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MMN Recap: Alonso, Cortes Racks Up Three Hits

By Sam Lebowitz

July 31, 2018 No comments

Photo by Jennifer Nieves, MMN

Las Vegas (52-56) 10, Memphis (68-40) 8   Box Score

Las Vegas had 18 baserunners in an impressive offensive performance that was capped by a four-run fifth and five-run seventh. Kaczmarski just continues to hit and get on base. He has cooled off since his absurd May, and the Mets handling him poorly certainly couldn’t have helped, but he’s still put up a .434 OBP this month after a .379 OBP in June. Smith had a mini four-game hit streak snapped but still drew a walk, which is one area he’s been solid in this season. Alonso continued to heat up, and now has a hit in nine of his last eleven games as well as an .805 OPS in July.

  • RHP Corey Oswalt (4-4, 6.02 ERA): 5.0 IP, 9 H, 7 R, 2 BB, 3 K
  • LHP Buddy Baumann (W, 1-0, 4.26 ERA): 2.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, K
  • RHP Chris Beck (1-0, 4.67 ERA): 1.0 IP, 3 H, R, 0 BB, 0 K
  • RHP Bobby Wahl (4-2, 2.20 ERA): 1.0 IP, H, 0 R, 0 BB, 3 K

Oswalt was solid for three innings before falling apart in the fourth and fifth innings, giving up seven runs in the two frames. Baumann has been iffy since joining the Mets organization and entered the night with a 14.54 ERA in July, but he pitched two perfect innings in this one.  Wahl has continued his dominance for the Sounds into his tenure with the 51s, as he struck out the side and now has 73 strikeouts in 45 innings this year, good for a spectacular 14.6 K/9.

Former Mets farmhand Matt Bowman took the loss for Memphis.

West Virginia 6 (53-49), Columbia 1 (49-54) Box Score

  • LHP Jake Simon (L, 0-5, 3.70 ERA): 3 IP, 7 H, 5 R, 2 BB, 1 K
  • RHP Nicolas Debora (5-3, 3.25 ERA): 6 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 2 BB, 4 K

West Virginia punched three across against Jake Simon in the first, punctuated by a two-run double by Raul Hernandez. Simon continued to struggle, giving up solo boomers to Oneil Cruz and Hernandez in the second and third innings, respectfully. Despite his won-loss record, Simon has been pretty solid for the Fireflies so far this season. He had a 2.82 ERA coming into this outing. Nicolas Debora saved the bullpen with his 14th relief outing of the year after six starts. He tossed six solid innings of relief and gave the rest of his bullpen a night off.

Columbia mustered just four hits, only one for extra-bases, in this romp against West Virginia. Edgardo Fermin had that lone hit, a double, and would come around to score on a Scott Manea sacrifice fly later in the first. The Fireflies stayed silent for the rest of the night afterward, only getting a man into scoring position in one other inning. On a brighter note, Jay Jabs had the only two strikeouts for the team for the entire night.

Tri-City 6 (24-18), Brooklyn 4 (23-20) Box Score

Jose Butto gave up a couple of early homers to Alex McKenna and Alex Holderbach, but otherwise pitched well in his six innings and turned in a quality start. He left with the game tied at three and gave way to Adam Hill. The righty tossed a scoreless seventh but struggled in the eighth, giving up a go-ahead two-run double to Cesar Salazar. Hill gave way to Yeudy Colon, who finished the inning, continuing his stellar season so far.

Each team tallied runs in three of their first four offensive innings, making the game tied at three after four. Brooklyn scored runs on a wild pitch that scored Carlos Cortes after his first inning triple, a Cortes single in the third, and a David Miranda single in the fourth. That’s when things went silent for the Cyclones, as they wouldn’t score again until they fell behind by three in the eighth. Walter Rasquin scored Wagner Lagrange on a double in that eighth, but the bid wouldn’t be enough, as Brooklyn was finished out in the next inning.

DSL Twins 9 (34-14), DSL Mets1 4 (28-20) Box Score

  • RHP Edinson Diaz (L, 1-1, 3.00 ERA): 2 IP, 4 H, 4 R, 1 BB, 2 K

The Mets’ staff gave up nine runs on 12 hits, while only striking out four, so it wasn’t a banner night on the mound for them. Of the four arms to throw for the Mets, the only one who did not allow multiple runs was Nelmerson Xavier Angela, who retired the only batter he faced.

The Mets tallied 11 hits but only scored a single run in the first seven innings of the game. By the time they began to rally in the late innings, the deficit was insurmountable. The team left 10 men on base.

DSL Mets2 6 (24-25), DSL Brewers 3 (28-21) Box Score

  • RHP David Marcano (W, 2-3, 8.71 ERA): 5 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 1 BB, 2 K

16-year-old David Marcano turned in the longest outing of his professional career to date, with five strong innings. Marcano has struggled so far as a pro, but this was among his best outings.

Thanks to three runs in both the fifth and seventh innings, the Mets rode to victory. Despite having six runs, only three runs batted in were credited, due to the Mets scoring on a stolen base of home, a passed ball, and a wild pitch.

Las Vegas portion of recap done by Mojo Hill.

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Sam Lebowitz is a lifelong Mets fan and stat geek. Sam begin contributing at MetsMinors after the 2017 season. He studies broadcast journalism at the Newhouse School at Syracuse University.

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