Danny Espinosa ripped three homers, including the game-winner in the tenth, sending Harrisburg past the B-Mets 5-3 in 10 innings Wednesday night at NYSEG Stadium. Zach Lutz managed a multi-homer game for Binghamton, striking a pair of solo blasts. He has now ripped seven homers in seven games since returning to the B-Mets lineup.
Mike Antonini and Andrew Kown threw up dueling scoreless frames leading up until the fourth when Binghamton (54-57) broke through. Lutz hammered a 1-1 offering from Kown on a line out to left for his 14th homer of the season.
Raul Reyes advanced the lead to two with a blast of his own. On a 2-1 fastball that was elevated, Reyes struck a mammoth blow over the batter’s eye in dead center, making it 2-0 B-Mets. It was his seventh homer of the season.
Harrisburg (58-53) answered in the sixth in the form of Espinosa, who hit the first of his blasts out to left off Antonini, bringing the Senators within a run, 2-1.
Antonini exited after six innings with his 12th quality start off the season. He allowed a run on four hits and left with a chance to win.
However, the bullpen would not permit the lefty to win. Manuel Alvarez entered in the seventh and gave up a two-out homer to Devin Ivany that left the yard to center, trimming the lead to a run, 3-2.
Espinosa struck the tying blow in the eighth, lacing a homer out to left-center, an opposite-field, solo shot to tie the score. It marked the first time this season that the switch-hitting shortstop had homered from both sides of the plate.
Kown, who exited after the sixth, was replaced by Chuck James. James held Binghamton hitless over three innings to send the game into extras.
In the tenth, Edgar Ramirez, the B-Mets fourth pitcher of the night, walked pinch-hitter Brad Coon, leading to Espinosa. The switch-hitter struck again with his third home run of the evening, driving a 3-2 fastball from Ramirez out to left-center, vaulting the Senators into the lead, 5-3.
The three-homer game was the first of Espinosa’s career and first against Binghamton since Erie’s Alex Avila accomplished the feat July 24, 2009 at Jerry Uht Park.
James would be credited with the win after Cole Kimball fired a 1-2-3 ninth, striking out the side in order, for his third save.
Jose Coronado managed his second straight two-hit day at the top of the order and has now hit in eight of his last nine games.
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