Tue. 9/10 - Playoffs?! Best-of-3 Semifinal Series Commence for T-Rats, Mudcats

[Joseph Zarr]

Corniel's heater catching a whole lot of plate here early. 103 mph fly out to CF. Corniel then throws the ball into the RF foul wall on a ridiculously bad pick-off attempt. Jeeeeze. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Welp, bad Corniel early. Just hanging everything. Dang.

[wiguy94]

Corniel is getting rocked here early. 108, 103, 108 EV off the bat for the Nats. Yophery with a poor choice to overthrow the cutoff allowing the runner to reach 2B. It's 1-0 Nats and likely headed for more.

[Joseph Zarr]

He put the runner at 2B with a ridiculously lazy inaccurate throw to 1B. Proceeds to hang a dead center cut lazy breaker over the heart of the plate. Another 108 mph smack up the middle. 1-0 Nats. This is ugly early.

[wiguy94]

Just now, wiguy94 said:

Corniel is getting rocked here early. 108, 103, 108 EV off the bat for the Nats. Yophery with a poor choice to overthrow the cutoff allowing the runner to reach 2B. It's 1-0 Nats and likely headed for more.

Another roped single to CF. This could get ugly here in this inning.

[Joseph Zarr]

Just now, wiguy94 said:

Corniel is getting rocked here early. 108, 103, 108 EV off the bat for the Nats. Yophery with a poor choice to overthrow the cutoff allowing the runner to reach 2B. It's 1-0 Nats and likely headed for more.

Yup. Bad throw home. He has the arm there but likely doesn't have the play. Gotta go to 2B and prevent further damage. Mudcats giving two free bases early is not a recipe for game one success. Hangs another. Single to CF. These are all just really poor pitches. If I'm Stanley, I'm already considering pulling Corniel. When you don't have it. You don't have it. They already have a seven-run on your starter in the past month. He's hanging pitches. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Come on Daniel. DP ball here and the damage is minimal.

[Joseph Zarr]

Hey now! K looking! Let's GO! Pitch count still very manageable. Now the Nats bring the Carolina League RBI leader to the dish.

[wiguy94]

Corniel tries to make a jumping grab and deflects the ball over the infield. 2-0 Nats. Brutal start.

[Joseph Zarr]

Chopper to the mound. Deflects off Corniel's glove over Guilarte and past Di Turi and into CF. Man. Just let that ball go. Young mistakes early. Ugh.

[Joseph Zarr]

Just now, wiguy94 said:

Corniel tries to make a jumping grab and deflects the ball over the infield. 2-0 Nats. Brutal start.

Yup. Gotta know the limits. That ball was an absolutely covered inning--ending groundout. Trying to do way too much and in every situation it is backfiring.

 

[Joseph Zarr]

Swinging K to end the threat. 2-0 deficit. Could have been worse. Should have been better. 

[wiguy94]

Carolina is the youngest team in the Carolina League and they played like it in the 1st inning. Yophery with bad baserunning turning a leadoff double into an out. Corniel/Bitonti miscommunication on a pickoff. Yophery overthrowing the cutoff. Corniel trying to make a circus play instead of letting his defense behind him do their job.

Spotting Clemmey an early 2-0 lead is not ideal especially with Sykora waiting on Thursday.

[Kellerowl]

Youth showing early in Fred....Yophery didnt run hard out of the box and then made an wild throw to the plate instead of keeping the DP in order

[Joseph Zarr]

Yup. We always knew this was the 'danger' of this first round match-up: The Nats have two legitimate Aces atop their pitching staff. Couple that with a very very young team. Showing their youth early. AND, here we are in a 2-0 hole.

[Joseph Zarr]

Three up and three down for Carolina in the 2nd. 

AND, we are underway @ Quad Cities.

[wiguy94]

1 minute ago, Joseph Zarr said:

Yup. We always knew this was the 'danger' of this first round match-up: The Nats have two legitimate Aces atop their pitching staff. Couple that with a very very young team. Showing their youth early. AND, here we are in a 2-0 hole.

It does suck having to face Clemmey and Sykora who are probably 2 of the 5 best pitchers still in the Carolina league. From a stuff perspective they might be 1-2.

[Joseph Zarr]

Adams fly out to right CF. Pratt first pitch groundout to SS. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Three-up. Three-down. Lara weak chopper to 2B. Quad Cities to the dish.

[Joseph Zarr]

Corniel gets the benefit of the doubt on an outside K looking (not a strike). After the opening fly out to Payne in RF. He has two down. Now, he'll face the order a second time. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Corniel opens his outing falling behind 3-0. He sneaks a heater in on the inner stripe. He gets the weak groundout to 1B.

Cornielle gets another K to end his 2nd frame with a much better look. 2 K in the inning. On to the 3rd. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Cornielle with a fantastic 1st frame K's Caglianone on a high heater for a swinging K to end his frame. 3-up. 3-down.

[Joseph Zarr]

Henderson returns and gives up a lead-off 1-2 long ball over the RF wall on a center cut heater. Gotta locate better in that count. Can't have that over the plate. Sigh. 

[Joseph Zarr]

OMG the infield ump just absolutely blew a call at 1B. Come on!

[Joseph Zarr]

Yoshwar was safe by a good 1/2 step. My goodness. Brutal.