Tyler Pill fired eight scoreless innings and backed his own effort with three hits, including a home run, to lead the Binghamton Mets past the Richmond Flying Squirrels, 6-0, on Thursday night at NYSEG Stadium. Pill drove in four runs and finished a triple shy of the cycle in his longest career outing. The victory, Binghamton’s ninth in the last ten games, secured a three-game series sweep.
On a night the B-Mets welcomed five newcomers, Pill stole the show. After tossing three blank innings, Pill put Binghamton on the board in the third. He launched a solo home run over the right-field wall, the first pitcher to go deep for the B-Mets since Justin Brunette in 2001.
The B-Mets doubled their lead in the fourth. Brandon Nimmo worked a one-out walk and came around to score on an RBI double by Dustin Lawley to extend the lead to 2-0.
The score stayed that way until the sixth when the B-Mets blew the game open against reliever Phil McCormick. Lawley, T.J. Rivera, and Dilson Herrera each singled to load the bases with nobody out for Pill. The starter smacked a double down the right-field line to score all three runners put the B-Mets on top 5-0. Kyle Johnson then doubled to plate Pill for a 6-0 advantage.
That would be more than enough for Pill (5-5). He allowed just four hits and retired twelve straight batters at one point. He fanned struck out a season-high nine in his fifth straight win. Adam Kolarek pitched a scoreless ninth to nail down the win. On the other side, Crick (4-3) gave up two runs in 4.2 innings and was tagged with the loss.
POSTGAME NOTES: At 41-31, Binghamton is at its high-water mark for the season…Tyler Pill has four of the B-Mets pitchers’ seven hits this season…Richmond was outscored 17-2 over the three-game sweep
Cmon, what pitcher goes 3 for 3 and 4 RBIs? Tony Cloninger? Who else? I was thinking, was this just a fluke, or can this guy "rock the pill (pun intended"" when at the plate? Yes he can, as it turns out!
ReplyDeleteIn college he was a two way guy. In a BIG way.
Hitting? WOW! Cal State Fullerton, he was .336 in 369 at bats, .421 on base, .488 slug %, and only a K every 10 times up!! Bring him up to Mets to pitch and bat clean up too.
Actually, he has been a pretty solid pitcher in the minors, let's hope he can make it...he could definitely at least be used as a pinch hitter.