Binghamton Mets (20-21) at New Britain Rock Cats (10-30)
AA Affiliate of the Minnesota Twins
RHP Scott Shaw (4-2, 8.76) vs. RHP Carlos Gutierrez (0-3, 3.98)
Game #42• Sunday, May 23, 2010
New Britain Stadium • New Britain, CT • 1:35 p.m.
LAST GAME: As it should be, good pitching ended a nine-game
losing skid Saturday night versus New Britain. Three pitchers
combined to hold the Rock Cats to one run on nine hits in the
B-Mets 3-1 victory. Chris Schwinden made his Double-A debut
and responded with a quality start. The righty fired six innings
and allowed just a run on six hits with five strikeouts for his
first win. He was backed by a pair of solo homers off New
Britain starter Santos Arias. Marshall Hubbard lifted off in the
second and Kirk Nieuwenhuis touched them all in the third to
spot Binghamton a 2-0 lead. Erik Lis provided the only offense
for New Britain with a fourth-inning home run off Schwinden.
Manual Alvarez also made his debut with a scoreless innings,
despite allowing a leadoff double. Josh Stinson recorded his
first save in three chances with two, shutout innings in the
eighth and the ninth. The win brought a season-worst, ninegame
losing streak to an end.
STARTING PITCHING MATCHUP: RHP Scott Shaw is due to
make his team-leading ninth start this afternoon. For the
second straight start, he gave up seven earned runs over 4.1
innings in a loss May 16 at Trenton. Shaw is 4-2 with an 8.76
ERA over 38 innings. He has allowed 10 homers in 2010, tops
in the Eastern League. He led St. Lucie (High-A) last season in
numerous categories, including starts (26), innings (149.2),
wins (8) and strikeouts (118). The righty was drafted by the
Mets in the 13th round of the June 2008 draft out of the
University of Illinois.
RHP Carlos Gutierrez goes for the Rock Cats for the ninth time
this year. He has lost back-to-back starts despite pitching well.
His last start was May 18 at Portland, where he offered up six
innings and allowed just two runs, one earned, on four hits,
but was hung with the loss. Gutierrez is 0-2 with a 1.88 ERA in
his last four starts and is 0-3 with a 3.98 ERA in 43 innings
overall. The hard-throwing righty is considered the ninth-best
prospect in the Twins farm system by Baseball America and
was drafted by Minnesota in the first round (27th overall) of
the June 2008 draft out of the University of Miami.
THE DROUGHT IS OVER The B-Mets nine-game losing streak
came to an abrupt stop last night with the team’s 3-1 victory
over New Britain. It was the longest such streak since the
conclusion of the 2004 season when Binghamton lost the last
nine games of the regular season. The Rock Cats had a losing
streak of 10 games earlier this season.
REGARDS TO RAMIREZ: Reliever Edgar Ramirez has slid under
the radar with a terrific month of May. After a mediocre April in
which he was 1-0 with a 4.61 ERA, he has allowed just two
earned runs in 15 innings (1.20 ERA) in seven outings in May
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