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Las Vegas 51s @ El Paso Chihuahuas

April 13, 2018

Corey Oswalt @ Chris Huffman

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

W: Oswalt (1-1, 3.00 ERA); L: Huffman (0-1, 3.86 ERA)

Boxscore

The Stats:

Pitchers

Corey Oswalt (W, 1-1, 3.00 ERA) – 5 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 7 K: 3 BB, 91 Pitches (53 Strikes), 8 GO

Corey Taylor (H, 1, 4.50 ERA) – 2 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 3 K, 28 Pitches (18 Strikes), 1 GO: 2 FO

Kyle Regnault (H, 1, 11.57 ERA) – 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 15 Pitches (9 Strikes), 3 GO, 1 IR – 1 S

Logan Taylor (2.08 ERA) – 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 K: 1 BB, 14 Pitches (9 Strikes), 1 GO

Batters

CF – Matthew den Dekker – 1-5, R, RBI, SB, 2 K

2B – Ty Kelly – 2-5, R, 2B, 2 RBI, K

1B – Dominic Smith – 0-3, 2 BB, 2 K

LF – Zach Borenstein – 1-4, R, 2B, BB, 3 K

RF – Bryce Brentz – 2-4, RBI, K

PR/RF – Patrick Biondi – R, SB

3B – David Thompson – 2-4, RBI

SS – Gavin Cecchini – 1-4, R, RBI, K

C – Colton Plaia – 1-3, 2 R, 2B, BB, K

SP – Corey Oswalt – 0-1, SAC

RP – Corey Taylor – 0-1

PH – Matt Oberste – 0-1

Recapish

            The Las Vegas 51s took the opener of a four-game set in El Paso 7-1 Friday night behind a great performance from starter Corey Oswalt. The 51s gave Oswalt an early lead and he gave the team a much better performance than in his first start against El Paso on opening day. After a few huge games in Albuquerque, Ty Kelly stayed hot in this one with a two-hit, two-RBI, one-double performance. David Thompson also kept heating up at the plate and is now 6 for his last 13 after starting the season in a 2-14 rut. With the win, Las Vegas has its first mini ‘winning streak’ of the 2018 season.

            Kelly got the offense going with a 1^st inning double. Bryce Brentz singled him home three batters later and then David Thompson followed with an RBI single of his own to make this a 2-0 game.

Kelly

Brentz

Thompson

            Corey Oswalt then went out for the bottom of the 1^st and started his good night with a strikeout of Luis Urias. He worked around a leadoff single in the 2^nd, which would be the only hit against him. Oswalt also struck out Allen Craig and Stephen McGee in the 2^nd, and then struck out Chris Huffman and Nick Schulz while working around an error in the 3^rd. Oswalt’s final two frames went 6 up, 6 down, and he added a strikeout of Javy Guerra in the 4^th and then Dusty Coleman in the 5^th to finish with 7.

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Thompson at third

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Cecchini at shortstop

            The 51s bats went quiet for a few innings after the 1^st. David Thompson reached on a single in the 4^th but was doubled off to end the frame. Colton Plaia doubled and came home in the 5^th to give Oswalt a 3-0 lead before he departed. Plaia moved up to third base on a sac bunt from Oswalt and then came home on a wild pitch.

Thompson

Plaia

            Zach Borenstein doubled for Las Vegas in the 6^th but would be stranded at third base.

            Corey Taylor took over for Oswalt in the bottom of the 6^th and started his PCL career with a strikeout of Travis Jankowski and a 1-2-3 inning. Taylor then struck out Craig and McGee in the 7^th, so Manager Tony DeFrancesco tried to get a third inning out of him. Unfortunately for Taylor, Dusty Coleman greeted him with a doule in the 8^th and came around to score with another pitcher on the mound.

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            Kyle Regnault took over for and induced three groundouts to end the frame, but those groundouts were enough to get Coleman over and in.

            The 51s responded to the first El Paso run with a big 9^th inning. Bryce Brentz sparked the rally with a single through the right side and was then replaced on the bases by Patrick Biondi. Biondi stole second, went to third on a groundout, and came home on a Gavin Cecchini RBI single. Matthew den Dekker and Ty Kelly then connected on back-to-back run scoring singles later in the frame to push the 51s lead to 7-1.

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Cecchini

den Dekker

Kelly

            With this game now effectively a laugher – never totally the case when in the PCL – Logan Taylor came out for the 9^th and wrapped things up. He struck out Schulz in the frame and then the game ended on a 6-4-3 double play.

643 double play

            Looking ahead, the 51s will look to make it three straight wins Saturday night behind P.J. Conlon.

Pitcher Coverage

Table 1 – Oswalt pitch stats by inning

	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	Total
Total	12	25	24	13	17	91
Strikes	8	14	13	8	10	53
Swinging*	2	3	4	3	3	15

*16.5% Swinging strike rate

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