Connecticut 6, B-Mets 3

Starter Jose Sanchez gave up six runs in the first three innings and Connecticut pounded out nine hits en route to a 6-3 win over the B-Mets, evening the three-game series at a game apiece. Sanchez was tagged for six runs in five innings and took his team-leading fifth loss of the year.

The majority of the Defenders’ runs came in the second inning when five came across. The inning started when Sanchez walked leadoff man Brock Bond. Brad Boyer followed with a double to put two men in scoring position for Eddy Martinez-Esteve, who singled the two in to make it 3-0. With two outs, Bobby Felmy tripled to drive home Brett Pill, who had reached on a fielder’s choice, and Tyler LaTorre followed with a two-run dinger over the right-field wall to put Connecticut (21-18) in front 6-0.

Binghamton (18-19) cut the deficit in half with three runs in the seventh inning. The frame started with singles from D.J. Wabick and Ruben Tejada off starter Tim Alderson. Emmanuel Garcia followed with a double down the third base line to drive home Wabick and get the B-Mets on the board. With the infield playing back, pinch-hitter Jake Eigsti grounded out to short, scoring Tejada and moving Garcia up to third. The final run came home on Carl Loadenthal’s groundout to short off of reliever Jesse English, making it 6-3.

Connecticut’s run in the first came on a two-out solo homer from Brandon Crawford, who now has six hits in the series after going 2-4 on Wednesday night.

Alderson threw 6.1 innings giving up 3 runs on 9 hits and managed to pick up the win to improve to 2-0. Daniel Otero threw the ninth to nail down his 10 save. He has yet to give up a run in 2009.

Garcia led the way at the plate for Binghamton going 3-4 with a double and an RBI to break an 0-14 slump. His multi-hit performance was joined by Josh Thole, Wabick and Tejada, who also hammered out two hits each.