Gwinnett Braves Playoff Recap: Game 2

by yondaime4 on Sep 10, 2009 11:09 PM EDT in Braves Minor League Recaps

The Gwinnett Braves fall to 0-2 in the series against Scranton, as they turn around and hit the road for the rest of the series, continuing tomorrow night.

Gwinnett was pretty much shut down on offense for the second straight night, this time by Ivan Nova (granted, that is an awesome name). Nova wasn't really effective in his 12 starts in the International League, but he found ways to get the Braves out. The Scranton bullpen came on and finished us off with 4 Ks in the final 2 innings (though Whelan allowed 2 men to reach base in the 9th he did strike out the side.

Jason Heyward had a hit and a K, and the only Gwinnett hitters with more than one hit were Barbaro Canizares and Diory Hernandez. Also of note is the fact that the Braves have only 1 extra base hit in the series so far. Jo-Jo Reyes pitched 7 innings and he wasn't horrible. His defense allowed one unearned run to score but you have to expect the offense to step up.

Gwinnett has an uphill battle, but a comeback isn't unheard of. Right now I wouldn't be betting on them though.
Bobby Brownlie goes for the Braves and Kei Igawa for Scranton tomorrow night.

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Does the entire Atlanta Braves organization

not like scoring runs or something?

Frank Wren for GM of the Year.

by Scott Coleman on Sep 11, 2009 1:32 AM EDT reply actions

I was at the game.

Sat almost directly behind homeplate, in the second row. Maybe 45-50 feet away from the plate. Heyward’s K was 1son his 1st AB and ended the 1st inning. It was a very good 8 Pitch AB, with called 3rd strike being a couple of inches outside. The umpire clearly missed the call. Heyward let him know it, dropping hit bat and then his helmet on the plate and then standing there slowly removing his gloves, jawboning the entire time without looking back to show the ump up. The ump whipped off his mask like he was about to get upset. So, naturally, I had to get our young hero’s back, bellowing: “I didn’t like it either. It was 3 or 4 inches outside.” He turned around and glared at me. LOL.

Heyward looked really good. What a physical specimen! I was particularly impressed with his confident demeanor on the field, his quickness and foot speed on the bases and in the field, and exceptional defense.

His single was shot that whistled past pitchers knee almost before he reacted at all. His excellent defense included a plus catch reacting quickly and taking a straight route to go into the right center gap to flag down a deep line shot; and also made a great diviing, full lay out catch down the line. He did look overmatched by a lefty reliever in his last AB – waved at 2 off-speed away breaking balls, then nubbed the 3rd similar pitch 45 feet out toward the mound for an easy out, 1-3.

by fandave on Sep 11, 2009 9:29 AM EDT reply actions