Lehigh Valley (32-27) Lost to Gwinnett, 3-1.  Seve Gonzalez allowed 3 runs in the first innng on 4 of the 5 hits he gave up – 3 doubles and a single.  He, Hollands, and Herrmann shutout the Braves on 4 hits the rest of the way.  Hollands struck out 5 in 3.0 innings.  The IronPigs 5 hits weren’t enough to mount a come back.  Logan Moore hit his 2nd home run. Continue reading Box Score Recap – 6/8/2016 →

Lehigh Valley (32-26) Beat Gwinnett, 11-6.  James Russell was lifted in the fifth inning having allowed three runs, but striking out six.  Michael Mariot stranded two runners, but gave up two runs of his own in his 1.2 innings.  So, of course, Mariot gets the win.  The IronPigs pounded out 15 hits.  Featherston, Williams, Knapp, and Perkins had three hits each.  Ruf had two.  Featherston hit his 8th home run.  He had three RBI, Williams had two, and Perkins had two.  Perkins is back over .300 (.308). Continue reading Box Score Recap – 6/7/2016 →

Lehigh Valley (31-26) Beat Gwinnett, 3-0 in seven innings.  The game was called in the bottom of the seventh inning due to rain.  Ben Lively had just given up his second hit of the day when the teams were pulled from the field.  He walked three and struck out six.  J.P. Crawford double home a run.  Hunter singled home another run.  Ruf hit a solo home run, his sixth.  Featherston walked three times. Continue reading Box Score Recap – 6/6/2016 →

Lehigh Valley (30-26) Beat Charlotte, 11-3.  Jake Thompson pitched six shutout innings.  Edubray Ramos allowed his first earned run in 16.2 AAA innings.  And the IronPigs pounded out eight extra base hits.  Darnell Sweeney (3), Andrew Knapp (7), Taylor Featherston (7), Max  Venable (2), and Nick Williams (7) hit home runs.  Williams also had a triple and 4 RBI (28).  Former Phillie Phillippe Aumont faced 6 batters, retired none, and gave up 5 earned runs for the Knights. Continue reading Box Score Recap – 6/5/2016 →

Lehigh Valley (29-26) Lost to Charlotte, 8-4.  David Buchanan imploded for six runs in the second inning. Seve Gonzalez chipped in with 2 runs after the IronPigs closed within 6-4.  Logan Moore had 3 hits and his first home run.  Cameron Perkins had 2 hits. Continue reading Box Score Recap – 6/4/2016 →

Lehigh Valley (29-25) Beat Charlotte, 6-4.  Zach Eflin allowed only two base runners thru his first five innings, a single and a hit batter.  He took a 2-0 lead into the sixth but blew his own victory.  Frank Hermann allowed an inherited runner to score, but was awarded the victory when the IronPigs re-took the lead.  Mario Hollands and Michael Mariot preserved the lead and Edubray Ramos notched his first save.  He struck out three of the four batters he faced, striking out the side in the ninth.

Lehigh Valley amassed 16 hits and five walks.  Williams, Ruf, and Sweeney had 3-hit games. Crawford, Knapp, and Hunter had 2-hit games.  Williams hit his 6th HR.  Ruf had 2 RBI.  Our old friend, Phillippe Aumont, allowed 2 of 2 inherited runners to score and blew his second save for Charlotte.

Reading (37-18) Beat Portland, 5-4 in a walk off.  Ricardo Pinto turned in a quality start, one earned run and seven strike outs in six innings.  Hoby Milner blew his second save. Miguel Nunez earned the win.  Hoskins hit his 10th home run.   Cozens led off the 9th with his 15th home run to tie the game.  Marrero’s 6th HR won the game with 2 outs.

Clearwater (31-22) Beat Jupiter, 8-2.  Elniery Garcia celebrated the birth of his first son with a 2-run, 31-pitch first inning.  He shut the Hammerheads down after the first.  Garcia didn’t have his good curve ball.  In fact, he only induced 6 swing-and-misses, all at his fastball.  But he only allowed two singles after the first inning.  Joe DeNato pitched the final 3.1 innings and recorded his first save.

The Threshers rallied with crooked numbers in the third, fourth, and fifth innings.  Kingery and Green had 3-hit games.  Pullin, Walding, and Canelo had 2-hit games.  Kingery, Pullin, Green, and Canelo had 2 RBIs each.

Garcia may have needed 31 pitches to complete the first, but 22 of them were strikes.  He threw 11 pitches in the second, 12 in the third, and 14 in the fourth.  He allowed a one-out single in the fourth.  Of the 37 pitches in those innings, 28 were strikes.  Garcia faced 5 batters in the fifth inning.  His throwing error and Kingery’s fielding error extended his pitch count to 23 (15 strikes) in the inning, and 91 thru 5 innings.

Garcia answered the bell for the sixth and faced three batters.  He threw 24 pitches in the inning.  His night ended after a two-out single culminated an 11-pitch at bat.  He was permitted to throw 115 pitches, 81 strikes.  His pitch count was extended by 37 foul balls.

Garcia threw predominantly fastballs, I had him at 82 total, 91-94 t95 mph.  he dipped to 90 mph four time, too.  He threw an off-speed pitch (I had 18) 82-88 mph, which was mostly 83-86 mph.  His curve ball (I had 15) was mostly 74-77 mph.

Garcia’s curve ball is his out-pitch.  He hung several both in and out of the strike zone.  He got 2 across for called strikes, but none for a swing-and-miss.  Four were fouled off, three were hit for singles, and six were balls.  Due to his lack of command of his CB, he relied more heavily on his fastball.

Joe DeNato relived Garcia with two outs and a runner on first in the sixth inning.  He retired the Hammerheads without throwing a pitch.  He notched his third pick off of the season on his second throw to first base.  He allowed two singles over the next three innings both in the ninth.  He ended the game with a ground ball into an around-the-horn double play.

Lakewood (20-34) Lost to Hickory, 8-3.  Drew Anderson pitched well – one hit, 3 walks, and six strike outs in five innings.  Skylar Hunter was activated and pitched one inning before blowing the save in his second inning.  Jake Waguespack came in and couldn’t stop the bleeding.  The BlueClaws scored three runs on seven hits.  Hernandez had 2 hits.  Tromp hit a solo home run, his sixth.

Here’s the affiliate scoreboard from MiLB.

Extra Innings –

• 6/3 – OF Osmel Aguila assigned to Clearwater.
• 6/3 – Samuel Hiciano assigned to Williamsport from Clearwater.
• 6/2 – Lakewood activated RHP Skylar Hunter from the restricted list.
• 6/2 – Kenny Koplove assigned to XST from Lakewood.
• Plus a slew of transactions as the two DSL Phillies teams assign players to their rosters.

Lehigh Valley (28-25) Beat Charlotte, 4-2.  James Russell pitched five shutout innings, Severino Gonzalez blew the save, Luis Garcia was the pitcher of record when the IronPigs rallied, and Edward Mujica got his 14th save.  Andrew Knapp and Brock Stassi had two hits. Cedric Hunter two RBI.  Stassi hit his second home run.  J.P. Crawford stole his first AAA base.  Darin Ruf had an outfield assist at home.  Knapp threw out a base runner. Continue reading Box Score Recap – 6/2/2016 →