Binghamton Mets @ Portland Sea Dogs
July 21, 2014
Teams
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Binghamton
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Portland
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The Highlights:
Pitchers
Gabriel Ynoa (3.42
ERA) – 5.2 IP, 8 H, 3 R (2 ER), 3 SO, HBP, 108 Pitches (68 Strikes), 6 GO: 6 FO
Batters
Dilson Herrera – 1-4, 2B (10), RBI (25)
Brian Burgamy, 1-4, R, HR (18), RBI (58), SO
T.J. Rivera – 4-4, R
Brandon Nimmo – 1-3, R, HR (5), 2 RBI (15), BB, SO
Recap with gifs:
The
B-Mets starter Gabriel Ynoa wasn’t always at his sharpest throughout the start,
but he was good enough to leave the team within striking distance when he left.
The offense finally would come back to tie it up shortly after he left, taking
him off the hook and leaving the game up to the bullpens. Unfortunately, the
B-Mets bullpen gave the two-run lead back in both the 7th and 8th
innings, and the Portland bullpen was able to hold on in the 9th.
The win means that Portland has won the season series against Binhamton, and
increased their division lead to 4.5 games (3rd place is 14 games
back, and top two teams in each division go to playoffs). First place gets home
field advantage in the five-game series first round, which means that they host
games 3, 4 and 5 (as necessary).
Offensively,
the B-Mets were unable to mount much of an attack against Portland start
Wilfredo Boscan. They broke through in the 5th when red-hot Dilson
Herrera one-hopped the right-center field wall to drive in Xorge Carrillo from
1B.
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| Carillo slaps a one-out single to RF |
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| Dilson Herrera one-hops the wall in right-center field |
T.J.
Rivera was able to reach base in every at-bat Monday night, coming up with
these four singles.
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| Grounded this infield single back up the middle in the second |
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| Slapped this single to RF in the fourth |
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| Looped this single into shallow left-center in the seventh |
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| Lined this single just in front of the LF to lead off the ninth |
His
third single came one pitch before Brandon Nimmo drilled this homerun off his
stats on the big scoreboard in left-center field.
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| Nimmo's been showing that oppo power with the B-Mets |
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| That's not necessarily where the ball hit, but the only time you can see it |
Brian
Burgamy would add to his already impressive homerun total with a solo blast to
RF in the 8th – there was no doubt about it off the bat.
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| Burgamy unloads on the blast to RF |
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| The RF was pretending to make the catch, but the ball was actually just caught by that outstretched arm |
Ynoa
1st inning – 12 pitches, 6 strikes
He started the game a little wild
Monday night – his first pitch nearly hit the leadoff hitter Derrik Gibson –
but worked around a leadoff single for a scoreless inning. The single was a
hard hit line drive hit into LF, but Gibson was erased after misreading the
play on a fly ball to RF hit by the next batter. He’d get a groundout to 3B to
end the frame
2nd inning – 19 pitches, 13 strikes
He
lost an 11-pitch battle with Sean Coyle to lead off the inning – Coyle was
making just enough contact to stay alive most pitches before blooping one in
front of Nimmo in very shallow CF. Carrillo allowed a passed ball on the second
pitch after the single, which allowed Coyle to advance to 2B with nobody out.
He would stay stranded there though, as Ynoa induced a shallow fly out to CF, a
groundout to 3B and a pop out to Herrera on the infield.
3rd inning – 14 pitches, 10 strikes
The
first three pitches of the third went horribly wrong for Ynoa – single to LF,
HBP, and then a bunt single that led to a run scored when Burgamy threw the
ball wide of 1B – runners ended up on 2B and 3B, Portland up 1-0. The B-Mets
played the rest of the inning with the infield back, which was the safe play
but may have cost them a run. The runners didn’t try to advance on the first
out, a groundout right at the 1B Burgamy, but they were able to advance easily
on a weak groundout at the SS Rivera, whose only play was at 1B. A lazy fly
ball to CF ended the threat for the Sea Dogs, with the home team up 2-0.
4th inning – 22 pitches, 14 strikes
The
leadoff hitter would reach against Ynoa for the fourth straight inning thanks
to a throwing error from 3B Dustin Lawley. David Chester had chopped one to the
backhand of Lawley, who fielded it cleanly, in a good position to throw, and
with plenty of time to make the throw, but then airmailed it high and wide of
1B. Ynoa then picked up his first strikeout of the night for the first out of
the inning – Wilkerson couldn’t check his swing on an inside fastball. After a
fly out to CF, Ynoa ended the inning with his second strikeout, getting Heiker
Meneses with a 3-2 slider after a long battle.
5th inning – 27 pitches, 18 strikes
Ynoa
nearly had the leadoff runner standing at 1B thanks to an E5 for the second
straight inning, as Lawley bobbled a sharp grounder while playing on the grass
at 3B, but he’d recover and make a strong throw to 1B to record the out. Gibson
would follow with his third hit of the night against Ynoa, grounding a slider
back up the middle for a single. Ynoa threw a 91 MPH fastball up that Blake
Swihart couldn’t catch up to, and the next pitch was at 93 MPH with the same
result. Unfortunately, Swihart won the battle, pulling a grounder through the
2B hole for a single, which allowed Gibson to go to 3B. Ynoa would get his
third strikeout of the night with a high, inside slider that Lavarnway foul
tipped into the mitt of Carrillo. Coyle followed with a chopper up the middle
that was flagged down by a leaping T.J. Rivera, but his toss to 2B had little
‘oomph’ behind it, and everybody was safe – Portland leading 3-1. The inning
ended with a pop out to Burgamy in foul territory.
6th inning – 14 pitches, 7 strikes
Ynoa
came out for the 6th despite already having thrown 94 pitches – I
guess the Mets aren’t afraid of stretching out Ynoa a little by this part of
the season. They probably want him to build up his strength some, as he had
lost some life on his pitches by the end of the 6th. The inning
started with a fly out to CF, the deepest fly ball allowed by Ynoa to that
point. The next batter ripped a single into LF on a fastball, making some of
the hardest contact to that point. The announcers noted that he was hitting 88
MPH with the fastball to Meneses, who would be his last batter of the night –
he had been sitting 92-94 MPH throughout most of the night. Meneses hit the
ball to deep right-center field, but Kyle Johnson made the play look pretty
easy – on that note, an outfield alignment of Ceciliani-Nimmo-Johnson is going
to cover a lot of ground.
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