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Round Rock Express @ Las Vegas 51s

August 27, 2014

Jimmy Reyes (1-1, 8.05 ERA) @ Noah Syndergaard (8-7, 4.85 ERA)

Teams	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Round Rock	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0		3	11	0
Las Vegas	0	5	0	0	1	0	0	2	X		8	12	0

Win: Syndergaard (9-7, 4.67 ERA); Loss: Reyes (1-2, 9.00 ERA)

MiLB.com Boxscore

The Highlights:

Pitchers

Noah Syndergaard – 6.2 IP, 7 H, R, BB, 9 SO, HBP, 110 Pitches (80 Strikes), 6 GO

Erik Goeddel (5.37 ERA) – 1 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 3 SO, 2 IR – 0 S

Miguel Socolovich (H, 15, 3.24 ERA) – 0.1 IP, SO, 1 IR – 0 S

Chase Bradford (3.48 ERA) – 1 IP, H, 3 SO

Batters

Matt Reynolds – 1-4, R, 2B (15), 3 RBI (38), SF, SO

Josh Satin – 1-4, 2B (26), RBI (49), BB, 2 SO

Andrew Brown – 1-4, 2B (24), BB, 2 SO

Taylor Teagarden – 2-5, R, 2B (6), 2 SO

Kevin Plawecki – 4-4, 2 R, 2 HR (5), 3 RBI (21)

Cory Vaughn – 1-4, SO

Daniel Muno – 1-3, 2 R, BB

Anthony Seratelli – 1-4, R, 2B (10), RBI (38), SO

Recap:

            Noah Syndergaard put in one of his best performances of the season, as he charges to the finish line looking as good as he has in 2014. In his penultimate start of the PCL regular season, Thor brought one of his best fastballs to the game, averaging 96.7 MPH (per the Cashman Field scoreboard velocities) and topping out at 99 MPH on several occasions towards the end of his outing. He would leave with two on and two outs in the 7^th, as he reached or was nearing his pitch limit for the night. The 51s offense exploded for five runs on three extra bases hits in the 2^nd, highlighted by Kevin Plawecki’s first homerun of the night and Matt Reynolds 15^th double with Las Vegas. Plawecki added another homerun leading off the 5^th, providing a nice answer to the run Round Rock had scored in the top half of the inning. Erik Goeddel looked good striking out Ryan Strausborger to bail Thor out in the top of the 7^th, but then ran into trouble in the 8^th, when Miguel Socolovich had to come in for the final out. Chase Bradford struck out the side in the 9^th, putting the Las Vegas pitchers K total for the game at 16.