B-Mets Lose Again

The Richmond Flying Squirrels collected eleven hits, including ten forextra-bases, and defeated the Binghamton Mets 9-4 Wednesday night at TheDiamond. Ehrie Adrianza and Gary Brown led the charge, combining for fourdoubles, a triple, a home run and four RBI.

Infront of a sold-out crowd of 9,560, the Flying Squirrels jumped out to an earlylead against B-Mets starter Greg Peavey. Brown led off the first by scorching adouble down the left field line and scored when Mark Minicozzi doubled to leftcenter. Tommy Joseph made it a two-run game with an RBI two-bagger to rightcenter. Richmond added another run in the second on an RBI triple by Brown.

Binghamtonanswered back in the third against Richmond starter Craig Westcott.  Peavey bounced a single up the middle, movedto third on a ground-rule double by Reese Havens and scored when Westcottuncorked a wild pitch.

TheB-Mets cut the deficit to one with another score in the fifth. Eric Campbellbounced a ground ball off the foot of Westcott that ricocheted into left field,allowing Juan Lagares to score from second.

Richmondresponded in a big way in the bottom of the fifth. Tommy Joseph smacked athree-run homer to left to kick the lead to four. Peavey’s night came to aclose two batters later. The righty allowed six runs on eight hits over 4.2innings, extending his winless streak to seven games.

AfterRichmond tacked on two more runs against Adrian Rosario in the sixth, theB-Mets made one last push in the seventh. Lagares reached on an infield singlewith one out, ending Westcott’s start. Campbell greeted reliever Ari Ronick bylining a two-run homer over the left field wall, capping a three-RBI night.

Adrianzawrapped up the Richmond scoring with a solo home run off Erik Turgeon in theeighth. Ronick took the game to the finish line, throwing 2.2 innings of reliefto secure Richmond’s fourth-straight win.

Westcott(7-6) snapped a four-game winless streak with the victory. He allowed threeruns on seven hits over 6.1 innings. Peavey’s (3-6) losing streak reached fivegames with the loss.

TheB-Mets (37-46) continue their series in Richmond Thursday night at 7:05 PM.Former San Francisco Giants farmhand Zack Wheeler takes the hill for Binghamtonagainst RHP Chris Heston. The Horizons Federal Credit Union pre-game show beginsat 6:50 PM on Newsradio 1290 WNBF.