Film study pays off for Fireflies’ Lindsay
After a miserable start to the season, Desmond Lindsay is turning things around.
Lindsay, one of the Mets’ top ranked prospects, hit a pair of homers last week and had the game-winning hit Tuesday in the Columbia Fireflies’ 5-3 win over Lexington at Spirit Communications Park.
“For me it was watching old videos of me hitting and getting where I was going last year and in previous years,” Lindsay said. “I just wanted to kind of back track and get where I was comfortable at the plate and it has worked.”
Lindsay also got some encouragement from the Fireflies coaching staff, who continued to stay positive during his early season woes. He was hitting .150 almost two weeks ago, but is 7-for-17 with two homers and five RBIs over his past five games.
“It was a little frustrating for him to start the year because it is a kid who had never had failure in his career,” Columbia manager Jose Leger said. “But we just tried to be positive with him and tell him to trust the process and it will take care of itself.”
Trailing 3-0 going into the eighth inning, Columbia scored five runs off Lexington relievers Grant Gavin and Matthew Wynee. Gavin the bases loaded with one out and Andres Gimenez grounded out to score and get the Fireflies within 3-1.
All-Star Michael Paez followed with a two-run single to tie it at 3. Then Lindsay followed a two-run single in the right-field corner to score Paez and Dash Winningham and make it 5-3.
Max Kuhns pitched a scoreless ninth for the save. Adam Atkins got the win in relief.
It was Columbia’s first win this season in 20 games when trailing after seven innings.
Tim Tebow went 1-for-3 with an opposite-field double in the third. It was his eighth double of the season.
Lexington got on the board on the in the fourth inning. Khalil Lee led off with a single and then Angelo Castellano reached on an error. Kort Peterson single to center to score Lee and make it 1-0.
The Legends tacked on two more in the seventh on Meibrys Viloria’s two-run double to score Emmanuel Rivera and Gabriel Cancel.
Lexington | ab | r | h | rbi | bb | k |
Lee cf | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Castellano ss | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Peterson rf | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Rivera 3b | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Cancel 2b | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Viloria c | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Olloque dh | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Dudek 1b | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Gasparini lf | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
TOTALS | 33 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
Columbia | ab | r | h | rbi | bb | k |
Cone rf | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Gimenez ss | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Paez dh | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Winningham 1b | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Lindsay cf | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Carpio 2b | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Sanchez c | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Tebow lf | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
M. Ramos 3b | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
TOTALS | 29 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 |
Lexington | 000 | 100 | 200 | — | 3 |
Columbia | 000 | 000 | 05x | — | 5 |
E — Carpio. LOB — Columbia 4; Lexington 4. 2B — Gasparini, Viloria, Peterson, Tebow. SB — Carpio. CS — Gasparini, Lee. PO — Gasparini. PB — Viloria.
Lexington | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Gomez | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
Gavin | 2/3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
Wynne | 1/3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Columbia | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Llanes | 7 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
Atkins | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Kuhns | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Umpires — HP: John Budka. 1B: Dillon Wilson. T — 2:41. A — 3,619.
This story was originally published June 6, 2017 at 10:52 PM with the headline "Film study pays off for Fireflies’ Lindsay."