Richmond 11, Binghamton 4

From Press Release:

Eric Campbell smashed his first Double-A homer and drove in two runs for Binghamton, but Richmond set franchise records with 11 runs on 19 hits in an 11-4 rout of the B-Mets Thursday afternoon in front of a season-best crowd of 4,535 at NYSEG Stadium. Campbell has ripped seven hits and plated eight runs in his last three games. The two teams split the four-game set in the Flying Squirrels only visit to the Southern Tier 2010.

Binghamton (22-24) starter Chris Schwinden ran into trouble in the second. The righty allowed a pair of hits and walked a batter to load the bases at the outset of the frame. After striking out Tyler LaTorre for the first out, Flying Squirrels’ right-hander Ronnie Ray laced a bases-clearing double over the head of Jon Malo in center to put Richmond (26-21) on top 3-0. It was the first hit of Ray’s career in 11 at-bats.

The Squirrels added single runs in the third and the fourth, upping the lead to 5-0 entering the B-Mets half of the fourth. Nick Evans led off the frame with a towering shot over the wall in right off Ray to get Binghamton on the board. The solo homer was his eighth bomb of the season, which is tied for the team lead with the injured Zach Lutz.

Schwinden’s start was cut short by the relentless Richmond onslaught of hits. He tossed four innings and allowed five earned runs on 10 hits to lose his first game at the Double-A level.

In the fifth, Ray struck again with the bat. This time, he yanked a single to left with the bases loaded and two outs, plating two more to extend the lead to 7-1. Reliever Roy Merritt intentionally had walked LaTorre to get to Ray, who ended the day with two hits and a team-best five RBI.

The Flying Squirrels starter exited in the fifth an out short of qualifying for the win. He hurled 4 2/3 innings, allowed a run on six hits and struck out three without issuing a walk.

Binghamton got back in the game in the sixth versus reliever Daniel Turpen, a college teammate of B-Mets righty Eddie Kunz at Oregon State. D.J. Wabick started the rally with a one-out single. Campbell followed and crushed a Turpen offering over the left-centerfield wall, getting Binghamton within four of the lead. Turpen proceeded to allow a double to Carlos Guzman and a single to Mike Nickeas, forcing his departure. Jake Stevens came on from the pen and induced a flyout off the bat of Jose Coronado, however, Guzman came across on the sac fly, moving the B-Mets into striking distance at 7-4.

However, Richmond responded with a four-run seventh off reliever Emary Frederick and was helped along by a Campbell error at third that made three of the runs unearned..