NYPhilsManiac again coming up big for us:
Pitching:
Greg Smith started and was very effective. He had two bad innings: 1st and 6th. In the first he pitched out of a bases loaded 1 out jam with no runs. In the 6th, Rochester got 3 hits and a walk, but Smith limited the damage to 1 run. I am honestly not sure how he was getting them out. He topped out at 86 mph and was in the 82-84 range most of the time. He did throw a 70 mph off-speed pitch (seemed like a curve but might’ve been a changeup). He throws so slow, it makes Cloyd look like Roger Clemens.
Mike McDougall pitched out of a jam in the 8th to get the last 2 outs when he relieved Smith.
Cesar Jiminez slammed the door with a perfect 9th (2 K’s and a slow groundout to 2B). Jiminez was consistently reaching 87-88.
Offense: With Cody moved up the day before, there wasn’t too much to follow but here are the guys I focused on.
Leandro Castro:
1) 0-1 pitch hit a pretty hard liner to Leftcenter, caught by CF
2) Weak liner to LF off the end of his bat.
3) Hard ground single between short and third
4) Bunted Foul, then K’d on an off-speed pitch
Freddy Galvis:
1) Weak liner to 2nd baseman. Reach for an outside pitch and barely made contact
2) Fly out to LeftCenter
3) Tried to bunt in a sac situation but was clearly bunting for a base hit, ball just barely rolled foul. On the second pitch, he did the same thing and got thrown out by a step on a very good bunt. Again looked like he was bunting for a base hit, but he gets credit for a sac bunt
4) One Hopper 5-3
Tyson Gillies:
1) K’d looking at 85 mph fastball down the middle
2) 6-4 groundout
3) K’d swining at 73 mph curve in the dirt
Looked lost at the plate.
Cameron Rupp:
1) Humpback liner to SS
2) Hard line single between short and third
3) 5-3 high chopper
Looked good defensively blocking balls. Made a real nice play to save a run when Mitchell’s throw from right was way up the 3rd base line on a fake tagup by the baserunner. Rupp sprinted over and slid using his body to block the ball from going by and allowing the tying run to score.
How hard was Mike McDougal throwing and can he help the Phillies? Earlier in his career he could get close to 100 MPH but was a little wild.
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He definitely doesn’t have that kind of velocity these days. He was around 92 tops.
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