Las Vegas 51s @ Albuquerque Isotopes
May 7, 2017
Teams
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5
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9
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R
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H
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E
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Las
Vegas
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0
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1
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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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0
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0
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3
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10
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1
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Albuquerque
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1
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X
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5
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7
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0
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W: House (2-0, 0.56
ERA); L: Wheeler (2-2, 6.75 ERA); Save: Carasiti (7)
The Highlights:
Pitchers
Logan Taylor
(3.93 ERA) – 4 IP, 1 H, 1 R (1 ER), 1 HR, 4 TB, 4 K (3 K/Sw), 7 GB: 2 FB, 50
Pitches (33 Strikes), 4 Swinging, 6 Called, 8% SwStr, 14.8% Whiff/Swing, 12.5
Pitches/IP, 14 BF
Cory Burns (6.75 ERA) – 2 IP, 3 H, 2 R (2 ER), 3 K (1 K/Sw),
1 GB: 2 FB: 3 LD, 31 Pitches (23 Strikes), 3 Swinging, 9 Called, 9.7% SwStr,
21.4% Whiff/Swing, 15.5 Pitches/IP, 9 BF
Beck Wheeler (L, 2-2, 6.75 ERA) – 0 IP, 2 H, 1 R (1 ER), 1
2B, 1 3B, 5 TB, 2 FB, 9 Pitches (6 Strikes), 0 Swinging, 3 Called, 0% SwStr, 0%
Whiff/Swing, Inf Pitches/IP, 3 BF
David Roseboom (7.71 ERA) – 1 IP, 1 R (0 ER), 1 GB: 1 FB: 1
PU, 6 Pitches (5 Strikes), 0 Swinging, 1 Called, 0% SwStr, 0% Whiff/Swing, 6
Pitches/IP, 3 BF
Chase Bradford (4.30 ERA) – 1 IP, 1 H, 1 TB, 1 GIDP, 1 GB: 1
FB: 1 LD, 7 Pitches (4 Strikes), 7 Pitches/IP, 3 BF
Batters
2B - Gavin Cecchini - 2-4, 1 R, 2 2B, 1 SAC, 3.4 Pitches/PA
LF - Phillip Evans - 1-5, 1 R, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 1 K, 13.3%
SwStr, 20% Whiff/Swing, 3 Pitches/PA
SS - Amed Rosario - 3-4, 2 2B, 9.1% SwStr, 16.7%
Whiff/Swing, 2.75 Pitches/PA
1B - Dominic Smith - 1-4, 7.1% SwStr, 14.3% Whiff/Swing, 3.5
Pitches/PA
RF - Travis Taijeron - 1-4, 1 R, 1 K, 27.3% SwStr, 50%
Whiff/Swing, 2.75 Pitches/PA
3B - L.J. Mazzilli - 1-4, 1 2B, 1 K, 6.7% SwStr, 16.7%
Whiff/Swing, 3.75 Pitches/PA
C - Xorge Carrillo - 0-4, 3 K, 20% SwStr, 30.8% Whiff/Swing,
5 Pitches/PA
CF - Arnaldo Berrios - 1-4, 1 RBI, 2 K, 15.4% SwStr, 40%
Whiff/Swing, 3.25 Pitches/PA
SP – Logan Taylor - 0-2, 1 K, 3.5 Pitches/PA
PH – Jayce Boyd - 0-0, 1 BB, 4 Pitches/PA
3B (sub) – Josh Rodriguez - 0-1, 1 K, 33.3% SwStr, 66.7%
Whiff/Swing, 6 Pitches/PA
Recapish
Despite
an outstanding effort from Logan Taylor, who was making a spot start after
pitching an inning out of the pen Friday night, the Las Vegas 51s couldn’t hold
onto a pair of leads Sunday in Albuquerque, taking a 5-3 loss to the Isotopes.
The Isotopes pen was able to pick up some key outs when Las Vegas threatened in
their half of the 7th, and that momentum bled into the bottom half,
when a pair of well-struck extra base hits put them ahead for good. Of note but
not related to what happened Sunday, there was no word on Brandon Nimmo, who
had been a late scratch before Saturday’s game.
Taylor throws a heater that comes
in around 93-94 MPH and peaks at 96, and usually just pairs it with his hard,
low-80’s curveball when coming out of the pen, but he also has a changeup,
which came in handy a few times Sunday. He made one mistake over his 4 innings,
and Jan Vasquez launched it to dead CF for a homer to tie the game at 1-1 in
the 3rd. The homer allowed appeared to increase the intensity level
from Taylor, who then finished the 3rd in quick order before a
perfect 4th brought him to his pitch limit of 50.
Although
people aren’t surprised anymore, no one seems ready for the oncoming storm that
is Amed Rosario. He came into the game in a 1-14 slump but finished with three
hits for the fourth time this year. He had the first hit of the game when he
doubled with two outs in the 1st, and his second hit was a 3rd inning single.
Las
Vegas couldn’t get Rosario home in the 1st, but they did jump out
1-0 in the 2nd. Travis Taijeron led off the frame with a single,
went to 3B on L.J. Mazzilli’s second Triple-A double of the year, and then
scored on a groundout.
As
mentioned, Taylor’s one mistake tied the game up in the 3rd inning,
but he then struck out Raimel Tapia (for the second time in the game) and
Rosell Herrera to keep things knotted at 1. He added a strikeout of Noel Cuevas
in the 4th, although I cannot provide GIF highlights of the whole
strikeout, because the archived feed goes blank in the middle of that AB.
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| From the first inning |
Fortunately,
I was watching the 51s game live and caught some of the remaining Las Vegas
highlights.
The
first two 51s batters in the 5th went down looking, but then Gavin
Cecchini doubled to RF to start a rally. He didn’t run out of the box and the
announcer suggested that a strong wind blowing from RF to LF throughout the
game helped push it fair – oddly enough, it wouldn’t be the only weather-aided
hit for Cecchini in this one. Phillip Evans followed with a homer to LF that
was lined out in a hurry, making it a 3-1 game. Rosario added his second double
of the game (and ninth of the season) in the frame, but was again stranded at
2B.
Cory
Burns took over for Las Vegas in the 5th and gave the lead right
back. He had nearly worked around a pair of leadoff singles in the frame, but
then Raimel Tapia lined a two run single into CF to tie the game at 3.
Arnaldo
Berrios led off the 7th with a single, which gave Las Vegas their
best scoring opportunity over the final 3 innings. Cecchini sac bunted Berios
and Jayce Boyd (pinch hit walk) into scoring position with Evans and Rosario
due up, but those two couldn’t come through this time.
Beck
Wheeler took over for Las Vegas in the 7th but would leave after 3
batters without recording an out: triple, E8, double. Wheeler induced a shallow
pop up from Daniel Castro that should’ve let to an out, but Arnaldo Berrios
lost the battle with the sun and the wind, and the ball clunked off his palm
for an error.
Gavin
Cecchini’s second double of the game came with two outs in the 9th,
and fell in with a little help from the sun and wind (and, let’s be honest,
plenty of help from Domonic Brown). Unfortunately, Evans hit a groundout to end
the game with Rosario on deck. After Evans was thrown out at first base, he and
relief pitcher Matt Carasiti had words for each other, which quickly escalated and
it briefly looked like the teams might go at it. The umps and some level headed
coaches and players kept the teams apart, however, and the Isotopes eventually
turned their attention to celebrating their win.
With
tensions now running a little higher, these two teams have one game left in
this series. Ricky Knapp (1-2, 4.50 ERA) is scheduled to make the start for Las
Vegas opposite Jeff Hoffman (2-2, 3.71 ERA) Monday night, with a start time of
8:35 PM for the finale.
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| Bonus Rosario in the field |
Pitcher Coverage
Table 1 – Taylor 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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12
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13
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16
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9
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50
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Strikes
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8
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9
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10
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6
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33
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Swinging*
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1
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0
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2
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1
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4
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*8% Swinging strike rate; 14.8% Whiff/Swing rate
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