Wahoos Lose To Mobile

June 21, 2015

Finally, the Pensacola Blue Wahoos may have found a closer when its four relievers threw 4.2 innings of scoreless, one hit ball, with four strikeouts and two walks.

The most impressive of them was Zach Weiss who threw the last inning and struck out two on fastballs in the mid-90s.

Still, the Mobile BayBears took the seventh of nine games from rival Pensacola, 6-2, this season with a pair of two-run homers off of starter Daniel Wright in front of 5,038 fans at Pensacola Bayfront Stadium—the 15th sellout  in 33 games this season and 118th since the inaugural 2012 season.

Pensacola manager Pat Kelly said Weiss has been watching video with pitching coach Jeff Fassero to find his pitching motion.

“If you look at video he changed things during the plane flight or on the car ride,” Kelly said. “His fastball just explodes. Zach Weiss, by far, was great.”

Pensacola’s Wright gave up six runs on seven hits in his 4.1 innings of work and dropped to 3-5 on the season with 5.91 ERA.

Pensacola first baseman Ray Chang doubled in the Blue Wahoos only runs, cutting the Mobile lead to 6-2 in the sixth inning. He went 1-3 and now has 14 RBIs and is batting .348 on the season.

Mobile scored two runs on a two-run homer when second baseman Gerson Montilla smacked a line drive over the left field wall in the second inning to put the BayBears ahead, 2-0.

They added two more runs when Mobile shortstop Sean Jamieson scored on a single that landed in front of Blue Wahoos center fielder Beau Amaral for a 3-0 lead. Right fielder Socrates Brito made it 4-0 when he scored on BayBears first baseman Rudy Flores chopper to second baseman Juan Perez.

In the fifth inning, Mobile right fielder Socrates Brito lifted a deep two-run home run over the left field wall that also scored pitcher Patrick Corbin, who had an infield single deep in the hole to shortstop.

Arizona Diamondbacks All-Star pitcher Patrick Corbin made his third start in his rehab assignment from Tommy John surgery that caused him to miss all of the 2014 season when he felt tightness in his pitching arm during spring training last year. The Diamondbacks expected him to return to the team the first of June but decided to slow his return.

Corbin threw four no-hit innings against Double-A Cincinnati Reds Pensacola Blue Wahoos Saturday before giving up a single to center by second baseman Juan Perez. In 5.2 innings, the lefty gave up two earned runs on three hits and three walks and struck out three. He threw just 79 pitches in the outing and his fastball consistently clocked in the low-90s.

“I was impressed,” Kelly said. “His fastball is definitely sneaky. It seemed like the hitters were late on the ball. It was getting on them pretty quick.”

Corbin, who last pitched six days ago on June 14 with Mobile, is now 1-0 with a 3.83 ERA. His first start for the High-A Visalia Rawhide, he lasted just 0.2 innings and gave up four runs.

The last time Corbin pitched in the Southern League for Mobile, he went 9-8 with 4.21 ERA, made the All-Star team, set a franchise record with 27.1 consecutive scoreless innings, led the league in strikeouts with 142 and helped the BayBears to the championship.

He made his major league debut April 30, 2012. And in 2013, Corbin made the Major League All-Star team, going 11-1 with a 2.35 ERA at the break and finished the year 14-8 with a 3.41 ERA for the Diamondbacks.

The Blue Wahoos dropped to 25-42 in the Southern League and have one more game Sunday before the three-day All-Star break. The game is scheduled for 7:20 p.m. Tuesday at the Montgomery Riverwalk Stadium.

Comments

Comments are closed.

Written by William Reynolds · Filed Under News, Sports