8/10/12

B-Mets 6.5 Games Out

The Binghamton Mets racked up 13 hits and moved to within 6.5 games of aplayoff berth in a 6-4 win over the New Britain Rock Cats Thursday night atNYSEG Stadium. The B-Mets bumped the Rock Cats to third in the Eastern Divisionby taking three of four in the series.
                    
Afterthree scoreless innings, the B-Mets broke through in the third. Allan Dykstraled off with a walk from starter Logan Darnell, took second on a single andscored on consecutive groundouts.

Thefloodgates opened on Darnell in the fifth. After two singles opened the inning,Wilmer Flores doubled Binghamton’s lead by chopping a double into left field. EricCampbell followed with an RBI single through the hole on the left side. JefryMarte capped the four-run inning with a double down the third base line, givingBinghamton a 5-0 lead.

B-Metsstarter Greg Peavey skated through the first five innings without allowing a run,but his stretch came to a halt in the sixth on a sac fly by Oswaldo Arcia.

NewBritain continued their offensive push in the seventh. With two on, Nate Hansonpoked an RBI single to center and Estarlin De Los Santos followed with arun-scoring single up the third base line. Peavey exited with one out and lefthis fate to the bullpen.

JeffKaplan entered and allowed one to score immediately. Aaron Hicks greeted therighty with a run-scoring fielder’s choice, cutting Binghamton’s lead to one.New Britain’s threat ramped up as Kaplan allowed a single and walked a batterto load the bases for Chris Colabello. The reliever escaped by inducing Colabelloto roll into an inning-ending force out.

JuanCenteno added an insurance run with an RBI single off Jose Gonzalez in theseventh before Kaplan returned to toss a perfect eighth. Ryan Fraser entered inthe ninth and worked around a two-out walk to secure his second save.

Peavey(6-7) allowed four runs on nine hits over 6.1 innings and earned his third winin his last four starts. Darnell (8-10) suffered his fourth-straight loss,allowing five runs on eleven hits over 5.2 innings.

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