Josh Satin drove in three runs with a pair of hits, but two crucial errors committed by the B-Mets in the late innings Friday night swayed the game in Erie’s favor 11-8 at Jerry Uht Park. The game, which lasted three-hours, 54-minutes, was the longest of the season for Binghamton and the fourth-longest, nine-inning game in the 19-year history of the franchise.
Erie struck the crippling blow in the bottom of the eighth courtesy of an error in left field. John Lujan spelled Dylan Owen in the seventh and got into trouble with runners at the corners and two outs. Alden Carrithers came to the plate and lined sharply to left, where Sean Ratliff misread the ball and muffed the catch, allowing both runners to score, putting the SeaWolves on top for good, 10-8. Erie would tally again in the eighth, thanks to another error. Lujan allowed three unearned runs over two innings and was hung with his first loss of the year.
Satin put the B-Mets in front in the first. After Raul Reyes singled leading off the game and took second on a wild pitch, Satin grounded a single into center off Anthony Shawler, plating Reyes.
Binghamton (53-54) brought nine men to the plate in the second and stretched the lead to five. Marshall Hubbard doubled to start and scored with one out when Jose Coronado followed suit with double into the right field corner, making it 2-0 B-Mets. Brahiam Maldonado followed and was hit by a pitch, putting two aboard. After Reyes struck out, Satin ripped a double off the wall in right-center, chasing two more home. Ratliff capped the inning with an RBI knock to left, advancing the lead to 5-0. Shawler was pulled in favor of lefty Ramon Garcia after Ratliff’s hit. The starter was charged five runs on seven hits over 1 2/3 innings.
Erie (44-63) issued a reply in the second against Mike Antonini, who had struck out the side in order in his first inning. Rawley Bishop worked the southpaw for a walk to start, Billy Nowlin and Kody Kaiser followed with consecutive singles and Bryan Pounds cleared the bases with a grand slam homer to left, pulling the SeaWolves within a run, 5-4. It was Pounds’ fourth jack of the season with Erie.
Bishop brought the teams back even in the third. Antonini served up his second gopher ball of the game to the SeaWolves first baseman who lofted the ball out to right-center for his sixth homer, a solo shot, tying the game at five.
Antonini lasted until the fourth. After giving up back-to-back singles to Pounds and Jeff Kunkel, Cale Iorg smacked a two-out, two-run double to left, vaulting Erie into the lead, 7-5, and knocking the southpaw from the game. He was charged for seven runs on eight hits over 3 2/3 innings.
Owen relieved Antonini and worked the next 2 1/3 innings allowing a run in the process to give Erie an 8-5 lead.
Meanwhile, Garcia was dominant until the sixth inning, having held the B-Mets hitless over 3 1/3 innings. However, Mike Nickeas woke up the Binghamton dugout with a solo homer to left leading off the sixth, his fourth of the year. Two batters later, Maldonado joined Nickeas with a solo blast to left, his seventh of the season, bringing the B-Mets within a run, 8-7.
The SeaWolves bullpen imploded in the next inning. Jose Ortega, who replaced Garcia in the sixth after the long ball, retired the first three men he faced before walking Zach Lutz with two outs in the seventh. Left-hander Matt Hoffman was summoned to face the left-handed hitting Marshall Hubbard, but walked the first baseman. He proceeded to walk the next two as well, culminating with Coronado, whose bases-loaded walk forced home Lutz to tie the score.
The B-Mets were outhit 16-10 by Erie, which was led by Pounds, who drove in five runs with a 3-for-5 performance.
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