Inconvenient Mize in her double-A debut

Casey Mize was at his best … without his best Monday in his double-A debut.

The best perspective of Detroit went the distance in nine innings without batting, hitting seven and overcoming the minimum, as Erie cleared Altoona, 1-0, at Peoples Natural Gas Field. Mize has managed the feat on 98 pitches – 70 goals – and acknowledged having done so without his complete arsenal.

Video: Erie's Mize completes without success

"The command of the fastball was not good.The worst was all year," said the right-hander to the press after the match. "You can go see the video, it was not good, so I threw a ton of cutters and I relied on that, and I was able to throw that for a shot. in a lot of cases, so I think it was just trying to get contact as soon as possible, and you know what you have to ask them to hit the ball on the ground or any contact with the inner field.Be able to mix the slurve and the splitter on them too, because i tried to catch up with this fastball control ".

Mize made up for this lack of fastball control – he dived Jared Oliva with a heater 2-1 to start the game – significantly. A double game from the start of Bralin Jackson He erased Oliva from the baspaths and locked up the 21-year-old. He retired the next 19 in a row, thanks to a diving shot made by a center player. Derek Hill from the start Adrian Valerio end the third run.

Video: Hill's diving for Erie

"He was complaining about his fastball drive, but I think at the end of the day everything went well," SeaWolves captain Mike Rabelo told reporters with a smile. after the game. "It was just in a groove, this cutter / slider was just beautiful."

Last year's # 1 pick had only needed four shots to pass the sixth – a pop-up from Mitchell Tolman, a land by Arden Pabst during Valerio's second offering and alignment on his first throw – before finding his only hard-working man from the night to the seventh. After a four-length Oliva strike, Mize allowed Jackson to take second place in a 1-1 1-1 game in normal speed. Bligh Madris worked a seven step walk. It was the only other flaw in the game for Mize, who was breathing Logan Hill swing to end the round. The free pass was only the second of the season for the Auburn product, the fifth of his professional career with 48 2/3 frames and the first Madris to win this year.

Video: Mize's four-high frame for Erie

"A lot of credit to (Detroit's 13th perspective) Jake Rogers behind the plate he called a [heck] Mize said. "Hat in my defense and attack for scraping a race, but I feel good, and it was definitely one of those days when I felt like an autopilot, I know I've got it. already said, but it was just a good day. "

The native of Alabama had never pitched more than eight innings and 89 shots as a professional and his throwing count was 89 when he returned to the hill for the ninth.

"He was doubling it," Rabelo said. "I was telling our pitcher coach, Mark Johnson, the shoes I'm wearing right now, nobody wanted to wear them in the ninth inning, so he was successful and we can all breathe a deep sigh of relief."

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Mize has sailed through the last period on nine throws, his second shortest match. The beginnings of Pabst at the beginning, a weak return to the mound of Valerio, and a popup to the second by Oliva.

"It was something special, really fun to take and really fun to watch there and watch it work," said Rogers, who was behind the set for his first no-no. "He filled up, he went into the first run and he took out the guys and made them look ridiculous, so since then I knew that if we attacked them, something special would happen. -He knows what he wants to do and he trusted me a bit tonight and we just continued him. "

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"Not really much to say – dominant," added Rabelo. "No deep count, just a punch and a walk." It was absolutely electric tonight – it was fun to be part of that. "

Mize has extended his series of goals up to 24 consecutive heats and has allowed a touchdown or less in four of his five starts (35 innings). In four appearances with Class A Advanced Lakeland, the right-handed player was 2-0 with a .35 backstroke, 25 assists and one goal in 26 innings while maintaining an average of .085 to his opponents.

Mize has played five full-length matches in her three-year university career – including three last season – and has made it to Northeastern University on March 9, 2018.

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"I'm going to enjoy this one, no doubt," he says. "I threw it a year ago at the university and I would have liked to enjoy it more, so I think I've learned that, so I'll let it go. to sink and enjoy. "

It was the second time in less than a week that No Eriher, and the fourth in the history of the team. Last Wednesday, perspective of the Tigers N ° 10 Alex Faedo and Drew Carlton combined with the exploit against Bowie.

Erie scratched the only passage necessary to the fifth. Rogers swung a single left on the first pitch of the frame, placed second on a wild course and qualified third in a single from Detroit No. 30 lead. Jose Azocar. Chad Sedio Placed the receiver with an earthing to the first.