2013 Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League Championship Series
Amsterdam (31 16, 2 1) vs. Elmira (21 26, 3 0) Dates: Aug. 6 – Aug. 8 Game 1: Shuttleworth Park, Amsterdam, N.Y. (Aug. 6) Game 2: Dunn Field, Elmira, N.Y. (Aug. 7) Game 3: Shuttleworth Park, Amsterdam, N.Y. (Aug. 8, if nec.)
CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES SCHEDULE How They Got He re Best of three series format Amsterdam finished the regular season on a 25 7 run and claimed Game 1: Elmira at Amsterdam, 7:05 p.m. (Aug. 6) the division championship in the PGCBL East by four games over Game 2: Amsterdam at Elmira, 7:00 p.m. (Aug. 7) second place Glens Falls. The nationally ranked Mohawks won at Game 3: Elmira at Amsterdam, 7:05 p.m. (Aug. 8) least 30 games for the third year in a row. Amsterdam outlasted Albany, two games to one, in the divisional finals. The Mohawks The Series: The third annual Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball completed the series with a 9 4 win in Game 3 on Sunday night. League Championship Series pits the nationally ranked Amsterdam Elmira was the second of six PGCBL postseason teams to claim a Mohawks, representing the East, against the Elmira Pioneers, spot in the playoffs though the Pioneers finished third in the PGCBL representatives of the West. The Mohawks, founded in 1978, are West behind Watertown and Newark. The third seeded Pioneers making their third straight appearance in the PGCBLCS and fifth shut out the second seeded Pilots, 5 0, in the opening round of the finals appearance in a row. The Pioneers, in their fourth trip to the playoffs and then swept Watertown, two games to none, in the postseason in eight years, are looking for their second summer divisional finals. Elmira is unbeaten in three playoff games this year. baseball league championship. This will be the first PGCBL postseason meeting between the two teams and second all time. Regular Season Amsterdam and Elmira met in the 2010 New York Collegiate Team Leader Amsterdam Elmira Baseball League Championship Series. BA* John Nogowski .365 Chris Kalousdian .376 Hits John Nogowski 54 Chris Kalousdian 64 Season Series: Amsterdam captured the regular season series Home Runs Ed Charlton 6 Chris Knott 4 from Elmira with three wins in four total games. Elmira sprinted out Dylan Smith 6 to a 6 0 lead and held on for a soggy 7 6 victory at rainy Dunn Field Runs Batted In Dylan Smith 34 Chris Kalousdian 32 on June 13. Six days later, the Mohawks marched out to a 9 2 lead Stolen Bases Kyle Barrett 18 Chris Kalousdian 12 at home against the Pioneers and ended up out lasting Elmira by a Runs Scored Josh Gardiner 40 Chris Kalousdian 38 9 7 score. Rain heavily impacted Elmira’s next trip to the Rug City, a Walks John Nogowski 29 Chris Knott 22 rain shortened game that went just six innings and saw Amsterdam Wins Rich Vrana 6 Four players with 3 score six times in a rainy bottom of the sixth inning to pull out a ERA** Matt Snyder 1.35 Danny Britt 4.31 comeback win. The last meeting between the two teams came the Strikeouts Trey Wingenter 50 Danny Britt 42 day after the PGCBL All Star Game. Amsterdam pounded out 13 * Minimum 3.0 AB per team game hits and scored 10 runs in a 10 1 victory. ** Minimum 1.0 innings pitched per team game Date (Site) Result June 13 (Elmira) Elmira 7 6 Playoffs June 19 (Amsterdam) Amsterdam 9 7 Team Leader Amsterdam Elmira June 27 (Amsterdam) Amsterdam 9 6 (6) BA Jordan Ebert .455 Andrew Nist .500 July 25 (Elmira) Amsterdam 10 1 Hits Jordan Ebert 5 Chris Kalousdian 6 Home Runs 3 players with 1 Parker Curry 1 Head Coaches – Amsterdam: Keith Griffin Runs Batted In Dylan Smith 5 Parker Curry 4 Keith Griffin is in his fifth season as the manager of the Mohawks Stolen bases Jordan Ebert 2 3 players with 1 and he is just two wins away from his fourth summer baseball Kyle Barrett 2 championship. His Mohawks have advanced to the league finals in Runs Scored 3 players with 3 Chris Knott 4 each year he has been with the team. Griffin has won over 170 Taylor Hillson 4 games as the Amsterdam skipper and that includes more than 153 Walks Josh Gardiner 3 3 players with 2 regular season victories in five years. He has a 21 4 mark in the Wins Matt Snyder 1 3 players with 1 postseason, 9 4 in the PGCBL playoffs. Griffin is the Mohawks’ Trey Wingenter 1 franchise wins leader. The Amsterdam skipper is the first head ERA* Matt Snyder 0.00 3 players with 0.00 coach in team history to spend more than three seasons at the Chris Kalica 0.00 helm. Over the last five years, he has collected three league Strikeouts Trey Wingenter 7 Victor Diaz 5 championships, four division titles and five playoff championship *Minimum 1.0 innings pitched per team game round appearances. Outside of the PGCBL, the Alabama native has collegiate head coaching experience from Okaloosa Walton C.C. and Jefferson Davis C.C. Griffin’s JDCC team won the 1998 NJCAA Division II national title.
Head Coaches – Elmira: Matt Burch Elmira’s Path to the Majors: Former Major League players and Matt Burch is in his fourth season overall as the head coach of the coaches that spent time in Elmira during the franchise’s minor Pioneers. Burch guided the Pioneers from 2006 through 2008 and league affiliate days include Earl Weaver, Lou Pinella, Cal Ripken then re joined the team for his second go around with the Southern Sr., Jim Palmer, Davey Johnson, Wade Boggs, Curt Schilling, John Tier summer collegiate side. The Elmira, N.Y., native and former Valentin, Eric Wedge, Ellis Burks, Mike Greenwell and Brady first round draft pick helmed the Pioneers to the playoffs twice in his Anderson. first three years with the team. Burch’s 2007 Elmira squad won the NYCBL championship and went a dazzling 6 0 in the league Players in the Pros: In the 35 year history of the Mohawks playoffs. Heading into the PGCBLCS, Burch boasts a 9 2 franchise, over 130 players have gone on to play professional postseason mark; a Matt Burch led Elmira team has not lost a baseball. There are currently 31 players active in the Majors, minors playoff game since 2006. Burch was a star pitcher at Thomas A and independent leagues. San Francisco Giants outfielder Hunter Edison High School and Virginia Commonwealth University. He was Pence was a member of the Schenectady Mohawks in 2002. The taken by the Royals in the first round of the 1998 draft. Matt was a Mohawks also boast three current AAA players in Brendan Harris player coach for the Northeast League’s 2004 Elmira Pioneers. (Schenectady 1997), Cord Phelps (Amsterdam 2006) and Logan Darnell (Amsterdam 2008). The summer collegiate Pioneers have It’s you, again?! Amsterdam and Elmira are meeting in a league sent 22 players on to professional baseball in eight years. Cody championship series for the second time in four years. Prior to the Eppley, a member of the inaugural Elmira NYCBL squad in 2006, formation of the PGCBL in the fall of 2010, both the Mohawks and made his Major League debut with the Texas Rangers two years Pioneers were members of the New York Collegiate Baseball ago. Cody has pitched for both the Rangers and Yankees. He is League. Amsterdam and Elmira played for the NYCBL currently a teammate of former Amsterdam pitcher Logan Darnell championship in 2010. The Mohawks swept the series, 2 0. with the AAA Rochester Red Wings in the Minnesota farm system.
Amsterdam:Titletown: Amsterdam is attempting to win its’ seventh Hey, Is He Related To That Guy, Ivy Edition? Short answer, yes, summer collegiate baseball championship. The Mohawks have won for both. Amsterdam’s Kevin Guthrie (Brown) is the son of former summer league crowns in 1988, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010 and 2012. Major League Baseball pitcher Mark Guthrie. The elder Guthrie was Overall, Amsterdam is making its’ 19th trip to the postseason and a seventh round pick of the Minnesota Twins in 1987. He went on to 12th in the last 13 seasons. The Tribe is 21 4 in the league playoffs a 15 year Major League career that included stops with eight over the last five years under Keith Griffin and that includes a 15 different clubs. Mark was part of Minnesota’s World Series game winning streak that stretched from 2009 through 2011. championship team in 1991 and he pitched for five different playoff Amsterdam’s six summer baseball titles lead all PGCBL teams; no teams. Elmira’s Ryan Plantier (Cornell) is the son of former Major other league team has more than one. Five of the six titles for the League Phil Plantier. The elder Plantier was an 11th round pick of Mohawks have been won since the team moved to Shuttleworth the Boston Red Sox out of high school in 1987. He went on to an Park in 2003. eight year Major League career that included stops with five different teams. Guthrie and Plantier faced off twice during the 1992 #Winning: Amsterdam is the winningest team in the three year season when Guthrie’s Twins hosted Plantier’s Red Sox at the history of the Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League. Over the Metrodome. Plantier singled off of Guthrie in the seventh inning on league’s three year history, Amsterdam has amassed a regular July 16; three days later, Guthrie struck out Plantier in the fifth. season record of 96 45 (.681). Twice, the Mohawks have had the best overall record in the league and the team has not missed the Jersey Shore: Egg Harbor Township sits on the southeastern edge PGCBL playoffs. Amsterdam has been to the PGCBL of New Jersey, just outside of Atlantic City. The township, which Championship Series three years in a row. The next closest team to holds a little over 43,000 people, will be represented in the PGCBL Amsterdam in regular season wins is Glens Falls with 84. Championship Series by Elmira’s Chris Knott (East Stroudsburg) and Amsterdam’s Ed Charlton (NJIT). Both players starred in high Amsterdam, Nationally Speaking: The Amsterdam Mohawks school in the Cape Atlantic League which also produced current enter the 2013 PGCBL Championship Series ranked 22nd in Major Leaguer Mike Trout. Knott attended Egg Harbor Township Perfect Game’s Summer Top 30 poll. The Mohawks have been High School. He was the Press of Atlantic City’s Player of the Year nationally ranked at least once in each of the last four years. as a senior in 2010 and went on to be named All Group IV second Amsterdam spent all of last summer in the national rankings and team and third team all state. The following year, Charlton, from St. rose as high as number two after winning the PGCBL Augustine Prep, took home the Press of Atlantic City’s Player of the championship. Keith Griffin’s Mohawks finished the 2012 summer Year award. Charlton led his St. Augustine team to the Non Public season ranked third nationally behind the Newport Gulls of the New A state championship. Both Knott and Charlton are alums of the England Collegiate Baseball League and the LaCrosse Loggers of Canes Baseball, Margate (N.J.). the Northwoods League. Sweet Home Alabama: The state of Alabama will be well Elmira, a History of Winning: While the summer collegiate represented in the Championship Series. The Mohawks boast Trey Pioneers have only been around since 2006, baseball in Elmira Wingenter (Auburn/Madison, Ala.), Jordan Ebert (Auburn/Foley, goes back to the late 1800s. Over the years, 12 teams representing Ala.) and Dylan Smith (Auburn/Pinson, Ala.) all from the Alabama. the city of Elmira have won league championships. The Pioneers, Elmira’s Parker Curry (Samford/Pelham, Ala.) also hails from the as an affiliate of various major league clubs, won 10 minor league Yellowhammer State. Last year, all four players were competing in championships (1914, 1937, 1938, 1941, 1943, 1962, 1964, 1966, Alabama 6A high school baseball. Ebert, Smith and Wingenter were 1971, 1976). Elmira’s most successful run came in the Double A all named to the 6A all state first team by the Alabama Sports Eastern League as an affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles with three Writers Association. Curry’s Pelham squad was the top ranked league championships in seven years. The first non affiliated squad in Alabama 6A and also spent time in the national high championship in the Soaring City came in 1997 when the school rankings. independent Pioneers won the Northeast League championship over the Albany Colonie Diamond Dogs. The summer collegiate Pioneers won the NYCBL championship in 2007.
AMSTER DAM VERSUS ELMIRA We’re Going Streaking: Amsterdam finished the regular season ALL TIME SERIES (2006 2012) on an 11 game unbeaten streak which tied for the longest in league history. Amsterdam dropped a 6 2 rain shortened decision to 2006 (Regular season: Amsterdam 3 1) Overall – 14 4 Watertown on July 19. The Mohawks won their next 10 games by 6/17 – Amsterdam 7 @Elmira 6 an average score of 10 3. On the final day of the regular season, 6/29 – @Amsterdam 7 Elmira 5 Amsterdam and Cooperstown played to a 4 4 deadlock through nine innings. The game was called due to darkness prior to the start 7/19 @Amsterdam 6 Elmira 0 of the 10th inning. Amsterdam neither won nor lost the game 7/19 – Elmira 5 @Amsterdam 2 (Elmira was home team) however statistics from the contest counted. The Tribe saw its unbeaten streak end at 12 games with Saturday night’s loss to 2010 (Playoffs: Amsterdam 2 0) Albany in Game 2 of the Eastern Division finals. 8/6 @Amsterdam 17 Elmira 0 8/7 – Amsterdam 4 @Elmira 0 Slow Start, Strong Finish: Not including a suspended game on June 6 with Utica, Amsterdam began the season with a 5 9 record. Following an 11 7 loss to Glens Falls, the Mohawks sat in last place 2011 (Regular season: Amsterdam 4 2) in the PGCBL East, six games behind first place Albany and two 6/15 – Amsterdam 5 @Elmira 3 back of fourth place Mohawk Valley. Including the Utica game from 6/21 @Elmira 5 Amsterdam 0 June 6, Amsterdam finished the regular season on a 26 7 run to 6/22 @Elmira 6 Amsterdam 5 capture first place in the division and clinch home field advantage 7/8 – @Amsterdam 5 Elmira 3 throughout the playoffs. The 26 7 run included a 15 1 finish the 7/14 – @Amsterdam 8 Elmira 0 season; that run began after a 3 2 loss to Adirondack which put the 7/19 – @Amsterdam 9 Elmira 1 Mohawks 3.5 games out of first. Amsterdam won the division by four games over second place Glens Falls.
2012 (Regular season: Amsterdam 2 0) Mohawk Mashers: Amsterdam hit just 21 home runs last year en 6/15 – @Amsterdam 7 Elmira 1 route to its first PGCBL championship. This summer, the Mohawks 7/7 – Amsterdam 7 @Elmira 2 belted out 36 home runs to finish second in the league in long balls behind Adirondack (37). Thirteen Amsterdam swingers clubbed at PGCBL Playoff Results (2011 2013) least one home run. Ed Charlton (NJIT) and Dylan Smith (Auburn) each hit six home runs to lead the team. 2011 Finals: Newark 2 Amsterdam 1 (2 5, 4 3 [11], 7 4) Overpowering Offense: The nationally ranked Mohawks led all Eastern Finals: Amsterdam 2 Glens Falls 0 (4 3, 5 4) PGCBL teams during the regular season in batting average (.299), Western Finals: Newark 2 Cooperstown 1 (2 6, 3 2, 4 3) slugging percentage (.428), on base percentage (.401), runs scored (316), hits (475), runs batted in (283), doubles (91), total bases 2012 (680), hit by pitch (84) and extra base hits (130). Amsterdam Finals: Amsterdam 2 Glens Falls 0 (7 1, 13 6) finished second in home runs (36) and walks (199).The largest Semifinals: Amsterdam 2 Mohawk Valley 1 (3 5 [11], 10 1, 4 2) margins for the Mohawks came in RBI (64 between first and Semifinals: Glens Falls 2 Newark 0 (6 5, 10 8) second) and hit by pitch (26 between first and second).
2013 Big Ed, PGCBL Home Run King: Amsterdam’s Ed Charlton (NJIT) Finals: Amsterdam vs. Elmira finished the regular season as the PGCBL’s all time home run Eastern Finals: Amsterdam 2 Albany 1 (4 2, 8 9 [10], 9 4) leader. In two PGCBL regular seasons, Charlton hit 13 home runs. Western Finals: Elmira 2 Watertown 0 (7 6 [14], 7 3) He slugged seven last summer and added six more this season. Eastern 1st Round: Albany 6 Mohawk Valley 5 (10) Charlton had competition this summer from second year Glens Falls Western 1st Round: Elmira 5 Newark 0 Golden Eagle Josh Anderson (FIU). Charlton was the first to surpass Erick Gaylord’s all time record of 10 though Anderson, who hit nine home runs in 2011, was right on Charlton’s heels. NOTES CONT Eventually, the two were tied with 12 home runs apiece and Capital District State of Mind: Five players in the PGCBLCS call Charlton belted his13th blast overall and sixth this summer in a 17 2 the Capital District of Upstate New York home – Elmira’s Dave rout of Glens Falls on July 27. It should be noted that Charlton Hoffmann (Siena) as well as Amsterdam’s Matt Snyder (Temple missed part of the college regular season due to injury. 2013 14), Chris Kalica (St. John’s 2013 14), Mike Urbanski (Binghamton) and Zach Breen (Schenectady County C.C.). Veteran Presence: Ed Charlton (NJIT), Brian Ruby (Binghamton) Hoffmann, Snyder, Kalica and Breen all played against one another and Chris Kalica (St. John’s 2013 14) were all part of Amsterdam’s in Albany’s Suburban Council; all four were named to the 2011 league championship team last summer. Ruby and Kalica were both Suburban Council all league team. Urbanski competed for CBA added to the team during the course of the season. All three now Albany in the Big 10. have a chance to win their second PGCBL crowns. Ruby hit .273 in 23 games with Amsterdam last year. This summer, he played in 40 Section IV Connections: The other Upstate New York connection regular season games and batted .325. Kalica made three in the PGCBLCS comes through Section IV. Amsterdam’s Brian appearances for the Mohawks in the regular season last summer Ruby (Binghamton) and Elmira’s Jacob Meehan (Niagara County and then started Game 2 of the PGCBLCS against Glens Falls. This C.C.), Anthony Roma (Herkimer County C.C.), Austin Hill (Corning summer, Kalica topped all PGCBL pitchers with 21 total C.C.), Brandon Diorio (Ithaca), Jim Tunison (Misericordia) and appearances. He finished the regular season 3 0 with a 1.34 earned Colby Gee (Ithaca) are all graduates of schools that compete in run average. Charlton, in two years with the Mohawks, has totaled Section IV. Ruby, Meehan, Roma, Hill and Diorio all played in the 13 home runs, 63 RBI and a .325 batting average. Southern Tier Athletic Conference.
Top of the Line up Ma: Amsterdam’s Kyle Barrett spent the spring Just Win Baby: In two PGCBL seasons, Amsterdam starting as the University of Kentucky’s starting right fielder and lead off pitcher Matt Snyder (Temple 2013 14) has won eight games. The man. Barrett topped the ‘Cats in batting average as a true freshman two time PGCBL All Star Game selection went 3 3 for Albany in and was named to the SEC’s All Freshman Team. This summer, 2012 following a redshirt season at Virginia Tech. This summer, Barrett, when healthy, has been a constant at the top of Snyder was one of Amsterdam’s arms. He went 5 0 with a 1.35 Amsterdam’s line up. He leads the Mohawks with 18 stolen bases ERA over nine regular season starts. He struck out 43 and walked and his .343 batting average is the second best among Tribe 16 in 46.2 innings. Opponents against the Temple bound pitcher hit regulars. just .187. Snyder started Game 1 of the divisional series against his former team, Albany, and pitched a five hitter over 6.2 innings. War Eagle: Some of Amsterdam’s biggest contributions this season Overall, Snyder has won nine decisions overall in the PGCBL. have come from a group of three rising sophomores from Auburn. Dylan Smith led all Amsterdam hitters with 34 RBI and tied for the Matt Burch, Playoff Specialist: Elmira manager Matt Burch his team lead with six home runs. Smith batted .325 with 40 hits during guided three teams to the playoffs in four seasons as manager. He the regular season. He recorded one walk off hit and scored holds a 9 2 all time record in the postseason. Burch’s 2007 league another walk off run in Tribe victories. Ebert, a regular starter for the champion Pioneers went undefeated in the NYCBL playoffs. His first Tigers this past spring, was a late addition to the Mohawks in early postseason squad, the 2006 Pioneers, lost 2 1 in a best of three June. He belted five home runs, drove in 27 runs and posted a .318 opening round series to the Allegany County Nitros. Elmira has not on base percentage. Ebert has four RBI in three playoff games. lost a playoff game under Burch since Game 3 of an opening round Wingenter topped all Tribe hilltoppers with 55 strikeouts. He went 2 series in the 2006 playoffs. 4 with a 3.04 ERA in 10 regular season starts. Sunday, Wingenter pitched six strong innings in Amsterdam’s 9 4 Game 3 win over Playoff Magic in the Soaring City: All time in the playoffs, the Albany at Shuttleworth Park. The trio will a brand new coach when it summer collegiate Elmira Pioneers are 13 4. Elmira has advanced returns home, former Oklahoma assistant Sunny Galloway. to the league championship series three times (2007, 2010, 2013) under two different managers – Matt Burch and Dan Shwam. The Constant Gardiner: Josh Gardiner (Radford) was one of Amsterdam’s top players throughout the season. Gardiner, the lone Turnaround Time: Elmira finished the regular season on a 1 8 run. non BCS bat in Amsterdam’s Big Five, led the Mohawks with 40 The Pios split a doubleheader with Watertown on July 23 and then runs scored, 15 doubles and 14 hit by pitch. The RU product won just once after that over the final eight days of the regular finished among the top five in nearly every offensive category for season. Elmira, in second place in the PGCBL West at the time it the Mohawks. He batted .327 with 49 hits, 33 RBI, 26 walks, 15 clinched a playoff spot, tumbled into third place in the division stolen bases and four home runs. Gardiner slugged .520 and behind Newark who went 8 2 over the final two weeks of the accrued a .466 on base percentage. Late in the regular season, season. Elmira traveled to Newark and shut out the Pioneers, 5 0, Gardiner ripped off an eight game hitting streak in which he batted in the opening round of the playoffs and then swept 29 19 .667 (12 for 18) .At one point, Gardiner ripped off three straight Watertown in the divisional finals. games with three hits and scored three runs each in those games. Straw That Stirs the Drink: All summer long, Chris Kalousdian ‘Noles: For the first time ever, Amsterdam’s line up this season (Manhattan) has been Elmira’s top offensive weapon. Kalousdian featured two players from Florida State. The Seminoles set the right ended the regular season as Elmira’s leader in nearly every side of their infield to the Rug City in second baseman John offensive category including batting average, hits, runs scored, Sansone and first baseman John Nogowski. Both players were doubles, RBI, slugging percentage, on base percentage and stolen starters on Florida State’s 57 win team during the collegiate season. bases. At the league level, the rising senior from Manhattan paced The ‘Noles made it to the Super Regionals. Nogowski has been a the PGCBL in slugging percentage, hits, doubles and total bases. powerhouse in the middle of the Amsterdam line up with team highs He finished second in batting average. Kalousdian was a PGCBL in batting average (.365), hits (54), total bases (79), slugging All Star Game starter. He smashed a first inning double off of percentage (.534), walks (29) and on base percentage (.497). Amsterdam’s Matt Snyder (Temple 2013 14) and scored one run. Nogowski also won a PGCBL Player of the Week award. Sansone hit .288 during the regular season with three home runs and 23 RBI. Two Way Threats: Elmira boasts a pair of strong two play players He had 36 hits in 38 games and managed a .375 on base in shortstop/closer Parker Curry (Samford) and starting percentage. pitcher/outfielder Spencer Henderson (UC Davis). Offensively, Curry led all PGCBL batters during the regular season with 12 Heavy Duty Relievers: Amsterdam’s Chris Kalica (St. John’s 2013 sacrifice hits. He primarily batted second in Elmira’s line up behind 14) and Mike Urbanski (Binghamton) each logged significant time Chris Kalousdian (Manhattan). Curry compiled 30 hits, 12 RBI and out of the bullpen. Kalica tied a Mohawks PGCBL era single season 12 runs scored. On the mound, he converted six saves in 16 record with 21 appearances. He became the third Amsterdam appearances and went 3 2 with a 2.62 ERA. The flamethrower from pitcher in the last three years to appear in at least 20 games; he Samford struck out 18 and walked four in 24.0 innings. Henderson, was the second to lead the league in games pitched. Kalica struck a mid season arrival, batted .329 in 21 games with 24 hits, 11 out 29 and walked four in 33.2 innings. Twenty of his 21 walks, 11 runs scored and 10 RBI. The rising sophomore from UC appearances came in relief. Urbanski finished second on the team Davis also was part of Elmira’s starting rotation. He went 2 1 with a with 18 appearances. The Tribe closer won five games and saved 3.46 ERA and 18 strikeouts in 26.0 innings. Henderson pitched the four. He amassed a 20:3 strikeout