BINGHAMTON, NY – Brett Baty finished 4-5 with two homers and four RBI as the Rumble Ponies (37-48) beat the Hartford Yard Goats 10-1 on Thursday night at Mirabito Stadium (Box Score). Binghamton RHP Justin Lasko in his AA debut allowed only three hits over seven scoreless innings to get his first win at the Double-A level.
With the Ponies up 1-0 in the third, Baty hit a 443 foot solo home run that cleared the right center field bullpen to put Binghamton up 3-0. In the fourth, Baty drilled a two-run home run into the right center field bullpen to make it 5-0 Binghamton. Baty added an RBI double in the eighth to score Jake Mangum and cap the Ponies scoring. He also had a single in the first inning and for the second time this season finished a triple shy of the cycle. Baty now has five home runs and 18 RBI since joining the Rumble Ponies.
Jake Mangum also had a four-hit night with two runs scored and David Rodriguez was 3-4 with two runs and two RBI. His RBI single put the Ponies on the board in the first and his solo homer to left in the seventh made it 9-0 Binghamton.
Rodriguez' home run was one of five hit on the night for the Ponies. In addition to Baty's two blasts, Luis Carpio hit a solo homer in the second and Matt Winaker crushed a two-run shot in the third.
Lasko (1-0) gets the win as he retired 13 of the last 14 batters he faced. Hartford (29-57) RHP Karl Kauffmann (1-8) gets the loss allowing nine hits and five runs over three innings.
Nick Meyer also had a multi-hit game and reached base three times, including an RBI single in the seventh.
The Ponies continue their series with the Yard Goats on Friday night with first pitch at 7:05 PM.
POSTGAME NOTES: Rodriguez has hit safely in 8 of his last 9 games and has 5 hits over his last two games…it is the fourth multi-homer game for the Ponies this year…The Ponies scored in every inning except the fifth…the win snaps the Yard Goats season-high four game winning streak.
2 comments:
Great to see Baty have a big, bold game.
I feel bad for David Rodriguez, who has not played all that much this season due to a logjam of good catchers in AA and AAA. He started slowly this year after his great winter ball mini-season, but has heated up. I bet he catches for some major league team soon, if not the Mets.
Lasko is 7-5, 2.39, and K per inning, and a 0.95 WHIP this year. Nearly 100 innings.
2.33, 0.94 in his 128 inning (so far) career.
The 30th rounder must be doing something very right.
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