Reese Havens ripped two homers, including the game-winner in the tenth off Santos Arias, to power Binghamton past slumping New Britain 4-3 in 10 innings at New Britain Stadium Friday night. The B-Mets are now a perfect 4-0 in extra-innings.
Binghamton (26-28) drew first blood in the third inning off starter Tyler Robertson. Kirk Nieuwenhuis worked a walk to reach with one out, leading to Havens. The left-handed hitter pulled an inside fastball from Robertson, curling it inside the foul pole in right for a two-run homer to pit the B-Mets a 2-0 advantage.
New Britain (14-40) provided an answer in the bottom of the frame. With one out, starter Josh Stinson walked nine-hole hitter Chris Cates on four pitches. Ben Revere reached with a hard ground ball into the hole on the right side. Havens dived to corral it, but his throw to second was not in time to get Cates. Brandon Roberts plated Cates with a single to left, moving the Rock Cats within a run.
Stinson cruised into the sixth inning, having retired seven straight until fatigue set in. After getting Revere to fly out to center, Stinson walked Roberts and Rene Tosoni. The righty was pulled in favor of Scott Shaw. Shaw allowed the tying run to score on an Erik Lis RBI single before getting out of the inning. Stinson was charged for two runs over a season-long, 5 1/3 innings.
Robertson exited to a no-decision after six innings with a quality start in tow. The southpaw allowed just two runs on three hits and struck out five.
Cole DeVries entered for Robertson and fired a 1-2-3 seventh inning, but ran up against it in the eighth. Jose Coronado led off the inning with a single. Nieuwenhuis moved him into scoring position with a well-placed bunt. DeVries became erratic to the next two hitters, walking the bases loaded. Cleanup hitter Lucas Duda gave Binghamton the lead back at 3-2 with a clean single to left, plating Coronado. However, the B-Mets could not muster anything further and was forced to settle for just one run.
In the bottom of the eighth, Derrick Ellison spelled Shaw and promptly walked the leadoff hitter, Roberts. Tosoni bunted him up to second, where with two outs, Yangervis Solarte singled him home on a bloop to center, tying the score.
Both teams got the winning run into scoring position early on in their respective halves of the ninth inning, but failed to score. In the 10th, however, Havens rocked a 2-0 fastball from Arias over the right-field wall for his second homer of the night, vaulting Binghamton to a 4-3 lead. Havens has recorded two-homer days twice over Binghamton’s last three games.
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