5/29 ML Gameday Thread: Morning start for the Sea Dogs

Yes it was an amazing ending. I was at the game a few rows up from third base. Noe had given up two hard hits and a run in the 9th. When the next batter hit a screamer to the LF corner, it certainly looked like the runner was going to score from first. Then he somehow took an awkward step 1/3 of the way to home, seemed to recover, stumbled again and fell about half way to home. Even at that it was almost a bang/bang play on his dive back to third. Then Gibson, the third baseman, without hesitation, threw to second to just barely nab that runner on his dive back to the bag. This all happened so fast that the crowd took a second to understand what had just occurred. What an ending! So improbable! The Sea Dogs snatched victory from the jaws of what seemed like an impending defeat (or at least a tie).

Owens pitched very well. He allowed two solid hits and a bleeder when he was late covering first on a grounder wide of 1B. His FB velocity was solidly at 90-91 for the game with one at 92 and a smattering at 89. As I recall all his strikeouts were on off-speed....which I believed to be his change. ...in the 76-79 range. To me he used very few curves in the 70-72 range. Last year his curve seemed more loopy at 67-68. His two walks occurred on 3-2 counts and he seemed to have much better command than I recalled from last year.

Mookie had a tough day. Three pop-ups and a called strike-out. Marrero made a fantastic play diving to his left, sitting up and throwing out the runner from that position (Vargas). Vargas was hitting .320 with 8 hrs and was the Twins 20th rated prospect according to the scoreboard note. He is a big, SHing1B who affected an entitled look. While other players jogged off the field at innings end, he would slowly shuffle. On several ground outs he jogged at molasses pace to first and was out by 6 steps....

Postgame Farrell said it would be RDLR. Not sure why Ranaudo would have his bags packed, wishful thinking ?

if any one has a video link to the ending, please post it, TIA

I disagreed with this (the part about trying to hit the corners) but had nothing to hang my hat on but here it is in Henry's words:

‘??I’??ve stuck with the same approach all year, trying to get early contact and go late in the games,’? Owens told the Portland Press-Herald. ‘??A couple of stretches it didn’??t happen, and it’??s happening now.”

fullcount.weei.com/sports/boston/baseball/red-sox/2014/05/30/red-sox-minor-league-roundup-henry-owens-breaking-through-slumps-of-mookie-trey-balls-odd-outing/

Also in the article:



– Rehabbing right-hander Steven Wright will join the PawSox rotation with De La Rosa heading to the big leagues.

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MiLB article on Owens that also shows the game ending double play:

www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20140529&content_id=77354690&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb&sid=milb&tcid=tw_article_77354690