Portland Sea Dogs @ Binghamton Rumble Ponies
April 5, 2018
Teams
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3
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5
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6
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7
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9
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R
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H
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E
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Portland
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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4
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0
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Binghamton
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5
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1
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0
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X
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6
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4
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1
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W: Gagnon (1-0, 0.00
ERA); L: Stankiewicz (0-1, 13.50 ERA)
The Stats:
Pitchers
Drew Gagnon
(1-0, 0.00 ERA) – 6 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 5 K: 1 BB, 79 Pitches (53 Strikes), 9 GO: 2
FO
Austin McGeorge (0.00 ERA) – 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 K, 14 Pitches
(9 Strikes), 2 FO
Adonis Uceta (0.00 ERA) – 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 2 K: 1 BB, 14 Pitches
(8 Strikes), 1 FO
Gerson Bautista (0.00 ERA) – 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 3 K, HBP, 24
Pitches (14 Strikes)
Batters
SS/3B – Andrew Ely – 0-2, R, 2 BB, HBP, K
1B – Peter Alonso – 1-4, R, HR, 2 RBI, K
DH – Patrick Mazeika – 0-3, BB, K
C – Tomas Nido – 0-3, HBP, K
RF – Kevin Taylor – 0-3, R, BB, 2 K
CF – John Mora – 1-2, R, 3B, 2 BB, 1 K
LF – Tim Tebow – 1-4, R, HR, 3 RBI, K
2B/SS – Levi Michael – 0-3, BB, K
3B – Jeff McNeil – 1-3, R, HR, RBI
Recapish
The
Binghamton Rumble Ponies started their 2018 season with a bang, hitting three
homerun’s during their first time through the order on their way to a 6-0 win.
Bingo starter Drew Gagnon went six shutout innings in his organizational debut
and the Ponies pen got off to a hot start with six strikeouts over three
scoreless innings of relief. The Ponies scored all six of their runs against a
familiar name in righty Teddy Stankiewicz, who was drafted (but unsigned) by
the Mets in 2012, and who was making his 11th start against the
Binghamton franchise in the opener.
The
Ponies wasted little time getting ahead in this game, as they jumped on
Stankiewicz for five runs in the 1st. Andrew Ely worked a walk in
his first PA as a Mets farmhand and Peter Alonso brought him home with an
absolute bomb to left center field. Alonso was the Mets
minors exit velocity king last season and his first shot of 2018 reportedly
came off
the bat at 112 MPH (!). After the next two Ponies were quickly retired,
Kevin Taylor and John Mora worked back-to-back walks ahead of Tim Tebow. Tebow
turned on the first pitch he saw and blasted it to DEEP right field to make
this a 5-0 game (because of course he did).
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| Pistol Pete |
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| Tim Tebow |
Jeff
McNeil capped the scoring when he led off the bottom of the 2nd with
a solo blast to right field. It was the third straight season McNeil hit a
homerun in his first game of the year, and second time during that streak the
bomb came for Binghamton during game one.
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| McNeil |
On
the other side of the ball, Gagnon worked a perfect frame in the 1st,
3rd, 5th, and 6th innings, and he worked
around some trouble in the 2nd and 4th innings. Gagnon
(27 years old) was the Brewers 3rd round pick in 2011, spent last
year with the Angels, and then signed on with the Mets back in December. He reportedly
has a fastball that sits in the low-to-mid 90’s, and mixes in a curveball and
changeup.
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| John Mora in CF |
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| Peter Alonso's first error of 2018 |
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| Alonso at first base |
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| Jeff McNeil at third base |
John
Mora stroked a leadoff triple in the 3rd for the Ponies only hit
that didn’t leave the park, but he was thrown out trying to score on a grounder
to third.
Austin
McGeorge made his Double-A debut with a scoreless inning in the 7th,
striking out Luke Tendler to start his Ponies career. McGeorge yielded to
Adonis Uceta in the 8th and Uceta struck out two during his outing.
Finally, Gerson Bautista made his Ponies debut in the 9th and struck
out three to lock down the shutout win.
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| Austin McGeorge |
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| McGeorge K |
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| Uceta K #1 |
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| Uceta K #2 |
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| Gerson Bautista |
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| Bautista K #1 @ 95 MPH |
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| Bautista K #2 |
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| Bautista K #3 |
The
pen was one of the Ponies biggest strengths during the 2017 season and this
group looks even stronger than last year’s version. In addition to those three,
Tyler Bashlor, Drew Smith, and Corey Taylor are back after spending various
amounts of time with Binghamton last year, and they’ll be joined by Daniel
Zamora, Joshua Torres (currently on the DL), and newbie Eric Hanhold.
Jeff
McNeil was removed after seven innings, but there didn’t appear to be any
injury reason for that. These two teams square off again Friday night at 7:05
PM, with Andrew Church scheduled to make his season debut opposite Dedgar
Jimenez. Church allowed 10 runs (all earned) on 10 hits over 4.2 IP during his
only previous Double-A start, so it shouldn’t be hard for him to improve upon
that Friday.
Pitcher Coverage
Table 1 – Gagnon 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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12
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20
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13
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15
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12
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7
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79
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Strikes
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10
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12
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8
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10
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8
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5
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53
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Swinging*
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0
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3
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1
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2
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1
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1
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8
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*10.1% Swinging strike rate
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