Minors Stuff

The Herd:

The Buffalo Bisons, Triple-A affiliate of the New York Mets, today announced that FEWER THAN 4,000 INDIVIDUAL TICKETS remain for the team’s Independence Eve Celebration with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra on Friday, July 3 against the Rochester Red Wings (6:05 p.m. – Gates Open at 5:00 p.m.).

However, the team no longer has any of its popular BPO 4-Pack ticket packages available for purchase.

Tickets are available by calling 1-888-223-6000. You can also order online at Bisons.com or by visiting the Coca-Cola Field Box Office (Open Friday at 9:00 a.m.). Fans can also visit any Tickets/com Outlets at participating Tops Markets.


B-Mets:

Shawn Bowman went 4-4 with a double and Caleb Stewart homered in his second game back from the disabled list but Binghamton lost 12-1 to Fisher Cats Thursday night at NYSEG Stadium. The B-Mets went 1-10 with runners in scoring position leaving nine men on base in the contest.

New Hampshire scored first off Brad Holt in the second inning to take a 2-0 lead. With two outs, Al Quintana, who went 4-5 with four RBIs, hit a two-run double to deep center field.

Caleb Stewart answered with his second home run of the season to cut the Fisher Cats’ lead to 2-1 as he took New Hampshire starter Luis Perez deep to left to lead off the bottom of the second inning.

Brian Dopirak’s league-leading 19th home run came with two outs in the third off Holt to make it 4-1. It was a two-run shot which scored Adam Calderone, who walked one batter before.

New Hampshire (35-44) added a run in the sixth off reliever Edgar Ramirez to make it 5-1. Five more runs were added in the seventh off Clyne when the Fisher Cats strung together eight straight hits to make it 10-1. Bryan Kervin added a two-run homer in the ninth off Roy Merritt to yield the final of 12-1.

Holt made his third start for Binghamton (29-49) and was pulled after striking out his season-best sixth batter. He went 3.1 innings, giving up four runs on four hits to drop to 0-2.

Perez went 6.1 innings for his fifth win, giving up one run on nine hits.



Friday, July 3 New Hampshire 7:05 pm LHP Mike Antonini (5-2, 5.02) vs. RHP Rey Gonzalez (3-5, 3.18)

Saturday, July 4 Erie 7:05 pm RHP Dylan Owen (0-5, 6.00) vs. RHP Luis Marte (5-7, 3.97)

Sunday, July 5 Erie 1:05 pm LHP Eric Niesen (0-4, 7.64) vs. RHP Pat Stanley (2-2, 4.85)

Sunday, July 5 Erie 1:05 pm RHP Eric Brown (4-8, 5.57) vs. LHP Jon Kibler (4-5, 3.77)

The United States Army Parachute Team, known as the Golden Knights, will parachute into NYSEG Stadium before the Binghamton Mets’ 7:05pm game with the New Hampshire Fisher Cats on Friday, July 3rd. After the Golden Knights jump into the stadium a high performance aircraft will conduct a fly over after the pre-game National Anthem. The Golden Knights and aircraft are in Greater Binghamton Airport’s 2009 Air Show this weekend.

Founded in 1959 the Golden Knights are the U.S. Army’s demonstration and competition parachute team. They travel the U.S. and overseas performing for public audiences around 240 days per year.

In conjunction with the pre-game dramatics the Commander of the Blue Angels, the U.S. Navy’s flight demonstration team, will throw out the ceremonial first pitch before the game.



Gnats:

There has been a change to the viewing hours for John Moss on Sunday. The updated viewing hours will be 4pm - ? at the Harris Funeral Home in Kings Mountain, NC.

The memorial service will be at 11:00am on Monday at the First Baptist Church at 605 West King Street in Kings Mountain, NC.

Please note the site of the memorial service has changed since the press release was sent out yesterday. The First Baptist Church has a much larger capacity to accommodate the expected turnout.

Raul Reyes struck for the second day in a row with a game-winning home run as his fifth-inning, two-run shot held up to give the Gnats a, 4-3, victory over the Asheville Tourists Thursday night in front of 2,204 at Historic Grayson Stadium.

Rhiner Cruz dealt the ninth for the second-straight night but walked the first two batters to put the tying and go-ahead runs on. Phillips Orta was summoned from the bullpen and retired all three men he faced, including a game-ending strikeout of Delta Cleary, for his first save of the season.

Reyes’ knock was his fourth on the year and the second of the season against Asheville starter Parker Frazier (4-6) who loses for the second time this season against the Gnats.

Savannah started out ahead for the third straight night on a sacrifice-fly RBI by Sean Ratliff in the first. Asheville took the lead in the second after a dropped third strike with Tyler Massey at the plate extended the inning and Carlos Martinez knocked a two-run single. The Gnats tied it in the fourth on a Stefan Welch double-play groundout that scored Wilmer Flores.

Eric Beaulac (4-4) turned in another sparkling start for Savannah starters, limiting the Tourists to six hits and tossing a season-high nine strikeouts. It’s the first time a Savannah pitcher has struck out nine batters in a game since John Holdzkom dealt nine strikeouts against Rome in the first game of a doubleheader on August 23, 2008.

Clones:

The Brooklyn Cyclones (11-2) remained undefeated at home with a 5-0 win over Tri-City (5-6) on Thursday at KeySpan Park. Fans enjoyed an exciting 0-0 pitchers' duel through the first 4.0 innings, until Luis Rivera broke the ice with an RBI single to score Matt Bouchard in the bottom of the fourth with two outs. That proved to be all starting pitcher Mark Cohoon would need, as he hurled 8.0 shutout innings, surrendering just three hits, and striking out eight. Rivera then helped build insurance for Cohoon with a monster three-run home run over the left-center wall. Rivera finished the day 2-for-2 with four RBI and two walks. With the win, Cohoon improves to 3-0 on the year with a 1.35 ERA. The Cyclones are now 7-0 at home and have a five-game winning streak.


JULY 3rd: The Cyclones' July 3rd game against Tri-City starts at 6:30pm and will be followed by a spectacular holiday fireworks show.Tickets are still available.
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