Jacob deGrom Simulated Game and Josh Edgin Rehab Details, PSL Mets Blow A Lead

Charlotte Stone Crabs @ St. Lucie Mets

April 19, 2016

Benton Moss @ Josh Edgin

Teams	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Charlotte	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	0	4	11	0
St. Lucie	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	11	4

W: Bird (2-0, 0.00 ERA); L: Prevost (1-1, 3.52 ERA); Save: Koch (2, 3.60 ERA)

The Highlights:

Pitchers

Josh Edgin (3.00 ERA) – 1 IP, K, 1 GO

Josh Prevost (L, 1-1, 3.52 ERA) – 6.1 IP, 9 H, 4 R (3 ER), 2 BB, 4 K, 10 GO: 3 FO

Alberto Baldonado (1.42 ERA) – 1.2 IP, 2 H, 3 K, 1 FO, 1 IR – 1 S

Batters

2B – Luis Guillorme – 2-4, K

SS – Amed Rosario – 2-3, R, 3B (4), BB, K

1B – Michael Katz – 2-4, R, RBI (7), GIDP

C – Tomas Nido – 1-4, R, 2B (3), K, GIDP

DH – Wuilmer Becerra – 2-4, 2B (1), 2 RBI (6)

3B – Jhoan Urena – 1-4, K

RF – Patrick Biondi – 1-4, 2B (2)

Recapish

There was a lot of Mets related news to come out of St. Lucie Tuesday night, plus the Mets played a baseball. Of most interest to Mets fans was news that Jacob deGrom’s newborn son is fine, and that he then threw a simulated game against minor leaguers today. Josh Edgin also made his fourth rehab appearance of the year, starting the game with a perfect 1^st that including a strikeout, pop out, and groundout. The Mets looked good over the first 4 innings, and held a 3-0 lead at that point, but Charlotte would take advantage of 4 St. Lucie errors over the final 5 frames to jump ahead for the win.

First up, the radio provided some notes on deGrom’s simulated game:

“[Jacob deGrom] threw 71 pitches (48 strikes) today in his simulated game… Against the extended players, 6 innings, one hit – had a no-hitter through 5 – no runs, no walks, 10 strikeouts, but he did plunk a batter… Velocity up to 92-94 consistently.”

The stadium gun has been wonky early in the season, and it wasn’t working while Edgin was pitching… again. Radio host Adam MacDonald did share this following bit of information from his last start, “Sitting dead behind home plate in Dodgertown, [Edgin’s] slider had a lot of movement – his best pitch against the Manatees.” Not sure about his velocity, but his results have been encouraging so far. He has 4 K: 1 BB with just 2 hits allowed in 3 IP, and he’s thrown 15 of 19 pitches for strikes over his last 3 outings.

Amed Rosario sparked the St. Lucie Mets only scoring frame with a leadoff triple in the 4^th – his league best fourth triple of the year. Michael Katz would single him home, and then went to 3B on a Tomas Nido double to RF two batters later. Wuilmer Becerra doubled them both home, which gave St. Lucie a 3-0 lead at the time.

The Manatees got all 3 runs right back in an inning that could’ve been worse, but also could’ve ended much better. The first 3 batters reached on singles to load the bases, but a lineout to Michael Katz led to a double play, so Prevost had a chance to escape unscored upon. Unfortunately, Alec Sole singled to RF to knock in two Charlotte runs, and then Riley Unroe doubled him home to tie the game.

In the 8^th, Cade Gotta reached on a grounder to shortstop to spark the winning run – gameday has it labeled a throwing error, but radio called it an infield single. The Mets would bring in Alberto Baldonado with one out in the frame, but Nick Ciuffo greeted him with an RBI double to put the Manatees ahead for good.

This series continues in St. Lucie Wednesday night at 6:30 PM, with Chris Flexen scheduled to take the hill. Check out some highlights posted to twitter below, as well as pitch log info and a more detailed play-by-play for Edgin and Prevost at the bottom. Gameday was acting up during the game, and currently does not have pitch info posted.

Twitter Highlights

Thanks to @ed880, we can check out a few highlights from this game. I do my best to share these in the daily stat posts, but y’all should give him a follow or at least send a thank you!

Josh Edgin starts the game for the @stluciemets tonight pic.twitter.com/cdQiN55ak7
— Ed Delany (@ed880) April 19, 2016

@Mets_Minors pic.twitter.com/LBIqtGVpP3
— Ed Delany (@ed880) April 19, 2016

@tnido24 doubles to right in the bottom of the 4th for the @stluciemets pic.twitter.com/YC8lpIEzrC
— Ed Delany (@ed880) April 19, 2016

@Astromets31 here is Becerra's 2 RBI double pic.twitter.com/O7KS9yGaNl
— Ed Delany (@ed880) April 19, 2016

Pitcher Coverage

Josh Edgin

1^st inning

1) Riley Unroe struck out swinging (K/Sw)

i. – ball 1-0, low

ii. – called strike 1-1

iii. – chopped foul 1-2

iv. – ball 2-2, outside

v. – ball 3-2, outside

vi. Fastball – dribbled foul, 3-2

vii. – swinging strike 3

2) Thomas Milone popped out to Amed Rosario – “skied mile high into shallow center” (6/P)

i. In play, out

3) Cristian Toribio hit a groundout to Rosario (63/G)

i. In play, out

Josh Prevost

Table 1 – Prevost pitch stats by inning

	2^nd	3^rd	4^th	5^th	6^th	7^th	8^th	Total
Total	10	6	11	23	7	18	9	84
Strikes	6	5	8	16	6	11	6	58
Swinging*	1	1	2	2	0	0	2	8

*9.5% Swinging strike rate

First pitch strike to 21/29 batters faced (72%)

2^nd inning

1) Justin Williams flied out to Champ in CF – ball was flared and Champ got a bad jump, but his great speed made up for it (8/F)

i. Fastball – fouled back 0-1

ii. In play

2) Bralin Jackson walked (BB)

i. Fastball – ball 1-0, sails high and in

ii. – ball 2-0, low

iii. – foul 2-1

iv. – ball 3-1, outside

v. – foul tip, 3-2

vi. – ball 4, high

3)   Nick Ciuffo hit a grounder to Luis Guillorme that started a double play (463/G)
     Pickoff attempt
     Pickoff attempt

i. Breaking ball – called strike 0-1

ii. In play

3^rd inning

1) Jace Conrad hit a groundout to Rosario behind the 2B bag – Rosario threw across his body while on the run, and Michael Katz made a good stretch at 1B (63/G)

i. In play

2) Pat Blair struck out swinging (K/Sw)

i. – ball 1-0, outside

ii. – sliced foul 1-1

iii. – called strike 1-2

iv. – swinging strike 3

3) Alex Sole flied out to John Mora (7/F)

i. In play

4^th inning

1) Unroe hit a grounder back up the middle for a single – ball got just under Rosario’s glove (S8/G)

i. In play

2) Milone grounded into a force out (46/G)

i. – ball 1-0, inside “brushed him back”

ii. – foul 1-1 “runner going… check swing foul”

iii. – ball 2-1, outside

iv. – ball 3-1, outside

v. In play

3) Toribio hit a hard groundout to Katz – Milone reached 2B as he was running on the ball (3u/G)

i. – called strike 0-1, outside corner

ii. In play

4) Williams struck out swinging (K/Sw)

i. – foul 0-1

ii. 91 MPH Fastball – swinging strike 0-2 “Blew it past him”

iii. – foul tip strike 3

5^th inning

1) Jackson singled on a groundball hit back up the middle – it was a high chopper up the middle that went off the glove of Guillorme (S8/G)

i. – ball 1-0

ii. – called strike 1-1

iii. – ball 2-1, low

iv. In play

2) Ciuffo lined a single into RF (S9/L)

i. In play

3) Conrad loaded the bases with a single lined into CF (S8/L)

i. In play

4) Blair hit a liner right at Katz to start an unassisted double play (3/L)

i. – called strike 0-1, on the corner

ii. – ball in dirt 1-1

iii. – foul 1-2

iv. 85 MPH Slider – ball in dirt 2-2

v. – foul 2-2 “down the 1B line… in on the hands”

vi. – foul 2-2

vii. In play

5) Sole lined a two run single into right center (S9/L)

i. In play

6) Unroe doubled down the LF line to bring home Sole from 1B, which tied the game (D7/L)

i. – ball 1-0

ii. – called strike 1-1 (showed bunt)

iii. In play

7) Milone struck out swinging (K/Sw)

i. Changeup – ball 1-0, high

ii. – called strike 1-1 “Milone jumped out of the way”

iii. – ball 2-1, low

iv. – foul tip 2-2

v. – ball 3-2, “Sails away”

vi. – swinging strike 3

6^th inning

1) Toribio reached on a throwing error from Rosario – the throw brought Katz off the bag and he couldn’t apply the tag (E6/G)

i. 85 MPH – ball 1-0, high and in

ii. In play

2) Williams hit a grounder to Guillorme that started another double play (463/G)

i. – foul 0-1

ii. In play

3) Jackson singled back through the middle (S8/G)

i. – called strike 0-1

ii. In play

4) Ciuffo flied out to John Mora (7/F)
*Prevost made a bad pickoff throw to 1B for an E1 that allowed Jackson to reach 3B

i. In play

7^th inning

1) Conrad hit a groundout to Katz (3u/G)

i. – ball 1-0, high

ii. – called strike 1-1, inside corner

iii. In play

2) Blair hit a groundout to Rosario (63/G)

i. – called strike 0-1

ii. – ball 1-1

iii. – ball 2-1, low

iv. In play

3) Sole reached on a bunt single to Jhoan Urena (S5/G)

i. In play

4) Unroe lined a single into CF (S8/L)

i. In play

5) Milone walked (BB)

i. – ball 1-0, high

ii. 91 MPH Fastball – called strike, “on the edge”

iii. – ball 2-1, inside

iv. – foul 2-2

v. – ball 3-2, inside
*Double steal

vi. – foul 3-2

vii. – foul 3-2

viii. – ball 4, in the dirt

6) Toribio hit a grounder to Rosario for an out at 2B to end the frame (64/G)

i. In play

8^th inning

1) Cade Gotta reached on a throwing error from Rosario – radio thought it would be called an infield hit, saying he did a good job just to keep it on the infield (E6/G)

i. – called strike 0-1

ii. – ball 1-1

iii. – ball 2-1, outside

iv. – ball 3-1

v. – called strike 3-2

vi. In play

2) Jackson struck out swinging (K/Sw)

i. – foul bunt 0-1

ii. Breaking ball – swinging strike 0-2, high

iii. – swinging strike 3

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