2nd, and the Fireflies would tag him for
two runs to jump ahead for the 4th time in this series. This game
came down to a battle of the bullpens, and while Witt Haggard would have a
redemptive 8th inning, he ended up taking his second loss of the
season when he lost the zone to start the 9th.
Canelon’s
fastball maxes out in the upper 80’s from the left side, which limits his
ceiling, but he was cruising for the first 3 innings. It’s one series, and the
SAL will adjust to these Columbia pitchers as the season progresses, but early
results have been very good. Aside from the three 9th inning
collapses, the Fireflies absolutely outplayed the RiverDogs all series. There
are some nice prospects on Charleston too, but they’re still mostly raw and/or
in Spring Training form. Without looking back at the stats, Domingo Acevedo and
Angel Aguilar (specifically at 3B) stood out for Charleston in this series, and
Trey Amburgey had a good series too. The Fireflies pitching staff looked great
(obviously Thomas McIlraith stood
out!) top to bottom. In the field, Milton Ramos, Vinny Siena, and Dash
Winningham had strong series and should do well in this league, but David
Thompson is the guy who looked most ready to bust out. His defense has been
strong (including his arm strength), and he showed off some of the power that
helped him lead the nation in homerun’s during his final season of college
ball.
I’m
limiting the recap in this section today because I go over both sides of the
game in depth below. After the game the Fireflies got on the bus for a 7-hour
trip to Rome, Georgia, where they’ll play the Braves for the next 3 days. Tyler
Badamo is scheduled to make his 2016 debut Monday night at 7:00 PM opposite top
Braves prospect Touki Toussaint. One tidbit of note from this game is that only
one of the RiverDogs outs came on a ball hit to the outfield
Scoring Highlights
Vinny
Siena got his big night started with a two out double in the 1st
inning.
After
Jeff Diehl drew a two out walk in the 2nd, Joe Tuschak doubled him
to 3B. Tuschak’s double would be the only hit in the frame, but the next 3
batters walked to knock in the first two runs of the game.
Tuschak
hit another double leading off the 4th inning. The next two
Fireflies batters would strike out – Jose Garcia and Ivan Wilson – but then
Kevin Kaczmarski came through with an RBI single to LF.
Dash
Winningham led off the 5th inning with a single grounded up the
middle David Thompson launched one to the LF warning track in his first AB, and
then launched an RBI triple to the CF warning track in his 2nd AB –
he’d come home when the throw to 3B went awry.
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| David Thompson looks great |
Wilson
and Siena added singles in the 6th inning, but nothing came of them.
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| It was grounded through the left side, but they switch camera angles 3 times in ~1 second, so this is all I kept |
Siena
added his third hit of the night in the 9th, but he’d be stranded at
3B, representing what would’ve been a key insurance run.
Defensive Highlights
J.C.
Rodriguez made a couple of nice plays, including an awesome diving stop with
the infield drawn in.
David
Thompson started a nice double play in the 5th.
Pitcher Coverage
Kevin Canelon
Table 1 – Canelon pitch stats by inning
1st
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2nd
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3rd
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4th
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Total
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Total
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15
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22
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14
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27
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78
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Strikes
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10
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13
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10
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17
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50
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Swinging*
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2
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6
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3
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0
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11
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*14.1% Swinging strike rate
First pitch strike to 9/19 batters faced (47%)
Canelon
struck out two batters in the 1st inning – Jeff Hendrix and Trey
Amburgey – and induced a 5-3 groundout.
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| 86 MPH to Jeff Hendrix |
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| Trey Amburgey |
He
issued a one out walk to Connor Spencer in the 2nd inning, and then
Kyle Holder followed with a single to RF. Canelon bounced back to strike out
Kendall Coleman swinging, and then induced another 5-3 groundout to end the
frame.
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| Got him with the first one |
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| So Kevin Canelon just took it a little further outside against Kendall Coleman |
He
struck out the first two batters in the 3rd inning – Eduardo Navas
and Hendrix again – before inducing a foul pop out from Thairo Estrada.
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| Eduardo Navas |
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| Jeff Hendrix |
All
of the damage against Canelon came within the first 4 batters of the 4th
inning. Amburgey, Chris Gittens, and Spencer hit consecutive doubles for the
first pair of Charleston runs. Holder would follow with another single to RF,
this one deflected by Jeff Diehl, and then Canelon walked Coleman to load the
bases with 0 outs. But he would dig his way out of that big hole as quickly as
he dug his way in, inducing a pop out to Siena (for an infield fly rule),
striking out Navas again, and deflecting a grounder hit up the middle and fielded by JC.
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| Eduardo Navas |
Bonus
Seth Davis
Davis
induced a double play groundout from Chris Gittens after issuing a walk in the
5th inning. He then struck out Spencer and Coleman as part of a
1-2-3 6th inning.
Angel
Aguilar led off the 7th inning with a solo blast off of Davis. Davis
then hit Navas with a pitch, which came back to haunt him when Estrada tripled
Navas home. Davis finished the frame with a strikeout of Gittens.
Witt Haggard
Haggard
worked a perfect 8th inning, striking out Holder and Coleman
back-to-back to finish the frame.
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| So close with a nice breaking ball |
He
walked the bases loaded in the 9th before Estrada singled home the
tying and game-winning runs.
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