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Big Inning Before The Storm Sinks St. Lucie In Bradenton


St. Lucie Mets @ Bradenton Marauders


April 7, 2018



Teams
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

R
H
E
St. Lucie
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
1

3
7
0
Bradenton
4
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
X

5
8
0
W: Wallace (1-0, 1.80 ERA); L: Llanes (0-1, 36.00 ERA); Save: Eckelman (1)


The Stats:

Pitchers

Gabriel Llanes (L, 0-1, 36.00 ERA) – 1 IP, 4 H, 4 R, 0 K: 1 BB, HR, 27 Pitches (16 Strikes), 2 GO: 1 FO
Joseph Zanghi (0.00 ERA) – 2.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 3 K, 39 Pitches (24 Strikes), 2 GO: 1 FO
Matt Pobereyko (3.86 ERA) – 2.1 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 3 K: 3 BB, 33 Pitches (23 Strikes), 2 GO: 2 FO
Ryder Ryan (0.00 ERA) – 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 K, 14 Pitches (10 Strikes)
Matt Blackham (4.50 ERA) – 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 K, 15 Pitches (9 Strikes), 1 GO

Batters

LF – Jacob Zanon – 1-4, R, 2B, 2 K
SS – Andres Gimenez – 1-3, BB
CF – Desmond Lindsay – 1-4, GIDP
C – Brandon Brosher – 0-3, RBI, SF, K
2B – Luis Carpio – 0-4, K
1B – Dash Winningham – 2-4, R, HR, RBI
RF – Ian Strom – 1-4, R, HR, RBI, K
DH – Michael Paez – 1-3, BB, K
3B – Dale Burdick – 0-3, K


Recapish


            The St. Lucie Mets lost a rain-soaked affair Saturday evening in Bradenton to fall under .500 for the first time in 2018. Mets starter Gabriel Llanes struggled in the 1st and then a long rain delay kept him from going deeper into the game. The St. Lucie pen was great over seven innings of relief, but the 1st inning deficit proved too big for the Mets bats to overcome. Two current Mets prospects went deep in this game – Ian Strom and Dash Winningham – but it was the former Mets prospects’ (Alfredo Reyes) homer that made the difference.
            Top Mets prospect Andres Gimenez singled in the 1st for his hit of the game, but then Desmond Lindsay followed by grounding into an inning ending double play.


            Gabriel Llanes’ struggles started with the first batter of the game, who smashed a double to left field against him and came around to score soon after that. Llanes had a chance to escape the 1st with just one run allowed, but then Alfredo Reyes launched a three-run bomb to right center field to make this a 4-0 game. The rain delay started as soon as the frame ended, or about five minutes too late for Llanes and the Mets in this one.


The Reyes homer


            Mike Wallace took over for Bradenton after the rain delay and he was huge for the Marauders. Wallace allowed just one run over five strong innings of work, bridging the gap between the Bradenton starter and the rest of the pen.
            Joseph Zanghi took over for St. Lucie and he was also very effective, but he was limited to 2.2 innings of work (aka, a pitch count of about 40). Zanghi struck out three and allowed just a single during his scoreless outing. Between the Bradenton and St. Lucie announcers, it sounded like he was sitting around 93-94 (t-95) MPH with his heater and 86-88 MPH with his slider.


Zanghi's 1st K


Carpio

Zanghi's 2nd K


Zanghi's 3rd K

            Desmond Lindsay connected on the next St. Lucie hit in the 4th, and the Dash Winningham and Michael Paez added singles in the 5th, but neither opportunity led to any runs for St. Lucie.

Lindsay

Dash

Paez

            Matt Pobereyko took over for Zanghi with two outs in the 4th and finished the frame with a strikeout. Pobereyko allowed a run on two walks, a single, a stolen base, and a sac fly in the 5th, but then bounced back for a scoreless 6th. Neither Zanghi or Pobereyko went as long as Wallace, but together they combined to allow just one run over five innings, just like Wallace.

Pobereyko

Pobereyko's 1st K


Pobereyko's 2nd K


Brosher

Pobereyko's 3rd K

            Jacob Zanon sparked the first Mets run of the game with a leadoff double in the 6th, his third already of 2018. Zanon went to third on a groundout and then came home on a Brandon Brosher sac fly to make this a 5-1 game.


            The Mets added another run in the 7th thanks to an Ian Strom bomb, his first of 2018 after stroking four last season.


            Ryder Ryan and Matt Blackham held Bradenton scoreless over the 7th and 8th innings. Both finished with one strikeout and were aided by a caught stealing.


CS for Brosher

Gimenez

Ryan's K

Blackham

Blackham's K


            St. Lucie added one last run in the 9th thanks to Dash Winningham, who launched his second homer of the season to make this a 5-3 final.


            Looking ahead, St. Lucie will hand the ball to Harol Gonzalez in the finale of this 4-game, home-and-away series with Bradenton needing a win to split. After the pen went seven innings in this game, the Mets will be looking to get some depth from Harol regardless of how effective he is.



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