Binghamton Mets (18-12) at Portland Sea Dogs (17-11)
AA Affiliate of the Boston Red Sox
RHP Brad Holt (0-2, 18.69) vs. RHP Casey Kelly (0-2, 2.87)
Game #31• Monday, May 10, 2010
Hadlock Field • Portland, ME • 6:00 p.m.
LAST GAME: The B-Mets clinched the series win over New Hampshire with a 5-3 triumph in the rubber game of the three -game set. Making a spot start, Dylan Owen, offered up his best start of the season. The righty fired six innings and allowed just a run on three hits with four strikeouts for his second win. Hector Pellot and Jon Malo, Binghamton’s middle infielders, provided the punch at the bottom of the lineup.
Pellot was 2-4 with a double and two RBI and Malo was 2-3 with a double and two RBI as well. Marshall Hubbard provided the power in the game with a solo homer off reliever Tim Collins in the eighth, his fourth of the season. It proved to be the difference as the Fisher Cats struck for a pair of runs in the ninth, before stranding the tying men in scoring position when Jose De La Torre shut the door for his first save.
STARTING PITCHING MATCHUP: RHP Brad Holt will make his fourth start of the year tonight. He has struggled mightily so far, including his last start at Erie May 5 when he allowed three runs in two innings to take his second loss. Holt is 0-2 with a 18.69 ERA over 4.1 innings, having allowed nine earned runs on 11 hits with four walks. Last season, he made 11 starts for Binghamton with a 3-6 record and a 6.21 ERA in
58 innings. He is considered the No. 5 prospect in the Mets system by Baseball America. Holt was drafted by the Mets as a first round supplemental pick in 2008, going 33rd overall out of UNC-Wilmington.
RHP Casey Kelly will make his sixth start of the year tonight. He is coming off his best outing of the year, a five-inning stint versus Reading May 5 in which he allowed just two runs, one earned, on four hits in a tough loss. On the year, Kelly is 0-2 with a 2.87 ERA in 15.2 innings. He worked as both a starter and a shortstop last year in two stops between Greenville (Low-A) and Salem (High-A). As a pitcher, he was 7-5 with a
2.08 ERA in 17 starts spanning 95 innings. Boston took him 30th overall in the 2008 draft out HS in Sarasota, FL. He is considered the No.2 prospect in the Red Sox system by Baseball America.
LEAGUE-LEADING OFFENSE: The B-Mets lead the Eastern League in numerous offensive categories including average (.273), runs scored (182), doubles (69), homers (35), RBI (171) and slugging (.453).
STARTING PITCHING COMING AROUND: With the exception of Brad Holt, the starting rotation has been improving every time out. Excluding Holt’s short, two-inning start May 5, the starting rotation has a 3.57 ERA in 40.1 innings over the team’s last seven games. For the year, the starters carry an inflated 5.57
ERA in 30 games, averaging 4.2 innings per start.
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