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MMN Recap: Terdoslavich Mashes, Dibrell Dominates

By Matt Mancuso

August 1, 2018 No comments

Tony Dibrell/Photo by Ed Delany

Hartford(50-55) 6, Binghamton(49-58) 5 Box Score

Game 1

*The Binghamton games were seven innings each because it was a doubleheader.*

After excelling with St. Lucie this year, Gonzalez has struggled with Binghamton. With him allowing six earned yesterday, his Binghamton ERA rose to 10.17 through four starts. After tough rough outings, Zanghi responded with a scoreless outing.

Terdoslvich provided the power with a fourth-inning homer and a seventh-inning RBI double. Josh Allen‘s seventh-inning extra-base hit drove in Jhoan Urena for the Rumble Ponies third run. Will Toffey continued his hot hitting with a second-inning single. He’s gotten on-base in nine out of his last 14 at-bats.

Hartford(51-55) 2, Binghamton(49-59) 1 Box Score

Game 2

For the sixth straight season, right-handed reliever Kevin McGowan started a game. Even though he allowed two runs and threw three wild pitches, he still piled up an impressive six K’s across four innings. He also did his best Zack Wheeler impression with the bat, driving in his team’s only run with a second-inning double. Joshua Torres has continued his dominant first half by having scoreless outings in five of his last six appearances for Binghamton.

Teroslavich would have two of Binghamton’s five hits completing what was an impressive 5-for-8 at the plate in the doubleheader. Josh Allen earned himself a golden sombrero while a couple of other Mets struck out twice.

West Virginia(54-49) 3, Columbia Fireflies(49-55) 1 Box Score

  • RHP Tony Dibrell (4-5, 3.16 ERA): 6 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 10 K, 2 BB
  • RHP Darwin Ramos (3-3, 4.67 ERA): 3 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 4 K
  • RHP Joshua Payne (L, 4-2, 3.86 ERA): 1 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 1 ER,

Tony Dibrell is in the best stretch of his career with his showing better command of his pitches and limiting walks. Dibrell threw 54 of his 84 pitches for strikes, a marked improvement over some of his previous games last year. Longman Darwin Ramos followed him with three scoreless innings, recording four strikeouts. Joshua Payne didn’t fare well in his one inning as he gave up the game-winning hit to Robbie Glendinning.

After allowing Manea’s RBI double in the first, the Power’s starting pitcher Hunter Stratton retired nine out of his last ten batters. The Fireflies had a golden chance to tie the game in the seventh inning, but Hansel Moreno grounded into a double play to kill the rally. Manaea also had a nice night behind the dish, catching two would-be basestealers.

St.Lucie (41-62) 4, Bradenton(48-52) 1 Box Score

After two tough starts, Joe Cavallaro had a an impressive eight strikeout performance. Trey Cobb‘s two innings were almost flawless while Stephen Villines recorded his third save of the season.

After St.Lucie and Bradenton traded first-inning scores, the Mets exploded for three seventh-inning runs to emerge victoriously. The fifth and sixth hitters in the lineup, Ali Sanchez and Blake Tiberi, played a pivotal role in the win. Sanchez contributed a seventh-inning single which gave the Mets the lead. Right after Sanchez’s clutch hit, Tiberi slammed a homer to double the Mets lead. After Tiberi was handed the everyday second-base job on July 23rd, he’s hit for a 120 wRC+.

Tri-City (25-18) 4, Brooklyn(23-21) 3 Box Score

  • RHP Tylor Megill (L, 0-1, 6.35 ERA): 3.2 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 4 K, 3 BB
  • LHP Kevin Smith (3-1, 1.04 ERA): 1.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 2 K,
  • RHP Billy Oxford (5-1, 2.03 ERA): 2.0 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 K, 1 BB
  • RHP Ryan Selmer (0-1, 4.84 ERA): 2 IP, 0 H, 0 ER, 2 K,

Tylor Megill‘s struggled in his first professional start. Overall, the issue with him this season has been his command. Despite his limiting opposing batters to a .186 batting average, he has walked 7.9 batters per nine.

Todd Frazier went yard in the eighth inning to cut the ValleyCats lead in half. Carlos Cortes continued his hot hitting with a another hit and an RBI.

Of note, the Cyclones had a very special person throw the first pitch. Pitcher Luis Vasquez, who is currently recovering from cancer, paid his former team a visit.

Kingsport(20-18) 7, Greeneville(18-22) 4 Box Score

A rough fourth inning interrupted what was otherwise a beautiful outing for Dedniel Nunez. Aside from his rough fourth frame, he only permitted one hit and got nine of his 15 outs on flyballs. Although he’s bounced between the rotation and the bullpen this year, he turned in his best start of the season last night. In hindsight, the Mets selection of Andrew Mitchell in the 14th round of the 2018 draft has panned out pretty well. The southpaw has only allowed one run in his first 12 innings.

To no surprise, Kingsport slugged its way to another win. Their 3-4-5 combo of Shervyen Newton, Luis Santana, and Mark Vientos combined for six hits and three RBI’s. Vientos and Newton also collected extra-bases hits. Vientos has been heating up, slashing .289/.386/.658 and recently earning a nominee on Baseball America’s Hot Sheet. Even though Jarred Kelenic didn’t collect a hit, he still got on base three times and has walked eight times over his past four games.

DSL Mets1 (29-20) 6, DSL I Twins(34-15) 5 Box Score

After five successful appearances with the DSL Mets2, Joander Suarez struggled in his first start with the DSL Mets1. His short start left mop-up duty to Jefferson Escorcha, who pitched four solid innings and came away with the win.

Regnault’s sixth-inning RBI single tied up the game and enabled Malvin Nunez‘s eventual game-winning hit.

DSL Brewers(29-21) 8, DSL II Mets (24-26) 4 Box Score

Kevin Hernandez didn’t had another tough start as he has not given up nine runs in his first 2.2 pro innings.

Even though the Mets didn’t have a hitter in their lineup with a batting average over .256, they still managed to scratch four runs. Cleanup hitter Wilmey Valdez logged another solid game as his sixth-inning double drove in the Mets first run of the game.

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Written by MMancuso

I'm a recent alum of TCNJ, where I graduated with degrees in business and technology. At MMO, I write data-driven player breakdowns, as well as, cover the Mets minor-league system. Follow me on at https://twitter.com/MattyCuso.

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