2019 GAME NOTES Binghamton Rumble Ponies Media Relations BINGHAMTON RUMBLE PONIES NEW HAMPSHIRE FISHER CATS (26-38, 61-67), 6th Eastern Division (28-34, 59-70), 5th Eastern Division (New York Mets) (Toronto Blue Jays) Friday, August 23, 2019 • 7:05 PM Northeast Delta Dental Stadium • Manchester, NH RHP Mickey Jannis (5-5, 3.49 ERA) vs. RHP Thomas Hatch (1-3, 3.80 ERA) Broadcast: NewsRadio 1290 AM WNBF, MiLB.TV Ponies at a Glance TONIGHT: The Binghamton Rumble Ponies contin- CECCHINI STAYS HOT: Gavin Cecchini recorded ue their final road series of the year as they play one hit and scored one run Thursday. He has now Overall Record: 61-67 the second game of a four-game set against the gotten a hit in 10 of his last 11 games. 2nd Half Record: 26-38 New Hampshire Fisher Cats. Home Record: 21-38 SMITH BLASTS TWO HOMERS: New Hampshire’s Road Record: 40-29 LAST TIME OUT: The Rumble Ponies fell to the Kevin Smith hit two solo home runs Thursday. He Day Games: 11-17 Fisher Cats 9-4 in the series opener Thursday. New now has 19 homers and 60 RBI on the season, Night Games: 50-50 Hampshire hit four home runs, including two by both team-highs. His 19 home runs are fourth- Kevin Smith. The Ponies scored first on an Austin most in the Eastern League, and he ranks sixth in Vs. Eastern Division: 25-35 Bossart RBI single in the second inning. The Cats the EL in RBI. Vs. Western Division: 36-32 took the lead on a Riley Adams two-run homer in Vs. NL Affiliates 17-24 the third and increased the lead to 6-2 after JANNIS SETS CAREER-HIGH FOR STRIKEOUTS: RHP Vs. AL Affiliates: 44-43 Smith’s two homers and a two-run home run by Mickey Jannis is coming off consecutive outings in Chad Spanberger. Dustin Houle made it a 6-4 which he set a career-high for strikeouts. Last time April Record: 11-8 game with a two-run homer, but the Fisher Cats out, he struck out 12 over seven innings in a 2-1 May Record: 19-11 added three more in the eighth. Tony Dibrell took loss to Hartford on August 17. Prior to that start, June Record: 10-19 the loss as he gave up three runs in four innings. the knuckleballer fanned 10 over six innings in a 3- July Record: 16-13 1 loss to New Hampshire on August 13. August Record: 5-16 BOSSART’S FIRST RBI WITH PONIES: With his RBI September Record: 0-0 single in the second inning Thursday, Austin SYRACUSE METS WIN EIGHT STRAIGHT: The Syra- Ponies Score First: 40-18 Bossart drove in his first run in a Rumble Ponies cuse Mets have won eight straight games and are OPP Score First: 21-49 uniform. He had seven home runs and 28 RBI with 1.5 games out of first place. Several former Rumble Reading before being traded to the Mets’ organi- Ponies have contributed to the streak. On Tuesday, Lead after 7th: 36-2 th zation on July 29. Sam Haggerty tallied two hits and three RBI, while Tied after 7 : 6-7 Chris Mazza went 2-3 with two doubles and Eric Trail after 7th: 7-45 th HOULE HITS FIRST HOMER OF SEASON: Dustin Hanhold picked up the win. Jason Krizan went 4-4 Lead after 8 : 37-1 Houle hit his first home run of 2019 with a two- with two runs scored Sunday. Stephen Nogosek Tied after 8th: 6-5 th run, homer in the eighth inning Thursday night. has earned two saves during the streak. Trail after 8 : 3-46 They were his second and third RBI. Houle missed Walk-Offs (W-L): 5-7 several weeks as he won a silver medal with Team COMING UP: The Rumble Ponies and Fisher Cats Extra Inning Games: 9-5 Canada at the Pan American games in Lima, Peru. continue their four-game series at Northeast Delta Shutout Record: 13-11 Dental Stadium Saturday night at 7:05PM. 1-Run Games: 21-20 2-Run Games: 11-13 Eastern League Standings 3-Run Games: 9-11 Eastern Division W L GB Stk L10 Western Division W L GB Stk L10 4+ Run Games: 18-22 Reading 36 25 --- W3 5-5 Erie 42 19 --- L2 6-4 Doubleheaders (W-L-S): 4-1-8 Series Openers: 21-17 Trenton 32 30 4.5 W2 6-4 Bowie 41 20 1.0 W2 7-3 Series Finales: 10-26 Hartford 29 31 6.5 L2 6-4 Harrisburg 27 30 13.0 W4 6-4 Rubber Games: 1-10 Series Record (W-L-S): 14-19-4 Portland 28 32 7.5 L4 2-8 Altoona 28 33 14.0 L1 5-5 Sweep (BIN-OPP): 4-7 New Hampshire 28 34 8.5 W1 8-2 Richmond 25 36 17.0 L1 5-5 Binghamton 26 38 11.5 L2 1-9 Akron 23 37 18.5 W1 3-7 Upcoming Games and Probable Starters Saturday, August 24 7:05 PM @ New Hampshire Fisher Cats LHP David Peterson vs. TBA Sunday, August 25 1:35 PM @ New Hampshire Fisher Cats RHP Zach Lee vs. RHP Yennsy Diaz Monday, August 26 6:35 PM Portland Sea Dogs TBA vs. TBA 2019 Binghamton Rumble Ponies Game Notes 1 Binghamton Rumble Ponies Starting Pitcher Mickey JANNIS 2 Age: 31 Hometown: Carson City, NV HT: 6-0 Pro Experience: 10th season BIN (AA) Experience: 5th season WT: 190 Acquired: MiLB Free Agent, 7/2/15 College: Cal State-Bakersfield B/T: R/R SETTING THE STAGE: Making franchise record 85th career start with Binghamton (AA) and his The Last Three Years st 101 start in affiliated baseball… In his last start, YR CLUB W-L ERA G GS SV IP H R ER HR BB SO Avg Jannis struck out a career-high 12 batters but suf- fered the loss against Hartford on 8/17… He al- 17 Binghamton (AA) 8-7 3.60 21 21 0 122.1 115 56 49 10 38 83 .252 lowed one run on four hits over seven innings in 18 Las Vegas (AAA) 0-2 14.63 2 2 0 8.0 17 13 13 1 4 4 .415 the Ponies’ 2-1 loss… It was the second straight Binghamton (AA) 10-6 3.61 23 22 0 137.0 152 63 55 12 35 111 .281 game in which he set a career-high for strikeouts after fanning 10 against New Hampshire on 8/13 19 Binghamton (AA) 5-5 3.49 17 15 0 95.1 107 44 37 2 27 81 .284 Syracuse (AAA) 0-2 22.95 2 2 0 6.2 19 21 17 5 4 5 .475 ATOP THE LEADERBOARD: Binghamton’s fran- MiLB Career 37-41 4.27 138 100 5 666.2 718 382 316 44 238 479 .276 chise leader in career wins at 26, starts with 85 (including tonight)...all-time franchise leader in Indy Career 23-18 2.70 118 52 8 427.0 374 152 128 17 140 309 innings pitched with Binghamton with 494.0… Double-A Career 26-31 4.14 88 84 0 494.0 509 255 227 34 175 360 .267 franchise leader in career strikeouts with 360 BINGHAMTON CAREER HISTORY: Joined Bing- hamton Mets in August 2015...made Binghamton 2019 Start-By-Start Results (AA) debut on August 22, 2015 on the road against New Hampshire DATE OPP D IP H R ER HR BB SO ERA RESULT 4/30 AKR W 7.0 2 0 0 0 1 3 0.00 W 1-0 FINDING HIS WAY TO THE METS: Opened 2015 5/5 SWBSY L 3.1 12 14 10 3 2 2 27.00 L 14-3 season in Atlantic League with Long Island Ducks….led league with 1.18 ERA...signed by Mets 5/18 @TRN W 7.0 5 1 0 0 3 5 0.00 W 3-1 as Minor League free agent on July 2, 2015 5/25 TRN ND 5.1 1 2 0 0 5 7 0.00 L, 5-2 5/30 @RIC ND 5.1 7 3 3 0 1 7 1.09 W,9-4 QUITE THE RUN IN 2015: Pitched for Salt River Rafters in Arizona Fall League in 2015...had 6/05 @HBG ND 4.1 10 5 4 0 2 2 2.17 W, 7-5 opened season in independent ball with Long 6/12 TRN L 5.1 10 6 6 0 2 7 3.41 L, 7-2 Island Ducks (Atlantic League)...went 1-1 with 2.48 6/19 @NH ND 5.1 5 1 1 0 1 3 3.18 W, 3-2 ERA in six starts in AFL SUSP 6/24 ERI W 8.0 7 1 1 0 1 7 2.83 W, 2-1 KNUCKLEBALL HISTORY: Learned knuckleball as 6/29 @ALT W 6.0 3 1 1 0 2 4 2.68 W, 2-1 teen...did not use pitch during time in Rays sys- 7/4 AKR W 6.0 8 1 1 0 0 2 2.56 W, 4-1 tem...became primary pitch after being released by Rays, October 2011 @POR L 6.0 12 5 5 0 2 3 3.02 L, 7-3 SY 7/18 @IND L 3.1 7 7 7 2 2 3 22.95 L, 9-1 BACKGROUND: Originally selected by Rays in 44th round of 2010 draft…released by Rays in October 7/23 @REA ND 4.0 8 6 6 0 2 2 3.62 L, 8-6 2011...spent 3.5 seasons pitching independent ball 8/1 ERI L 4.2 9 3 3 0 1 3 3.94 L, 5-1 in Atlantic & Frontier Leagues, 2012-2015 8/8 HBG ND 7.0 8 3 3 1 0 4 3.94 L, 4-3 8/13 NH L 6.0 7 3 0 0 1 10 3.67 L, 3-1 COLLEGE DAYS: Pitched two seasons at Cal State- Bakersfield...member of first Division-I team in pro- 8/17 HFD L 7.0 4 1 1 0 1 12 3.49 L, 2-1 gram history TRANSACTIONS: Ponies Opening Day roster… Started year on IL Key: SY - Syracuse Mets (AAA), SUSP - Continuation of game from April 14 Ponies Record in Starts: 7-7 Run Support in Starts: --- 3.2 runs/game At The Plate YR CLUB Avg AB H R RBI SH 2B 3B HR 19 Binghamton (AA) .100 10 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 Pro Career .175 57 10 5 4 9 1 0 0 2019 Binghamton Rumble Ponies Game Notes 2 Binghamton Rumble Ponies Position Player Notes BARNES, Barrett Acq: MiLB FA, 1/29/19 College: Texas Tech Pro Exp (AA): 8th season (3rd) • Ponies: Launched homer in back-to-back games, 4/7 @ NH & 4/11 v ERI...Belted Career: Hit .292 in 161 games over two seasons with Altoona (PIT: three hits and five RBI, 5/3 @POR...Third season in Eastern League (Altoona: ‘15- AA), 2015-2016...2018: Hit .246 with 12 HR, 24 SB with Sugar Land ’16)…Season-high 10-game hitting streak, 6/27-7/11 Skeeters (Ind)...2016: Hit .306 in career-high 124 games with • Transactions: Ponies Opening Day Roster...missed 10 games on IL, 4/17-4/28 Curve...MiLB.com Organizational All-Star...2012-2014: Averaged just 33 games in first three seasons due to injuries Notes: Originally selected by the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1st round (#45 overall) in 2012...Big 12 Freshmen of the Year, 2010 BOSSART, Austin Acq: Trade (PHI), 7/29/19 College: U.