Minors Stuff

The Herd:

The Buffalo Bisons, Triple-A affiliate of the New York Mets, got a second homerun in as many days from Rene Rivera, but it couldn't beat Durham, 10-2 the final Saturday.
The Herd began the scoring in the fourth. Rivera belted a homer to deep left and over the Blue Monster. It was his second dinger of the season and series. With Wily Mo Pena already aboard, the homerun made it a 2-0 lead.
That blast would be all the scoring Buffalo did in the game. Bulls starter Carlos Hernandez was brilliant. The lefty lasted eight innings allowing nine hits and just two runs. Hernandez struck out five Bisons while walking none. The Durham offense came up big in support during the middle innings.
The Bulls got going in the fourth when Jon Weber doubled to lead off. Ray Sadler plated Weber on a single three batters later to make it a 2-1 game.
The flood gates opened in the fifth when nine batters hit. Three hits and three walks combined for three runs. RBI belonged to Henry Mateo, Justin Ruggiano and Ray Sadler. Sadler's RBI was his second in as many innings and it made the score 4-2 Bulls.

http://buffalo.bisons.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090530&content_id=5055288&vkey=news_t422&fext=.jsp&sid=t422


B-Mets:


For Immediate Release
Date: May 30, 2009 Contact: Matt McCabe, mmccabe@bmets.com

Duda Homers, B-Mets Fall Short of Rock Cats 6-5

Lucas Duda roped his second home run of the season and the B-Mets hammered out 11 hits, but Dylan Owen’s season-long struggles continued on the mound contributing to a 6-5 loss at New Britain Stadium Saturday night. Owen allowed 6 runs on 10 hits in five innings to take his fifth loss.

Binghamton (21-25) lead 4-3 heading into the bottom of the fifth inning, but that lead was short-lived. Danny Valencia singled to start the inning and was followed by a one-out single from Erik Lis to put two on for Rene Tosoni. Owen hung a 2-1 slider to the Rock Cats’ rightfielder and Tosoni hooked it over the right-field wall to give his team a 6-4 lead.

The B-Mets would scrap across a run in the sixth inning on a broken-bat RBI double from Emmanuel Garcia off reliever Frank Mata that plated Josh Petersen to make it 6-5. However, that was as close as the B-Mets would get.

Rob Delaney and Anthony Slama threw the final three innings scoreless for New Britain (24-24) striking out five. Slama picked up the save despite allowing a leadoff single to Josh Thole in the ninth by inducing a 6-4-3 double play off the bat of Lucas Duda to end the game and secure the save, his 10th.

Early on, the Rock Cats lead 1-0 through an inning, but the B-Mets were quick to answer in the second as Duda doubled off the wall in centerfield off starter Jay Rainville to open the inning. Then with one out, D.J. Wabick slapped a one-out single past the drawn in third baseman Valencia to score Duda and tie the score.

Duda’s homer came in the fourth after Nick Evans had walked to open the inning. The long shot into the New Britain night tied the game at three.

Binghamton’s only lead came in the fifth as the first three to bat in the fifth reached against Rainville, culminated by Thole’s RBI single up the middle to score Ruben Tejada who had doubled to open the frame.

Rainville threw 5.2 innings giving up five runs, but still managed to pick up his second win thanks to his team’s timely run support.

Five men output two-hit games for the B-Mets including Tejada, who went 2-4 with a double and a run scored to extend his hitting streak to a season-best seven games.

The two teams will play the rubber match of the three-game set tomorrow afternoon. RHP Jose Sanchez (1-5, 5.88 ERA), who is coming off his longest start of the season will go for Binghamton and New Britain will toss LHP Ryan Mullins (2-6, 4.74 ERA). The first pitch is slated for 1:35 and the radio broadcast on Newsradio 1290 WNBF begins at 1:20 with the Horizons Federal Credit Union Pre-Game Show.

-- Matt McCabeBroadcaster/Director of Media RelationsBinghamton Metse-mail: mmccabe@bmets.com



Lucy:


Luis Rivera doubled home Matt Bouchard and Brahiam Maldonado with the winning runs in the bottom of the ninth inning as the St. Lucie Mets rallied for a 4-3 win over the Clearwater Threshers on Saturday at Tradition Field.
The Threshers built up a 3-1 lead going into the eighth inning, then Kirk Nieuwenhuis scored a run on a fielder's choice to close the gap to 3-2 before the ninth-inning heroics.
Emary Frederick (2-3) pitched two scoreless innings to get the win.

http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2009/may/31/no-headline---200905310109-31tstlucie


Gnats:

Josh Satin’s 5-RBI performance led the Sand Gnats offense in an, 11-8, victory in the first game Saturday night. The second game was not as pretty as the Gnats fought their way back to a tie only to fall, 5-2, to the hometown Tourists.
Savannah’s offense was firing on all cylinders in the first game as they scored in each of the first five innings. Satin and Daniel Stegall each had two-run home runs in the second inning as the Gnats put up a five spot to extend their lead to six. Asheville rallied late and made noise in the bottom of the seventh when they scored three runs off reliever Jake Goldberg to pull within three. Goldberg would settle in and induce to back-to-back weak ground balls to the mound to end the game.
Elvin Ramirez (3-3) pitched five innings for the game-one win while allowing five runs (four earned) on eight hits.
Jordany Valdespin, who was 3-for-4 with two doubles in the first game, scored the first run of the second contest to give the Gnats an early lead. Eric Beaulac (2-3) worked out of trouble in the first but couldn’t escape a David Christensen home run in the second that tied the game. The homer bug caught up with Beaulac again in the third when Delta Cleary hit a home run to right-center field to give Asheville the lead at 2-1.
Down but not out, the Sand Gnats (25-24) tied it in the fifth when Raul Reyes singled with the bases loaded to drive in Satin. With the bases still loaded, Michael Marbry (4-2) struck out Luis Alen and induced a fielder’s choice ground out from Stegall to end the inning.
Asheville took the lead for good in the bottom of the fifth. A leadoff triple by Ryan Peisel followed by a Jefry Marte throwing error on a ball hit by Beau Seabury put runners at the corners with no outs. After Seabury moved to second on a wild pitch, Delta Cleary grounded out for the first out of the inning. Thomas Field then hit a ball to short that got by the drawn-in infield and gave the Tourists the lead for good. The series concludes at 2:05 p.m. Sunday afternoon from McCormick Field in Asheville.