Ponies Lack Big Hit In Finale With Fisher Cats

Binghamton Rumble Ponies @ New Hampshire Fisher Cats

June 25, 2017

Mickey Jannis @ Conner Greene

Teams	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Binghamton	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0		3	11	0
Fisher Cats	0	0	0	2	3	0	0	0	X		5	7	2

W: Frene (4-5, 3.73 ERA); L: Jannis (5-3, 4.17 ERA); Save: Case (2)

Boxscore

Guillorme

The Stats:

Pitchers

Mickey Jannis (L, 5-3, 4.17 ERA) – 5 IP, 5 H, 5 R (5 ER), 1 2B, 2 HR, 12 TB, 5 BB, 2 K (2 K/Sw), 5 GB: 6 FB: 4 LD: 1 PU, 99 Pitches (57 Strikes), 7 Swinging, 16 Called, 7.1% SwStr, 17.1% Whiff/Swing, 19.8 Pitches/IP, 23 BF

Kelly Secrest (5.00 ERA) – 2 IP, 1 H, 1 TB, 2 K (2 K/Sw), 2 GB: 2 FB: 1 PU, 21 Pitches (14 Strikes), 3 Swinging, 4 Called, 14.3% SwStr, 30% Whiff/Swing, 10.5 Pitches/IP, 7 BF           

Luis Mateo (3.74 ERA) – 1 IP, 1 H, 1 TB, 1 GB: 1 FB: 1 LD: 1 PU, 12 Pitches (11 Strikes), 3 Called, 2 Pitches/IP, 4 BF

Table 1 – Jannis pitch stats by inning

	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	Total
Total	14	16	22	17	30	99
Strikes	9	10	10	11	17	57
Swinging*	1	2	3	1	0	7

Batters

2B - Luis Guillorme - 2-5, 1 R, 1 SB, 2.2 Pitches/PA

LF - Kevin Kaczmarski - 0-4, 1 R, 1 BB, 10% SwStr, 28.6% Whiff/Swing, 4 Pitches/PA

1B - Matt Oberste - 1-4, 1 2B, 1 BB, 5.6% SwStr, 11.1% Whiff/Swing, 3.6 Pitches/PA

3B - David Thompson - 1-5, 1 K, 5.6% SwStr, 12.5% Whiff/Swing, 3.6 Pitches/PA

RF - L.J. Mazzilli - 1-4, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K, 4.3% SwStr, 8.3% Whiff/Swing, 4.6 Pitches/PA

DH - Tomas Nido - 2-5, 1 RBI, 2.6 Pitches/PA

SS - Gustavo Nunez - 2-4, 1 RBI, 1 SB, 4.5 Pitches/PA

C - Colton Plaia - 1-4, 6.7% SwStr, 12.5% Whiff/Swing, 3.75 Pitches/PA

CF - Champ Stuart - 1-4, 2 K, 23.1% SwStr, 42.9% Whiff/Swing, 3.25 Pitches/PA

Recapish

            The Binghamton Rumble Ponies wasted countless opportunities as they dropped their series final with the Fisher Cats 5-3 Sunday afternoon in New Hampshire. The Ponies finished 3-21 with runners in scoring position Sunday, which is how you score just three runs in a game despite finishing with eleven hits and three walks while the other team committed two errors. The Fisher Cats had plenty of base runners as well, but they took control of this game thanks to a pair of homerun’s.

            Mickey Jannis has been cruising early during his start Sunday, but then he allowed both of those homers, one each in the 4^th and 5^th innings, and left down 5-3. He walked a season-high five batters just one start after he finished with 8 K: 0 BB over 8 IP against Bowie. Thus is the life of a knuckleballer in training. Jannis struck out Jonathan Davis in the 1^st and then Ryan McBroom in the 2^nd. He only managed to keep the Cats off the board in the 2^nd because of a strong throw from right fielder L.J. Mazzilli, which made it home just in time for the final out of the frame.

K #1

K #2

LJ in RF

Thompson at third

Plaia CS

Guillorme at second

Thompson at third

            Luis Guillorme started the game with a single and eventually reached third on a stolen base (his fourth of the year), but the Ponies couldn’t get him in – the start of a trend.

            Matt Oberste doubled in the 3^rd but never made it beyond second base.

            L.J. Mazzilli worked a leadoff walk and then Tomas Nido singled him into scoring position during the 4^th, but then Bingo went down 1-2-3.

Nido

            Gunnar Heidt’s ninth homer of the season gave New Hampshire a 2-0 lead after 4. Binghamton finally broke through in the 5^th, and their three-run rally gave them a temporary lead. Guillorme led off the frame with a single again, and then went to second when Kevin Kaczmarski worked a walk. After the next two Ponies were retired, Mazzilli came up and started a string of three straight RBI singles, Nido and Gustavo Nunez following his lead to make this a 3-2 game.

Guillorme

Mazzilli

Nido

            That Bingo lead lasted exactly four batters. Richard Urena was up fourth in the Fisher Cats half of the 5^th and he launched his third homer of the season to make this a 5-3 game.

            Kelly Secrest and Luis Mateo kept New Hampshrie off the board for the next three innings, which kept the door for a Bingo comeback, had they been able to get any more hits with runners in scoring position.

All three GIF's are Secrest, this is K #1

K #2

            Champ Stuart led off the 6^th with a bunt single and ended up on third after a throwing error. Still, even with their fastest runner at third and nobody out, the Ponies couldn’t get a run in during the frame.

            Nunez and Colton Plaia singled leading off the 8^th, but again, they were both stranded in scoring position.

            David Thompson singled for Binghamton in the 9^th, and, as you can imagine, the game ended with him in scoring position.

            After this disastrous performance with runner’s in scoring position, the Rumble Ponies hit the road for Hartford, where they’ll start a series with the 32-41 Yard Goats Monday night. P.J. Conlon (5-5, 3.56 ERA) gets the nod in the opener opposite Parker French (6-6, 4.65 ERA), with game time scheduled for 7:05 PM. I’m pretty sure Hartford has a good MiLBtv feed.

  

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