51s Overcome Early Deficit For Win Over El Paso

Las Vegas 51s @ El Paso Chihuahuas

August 13, 2017

Mitch Atkins @ Bryan Rodriguez

Teams	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Las Vegas	0	0	0	4	2	0	0	0	1		7	10	0
El Paso	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0		4	8	2

W: Atkins (4-6, 6.87 ERA); L: Rodriguez (6-8, 4.95 ERA)

Boxscore

The Stats:

Pitchers

Mitch Atkins (W, 4-6, 6.87 ERA) – 7 IP, 8 H, 4 R (4 ER), 1 3B, 1 HR, 13 TB, 1 BB, 8 K (8 K/Sw), 1 HBP, 9 GB: 7 FB: 4 LD: 1 PU, 104 Pitches (71 Strikes), 18 Swinging, 16 Called, 17.3% SwStr, 32.7% Whiff/Swing, 14.9 Pitches/IP, 31 BF

Ben Rowen (4.50 ERA) – 1.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 3 K (2 K/Sw), 1 FB, 14 Pitches (11 Strikes), 3 Swinging, 4 Called, 21.4% SwStr, 42.9% Whiff/Swing, 10.5 Pitches/IP, 4 BF

Alberto Baldonado (7.11 ERA) – 0.2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 2 GB, 7 Pitches (5 Strikes), 1 Swinging, 2 Called, 14.3% SwStr, 33.3% Whiff/Swing, 10.5 Pitches/IP, 2 BF

Table 1 – Atkins pitch stats by inning

	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	Total
Total	27	12	20	9	13	8	15	104
Strikes	17	9	13	5	10	7	10	71
Swinging*	4	4	2	0	4	3	1	18

*17.3% Swinging strike rate; 32.7% Whiff/Swing rate

Batters

SS - Gavin Cecchini - 1-3, 1 R, 2 BB, 4.8% SwStr, 14.3% Whiff/Swing, 4.2 Pitches/PA

2B/CF - Matt Reynolds - 2-5, 2 R, 1 2B, 9.5% SwStr, 18.2% Whiff/Swing, 4.2 Pitches/PA

C - Kevin Plawecki - 0-3, 2 R, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 SF, 1 K, 13.3% SwStr, 22.2% Whiff/Swing, 3 Pitches/PA

RF - Travis Taijeron - 0-5, 3 K, 9.1% SwStr, 23.1% Whiff/Swing, 6.6 Pitches/PA

LF - Jayce Boyd - 3-5, 1 R, 2 2B, 4 RBI, 5.6% SwStr, 12.5% Whiff/Swing, 3.6 Pitches/PA

1B - Cody Decker - 1-4, 1 R, 1 BB, 1 K, 4 Pitches/PA

CF - Victor Cruzado - 1-3, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 2 BB, 5 Pitches/PA

3B - Jio Mier - 1-4, 1 RBI, 1 K, 5% SwStr, 11.1% Whiff/Swing, 5 Pitches/PA

SP - Mitch Atkins - 1-3, 2 K, 20% SwStr, 37.5% Whiff/Swing, 5 Pitches/PA

PH - Josh Rodriguez - 0-1, 3 Pitches/PA

Recapish

            After falling behind 4-0 early, the Las Vegas 51s scored seven straight en route to a 7-4 win over El Paso Sunday night. The win puts them ahead two games to one in the series, which gives them a chance for a rare 2017 road series win on Monday. Mitch Atkins fell behind big early, but he’s a veteran, so he made his adjustments quickly and put up four straight scoreless while his teammates jumped ahead 6-4. Meanwhile, the Las Vegas pen bounced back from a rough first two games of this series to put up two scoreless, which sealed the deal on the 51s 46^th win of the season.

            If the 51s could redo the first three games of this series, they’d probably choose not to pitch to Franchy Cordero. He’s done damage in all three games and put El Paso up 3-0 in the 1^st with his 16^th homer of the season. It was a weird start for Atkins overall, because the first three reached and scored against Atkins, but then he tossed seven innings of one-run ball after that, with 8 K: 1 BB and 7 H allowed during that span.

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Cecchini at SS

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            The 51s were held hitless over the first three innings, but an E6 from Chaase d’Arnaud helped open the door for a big 4^th. Matt Reynolds singled ahead of the E6, and then Las Vegas connected on four straight one-out hits later in the frame to tie things up at four. Jayce Boyd smacked a two-run double to right field that got Las Vegas on the board. After a Cody Decker single put him on third, Victor Cruzado connected on an RBI double to right field as well. The 51s added another run on a Jiovanni Mier single, but Cruzado was thrown out trying to score on the play, which cut the rally short.

Reynolds

Boyd

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Cruzado

            The rally picked right back up in the 5^th with a Gavin Cecchini single. Reynolds doubled Cecchini to third and then Plawecki brought him home with a sac fly to give the 51s their first lead at 5-4. Reynolds came home later in the frame on a Boyd RBI single through the middle.

Cecchini

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            Atkins allowed the 3^rd inning run that put El Paso up 4-0, but mostly he was just cruising after the first three batters. Ben Rowen took over for the 51s in the 8^th and struck out the side on 14 pitches.

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            The 51s added an insurance run in the 9^th on Jayce Boyd’s third hit of the game. It was his second RBI double of the game, and Plawecki scored from first on the play to make this a 7-4 game.

            Rowen retired one batter in the 9^th before giving way to Alberto Baldonado. Big Al faced two batters and both hit comebackers to him that he fielded cleanly for the final two outs of the game.

            Looking ahead, the 51s have a chance to win this series Monday night behind Jonathan Albaladejo.

  

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