McGarry Sizzles; Fans Career-High 13 in BlueClaws Thursday Win
BROOKLYN, NY - Griff McGarry set a new career high with 10 strikeouts last week against Aberdeen. Then he set a new career high with 13 strikeouts in a 5-2 win over Brooklyn on Wednesday night at Maimonides Park.
BROOKLYN, NY - Griff McGarry set a new career high with 10 strikeouts last week against Aberdeen. Then he set a new career high with 13 strikeouts in a 5-2 win over Brooklyn on Wednesday night at Maimonides Park.
McGarry, a right-hander from the University of Virginia, has now struck out 32 hitters in his last three starts and 71 hitters over 40.2 innings this season.
No. 8 @Phillies prospect Griff McGarry recorded 16 outs -- 13 of them came via the K for the @BlueClaws' righty 🤯 pic.twitter.com/LcX9Jwmcrn
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With the win, the teams have now split the first two games of their six game series in Coney Island while the BlueClaws (25-40) snapped a four-game losing streak overall.
Jersey Shore opened the scoring in the first when Carlos De La Cruz scored on a passed ball. Rixon Wingrove then singled home a run to give the BlueClaws a 2-0 lead. DJ Stewart homered in the fifth, his team-leading seventh of the season and third in the last week. Baron Radcliff later scored on a wild pitch to put the BlueClaws up 5-0.
McGarry came out after 5.1 innings, allowing one run on four hits. He walked two to go along with his 13 strikeouts. His 13 Ks were the most by a BlueClaws pitcher this year and since Jose Taveras fanned a club record 15 in a 2016 start in Greenville. Brooklyn's lone run came off the BlueClaws starter came on a JT Schwartz RBI single on McGarry's 101st and final pitch of the game.
Brooklyn added an unearned run off Jason Ruffcorn in the seventh on an error on Uziel Viloria to cut the lead to 5-2. Erubiel Armenta came on and got the last out of the seventh and threw a scoreless eighth. Jonathan Hughes came on for the ninth and gave up an RBI double with Matt Rudick with two outs to cut the lead to 5-3. Hughes, however, got the last out and earned his third save of the season.
Every BlueClaws starter had a hit in the win, and Casey Martin went 2-4.
The teams continue their series on Thursday night. RHP Dominic Pipkin starts for Jersey Shore.
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