Las Vegas (23-10) 12, Sacramento 8 Matthew Bowman made his return from a short stint on the DL and was not sharp as he lasted only 3 innings giving on five hits, four walks, HR, striking out only two. Bowman’s struggles put the 51’s in an early 5-0 hole heading into the bottom of the 3rd when they erupted for 8 runs in the inning and never relinquished the lead after. Logan Verrett...
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Las Vegas (22-10) 3, El Paso 1 Tyler Pill can finally breathe a sigh of relief as he picked up his win of the season in his 6th start spinning 7 innings of one-run ball. After giving up a run early in the game Pill retired the last 16 hitters he faced with 7 strike outs in that span. His final line was 7 innings, three hits, R, BB, eight strike outs and threw 98 pitches with 66 for strikes....
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El Paso 3, Las Vegas (21-10) 2 Steven Matz pitched 7 scoreless innings giving up only fours hits and two walks while striking out seven, throwing 97 pitches with 66 of them for strikes. Here is video of Matz final K. Matz had three strike outs with his curveball including two looking and did a great job of pitching down in the zone resulting in 10 ground outs compared to only 3 fly outs. Matz...
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It is a little early in the season for this but I thought it would be fun to look at some of the Mets affiliates batting leaders to get an idea of how some of our prospects are doing. Keep in mind that many of these are small sample sizes (under 100 at bats) and that the offensive categories will be dominated by Vegas for the most part. To put the Las Vegas/Savannah dynamics into perspective...
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Las Vegas (20-8) 8, Albuquerque 2 Noah Syndergaard had himself a game where his pitching was the biggest story as he came to bat in the top of the 8th a triple shy of the cycle. Noah hit a double off the wall in left center field that traveled about 425 feet in his first at bat. His 2nd at bat he decided that wasn’t good enough and hit a two-run bomb to straightaway center field that had...
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