Binghamton Rumble Ponies @ Portland Sea Dogs
April 13, 2018
Andrew Church @ Drew Pomeranz
Teams
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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8
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9
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R
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H
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E
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Binghamton
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0
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0
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2
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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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2
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6
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0
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Portland
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1
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2
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1
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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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X
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4
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9
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0
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W: Pomeranz (1-0,
3.38 ERA); L: Church (0-1, 6.48 ERA); Save: Kelley (1)
The Stats:
Pitchers
Andrew Church
(L, 0-1, 6.48 ERA) – 4 IP, 7 H, 4 R, 0 K: 2 BB, HR, 81 Pitches (56 Strikes), 5
GO: 4 FO
Austin McGeorge (4.50 ERA) – 2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 4 K, 23 Pitches
(16 Strikes), 1 GO
Gerson Bautista (0.00 ERA) – 2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 3 K, 31 Pitches
(21 Strikes), 3 GO
Batters
2B – Levi Michael – 2-4, 2B
SS – Andrew Ely – 0-4, R, K
1B – Peter Alonso – 1-3, R, HR, 2 RBI, BB, K
DH – Kevin Taylor – 1-4, K
C – Patrick Mazeika – 0-3, BB
RF – Jhoan Urena – 1-4, K
LF – Tim Tebow – 1-4, 2 K, GIDP
3B – Jeff McNeil – 0-3
CF – Champ Stuart – 0-2, BB, 2 K
Recapish
The
Binghamton Rumble Ponies dropped the opener of their weekend series in Portland
4-2 to the Sea Dogs Friday night. After a strong first outing, Ponies starter
Andrew Church struggled in his second straight start against this Portland
team, finishing with zero strikeouts and few swinging strikes over his four
innings of work. Given his limited Double-A experience, it’s not surprising
that Portland was able to adjust and do better against Church this time around.
And although it was by no means a good start, Church was able to do a good job
of limiting the damage while out there even though he was struggling. On most
nights, four runs wouldn’t be too big of a lead to overcome, but the Ponies were
facing a major league rehabber on this night, and Sea Dogs starter Drew
Pomeranz knew how to protect his lead.
Church’s
struggles started right away in the 1st, as Cole Sturgeon led off
with a homer against him to put Portland up 1-0.
Kevin
Taylor started the 2nd with a single through the middle and then
Patrick Mazeika worked a walk off Pomeranz, but the bottom of the Ponies lineup
couldn’t do anything against the major leaguer.
The
first four Sea Dogs batters reached in the bottom of the 2nd on a
walk and three single, which loaded the bases for Sturgeon with nobody out.
Sturgeon crushed another fly ball off Church in this PA, but this one stayed in
the yard and was caught by Champ Stuart for a sac fly. Church then wrapped up
the inning down just 3-0.
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| Champ tracking one down in CF |
Champ
Stuart worked a leadoff walk in the 3rd, which allowed slugger Peter
Alonso to come up against Pomeranz with a runner on. Alonso crushed his third
homerun of the year to left center to make this a 3-2 game.
Portland
got their leadoff man on against Church again in the 3rd, and again
it led to a Portland run. The run also came home on a sac fly before Church
could escape the jam and the Sea Dogs had the 4-2 lead they’d win by.
Jhoan Urena singled for Binghamton in
the 4th but was quickly erased on a Tim Tebow double play.
After
three straight innings with 20+ pitches thrown, Church needed just 8 pitches
for a quick and easy 4th, which allowed him to finish his night on a
high note.
Levi
Michael singled for Binghamton in the 5th but was stranded at
second.
Austin
McGeorge took over on the hill for Binghamton in the bottom of the 5th
and had a great outing. He struck out two in the 5th and two in the
6th while facing the minimum.
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| K #1 |
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| CS for Mazeika |
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| K #2 |
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| K #3 |
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| K #4 |
McGeorge
yielded to Gerson Bautista in the 7th and GB added three more
strikeouts to the Ponies tally.
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| K #1 |
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| K #2 |
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| K #3 |
The
Ponies weren’t able to claw their way back into this game, but they did have
two more hits left in their bats. Tebow singled leading off the 7th,
although he was thrown out trying to stretch his hit into a double. Then Levi
Michael actually doubled for Binghamton leading off the 8th, but was
stranded at third.
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| Tebow |
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| Levi Michael |
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| Sturgeon robs Mazeika of a hit in the 9th |
Looking
ahead, the Ponies will try to bounce back from a fourth straight loss Saturday
behind Nabil Crismatt, who excelled in his first start of the year.
Pitcher Coverage
Table 1 – Church pitch stats by inning
1st
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2nd
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3rd
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4th
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Total
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Total
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21
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26
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26
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8
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81
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Strikes
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14
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18
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17
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7
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56
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Swinging*
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2
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2
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1
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0
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5
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*6.2% Swinging strike rate
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