Augusta Green Jackets @ Columbia Fireflies
May 30, 2017
Teams
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Augusta
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Columbia
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W: Humphreys (8-1,
1.40 ERA); L: Woods (2-5, 4.20 ERA)
The Highlights:
Pitchers
Jordan Humphreys
(W, 8-1, 1.40 ERA) – 6 IP, 2 H, 1 R (0 ER), 1 2B, 1 3B, 5 TB, 8 K (6 K/Sw), 3
GB: 4 FB: 3 LD: 2 PU, 92 Pitches (64 Strikes), 15 Swinging, 14 Called, 16.3%
SwStr, 30% Whiff/Swing, 15.3 Pitches/IP, 20 BF
Darwin Ramos (4.66 ERA) – 2 IP, 2 H, 2 TB, 1 BB, 2 K (2
K/Sw), 3 GB: 1 FB: 2 LD, 40 Pitches (21 Strikes), 6 Swinging, 4 Called, 15%
SwStr, 35.3% Whiff/Swing, 20 Pitches/IP, 9 BF
Taylor Henry (4.29 ERA) – 1 IP, 2 H, 1 R (1 ER), 1 2B, 3 TB,
1 GB: 2 FB: 1 LD, 8 Pitches (4 Strikes), 8 Pitches/IP, 4 BF
Batters
RF - Gene Cone - 1-4, 2 R, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 SB, 5 Pitches/PA
SS - Andres Gimenez - 2-4, 1 R, 1 3B, 2 RBI, 1 BB, 2 K,
15.8% SwStr, 30% Whiff/Swing, 3.8 Pitches/PA
2B - Michael Paez - 1-3, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 BB, 2 K, 1 SB, 10.5% SwStr,
20% Whiff/Swing, 4.75 Pitches/PA
1B - Dash Winningham - 1-4, 1 RBI, 1 K, 26.3% SwStr, 41.7%
Whiff/Swing, 4.75 Pitches/PA
C - Brandon Brosher - 1-4, 3 K, 36.4% SwStr, 66.7%
Whiff/Swing, 5.5 Pitches/PA
LF - Jay Jabs - 1-4, 1 2B, 5% SwStr, 7.7% Whiff/Swing, 5
Pitches/PA
CF - Desmond Lindsay - 0-3, 1 R, 1 BB, 1 K, 11.1% SwStr,
33.3% Whiff/Swing, 4.5 Pitches/PA
DH - Tim Tebow - 1-4, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 2.5 Pitches/PA
3B - Milton Ramos - 2-4, 2 R, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 3.25 Pitches/PA
Recapish
The
Columbia Fireflies made it two straight over Augusta with another strong
showing at the plate Tuesday night. Although the offensive explosion stole the
show early, the Fireflies co-ace Jordan Humphreys earned the headline with
another dominant performance. Humphreys finished with eight strikeouts, zero
walks allowed, and just an unearned run on two hits (although both went for
extra bases). When the game was over, Humphreys joined Dallas Keuchel as the
only two eight-game winners in all of affiliated baseball.
As
he’s done all season, Humphreys overpowered more SAL batters with his heater,
often living at the top or just above the strike zone with the hard stuff. He
mixed in his curve nicely, possibly benefitting from some good framing courtesy
of Brandon Brosher. The only knock one could have with this start is that
several of his strikeouts took six-to-seven pitches, which drove his pitch
count up and put him in the dugout after six innings.
Continuing with the John Maine
comparison I’ve made at this site before, one problem for Maine became putting
guys away without going really deep into the count, as he started allowing
a lot of foul balls. As Ron Darling mentions in that post from 2008, it
will be all about the secondary stuff – of course, he was talking about Maine
and I’m talking about Humphreys.
Humphreys started racking up the
strikeouts right away Tuesday night, collecting two during a perfect 1st,
which took 17 pitches – Ashford Fulmer and Frandy De La Rosa were the victims.
He allowed a leadoff double in the 2nd inning, but then quickly
retired the next three in order.
After
scoring 14 runs in just seven innings Monday, the Fireflies came out and scored
eight in the first three innings Tuesday. Michael Paez put them on the board in
the 1st when he doubled to RF and the Green Jackets made a bad throw
into the infield, allowing Andres Gimenez (walk) to score. Brandon Brosher
picked up his single later in the frame, but Paez was only able to reach third.
Desmond Lindsay worked a walk leading
off the Fireflies 2nd and then Columbia connected for three straight
RBI hits. Tim Tebow and Milton Ramos doubled, and then Gene Cone singled home
Ramos. Dash Winningham kept his hot bat going with an RBI single later in the
frame, but he was thrown out trying to score from first on a Jay Jabs double.
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| Cone |
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| Jabs |
Humphreys
quickest inning was the 3rd, when he needed just nine pitches to
retire the side in order. Zack Bowers and Brandon Van Horn went down swinging
in the frame to bring his strikeout total to four.
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| NOTE: Final pitch was only shown in slo-mo |
Up
6-0 after two and with one of the most dominant pitchers in the SAL on the
mound, the Fireflies didn’t need much more offense, but they only managed three
hits the rest of the way. Still, they weren’t done scoring yet. Ramos singled
with two outs in the 3rd to keep that frame alive, and then Andres
Gimenez tripled home two to make it 8-0. Also shown below is Gimenez’s single
from the 6th.
Humphreys
struck out Sandro Fabian during a perfect 4th, but another 1-2-3
inning took 17 pitches for the Fireflies starter.
Jacob
Heyward and Christian Paulino went down on strikes against Humphreys in the 5th,
but Michael Bernal tripled and scored between those two events. The run was unearned
because Bernal came home from third on a passed ball. Brandon Brosher did a
nice job stealing strikes throughout the start – I’ve included three examples below the strikeout sequences here – but I think his framing efforts backfired
on the passed ball.
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| "Framed" pitches |
After
the triple, Humphreys retired the next five batters and left at 92 pitches,
although he was pitching like he could’ve gone another inning or two. That said,
he would be limited later this season if he keeps up his current pace, so no
point in making a big deal out of a shortened SAL start. A Green Jackets batter
finally laid off the high cheese from Humphreys in the frame, but Fulmer was
called out on strikes that pitch anyway.
Darwin
Ramos was the first out of Columbia’s pen Tuesday and he worked two scoreless
innings, striking out Johneshwy Fargas and Paulino in the 7th.
The
Green Jackets scratched out a run against Taylor Henry in the 9th,
but the game was well beyond comeback at that point. The Fireflies will look to
finish off a sweep of this series Wednesday night, with Merandy Gonzalez (6-1,
1.75 ERA) scheduled to make the 7:05 PM start for Columbia.
Pitcher Coverage
Table 1 – Humphreys pitch stats by inning
1st
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2nd
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3rd
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4th
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5th
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6th
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Total
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Total
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17
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18
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9
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17
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18
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13
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92
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Strikes
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12
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12
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8
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12
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12
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8
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64
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Swinging*
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4
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0
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3
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3
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1
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4
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15
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*16.3% Swinging strike rate; 30% Whiff/Swing rate
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