5/19 MiLB Gameday: Seadogs play a pair

[Cuzittt]

Today's Games:

IL:Pawtucket (Allen Webster) vs. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (Joel de la Cruz) [7:05pm]
EL: Portland (Henry Owens/Mike McCarthy) vs. Binghamton (Hansel Robles/Greg Peavey) [5:05pm]
CL:Salem - OFF
SAL: Greenville (TBD) @ Asheville (Johendi Jiminian) [7:05pm]
NYPL: Lowell - Opening Day - June 13th vs. Vermont
GCL: GCL Sox - Opening Day - June 20th vs GCL Twins
DSL: DSL Sox - Opening Day - May 31st

Notes:

Mookie Betts has reached safely in 1 consecutive regular season game.

Scoreboard:

Boston Red Sox Minor League Scores

Media:

MiLB TV
MiLB Radio

Local Media:

Pawsox:

Providence Journal
Pawtucket Times

Seadogs: Portland Press Herald

Salem: Roanoke Times

Greenville: Greenville Online

Lowell: Lowell Sun

 

[soxhop411]

Mike Antonellis ‏@seadogsradio  2m
Henry Owens has 8 K’s in 3.2 IP, 6 of 8 on the change-up. #SeaDogsBaseball

 

[Cesar Crespo]

ended due to rain or PC?

 

[soxhop411]

ended due to rain or PC?

Pitch count

 

[Cesar Crespo]

His full line was 4ip 2h 1er 4bb 8k. 89 pitches, 50 strikes.

 

[Manzivino]

Trey Ball getting the start for Greenville.
 
And doesn't make it out of the first inning. 0.2 IP, 5 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 2 BB, 0 K, 36 pitches, 20 strikes. Ouch.

 

[Marbleheader]

Austin Meadows has an OPS of 1.519 in the NYPL. Of course, just 5 games in.

 

[Manzivino]

That was last year. Meadows hasn't played at all this season, he hurt his hamstring back in March and it hasn't recovered yet.

 

[Marbleheader]

Yes, I was joking . I really wanted Frazier or Meadows that draft. Anyway, it's so early in his development, I hope people are patient with him. There's a little more pressure for a guy drafted that high.

 

[Tito's Pullover]

Britton just induced a 5-4-3 triple play after coughing up the lead with a 2 run HR. 3-3 in Pawtucket.

 

[Cuzittt]

Drive lose 10-3.

Boxscore

Trey Ball went 2/3rds of an inning, allowing 5 runs on 5 hits and 2 walks. Sergio Gomez went 5 innings, allowing 5 runs on 5 hits (1 HR), 3 walks, a WP and a HBP; striking out 3. John Ely went 1 1/3 innings, giving up a hit and a WP and striking out 2. Taylor Grover went an inning, giving up 2 hits and a walk; striking out 2.

Forrestt Allday went 2/4 with a walk and was picked off. Tzu-Wei Lin went 2/4 with 2 doubles. Jantzen Witte and Manuel Margot each went 1/3 with a walk and a CS. Jordan Weems and Bo Greenwell each went 1/4. Carlos Asuaje went 0/2 with 2 walks. Kendrick Perkins went 0/3 with a walk. Wendell Rijo went 0/4.

 

[Cuzittt]

Seadogs lose game 1, 5-0.

Boxscore

Henry Owens went 4 innings, allowing a run on 2 hits, 4 walks and 2 WPs; striking out 8. Michael Olmsted went 2 innings, allowing 4 runs on 5 hits (1 HR), 2 walks and a HBP; striking out one. Aaron Kurcz went 2/3rds of an inning, giving up a hit and striking out one. Jose Valdez picked up the final out (after an 1 1/2 rain delay).

Travis Shaw went 2/3 with a triple. Shannon Wilkerson went 1/2. Derrik Gibson, Henry Ramos and Deven Marrero each went 1/3. Mookie Betts, Stefan Welch, Blake Swihart, and Heiker Meneses each went 0/3.

 

[Cuzittt]

Pawsox lose 5-3 in 10 innings.

Boxscore

Allen Webster went 5 innings, allowing a run on 3 hits, 3 walks, a HBP and a WP; striking out 4. Tommy Layne went 2 innings, giving up a hit. Drake Britton went an inning, allowing 2 runs on 2 hits (1 HR) and 2 wallks. Chris Hernandez went 2 innings, allowing 2 runs on 2 hits and a walk; striking out one.

Ryan Roberts went 3/5 with a double. Corey Brown went 2/4 with a SB. Ryan Lavarnway went 2/4 with a walk. Garin Cecchini went 1/4 with a SB. Dan Butler went 0/3 with a walk. Daniel Nava went 0/3 with a walk and a SF. Mike McCoy went 0/4 with a walk. Carlos Rivero went 0/4. Christian Vazquez went 0/5.

 

[Cuzittt]

Portland wins game 2, 8-2.

Boxscore

Mike McCarthy went 6 innings, allowing a run on 4 hits, 3 walks and 2 HBPs; striking out 5. Miguel Celestino went an inning, allowing a run on 3 hits; striking out one.

Stefan Welch went 3/4. Heiker Meneses went 2/3. Mookie Betts went 2/4 with 2 doubles. Deven Marrero went 2/4 with a double and 2 SBs. Henry Ramos went 2/4. Michael Brenly went 1/3 with a Grand Slam. Travis Shaw went 1/4 with a HR. Derrik Gibson went 0/2 with a walk. Shannon Wilkerson went 0/3.

 

[Tito's Pullover]

Scranton scored 2 in the top of the 10th to win, 5-3

 

[RoDaddy]

Marrero is turning into a doubles machine!

 

[Cesar Crespo]

Marrero has 2sb tonight as well. Dating back to last year he is now 35/38, and 12/13 in Portland.

 

[Cuzittt]

STORIES

PAWSOX

Game Story

The first pitch Allen Webster threw on Monday night, to Scranton Wilkes-Barre leadoff hitter Jose Pirela, sailed very high and very much outside.

It wouldn’t be the last time one got away from this promising 24-year-old.

With Webster, his promise is evident — his fastball touches the mid 90s, his slider dances in and out of the zone and his changeup is considers a “plus” pitch — but so are his command issues.

Webster flashed promise during Monday night’s outing against Scranton Wilkes-Barre, but also showed there’s work to be done before he’s pitching at Fenway Park. While he lowered his ERA to 2.47, after going five innings, giving up three hits, one run and four strikeouts, Webster also walked three and hit a batter.

“With him, his stuff plays in the zone,” manager Kevin Boles said before the game. “There’s a lot of life to his pitches. He can utilize and mix, his changeups a plus weapon for … When you have that much life, it’s tough to command.”

At times, it looked like his control might get the best of him. The RailRiders’ first run came in the second inning, when Kyle Roller, who doubled, went from second to third on a wild pitch, before scoring on a Dean Anna groundout.

Though his command issues were evident, so was his promise. Webster didn’t have a clean inning, but powered through each inning after getting himself in trouble.

Despite hitting Zelous Wheeler in the ribs with a pitch in the fourth, he settled down and struck out the next two batters to end the inning. Then in the fifth, after allowing back-to-back two-out singles, Webster got Ramon Flores to fly out.

“He definitely has life to his pitches,” Boles said. He’s a guy that can go throw a lineup three or four times. He has the stuff to do that.”

In the seventh, tied 1-1, Garin Cecchini scored from third off of a Mark Montgomery wild pitch to put the PawSox ahead. In the same inning, Ryan Roberts drove in Corey Brown to give Pawtucket a 3-1 lead.

The team’s lead didn’t last long. Drake Britton gave up a game-tying two-run homer to Adonis Garcia in the eighth, but got out of the inning with a rare 5-4-3 triple play as the PawSox and Railriders when into extra innings.

SEADOGS

Games Story

Mike Brenly hit a grand slam and Travis Shaw added a solo shot to lead the Portland Sea Dogs past the Binghamton Mets 8-2 in the second game of a doubleheader Monday night at Hadlock Field.

Binghamton won the first game, 5-0.

It was a long night at Hadlock, with the first game interrupted by a 1-hour, 39-minute rain delay. The final out was made at 11:33 p.m.

Second-game starter Mike McCarthy (3-2) allowed one run on four hits over six innings.

Brenly, activated from the disabled list Monday, was playing in only his sixth game of the season. He stroked his grand slam over the left-field wall in the third inning.

Shaw hit his team-leading eighth home run in the fourth.

Deven Marrero went 2 for 4 with an RBI, a run and two stolen bases. Mookie Betts doubled twice and is batting .378.

In the first game, Henry Owens (4-3) took the loss, allowing one run over four innings. Reliever Michael Olmsted was tagged for four runs.

Henry Owens

Henry Owens has struck out 22 batters in his last 152/3 innings, including eight Monday. In that time he’s allowed three hits.

That’s one reason the Red Sox like the left-handed Owens so much.

Owens also has walked 14 in the last 152/3 innings.

That’s one reason he’s in Double-A, a promising prospect polishing the rough edges.

Owens, 21 and 6-foot-6, is still the young pup growing into his body while learning to consistently command his array of fastballs, change-ups and occasional curves.

On a drizzly-to-rainy Monday night at Hadlock Field, he again dominated. The Binghamton Mets couldn’t touch Owens’ change-up, flailing at the 78 mph pitches set up by 90 mph fastballs. But Owens again walked too many (four) and threw too many pitches (89), forcing his exit after four innings in the first game of a doubleheader won 4-0 by the Mets.

Owens gave up one run on two hits – one a bunt, the other a broken-bat RBI single in the fourth, scoring a runner who had walked and reached second on a wild pitch.

“Fastball felt good,” Owens said. “Change-up felt good. Curveball felt good.

“The results weren’t good.”

In Owens’ previous start, he allowed no hits and struck out eight. But he again lasted only four innings, with five walks and 87 pitches.

In nine starts this year, Owens has 27 walks and 57 strikeouts in 501/3 innings – a little over one walk every two innings. That’s not much different from his two previous pro seasons, including 68 walks in 135 innings last year.

“I’m trying to get early contact so I can get deeper into ballgames,” Owens said. “I’ll take eight groundouts over eight strikeouts any day.”

Owens’ outings are unpredictable when it comes to walks. When he was called up to Portland last year, he walked a total of six batters in his first three starts, and then issued seven in his fourth start.

This year Owens began with two walks in his first game, which was a six-inning no-hitter, and none in his second start.

DRIVE

Game Story

For the second time in three nights, the Asheville Tourists (25-18) jumped out to a big lead against a Greenville Drive (21-21) starting pitcher and never looked back, coming away with a 10-3 victory on Monday night in Asheville.

The Tourists rudely greeted Drive starter Trey Ball (1-3) in his first appearance after coming off the disabled list, scoring five runs on five hits and knocking him out of the game after two-thirds of an inning. Ryan McMahon continued his hot hitting against the Drive in 2014 with an RBI double to begin the scoring.

RBI singles by Raimel Tapia and Jose Briceno made the score 3-0, and after a Jordan Patterson sacrifice fly, another RBI single, this one by Alec Mehrten, chased Ball from the game.

Asheville extended their lead to 8-0 against Sergio Gomez in the bottom of the second. Tapia singled in run with two outs, and Briceno followed with a line-drive double to left to score a pair.

The Drive plated all three of their runs in the fifth against Johendi Jiminian. Jordan Weems and Bo Greenwell hit back-to-back singles with two outs, and Forrestt Allday followed by lining an RBI single to left to get the Drive on the board. Tzu-Wei Lin then cracked a two-run double to left to cut the score to 8-3.

But Trent Blank (2-1) came on for Asheville after Lin’s double and fired two and one-third scoreless frames to pick up the victory.