West Virginia Power @ Columbia Power
June 12, 2016
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W: Helton (3-5, 3.75
ERA); L: Canelon (4-4, 2.94 ERA); Save: Keselica (2)
The Highlights:
Pitchers
Kevin Canelon
(L, 4-4, 2.94 ERA) – 7 IP, 7 H, 5 R (3 ER), 2 2B, 1 HR, 12 TB, 3 K (2 K/Sw), 8
GB: 14 FB: 2 LD: 1 PU, 28 BF
Johnny Magliozzi (4.56 ERA) – 2 IP, 1 GB: 2 FB: 2 LD: 1 PU, 6
BF
Batters
2B - Vinny Siena - 1-2, 1 R, 2 BB
DH - Luis Ortega - 1-3, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 SB
C - Patrick Mazeika - 1-4, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 K
1B - Dash Winningham - 2-4, 1 RBI
LF - Joe Tuschak - 1-4, 1 2B
Recapish
The
Columbia Fireflies brooms went unused Sunday against West Virginia, as the
Power powered their way to a 5-2 win thanks to a big 3rd inning. After
outscoring the Power 23-6 over the first 3 games of this series, the Fireflies
couldn’t get anything going after the 1st inning in the finale.
Canelon
worked out of a jam in the top of the 1st inning, and then Vinny
Siena did his 1st inning thing to give Cola a 1-0 lead. After
Canelon cruised through a clean 2nd, it looked like he was about to
settle in for another strong start, but a pair of errors opened the door for
the Power’s rally in the 3rd. Oddly enough, it was both members of
the Fireflies battery that committed the errors, with Patrick Mazeika charged
for a dropped foul error and Canelon charged for a fielding error on a bunt.
Mazeika’s error extending the AB
for John Bormann, and he would come through with a single into CF. Who knows
what Alfredo Reyes would’ve done had the out been made, but Canelon was able to
strike him out during each of their next two matchups, so advantage Canelon.
Those were the first two batters of the frame, but instead of facing Tito Polo
with the bases empty and two outs, Canelon had to deal the dangerous batter
with two on and nobody out. Polo would reach on an infield single to load the
bases, and then Mitchell Tolman cleared the bases with a double to LF. Ke’Bryan
Hayes would add an RBI double of his own to make it a 4-1 game before an out
was finally record in the frame.
After Canelon allowed that double
to Hayes, he settled down and went to work. He retired 15 of the final 16 Power
batters, with his only mistake crushed for a no-doubter off the bat of Polo. Of
the homers I’ve seen at Spirit Communications Park this (and the MiLB.tv
coverage started late, so I’ve missed a few), Ivan Wilson has the only homer to
go deeper than Polo’s.
The Fireflies were able to scratch
out a 6th inning run with two outs after Mazeika kept the frame
alive with his fifth double of the year, but it was far from enough. Johnny
Magliozzi would take over for Canelon in the 8th and he retired all
6 Power batters he faced.
I break down the scoring, defense,
and strikeout details with highlights below, so enjoy! The Fireflies welcome
Rome into town for their final home series of the first half Monday night.
Tyler Badamo (3-3, 3.84 ERA) is scheduled to make the 7:05 PM start for Cola,
with Touki Toussaint (1-5, 5.51 ERA) set to go for the Braves.
MiLB.tv Scoring Highlights
For
the 6,203,493rd time in a row, Vinny Siena led off the 1st
inning with a hit and then came around to score a 1st inning run.
With Kevin Kaczmarski getting a day of rest, it fell to Luis Ortega to bring
home Siena this time.
Dash
Winningham led off the 2nd inning with his first hit of the game but
was erased on a Jeffrey Diehl GIDP.
Patrick
Mazeika extended the 6th inning with a double pulled down the 1B
line and then came around to score on Winningham’s second hit of the game.
The
Fireflies final hit of the game was Joe Tuschak’s 8th double of the
season.
MiLB.tv Defensive Highlights
David
Thompson continues to look good (borderline very good) at 3B for the Fireflies,
and he handled the 2nd out of the 2nd inning with no
problems. He doesn’t have that power arm you sometimes see at the hot corner,
but he gets plenty of zip on his throws for the position.
The
J.C. Rodriguez rotation landed on shortstop for this game, and he made a nice
play in the hole to finally record the first out in the 3rd inning.
Pitcher Coverage
Kevin Canelon
Canelon
retired the first batter of the game on a fly out but then found himself in
trouble when the next two batters singled. He was bailed out of the frame when
Mitchell Tolman broke for 3B early and was easily picked off by Canelon. He
then finished the frame with his first strikeout, getting Daniel Arribas to go
down swinging.
After
his long 3rd inning, Canelon came out with a clean and efficient 4th
inning, which was capped by a strikeout of Alfredo Reyes.
Tito
Polo led off the 5th inning with a no-doubter to LF against Canelon,
showing easy power against for his 11th homer of the season – this
guy will be gone once the All Star game is over! After that Canelon was
perfect, retiring 9 straight before handing the ball off to Johnny Magliozzi.
He added his third K of the night, getting Reyes again, this time swinging in
the 7th.
Bonus
First-of-its-kind cooler for @NASAWebbTelescp completes testing at JPL. https://t.co/9HkrQWqQNz pic.twitter.com/D7Wv1TiJRd— NASA JPL (@NASAJPL) June 13, 2016
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