Ponies Offense Still Hasn’t Arrived In Portland

Binghamton Rumble Ponies @ Portland Sea Dogs

April 14, 2018

Nabil Crismatt @ Mike Shawaryn

Teams	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Binghamton	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	3	0
Portland	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	X		3	11	0

W: Shawaryn (1-1, 1.69 ERA); L: Crismatt (1-1, 1.74 ERA); Save: Lau (1)

Boxscore

The Stats:

Pitchers

Nabil Crismatt (L, 1-1, 1.74 ERA) – 4.1 IP, 9 H, 2 R, 3 K: 2 BB, 86 Pitches (52 Strikes), 3 GO: 2 FO

Eric Hanhold (1.69 ERA) – 1.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 3 K: 2 BB, 32 Pitches (17 Strikes), 1 GO, 3 IR – 1 S

David Roseboom (5.40 ERA) – 1.2 IP, 0 H, 1 R, 3 K: 2 BB, 41 Pitches (21 Strikes), 1 GO

Joshua Torres (0.00 ERA) – 0.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 16 Pitches (8 Strikes), 1 FO, 1 IR – 1 S

Batters

2B – Levi Michael – 1-4, CS

3B – Jeff McNeil – 0-4

LF – Kevin Taylor – 0-4, 2 K

1B – Peter Alonso – 1-2, BB, CS

C – Patrick Mazeika – 0-3, K

CF – John Mora – 0-3, 2 K

RF – Jhoan Urena – 0-3

DH – Tim Tebow – 1-3, 2B, 2 K

SS – Andrew Ely – 0-1, 2 B, CS

Recapish

            The Binghamton Rumble Ponies dropped their second straight in Portland and fifth straight overall Saturday afternoon as their offense never showed up. It was the second time in three games that the Ponies were shutout and they’ve managed just three runs over their last four games, which is not a recipe for success. Coming off a great first start of the year, Ponies starter Nabil Crismatt allowed a lot of base runners but limited the damage over four-plus innings of work. Just like Friday night, the Binghamton starter limited the Portland offense enough that he should’ve at least gotten a no-decision, but the Ponies offense just couldn’t put any rallies together.

            The Ponies managed just three hits Saturday and one of them came from the first batter of the game. Levi Michael led off the game with a single but was caught stealing second base. Peter Alonso did the exact same thing in the 2^nd, leading off the frame with a single before getting caught stealing second base. Ponies Manager Luis Rojas took the chance to send Alonso in the 2^nd because Patrick Mazeika was up and Mazeika has typically been a high contact guy in his career. The final Ponies hit came when Tim Tebow led off the 6^th with a double to RF, but the Ponies stranded him at third in the frame.

Michael

Alonso

Tebow

            Crismatt allowed a single to four of the first five Portland batters but escaped the inning down just 1-0 thanks to a double play. Double plays were a theme for the Ponies defense early, as they turned four double plays over the first five innings. The defense behind Crismatt allowed him to throw up three straight zero’s between the 2^nd and 4^th inning, but he just wasn’t at his sharpest in this one. He faced 20 batters and allowed 11 base runners, including three in the 5^th before he departed.

4-6-3 double play

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4-6-3 double play

4-6-3 double play

K #3

Mazeika CS

            Eric Hanhold took over for Crismatt with the bases loaded and one out in the 5^th. Unfortunately for both pitchers, Hanhold walked the first batter he saw, which forced in a run that was charged to Crismatt. Fortunately, that was all Portland could get off Hanhold, as he got the next batter to hit into an inning ending double play. He stuck around for the 6^th and struck out three in a row to keep this a 2-0 game.

4-3 double play

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K #2

K #3

            Hanhold yielded to David Roseboom in the 7^th and the BOOM struck out three in his first inning back with Binghamton. After a mostly lost 2017, Roseboom had some early season struggles in the 51s pen this year, so the Mets sent him back to Binghamton, where he was one of the top pitchers in the 2016 B-Mets pen.

K #1

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K #3

            Roseboom was sent back out for the 8^th and issued a leadoff walk, which eventually came around for the Sea Dogs third run of the game. Roseboom retired the two batters after the walk but wasn’t given the chance to strand his own base runner. Instead, Josh Torres came out for his 2018 and Binghamton debut with a runner on third and two outs. Torres would allow an RBI single before ending the frame, which gave Portland the 3-0 lead that they won by.

            Looking ahead, the Ponies wrap up this series with Marcos Molina on the mound Sunday and then they’ll head to New Hampshire to start a series with the Fisher Cats.

Pitcher Coverage

Table 1 – Crismatt pitch stats by inning

	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	Total
Total	24	12	13	15	22	86
Strikes	15	7	9	10	11	52
Swinging*	3	1	0	1	2	7

*8.1% Swinging strike rate

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