Las Vegas (38-29) 5, Salt Lake 1 Steven Matz bounced back from his worst start of the year to throw a gem going 7 shutout innings to pick up his 7th win of the season also pushing the 51’s win streak to 7 games. Matz needed just 87 pitches (53 strikes) to finish his 7 sparkling innings giving up just four hits and a walk while striking out five. He still leads the Pacific Coast League in...
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Las Vegas (37-29) 10, Salt Lake 6 The 51’s were tied at 6-6 heading to the bottom of the 7th before Wilfredo Tovar, Johnny Monell and Kirk Nieuwenhuis each had RBI hits to cap the four run inning. Kirk was 2-4 with a RBI double in his return to the Mets system while playing center field and hitting 6th. T.J. Rivera had a big night going 3-4 with three doubles, RBI, and two runs scored...
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Las Vegas (36-29) 6, Salt Lake 4 Darin Gorski had a quality start going 6 innings giving up three runs on six hits, zero walks, and struck out six helping him to his 4th win of the year. Chase Huchingson relieved him and threw a perfect inning with one strikeout in his 2nd AAA appearance (0.1 scoreless on Saturday) after pitching at Binghamton this year. Zack Thornton had two rough outings in a...
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Las Vegas (35-29) 8, Reno 7 The 51’s had a very comfortable 6-0 lead heading into the top of the 8th with starter Logan Verrett cruising along unscathed before Reno scored seven in the last two innings and had the tying run on 3rd when Jon Velasquez struck out D’Backs prospect Peter O’Brien to end the game. Verrett ended up going 7.2 innings allowing two runs on five hits while...
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Casey Delgado had been pitching in the Frontier League for the Traverse City Beach Bums where he started two games this year going 1-1 with a 1.69 ERA before the Mets signed him on May 28th. Delgado was thrown into immediate action pitching the night he was assigned to the Savannah Sand Gnats going 4 scoreless innings and getting the win on a walk-off HR by Jon Leroux. Delgado allowed just one...
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