Wednesday, June 7, 2023 • 7:20 PM Truist Park • Atlanta, Georgia RHP Max Scherzer (5-2, 3.21) vs. RHP Charlie Morton (5-6, 3.62) SNY The Mets look to break their four-game losing streak tonight as they take on Atlanta for game two of their series. Last night, the Braves got on the board in the second inning and the Mets immediately responded by hitting two, two-run homers in the top of the...
On Monday morning, it was announced that the Marlins cancelled their game tonight following eight additional players (12 total now) and two coaches testing positive for COVID-19. Marlins’ CEO Derek Jeter released a statement on the outbreak. https://twitter.com/jareddiamond/status/1287775697935663110 Later in the morning, it was announced that the Yankees vs Phillies game in Philadelphia...
Yankees at Nationals (7:08 PM, ESPN) Opening Day is here at last! The 2020 MLB season gets underway tonight with a premier matchup, as the New York Yankees travel to the nation’s capital to face the reigning World Series-champion Washington Nationals. Gerrit Cole will take the mound for the Yankees and will oppose Nationals ace Max Scherzer. Dr. Anthony Fauci will throw out the first pitch....
Major League Baseball released a statement on Monday night saying the owners voted unanimously to proceed with 2020 season under the terms of the March 26th agreement. In order to produce a schedule with a specific number of games, the owners are asking the Players Association to provied them with two pieces of information by 5:00 p.m. ET on Tuesday. The first is whether the players will be able...
Major League teams have until 8 p.m. ET on Nov. 20 to decide which prospects they will add to their 40-man roster to protect from the upcoming Rule 5 Draft. The playoffs left off the 40-man roster will be exposed to the Rule 5 Draft that will take place on Dec. 14 at the Winter Meetings in Orlando, Florida. The New York Mets haven’t been active in the Rule 5 recently with the last time...
World Series Game 2 – Progressive Field – 7:00 PM RHP Jake Arrieta (0-1, 4.91) vs. RHP Trevor Bauer (0-0, 5.06) As long as the weather holds up in Cleveland, the Indians and Cubs will play Game 2 of the World Series at Progressive Field on Wednesday night. The start time has been moved up to 7 p.m. ET in an effort to avoid the rain. Here are your starting lineups: Chicago Cubs...
Las Vegas (45-32) 4, Sacramento 3 F/10 Walk-Off After scoring 33 runs in their last three games the 51’s were being held scoreless until the bottom of the the 9th when Wilfredo Tovar led off the inning with a single and moved to 3rd on a pick-off attempt error. Brooks Conrad came up after Kirk Nieuwenhuis struck out and had the first of two big at bats of the day when he tied the...
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...
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...
Memphis 10, Las Vegas (29-26) 9 The Las Vegas offense has really struggled during their now 9-game losing streak but they finally did their part on Thursday night spotting Darin Gorski and company a 6-1 lead going into the 2nd inning. The 51’s had a 8-4 lead heading into the bottom of the 7th with rehabbing Vic Black coming into the game who got rocked. Black managed to get just one while...
Nashville 1, Las Vegas (29-22) 0 Steven Matz made one mistake in the 1st inning when he gave up a double to Nate Freiman that scored Ryan Roberts for the only run of the game. Matz went 5 innings allowing four hits, two walks, while striking out just two which is his lowest total since he also K’ed two on May 6th. 2014. Matz was pulled after just 79 pitches (50) in an effort to keep his...
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...
