Strong Offense and Pitching the Recipe for 51s Success Against Rainiers in Win

Tacoma Rainiers @ Las Vegas 51s

May 12, 2014

Erasmo Ramirez @ Joel Carreno

Teams	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E	LOB
Tacoma	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0		4	9	4	4
Las Vegas	0	5	0	0	0	1	0	3	X		9	12	0	10

MiLB.com boxscore

The Highlights:

Pitchers

Joel Carreno – 5.2 IP, 6 H, 3 R, 2 BB, 5 SO, HR, 72 pitches, 48 strikes (67%), 22 batters faced, 4 groundouts, 4 fly outs

Miguel Socolovich – 2.1 IP, 3 H, R, 4 SO, 31 pitches, 21 strikes (68%), 10 batters faced, 3 groundouts

Zack Thornton – IP, SO, 11 pitches, 7 strikes (64%), 3 batters faced, 2 groundouts

Batters

Omar Quintanilla – 2-4, 2 R, 2B (1), 3 RBI (3), sac

Josh Satin – 2-4, R, BB, 2 SO

Allan Dykstra – 1-5, R, HR (6), 3 RBI (35), 2 SO

Matt ∂en Dekker – 2-5, R, HR (2), RBI (20), OF Assist, PO

Cesar Puello – 2-3, 3 R, 2B (3), BB, heads up play to score from 3^rd base on error

Chris Taylor – 3-4, R, 3B (5), RBI (21), SO, E (5, throw)

Play By Play

Recap:

            With Jacob ∂eGrom on his way up to the Mets to likely help their bullpen, the Las Vegas 51s turned Joel Carreno for a spot start, his first start since July 20, 2012. Despite a rough first couple of innings, Carreno gave the 51s more than what they could have expected from a roughly 70-pitch count limit, leaving the game with two outs in the 6^th and winning 5-3. The 51s offense erupted for five runs off Rainiers starter Erasmo Ramirez in the bottom of the 2^nd, as M∂D and Dykstra each went yard. The Rainiers would make things close with runs in the 6^th and 7^th innings, but three more runs in the 8^th put this game out of reach, and manager Wally Backman sat his closer Vic Black in favor of Zack Thornton for the 9^th.