A couple of real good pitching performances, but not from anybody who can actually help the Mets this year:
The Bisons got rained out; they will play 2 against Gwinnett tonight.
New Britain 7, Binghamton 3
Yesterday’s win snapped an 8-game losing streak, but the B-Mets quickly got back to their losing ways. Robert Carson wasn’t bad, but he wasn’t that good either pitching 6 innings, giving up 3 runs on 6 hits, but only had 1 strikeout. Carson now has a 1-6 record. Roy Merritt and Eric Niesen let up 4 more runs in the 7th to put the game out of reach. Allan Dykstra had a big day with 3 hits, including a double and a solo homerun, but the rest of the B-Mets could not do much, as 5 guys ended the day with an average of .200 or below, including the #3 and 4 hitters.
St. Lucie 5, Dunedin 1
Darrin Gorski was flat-out fantastic! He went for 7.2 innings, giving up 1 run on 3 hits, walking 1 and striking out 13. Nick Carr finished the job for Gorski, striking out 2 in 1.1 innings. A slumping Matt Den Dekker started to regain his old form with 2 hits: a double and a triple. Stefan Welch had 3 hits, including a pair of doubles and 2 RBI’s. Pedro Zapata also had 2 hits, including a triple.
Savannah 6, Augusta 0
Greg Peavey picked up his 4th win of the year after pitching 7 shutout innings, scattering 6 hits and striking out 4. Angel Cuan faced just 7 batters in the final 2 innings, striking out 5 of them. Robbie Shields had 2 more hits, continuing his onslaught of the Sally this month. But he was outdone by Cory Vaughn, who was 4-4 with a double and a solo homerun, his 4th of the year and 3rd in the last 10 days.
17 comments
stickguy
5/27/2011-6:38pm at 6:38 pm (UTC -4)
starting to think that Vaughn needs to be getting a taste of a St. Lucie summer, and soon.
wannybackstra
5/27/2011-10:20pm at 10:20 pm (UTC -4)
cory vaughn is too old and experienced for low a.
Bryan
5/27/2011-11:26pm at 11:26 pm (UTC -4)
Agree, he probably could have started there, but the F.O. is real committed to being patient, although they don’t have to be that way with everybody. With Vaughn, they may wait until the first half ends to move him b/c the Gnats have a real shot to win the division in the first half, but on the other hand, if they choose to push Den Dekker and/or possibly Zapata to Binghamton, a spot will open up in PSL.
TRS86
5/27/2011-11:34pm at 11:34 pm (UTC -4)
Do you think it had just as much to do with organizational depth in the OF? In other words, was there room for him in St. Lucie?
Bryan
5/28/2011-12:15am at 12:15 am (UTC -4)
That’s absolutely a factor, b/c obviously you want your top prospects playing everyday and getting at bats. In St. Lucie, Puello & Den Dekker need to be in there everyday, with Zapata and Lagares there as well. So it would have been hard to put Vaughn in PSL to start the season, largely because the Mets have great depth in the outfield. That being said, you could make the argument that Den Dekker could have been challenged and pushed to AA to start the season, especially with Ratliff out of the picture for the time being. That could have opened up a spot for Vaughn in PSL, but it’s hard to argue with the way things have gone so far.
TRS86
5/28/2011-12:18am at 12:18 am (UTC -4)
Agreed, if nothing else maybe it has built confidence for Vaughn and Dekker.
metsfan4decades
5/27/2011-7:10pm at 7:10 pm (UTC -4)
Darrin Gorski – starting to get noticed, huh?
Bryan
5/27/2011-7:57pm at 7:57 pm (UTC -4)
He did sort of come out of no where. But he has the size, the velocity is up, and the strike out’s have been incredible.
kingman 26
5/27/2011-8:57pm at 8:57 pm (UTC -4)
Strike “out’s”??
Why?
Why??
Why not strike out&s?
Strike out*s?
Strike out+s?
Strike out%s?
Bryan
5/27/2011-11:12pm at 11:12 pm (UTC -4)
My bad. I’ll do better the next time.
TRS86
5/27/2011-11:18pm at 11:18 pm (UTC -4)
Great job providing us all this info Bryan. Honestly this makes the site so much better.
Bryan
5/27/2011-11:29pm at 11:29 pm (UTC -4)
My pleasure.
TRS86
5/27/2011-11:17pm at 11:17 pm (UTC -4)
LOL,
Kmart sucks, Kmart sucks, Kmart sucks.
Seriously Kingman our blog as well as 100 others make much larger mistakes than ”””””s. What happen to you in life that makes you such a stickler for those? Why not ,’s? Perhaps, you could go after places one should use a ;’s or maybe even the dreaded ….’s.
gategem
5/27/2011-11:37pm at 11:37 pm (UTC -4)
LOL Kong if you continue to point out grammatical errors I will start throwing mathematics questions at you and ask you why you can’t answer them. I’ll start with something simple like partial differential equations. LOL
stickguy
5/27/2011-9:58pm at 9:58 pm (UTC -4)
this is why it is hard to predict prospects (or to write them off early).
sometimes guys really do develop a new skill, or make a change to add those couple missing MPHs (or add movement, or fix a mechanical flaw to improve control).
and at some point, you can’t argue with results! Now, if he moves up to Bingo and keeps this up,then really take notice.
TRS86
5/27/2011-11:39pm at 11:39 pm (UTC -4)
Guys look over to your left and see Harvey’s line for tonight!
7 innings 3 hits 10, count them, 10 k””””””””s with only one, ONE walk. Perhaps we have something in this young one, Should be side by side with Familia soon.
metsfan4decades
5/28/2011-9:53am at 9:53 am (UTC -4)
I saw that last night while watching the game – only he had just completed 6 innings at that point with 9Ks, I believe.
Nice, huh? –’Cause we could really use some pitchers down there to be the real deal – and soon.