LAS VEGAS 6, SALT LAKE 3 The Las Vegas 51′s used six pitchers to complete the series sweep against the Salt Lake Bees 6-3. Rafael Montero started the game and fired 5.1 innings of no-hit ball, walking three and striking out five. Montero carried the no-hitter into the sixth before his high pitch count caught up to him and manager Wally Backman pulled him with one out in the inning and the team...
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The folks over at Baseball Prospectus have recently starting rolling out a wonderful series of articles titled Eyewitness Accounts. When a scout over at BP sits on a game they’ll publish their scouting reports on some of the more interesting names they saw. Yesterday BP scout Jeff Moore published his report on Mets left-handed starter Steve Matz. Matz, 22, was the Mets 2nd round pick in...
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The Las Vegas 51s made history in the Pacific League during Thursday night’s game against the Salt Lake Bees when they hit back-to-back-to-back-to-back jacks in the top of the fourth inning. It all started when Allan Dykstra launched a ball over the right field wall for his fifth home run of the season. Then Zach Lutz followed and hit his fifth, an opposite field shot to right field as...
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I am just sitting here trying to wrap my head around how unfriendly this road trip was. Things were supposed to be different for our Metsies away from Citi Field. They were last year anyway. As we all know they just wrapped up a three-city 9-game road trip on Wednesday against the Miami Marlins, finishing a disappointing 2-6 (one rainout). The hardest part was trying to figure out which was...
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Baseball America released their latest mock draft today as we inch closer to June 5th. Surprisingly, to me at least, BA had North Carolina State lefty Carlos Rodon returning to the top spot thanks to a string of strong starts. As for the Mets, Baseball America had them selecting Oregon State’s Michael Conforto with the 10th overall pick. Conforto, a 6’2 217 pound outfielder, is considered a good...
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