Gabriel Ynoa Throws a One-Hitter in Erie

Binghamton Mets @ Erie Sea Wolves

July 2, 2015

Gabriel Ynoa @ Austin Kubitza

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

W: Ynoa (5-5, 4.12 ERA); L: Kubitza (5-6, 5.05 ERA)

MiLB.com Boxscore

The Highlights:

Pitchers

Gabriel Ynoa – 9 IP, H, 6 SO, 103 Pitches (76 Strikes), 12 GO: 7 FO

Batters

Gavin Cecchini – 1-4, 2 R, BB, SO

L.J. Mazzilli – 2-5, R, 2B (6)

Michael Conforto – 1-4, 2 RBI (18), SO, GIDP

Brock Peterson – 1-4, RBI (26), SO

Brandon Nimmo – 1-4, GIDP

Josh Rodriguez – 2-4, R, 2B (11)

Aderlin Rodriguez – 1-4, R, HR (8), 2 RBI (31), SO

Xorge Carrillo – 1-4

Jared King – 1-4, SO

Recap

            The B-Mets have been getting some amazing starting pitching lately, and Gabriel Ynoa kept the run going Thursday night in Erie with what might end up the start of the year. Ynoa was working quickly and efficiently, and he would allow only the one hit – a two out double off the wall in the 3^rd – and worked around a two out error from Gavin Cecchini in the 7^th. The Mets handed him a lead before he even took the mound, and then extended it with a big 2^nd inning – check out the scoring details and highlights below.

            Ynoa was attacking the edges of the zone effectively in this start, leading to a lot of weak contact. He started dropping in what appeared to be a useful looking curveball more often as the start went on, getting a lot of called strikes with it at first, and then some swinging strikes once Erie started looking for it. He’s been known to throw a curve in the past, but his slider has been described as slurvy at times too, so maybe he just felt that motion was working for him in this start - either way, the pitch was effective. Outside of the double from Harold Castro in the 3^rd, the Erie batters squared nothing up against Ynoa, which led to a lot of weak contact, as you can see in the spray chart below. You can check out his 6 strikeouts at the bottom of the page.

            This series wraps up Friday night at 7:05 PM, with Luis Cessa scheduled to make the start on MiLB.com (although it’s been rumored that Michael Gibbons will make the spot start).

Scoring Highlights

            Gavin Cecchini led off the game with a single hit back up the middle, and then L.J. Mazzilli advanced him to 2B with a single to LF. After a force out, Brock Peterson singled home Cecchini to make it a 1-0 game.

            Josh Rodriguez led off the 2^nd with a single, and then Aderlin Rodriguez made it a 3-0 game with his 8^th bomb of the year. With two outs in the inning, Cecchini drew a walk, Mazzilli doubled him to 3B, and then Michael Conforto singled them both home.

Bonus

            Gavin Cecchini had a number of successful chances Thursday night, but committed his 18^th error on a grounder in the 7^th.

Gabriel Ynoa Coverage

Table 1 – Pitch stats by inning

	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	Total
Total	10	8	16	13	9	16	11	9	11	103
Strikes	7	6	10	10	8	12	8	7	8	76
Swinging*	1	0	3	0	2	2	1	1	0	10

*9.7% Swinging strike rate

Ynoa’s first strikeout came in the 3^rd inning, when he got Tony Thomas swinging.

He started the 5^th inning with a strikeout of James Robbins.

            He picked up two strikeouts in the 6^th:

Thomas swinging for the first out.

Wynton Bernard swinging for the third out.

            Connor Harrell went down looking for the second out in the 7^th inning.

            Thomas struck out for a third time to end the 8^th.