Drew Hutchison and Noah Syndergaard made impressive debuts at higher levels, adding to what Nestor Molina had done on Tuesday. Even Kyle Drabek had a decent start.
The Kyle Drabek watch was on for this game. After three innings, he had thrown 43 pitches, a good number, and 31 were for strikes, again a good number. Through five the numbers were 85, getting a little high, and 53 strikes. With my super subtraction skills we can figure out that in the fourth and fifth innings Drabek threw 42 pitches, 22 for strikes. Those innings were not as good as the first three. Drabek left after 6.2 innings having thrown 111 pitches, 68 for strikes. So again subtracting, in the sixth and seventh Drabek threw 26 pitches, 15 for strikes. In all, from a control perspective, Drabek did OK with a little rough patch in the middle innings. From a results perspective Drabek gave up 8 hits and three walks, with just 2 K's. It was better, just not major league worthy.
Las Vegas scored a run in the third on three singles and five in the fourth, highlighted by a three run home run from Ryan Shealy. Jason Lane was on fire Wednesday going 4-5 and he tripled in another run in the sixth. Five of the 51's had two hits including Adeiny Hechavarria.
Drew Hutchison had no problem with his first AA start. Hutchison has excellent control so it was no surprise that he threw 75% first pitch strikes (per Kevin Gray). Hutchison went the standard five innings, shutout Trenton over that span on two hits while racking up seven K's.
Offensively Travis d'Arnaud and Danny Perales went back to back with solo home runs in the second inning. In the third an error and two walks loaded the bases for Moises Sierra to drive in two and Yan Gomes two more. Anthony Gose tripled in the seventh run in the fourth inning. New Hampshire built an 8-0 lead, BJ LaMura gave back three runs in the eighth before the Fisher Cats piled on eight more runs in the bottom of the eighth. Jon Diaz and Anthony Gose each had two hits in that inning.
In the game Gose had three hits, Sobolewski zero, and every other starter had two hits.
Lakeland at Dunedin - Rained out
Dunedin will play a doubleheader today.
Noah Syndergaard pitched the standard five innings and four of them were very routine. The second innng was where Noah had a challenge and where he gave up his only run. Syndergaard allowed three hits and a walk in that inning and did well to escape with just one run conceded. Syndergaard's final line was 5 4 1 1 1 6.
Dustn Antolin and Dan Webb each pitched two shutout innings in relief.
Lansing scored all their runs in the sixth inning. With the bases loaded on two walks and a single, Marcus Brisker singled in two runs and Matt Nuzzo doubled in two more.
Jake Marisnick and Oliver Dominguez had two hits each.
Vancouver built a 4-0 lead before giving up three runs in the sixth and hanging on for the one run win. In the second inning Steve McQuail homered and the Canadians used a couple of singles, and error and two ground outs to add two more. Vancouver made it 4-0 in the fourth on an RBI single by Shane Opitz.
Blake McFarland started and pitched well until the sixth. In what might be described as a learning experience the first five hitters of the inning reached base and with no-one out the score was 4-3 with runners on second and third. But McFarland managed to get out of the inning without further damage. Kramer Champlin pitched two shutout innings and Drew Permison left the tying run on third to end the game.
McQuail and Andy Burns had two hits each.
Bluefield scored three runs before Greeneville came to bat, Andy Fermin singled in the frst run and Art Charles doubled in two more. Leo Hernandez drove in two more runs in the sixth.
Ajay Meyer started for Bluefield and he pitched 5.2 innings, giving up one run while recording seven K's.
Kevin Pillar again led the hitters with 2 hits, he is now hitting .347. Eric Arce had his first hit, a single, above the GCL level.
Tucker Jensen gave up all four runs, just two earned, and took the loss. The Jays outhit the Braves 10-6 with Jacob Anderson recording three more hits. Over his last six games Anderson is hitting 500 with just 2 strikeouts in 24 at-bats. Anderson is probably too new to pro-ball to be promoted to Bluefield unless the Jays want to get him some playoff experience.
Three Stars:
Honorable mention: Kevin Pillar, Jacob Anderson, Ajay Meyer, Blake McFarland
3rd star: Jason Lane
2nd star: Noah Syndergaard
1st star: Drew Hutchison
Note:
The Appy leagues named their all-stars. Chris Hawkins, Art Charles and Kevin Pillar made the squad from your Bluefield Jays.
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