Columbia Fireflies @ Charleston River Dogs
April 7, 2016
Teams
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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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0
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0
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3
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0
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1
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0
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4
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8
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Charleston
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4
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W: Reeves (1-0, 0.00
ERA); L: Palsha (0-1, 40.50 ERA); BS: Magliozzi (1)
The Highlights:
Pitchers
Chase Ingram (0.00
ERA) – 4 IP, 2 H, BB, 7 K, 70 Pitches (40 Strikes), 3 GO: 2 FO
Craig Missigman
(4.50 ERA) – 2 IP, H, R, 3 BB, 3 K, HBP, 1 FO
Seth Davis (H, 1,
0.00 ERA) – 2 IP, BB, 2 K, 3 FO
Alex Palsha (H,
1)(L, 0-1, 40.50 ERA) – 0.2 IP, H, 4 R (3 ER), 4 BB, K
Johnny Magliozzi
(BS, 1) – 0 IP, 3 IR – 2 S
Domingo Acevedo
(7.36 ERA) – 3.2 IP, 6 H, 3 R, 5 K, 73 Pitches (51 Strikes), 4 GO: 1 FO
Batters
Vinny Siena – 2-4, R, 2B (1), SO
Dash Winningham – 1-4, R, SO
David Thompson – 1-3, BB, SO
Jean Rodriguez – 1-4, R
Tyler Moore – 1-3, R, RBI (1), BB, SO
Milton Ramos – 2-4, 2 RBI (2), SO
Recap
The
Columbia Fireflies made their franchise debut Thursday night in Charleston, and
for more than 8 innings, everything was going perfectly. Their opening day
starter tossed a gem. Their stud shortstop was the star on offense and defense.
The relief had done their job, including a very nice appearance from Seth
Davis. But then the bottom of the 9th inning happened, and anyone
watching the end of the game saw something truly unexpected.
#YouCantPredictBall
Chase
Ingram and Domingo Acevedo were the headline early, as both starters K’d 5
through the first 3 innings. Ingram was sitting 88-92 MPH with his fastball and
mixed in a change, but it was his curveball that wowed. See for yourself below,
but the mid-70’s offering is a big looper. He was a little erratic early, which
results in a few curveballs released too early and a few fastballs released too
late, but he mostly cruised in just his second pro start. Acevedo throws 95+
MPH heat, and was reported as high as 99 MPH by the Charleston announcers, but
he lost control of that pitch in the 4th inning, and Columbia
pounced on him for 3 runs.
Craig
Missigman was the first man in for Columbia, and he was very wild during his
2-inning stint, but Charleston couldn’t take advantage for more than a run. The
Fireflies would extend their lead to 4-1 in the 6th against the
Charleston bullpen – I go into the scoring details below, with GIF highlights.
Seth Davis followed Missigman with 2 really strong innings, which left Columbia
in a great position to win.
Unfortunately, Alex Palsha was as
wild as Missigman, walking 4 batters, the last of which led to a run. The
Fireflies manager chose to bring in a new pitcher with a chance to save the
game, and Johnny Magliozzi got the count to 3-2 before things would be decided.
With the runners geared up to go, Magliozzi spun around and had Hoy Jun Park
caught halfway to 3B, and for one second it seemed like the game would end
positively for Columbia. But then Eduardo Navas broke for home, because what
else can he do with two outs and his teammate screwed? Suddenly, Magliozzi had
to turn his focus away from the runner in a pickle to stop the tying run from scoring.
He spun around and rushed his throw home, but it was high and wide, so it got
away from catcher Tyler Moore. This allowed Park to come around and score the
winning run, when just a few seconds later he looked like the goat.
What
a crazy ending, but the great thing about baseball is that they get to go out
and try to win tomorrow. The Fireflies continue their series in Charleston
Friday night at 7:05 PM, with lefty P.J. Conlon scheduled to pitch for
Columbia.
Scoring Highlights
David
Thompson and J.C. Rodriguez picked up a pair of singles with one out in the 2nd
inning, but the Fireflies couldn’t capitalize in the frame.
Vinny
Siena led off the 4th with a sharply lined single into LF. Dash
Winningham would follow with a chopper into RF, and Siena did not hesitate to
go to 3B. Siena’s hustle would pay off when he scored on a wild pitch to David
Thompson. Two batters later Tyler Moore would single home Dash for the second
run of the frame. After Lupo reached on a HBP (took 96 MPH to the elbow),
Milton Ramos did a nice job of taking the heat to RF for an RBI single.
Ramos
would come up with runners on the corners and two outs in the 6th
inning, and this flare to RF brought home J.C. from 2B.
Vinny
Siena added a double in the 7th, but he’d be thrown out trying to
leg out a triple.
Here’s
the walkoff… miscue.
Defensive Highlights
David
Thompson did a nice job handling this bunt attempt in the 1st
inning.
Milton
Ramos was the star on defense, making several nice plays look easy – one more
promising shortstop in the pipeline sounds great to me!
Pitcher Coverage
Chase Ingram
Table 1 – Pitch stats by inning
Table 1 – 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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22
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15
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14
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20
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71
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Strikes
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12
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9
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8
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12
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41
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Swinging*
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1
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4
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1
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5
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11
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*15.5% Swinging strike rate
Ingram struck out Chris Gittens looking on 3 pitches for his first SAL K.
He'd strike out Kendall Coleman and Angel Aguilar for the final two outs in the second inning.
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| 91 MPH for the K |
Jeff Hendrix and Hoy Jun Park went down for the last two outs in the third.
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| Clocked at 88 MPH |
He'd strike out Gittens again in the fourth, and then ended the frame with a strikeout of Kyle Holder.
Bonus Ingram action
Seth Davis
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| Eduardo Navas goes down swinging |
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| Jhalan Jackson takes a called strike 3 |
Domingo Acevedo
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| 95 for K2 |
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| 87 for K3 |
‘Mother of Hubble Telescope’ (Nancy Grace Roman) describes discoveries in space https://t.co/jiwOPY7Dcf pic.twitter.com/Y8nzClfcpY— History of Astronomy (@HistAstro) April 6, 2016
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