El Paso 5, Las Vegas (66-53) 4 Walk-Off The 51’s lost on a walk-off single by Hector Gomez that deflected off the glove of the diving Matt Reynolds with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 9th inning. Prior to that Zack Thornton intentionally walked Will Middlebrooks with two outs and runners on second and third. Thornton suffered his fourth loss as he walked five batters (three...
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Las Vegas (66-52) 7, El Paso 1 Veteran right-hander Tim Stauffer had his one-hit shutout bid snapped by the pinch hitting Jake Goebbert who led off the 9th inning with a solo homerun. Stauffer’s final line: 9 innings, 2 hits, R, 3 walks, HBP, and 5 strikeouts. He threw just 104 pitches with 70 of them going for strikes. The 51’s offense was supported by solo homeruns from...
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El Paso 9, Las Vegas (65-52) 8 F/10 Walk-Off Matt Reynolds (2-5, 4 RBI) came up with a clutch two-run single in the the top of the 9th to tie the game for the 51’s. However, Chase Bradford gave up a walk-off sacrifice fly to Ramiro Pena in the bottom of the 10th to waste Reynolds heroics. Dilson Herrera was 1-4 with a walk, two RBI, 8th stolen base, and three runs scored. Darrell...
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Salt Lake 9, Las Vegas (65-51) 6 Dillon Gee had his win streak snapped at five games after getting roughed up by the Bees for seven runs on ten hits in 4.1 innings. The loss moves his AAA record to 6-2 and his ERA up to 5.59. Zach Thornton struck out the side in the 8th inning lowering his WHIP to 1.09 and the opponents average against him to just .217 for the year. Darrell Ceciliani led the...
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Had the Top 25 prospect list already to go last week until Sandy Alderson happily put a pretty big wrench into my plans and list. Four of the five players traded were going to be on my list with Michael Fulmer leading the group at #4, Casey Meisner at #9, Luis Cessa at #16, and Robert Whalen at #22. That combined with Noah Syndergaard, Kevin Plawecki, Dilson Herrera, and Rafael Montero all...
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