Dominic Smith had a dreadful start to his season hitting .220/.256/.244 with one extra base hit and nine strikeouts in the month of April while also missing time with a leg injury. Smith started to swing the bat much better in the month of May hitting .276/.321/.429 with 13 doubles, 23 RBI, and his first homerun of the year. When the calendar switched to June Dominics’ bat caught...
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Albuquerque 3, Las Vegas (47-38) 0 Game One The 51’s offense was limited to three hits by Rockies pitching prospect Jon Gray and former Colorado Rockie Rex Brothers who picked up the save. Matthew Bowman was the tough luck loser moving his record to 5-10 on the year. Bowman pitched a complete game going 7 innings allowing three runs (two earned) on seven hits, one walk, and struck...
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Las Vegas has their game postponed and will make it up today as part of a doubleheader that starts at 8:05 ET at Cashman Field. Portland 5, Binghamton (41-41) 4 Michael Conforto was up in the bottom of the 9th as the winning run with two outs and L.J. Mazzilli on first as the tying run but he was unable to make anything happen as he grounded out to end the game. Conforto was 0-5 with two...
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Las Vegas (47-37) 3, Albuquerque 2 In the battle of two former Mets starters Dillon Gee out-dueled Aaron Laffey pitch up his 2nd win in three starts for Las Vegas. Gee went 7 innings giving up two runs on six hits and a walk while striking out four. Dillon lost his shutout in the 6th inning and needed only 90 pitches (62 strikes) while lowering his ERA to 8.82. Lefty Chase Huchingson...
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Quite a week for Luis Cessa who was named to the Eastern League All-Star roster earlier this week and now has been promoted to AAA Las Vegas where he should be in line to start tomorrow. The 23-year old right-handed pitcher was 7-4 with 2.56 ERA while allowing just two homeruns all year in 77.1 innings. Cessa has good control, 17 walks compared to 61 strikeouts in his 13 starts this year....
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