Erie Sea Wolves @ Binghamton Rumble Ponies
April 22, 2018
Tyler Alexander @ Michael Gibbons
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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Erie
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0
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0
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5
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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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7
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15
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0
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Binghamton
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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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0
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1
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0
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3
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10
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2
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W: Alexander (2-0,
2.30 ERA); L: Gibbons (0-1, 0.00 ERA)
The Stats:
Pitchers
Michael Gibbons
(L, 0-1, 0.00 ERA) – 2.1 IP, 4 H, 2 R (0 ER), 1 K: 1 BB, 61 Pitches (36
Strikes), 2 GO: 5 FO
Johnny Magliozzi (10.80 ERA) – 2.1 IP, 7 H, 3 R, 1 K: 3 BB,
43 Pitches (26 Strikes), 1 GO: 3 FO, 2 IR – 2 S
Joshua Torres (0.00 ERA) – 2.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 5 K, 27 Pitches
(20 Strikes), 2 FO, 2 IR – 0 S
Adonis Uceta (3.52 ERA) – 1.2 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 1 K: 1 BB, 45
Pitches (32 Strikes), 2 GO: 2 FO
Daniel Zamora (9.53 ERA) – 0.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 4 Pitches (3
Strikes), 1 IR – 0 S
Batters
SS – Levi Michael – 1-5, 3 K
2B – Jeff McNeil – 0-4, K
DH – Peter Alonso – 3-4, R, 2B, K
1B – Matt Oberste – 1-4, R, 2 K
LF – Kevin Taylor – 2-4, 2B, RBI
RF – Jhoan Urena – 2-4, 2B, RBI
3B – Nick Sergakis – 1-4, 2B, RBI
C – Tyler Moore – 0-4, 2 K
CF – Champ Stuart – 0-3, K
PH – John Mora – 0-1
Recapish
The
Binghamton Rumble Ponies dropped the finale of their three-game series with
Erie Sunday afternoon in Binghamton, taking a 7-3 loss as Erie avoided getting
swept. The Ponies got an unexpected start from Michael Gibbons, who was on a
limited pitch count as he’s still getting stretched out for the season. Gibbons
left with two on and one out in the 3rd after an error behind him,
and the inning snowballed on Binghamton after that. Johnny Magliozzi took over
for Gibbons, but the Ponies committed another error behind him and Erie had
built up a 5-0 lead before the frame was over. The Ponies tried to battle back,
but the deficit proved to big to overcome and Erie also added some 9th
inning insurances runs to make this a 7-3 game.
The
Mets signed
Michael Gibbons as an undrafted free agent in 2014 after assistant GM J.P.
Ricciardi saw him hitting 95 MPH at an FCBL event. He made a mini-splash in the
system during
the 2015 season after a successful debut split between Brooklyn, Savannah,
St. Lucie, and Binghamton, but then missed all of the 2016 season and most of
2017 recovering from Tommy John surgery. He made it on the hill for 27.2
innings pitched last year, but he was still being held back when the 2018
season started – I don’t know if that was related to TJS or just something else
that popped up in spring training. Prior to his TJS, Gibbons sat 91-93 MPH with
his fastball while mixing in a slider and changeup.
Gibbons started his outing with a
strikeout, but it was mostly downhill after that. He worked around a pair of
baserunners in each of the first two innings, but it took him 50 pitches to get
through 2 frames.
Levi
Michael and Pete Alonso singled in the 1st and Binghamton had a
chance to jump ahead, but they couldn’t come up with a big hit.
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| Michael |
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| Alonso |
The
3rd inning was one of those frames where the other team isn’t
hitting the ball all that hard, but you just can’t seem to get three outs.
There were four Erie hits, all singles, one of which found a hole through the
right side and the other three were soft liners that landed in the outfield.
Plus the Ponies committed a pair of errors on potential double play grounders,
so the inning could’ve been over with no runs in or with just one run in if
either had been turned. Instead, Erie jumped ahead 5-0 and took control of this
game.
The
Ponies connected on three singles in the 4th but failed to score a
run again. Alonso started the frame with a single, went to second on a Kevin
Taylor single, went to third on a Jhoan Urena single, and then was stranded
there – watching live, I thought Alonso should’ve been sent on the Urena
single, and he would’ve been safe after a terrible throw in from the outfield.
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| Alonso |
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| Taylor |
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| Urena |
Magliozzi
stuck around until the 5th, but Joshua Torres had to finish of that
frame for him. Both pitchers struck out one in the 5th inning, and
they combined to strand an Erie runner at second base. Torres stuck around through
the 7th, added four more strikeouts to his tally while out there. (All strikeout GIF's here are of Torres)
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| Weird double play turned in the 4th |
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| K #1 |
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| K #2 |
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| K #3 |
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| K #4 |
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| K #5 |
The
Ponies finally broke through thanks to some doubles action in the 6th.
Alonso – who else but Peter Alonso – sparked the mini-rally with a leadoff
double, came home on a Kevin Taylor double, and then Taylor came home on Nick
Sergakis’ first double of the year.
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| Alonso |
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| Taylor |
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| Sergakis |
The
Ponies got one more run back in the bottom of the 8th. Matt Oberste
reached on a one out single and then came around to score from first on a Jhoan
Urena double to make this a 5-3 game.
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| Oberste |
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| Urena |
Adonis
Uceta worked a scoreless 8th for Binghamton with one strikeout, but
three straight groundball singles knocked him out with the Ponies down 7-3 in
the 9th.
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| Uceta's K |
Looking
ahead, the Ponies will give the ball to Joseph Shaw for Monday night’s start as
they welcome the New Hampshire Fisher Cats into town.
Pitcher Coverage
Table 1 – Gibbons pitch stats by inning
1st
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2nd
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3rd
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Total
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Total
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28
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22
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11
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61
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Strikes
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16
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12
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8
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36
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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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*1.6% Swinging strike rate
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