Ponies Come Back Isn’t Enough As They Fall To New Hampshire In Extras

New Hampshire Fisher Cats @ Binghamton Rumble Ponies

August 21, 2017

Jon Harris @ Matt Harvey

Teams	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10		R	H	E
Fisher Cats	0	1	1	0	2	2	0	0	0	1		7	11	3
Binghamton	0	0	1	0	0	5	0	0	0	0		6	6	3

W: Young (1-1, 3.96 ERA); L: Conlon (8-9, 3.54 ERA)

Boxscore

The Stats:

Pitchers

Matt Harvey (6.00 ERA) – 3 IP, 4 H, 2 R (2 ER), 1 2B, 1 HR, 8 TB, 1 BB, 3 K (2 K/Sw), 2 GB: 6 FB: 2 LD, 53 Pitches (31 Strikes), 5 Swinging, 12 Called, 9.4% SwStr, 26.3% Whiff/Swing, 17.7 Pitches/IP, 14 BF

Corey Taylor (3.99 ERA) – 2 IP, 3 H, 2 R (1 ER), 2 2B, 5 TB, 1 K (1 K/Sw), 3 GB: 4 FB: 1 LD, 25 Pitches (18 Strikes), 2 Swinging, 3 Called, 8% SwStr, 13.3% Whiff/Swing, 12.5 Pitches/IP, 10 BF

Adonis Uceta (18.00 ERA) – 1 IP, 2 H, 2 R (2 ER), 1 2B, 1 HR, 6 TB, 2 K (2 K/Sw), 2 GB: 1 FB, 20 Pitches (14 Strikes), 3 Swinging, 1 Called, 15% SwStr, 23.1% Whiff/Swing, 20 Pitches/IP, 5 BF

Tyler Bashlor (0.00 ERA) – 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 3 K (3 K/Sw), 22 Pitches (16 Strikes), 4 Swinging, 2 Called, 18.2% SwStr, 28.6% Whiff/Swing, 22 Pitches/IP, 3 BF

Cory Burns (4.46 ERA) – 2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 TB, 1 BB, 1 K (1 K/Sw), 3 GB: 1 FB, 30 Pitches (14 Strikes), 3 Swinging, 6 Called, 10% SwStr, 37.5% Whiff/Swing, 15 Pitches/IP, 7 BF

P.J. Conlon (L, 8-9, 3.54 ERA) – 1 IP, 1 H, 1 R (0 ER), 1 TB, 2 BB, 2 K (2 K/Sw), 1 GB: 1 LD, 24 Pitches (16 Strikes), 4 Swinging, 6 Called, 16.7% SwStr, 40% Whiff/Swing, 24 Pitches/IP, 7 BF

Table 1 – Harvey pitch stats by inning

	1st	2nd	3rd	Total
Total	13	25	15	53
Strikes	7	15	9	31
Swinging*	1	1	3	5

*9.4% Swinging strike rate; 26.3% Whiff/Swing rate

Batters

SS - Luis Guillorme - 0-5, 1 R, 8.7% SwStr, 18.2% Whiff/Swing, 4.6 Pitches/PA

RF - Kevin Kaczmarski - 2-5, 1 R, 1 2B, 2 RBI, 13.3% SwStr, 25% Whiff/Swing, 3 Pitches/PA

1B - Matt Oberste - 1-5, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 K, 7.1% SwStr, 12.5% Whiff/Swing, 2.8 Pitches/PA

DH - Kevin Taylor - 0-4, 1 R, 1 BB, 4.8% SwStr, 14.3% Whiff/Swing, 4.2 Pitches/PA

3B - David Thompson - 1-4, 1 R, 1 HR, 3 RBI, 1 BB, 1 CS, 3.4 Pitches/PA

C - Tomas Nido - 0-4, 1 BB, 3.6 Pitches/PA

2B - L.J. Mazzilli - 0-3, 1 BB, 1 K, 5.6% SwStr, 20% Whiff/Swing, 4.5 Pitches/PA

CF - Patrick Biondi - 2-4, 1 R, 1 K, 1 SB, 16.7% SwStr, 33.3% Whiff/Swing, 3 Pitches/PA

LF - Champ Stuart - 0-4, 6.7% SwStr, 20% Whiff/Swing, 3.75 Pitches/PA

Recapish

            The Binghamton Rumble Ponies dropped their opener with the New Hampshire Fisher Cats Monday night, taking a 7-6 loss in extras after they had battled back from a 6-1 deficit. Matt Harvey made his first rehab appearance with Binghamton (third overall after two with Brooklyn), and he left trailing 2-1 after a shaky three innings. There was no piggyback starter waiting in the wings, so the generally reliable Binghamton bullpen was charged with the final six innings Monday, and that proved too large a task for the group. The Cats built up their lead against Corey Taylor and Adonis Uceta through the 6^th, and then added the winning run against P.J. Conlon, who’s getting some bullpen time at the end of the season.

            Per the Binghamton announcers, scouts behind home plate had Harvey in the 93-94 MPH (top-95) range. Harvey was fortunate to work around a double in the 1^st, because all four batters he faced made loud contact against him. He bookended the 2^nd inning with strikeouts, but the Cats scratched out a run on a walk and two soft singles against him in between. Harvey racked up another strikeout to start the 3^rd before allowing a solo homer to Anthony Alford. He finished his outing by retiring the final two batters of the 3^rd, and then likely went to the pen for another ten or so pitches. As an aside, this was probably the best defensive lineup Harvey has pitched in front of all season.

Called @ 93 MPH

Double for Urena

Guillorme

K (Called @ 89 MPH)

Guillorme

            After The Dark Knight left the mound for the final time, the Rumble Ponies bats started to come to life. Patrick Biondi reached on an E6 to start the 3^rd, stole second base (#21), and then came around to score the Ponies first run on a Kevin Kaczmarski single.

            Corey Taylor was the first reliever out of the Ponies pen and he continued the theme of shaky Ponies pitching over two innings of work. He allowed a pair of runs (one unearned) on two doubles, two stolen bases, a single and a sac fly that should’ve been the third out of the 5^th.

            The Ponies turned to Adonis Uceta for the 6^th and he came out firing strikes for two straight strikeouts. Then out of nowhere the Cats struck for another pair of runs, as Derrick Loveless (double) and Jonathan Davis (homer) connected on back-to-back two-out extra base hits.

            With the game getting out of hand, the Ponies bats struck for a huge bottom of the 6^th to even things up. Luis Guillorme reached on an E3 to spark the big rally. Kaczmarski and Matt Oberste followed with back-to-back RBI doubles to make this a 6-3 game. After Kevin Taylor coaxed a walk, David Thompson came up and tied it with his 14^th bomb of the season. Patrick Biondi (single) and Champ Stuart (E5) reached with two outs later in the frame, but the Ponies couldn’t get the speed demons home.

Kaczmarski

Oberste

Thompson

Biondi

            With the game now reset, Ponies Manager Luis Rojas went to Tyler Bashlor for the 7^th and he responded with a perfect frame, striking out all three Cats on 22 pitches.

Cory Burns followed Bashlor with two scoreless frames to give the Ponies a chance for a walkoff, but the Cats pen was matching Bingo’s zero-for-zero. The only hit for the Ponies after the 6^th was an 8^th inning single from Patrick Biondi.

            Rojas turned to P.J. Conlon when this game reached extras and the lefty stumbled for the first time as a reliever. L.J. Mazzilli made a throwing error behind Conlon, which kept the inning alive long enough for the Cats to score the winning run. Although the run is technically marked as unearned, Conlon earned it in a sense, as he walked in the go-ahead run.

            Looking ahead, the Ponies have Ricky Knapp scheduled to start game two of this series on Tuesday night.

  

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