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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Las Vegas (32-29) 11, Reno 6 Steven Matz had his worst outing going just 4 innings giving up four runs on five hits (HR) and three walks while still managing to strike out six. Matz was in deep counts most of the night needing 83 (50 strikes) to make it through his shortest outing since August 18th, 2013. Matz big struggle was the 3rd inning when he gave up all four of his runs throwing 35...
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