Nick Evans smashed four extra-base hits, including a homer, in five trips to the plate and Mark Cohoon won his Double-A debut as Binghamton knocked off Akron 11-6 at Canal Park Saturday night. The B-Mets have now won all five meetings with the Aeros at Canal Park this season.
Cohoon got off to a slow start in his Binghamton (38-36) unveiling. Akron rallied for three runs with two outs in the first inning. Matt McBride opened the scoring with an RBI double to the gap in left-center. John Drennen followed and chased McBride home with a broken-bat single to left. Two batters later, Jerad Head rounded out the scoring with an RBI double to left, plating Drennen. Head finished the game a perfect 4-for-4 with two doubles.
Akron (36-38) left-hander Scott Barnes faced the minimum though the first two innings, but ran into trouble in the third. Brahiam Maldonado singled to left with one out. Raul Reyes followed and lined a Barnes offering into the right-field bleachers for his first Double-A homer, moving the B-Mets within a run. Luis Hernandez became the third straight to reach with a clean single to right. After Sean Ratliff flied out, Hernandez swiped second to move into scoring position. Evans drove him home with a double to the wall in center, tying the game at three.
Marshall Hubbard stepped in with Evans at second and two outs and hit a routine groundball to second. Second baseman Jason Kipnis handled the grounder, but threw wild to first, sending the ball to the backstop. Evans came around to score on Kipnis’ miscue and Hubbard advanced all the way to second, vaulting Binghamton into a 4-3 lead. The B-Mets plated two more on RBI singles from Josh Satin and Jose Coronado. In all, Binghamton brought 11 men to the plate and pushed across six runs in the marathon frame.
Reyes touched up Barnes for a second time in the fourth inning, sending a 2-2 curveball over the wall in right for another homer, upping the lead to 7-3. It marked the eighth time in 2010 that a B-Mets player has ripped a pair of homers in a single game.
Barnes walked a pair of hitters leading off the fifth resulting in his departure. Both runners would eventually score, putting the finishing touches on Barnes’ line. The southpaw was charged for nine runs — five earned — on eight hits over four-plus innings to draw his seventh loss.
Evans gave Binghamton its largest lead of the game in the sixth with a long home run to dead center off reliever Connor Graham, making it 10-3. It was Evans’ team-leading 13th homer of the season.
Meanwhile, after giving up three runs in the first, Cohoon settled in and faced one over the minimum in the second through fifth innings. However, Akron ripped three consecutive one-out singles in the sixth to load the bases. Damaso Espino struck the knockout blow to the lefty — a two-out, two-run single to right. Cohoon notched the win despite allowing five runs on 11 hits over 5 2/3 innings.
The bullpen took it the rest of the way, allowing one run over the final 3 1/3 innings. Roy Merritt made his first outing since returning from Triple-A Buffalo and offered up 1 1/3 innings of shutout relief following Cohoon. Edgar Ramirez and Derrick Ellison threw the eighth and ninth, respectively, to seal the win.
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