Akron Rubber Ducks @ Binghamton Rumble Ponies
April 10, 2018
Teams
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R
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H
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E
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Akron
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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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1
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0
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5
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9
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2
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Binghamton
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5
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2
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W: Bieber (1-0, 0.00
ERA); L: Shaw (0-1, 6.00 ERA)
The Stats:
Pitchers
Joseph Shaw (L,
0-1, 6.00 ERA) – 6 IP, 5 H, 4 R, 2 K: 1 BB, HBP, 80 Pitches (51 Strikes), 12
GO: 3 FO
Eric Hanhold (2.45 ERA) – 2 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 4 K: 1 BB, 37
Pitches (25 Strikes), 2 GO
Corey Taylor (4.50 ERA) – 1 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 1 K, 13 Pitches
(11 Strikes), 2 GO
Batters
SS – Andrew Ely – 0-4
1B – Peter Alonso – 2-4, R, 2B, K
C – Patrick Mazeika – 2-4
DH – Tomas Nido – 0-4, 3 K
RF – Kevin Taylor – 1-4, RBI, GIDP
CF – John Mora – 0-4, 2 K
LF – Tim Tebow – 0-4, 2 K
3B – Levi Michael – 0-2, BB, K
2B – J.J. Franco – 0-3, K
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| Alonso at first |
Recapish
The
Binghamton Rumble Ponies dropped their second straight to Akron Tuesday night,
taking a 5-1 loss to fall to 3-2 on the season. Ponies starter Joe Shaw cruised
through the first five innings in this one, but then ran into trouble in the 6th
and eventually allowed four two-out runs as Akron took control of this game.
Ducks starter Shane Bieber also cruised through the first five innings in this
one, but he didn’t run into any problems in the 6th, or the 7th.
Bieber finished with eight strikeouts and just four hits allowed while walking
no one over seven innings for his first win of the year.
This
was actually Shaw’s second ever Double-A start, but his last appearance for
Binghamton came in 2016 when they were still the B-Mets. Shaw was the Mets 12th
round pick in 2015 and spent most of 2016 in Columbia, so I have plenty of
previous coverage
of him if you’re interested. Back then he threw a low-90’s heater, a slurvy
breaking pitch that induced a ton of swinging strikes, and a changeup.
Shaw
was a groundball machine in this one, finishing with 12 groundouts over his six
innings of work. He allowed just two base runners over the first five innings despite
striking out just one batters during that span. He allowed his third and fourth
base runners before an out was recorded in the 6th, which left him
in a jam he struggled to get out of. His first out came on a comebacker that
looked like a possible double play ball off the bat, but the Ponies only got one out on
the play. That proved huge since all four runs came home with two outs in the
frame. After the force out, Shaw hit a batter to load the bases and then struck
out Joe Sever for the second out of the frame. Shaw was nearly through six
scoreless, but the Will Castro connected on a two-run single back through the
middle and Mark Mathias connected on a two-run triple to right field to make it
4-0. The triple looked catchable, but Kevin Taylor looked very uncomfortable
going back on it, possibly due to his lack of experience in right field (he’s
mostly been limited to left field in the past, but is playing right field with
Tim Tebow limited to left field).
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| Alonso at first |
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| K #1 |
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| K #2 |
While
Shaw was thriving over the first five innings, the rest of the Ponies were
struggling against Bieber. Patrick Mazeika started the night 2-2 and Peter
Alonso connected on a 4th inning double, but the Ponies couldn’t
jump ahead. As an aside, unfortunately the feed was momentarily down when
Alonso stroked his double, so there will be no GIF highlight and both below are Mazeika.
After
Shaw’s long 6th pushed his pitch count to 80, Eric Hanold took over
in the 7th. Hanhold worked a perfect 7th with two
strikeouts but ran into trouble in the 8th. Sever stroked an RBI
double to center field against Hanhold to make this a 5-0 game, but than
Hanhold added two more strikeouts before finishing his night.
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| Michael making the play, nice pick from Alonso too |
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| K #1 |
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| K #2 |
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| K #3 |
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| K #4 |
Kevin
Taylor became the third Ponies player with a hit when he slapped a single to
left field in the 7th.
Corey
Taylor wrapped things up on the mound for Binghamton with a scoreless 9th,
striking out Sam Haggerty along the way.
It
took some help from Akron in the form of bad defense, but the Ponies finally
scratched out a run in the 9th. Alonso started the frame with a
single, went to second on an E9, up to third on a passed ball, and then came
home on an E6.
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| Alonso |
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| Taylor reached on an error to bring home Alonso |
Looking
ahead, the Ponies will try to salvage a win from this series Wednesday night before
heading on the road Thursday. Drew Gagnon was the scheduled starter for
Wednesday night’s game, but he was called up to start for Las Vegas on Tuesday,
so he will be unavailable and his replacement hadn’t been announced as of this
writing. First pitch is scheduled for 6:35 PM and will be available to watch on
MiLB.tv.
Pitcher Coverage
Table 1 – Shaw 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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7
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12
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11
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11
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7
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32
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80
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Strikes
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6
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8
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5
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7
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6
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19
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51
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Swinging*
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1
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0
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0
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1
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0
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3
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5
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*6.3% Swinging strike rate
70,000 years ago, a passing star came within a light-year of the Sun. what was the result? https://t.co/CqWES2s9yr pic.twitter.com/YeGhpmgzyW— Astronomy Magazine (@AstronomyMag) April 11, 2018
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