Join the Binghamton Baseball Booster Club for its monthly membership meeting on Thursday, 5/2, at 4 PM at the Wegmans Landing section at Mirabito Stadium! We’ll provide pizza and refreshments and a Rumble Pony player will be a guest speaker too!
Also, mark Saturday, May 18th, on your calendar. We’ll also have a membership meeting that day too(at 11 AM). We’re having two meetings because we were rained out multiple times in April!
Jett turning on the jets!
by Matt Levine
MANCHESTER, N.H. – The Binghamton Rumble Ponies (10-10) fell to the New Hampshire Fisher Cats, 2-1, on Sunday afternoon at Delta Dental Stadium in the series finale. The Ponies took four games in the six-game series. Rumble Ponies starting pitcher Blade Tidwell was dominant. Tidwell struck out nine batters over a season-high 6.2 innings, while allowing just two hits, two walks, and one earned run. After giving up a hit with one out in the third, the 22-year-old retired the next 13 batters in a row. Tidwell threw 88 pitches and 61 strikes (81%).
Tidwell at Mirabito Stadium
New Hampshire (9-12) got on the board in the third inning when Riley Tirotta singled and Andrés Sosa scored on an error. Tirotta eventually came in to score on an RBI groundout from Garrett Spain to make it 2-0. Brandon McIlwain led off the seventh inning with a solo home run the opposite way, which cut the Ponies’ deficit to 2-1. It marked McIlwain’s first home run of the season.
The Rumble Ponies bullpen was also dominant. Nolan Clenney pitched two thirds of an inning with a strikeout and issued one walk. Daniel Juarez tossed two thirds of an inning and needed just three pitches to record two outs. The Rumble Ponies will begin a six-game series with the Hartford Yard Goats (Double-A affiliate of the Colorado Rockies) at Mirabito Stadium on Tuesday. First pitch is set for 6:05 PM and the game will be broadcast live on WNBF News Radio 1290 & 92.1 FM.
For those of you not in the know, a Yard Goat is a slang term for a vehicle that switches a train so that another locomotive can take it over. The term honors Harford’s long history with railroading. Top prospects for the Yard Goats include shortstop Adael Amador, outfielders Yanquiel Fernandez, Sterlin Thompson, Zac Veen, and Benny Montgomery.
Veen at the plate
Postgame Notes: Matt Rudick extended his hitting streak to four games with a single in the third inning…Rowdey Jordan extended his hitting streak to five games with a bunt single in the sixth inning…Binghamton’s pitchers issued just two hits and three walks…The Ponies outhit the Fisher Cats, 6-2.
Binghamton Baseball Booster Club 