Cavallaro Leads The Way Against Hickory

Hickory Crawdads @ Columbia Fireflies

April 20, 2018

A.J. Alexy @ Joe Cavallaro

Teams	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Hickory	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	0		3	4	3
Columbia	0	3	0	0	1	2	0	0	X		6	9	2

W: Cavallaro (2-0, 1.42 ERA); L: Alexy (0-1, 7.15 ERA); Save: Villines (2)

Boxscore

The Stats:

Pitchers

Joe Cavallaro (W, 2-0, 1.89 ERA) – 6 IP, 2 H, 2 R (1 ER), 6 K: 2 BB, 8 GO: 1 FO, 93 Pitches (57 Strikes, 9 Swinging)

Joshua Payne (3.60 ERA) – 2 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 5 K, 1 GO, 29 Pitches (24 Strikes, 8 Swinging)

Stephen Villines (S, 2, 4.35 ERA) – 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 K, 1 GO, 19 Pitches (12 Strikes, 2 Swinging)

Batters

SS – Edgardo Fermin – 1-4, 2B, RBI, BB

2B – Blake Tiberi – 1-4, RBI, BB

DH – Matt Winaker – 1-4, R, 2B, RBI, SF, 2 K

1B – Jeremy Vasquez – 1-4, 2B, RBI

CF – Quinn Brodey – 0-4, BB, K, CS

3B – Rigoberto Terrazas – 1-4

C – Ali Sanchez – 1-3, R, BB, K

RF – Raphael Gladu – 1-2, 2 R, 2 BB

LF – Walter Rasquin – 2-4, 2 R, 2B, 2 RBI, K

Recapish

            The Columbia Fireflies beat Hickory 6-3 at home Friday night to even their four game series with the Crawdads. Cola starter Joe Cavallaro turned in his third straight strong outing to start the season, striking out six and limited the Crawdads to just two hits and two walks over the first six innings Friday. The Fireflies offense stayed hot with another on base party, as everyone in the lineup reached base at least once, which is something they did multiple times in Greenville.

Big Cola 6th Backs A Strong Debut From Joe Cavallaro

Augusta Green Jackets @ Columbia Fireflies

April 6, 2018

Garrett Cave @ Joe Cavallaro

Teams	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Augusta	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		2	8	0
Columbia	1	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	X		7	5	0

W: Cavallaro (1-0, 3.00 ERA); L: Doval (0-1, -.--)

Boxscore

The Stats:

Pitchers

Joe Cavallaro (W, 1-0, 3.00 ERA) – 6 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 8 K: 2 BB, 6 GO, 78 Pitches (55 Strikes, 16 Swinging), 20.5% Swinging strike rate

Joshua Payne (0.00 ERA) – 2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 2 K: 1 BB, HBP, 2 GO: 2 FO, 34 Pitches (20 Strikes, 2 Swinging)

Darwin Ramos (0.00 ERA) – 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 K, 1 GO, 10 Pitches (7 Strikes, 1 Swinging)

Batters

RF – Raphael Gladu – 1-3, 2 R, BB, SB

2B – Blake Tiberi – 0-3, R, BB, 3 K

LF – Matt Winaker – 0-2, R, 2 BB, K

1B – Jeremy Vasquez – 1-3, R, RBI, BB, GIDP

CF – Quinn Brodey – 1-3, R, RBI, HBP, K

3B – Rigoberto Terrazas – 1-3, R, 2B, 2 RBI, BB, K

DH – Jay Jabs – 0-3, BB

C – Scott Manea – 0-3, BB, GIDP

SS – Gio Alfonzo – 1-4, RBI, K

Recapish

            The Columbia Fireflies battled back from an early hole Friday night to remain undefeated at 2-0 in the 2018 season. Cola starter Joe Cavallaro ran into some 1^st inning trouble, which led to two runs for Augusta, but he shut the Green Jackets down the rest of the way. Jackets starter Garrett Cave kept the Cola bats in check for the first five innings, but the Augusta pen struggled mightily when they took over in the 6^th. The first Jackets reliever, Camilo Doval, walked all four batters he faced and that opened the door for a six-run Cola rally that turned this game from a nail-biter into a laugher. Firefly relievers Joshua Payne and Darwin Ramos finished things off for Columbia with three straight scoreless innings to seal a 7-2 win.

Kingsport Mets: 2017 Season In Review

Taking a closer look at how the Kingsport Mets finished the season with a 29-37 record but just 3.5 games out of a playoff spot

What’s in this post:

-       Season Summary

-       Astro’s Awards

-       Coaches

-       Team Stats

-       Mets on the APPY Leaderboards

-       Promotions

-       Links to 2017 highlights (34)

What Happened

            Kingsport has long been a staple of the Mets farm system, offering New York a Rookie ball squad in the Appalachian League for all but one season since 1980 (stadium renovations in 1983 forced the Mets to the GCL for a season). And Kingsport has been the first minor league stop for some of the best talent to come out of the Mets system: from Darryl Strawberry and Dwight Gooden in the early 1980’s to Jose Reyes and David Wright in the early 2000’s. While it’s unreasonable to expect any rookie ball player to reach the peaks those Mets legends reached, there were plenty of interesting Mets prospects playing in Kingsport last year that could be ready to put their name on the prospect map in 2018.

            The 2017 Kingsport Mets started the season with a 3-game winning streak, but those good feels quickly went away as they went on to lose 8 straight after that. The long losing streaks became a recurring problem for Kingsport, as they would go on to lose 8 of their final 11 games in July and then 8 of their final 10 games in August. So, what happened?