Kevin Plawecki finished a triple shy of the cycle and the Binghamton Mets rallied to erase a pair of deficits in an 8-6 victory over the New Britain Rock Cats on Saturday night at NYSEG Stadium. Plawecki launched his third home run in as many games and reached base safely in all five plate appearances to lead the B-Mets to their second straight win.
The B-Mets were forced to play catch up as the Rock Cats jumped on B-Mets starter Hansel Robles for four runs in the first three innings. Corey Wimberly put New Britain on the board with an RBI single in the second and Tony Thomas delivered a three-run double in the third.
Binghamton answered in the next two frames. Plawecki cleared the left-field wall with a solo shot off Tyler DUffer in the third. The B-Mets kept the momentum going in the fourth inning. Dustin Lawley and Darrell Ceciliani tallied back-to-back singles to start the frame. With two outs, Kyle Johnson doubled to right field to plate both runners and cut the deficit to one. Matt Reynolds singled home Johnson to tie the game at four.
The Rock Cats took the lead back in the fifth. Nate Hanson doubled to left-center field and moved to third on a groundout. Reynaldo Rodriguez hit a sacrifice fly to center field that brought home Hanson to give New Britain their second lead.
The advantage was extended in the sixth. Hamilton Bennett came in to relieve Robles with a runner on first and two outs. Wimberly smoked a triple to the gap in left field to make it a two-run lead for the Rock Cats.
Binghamton came right back. In the bottom of the sixth, Travis Taijeron led off with a no-doubt home run over the wall in left field. Later in the frame, Reynolds worked a two-out walk and stole second base. Plawecki doubled home Reynolds to tie the game at six.
Binghamton completed their comeback against Adrian Salcedo in the seventh. With the game knotted at six, the B-Mets put the first two aboard. B-Mets center fielder Ceciliani ripped the first pitch he saw into right for a two-run single, giving Binghamton the lead for good.
John Church and Adam Kolarek combined to post a scoreless eighth and Chasen Bradford tossed a blank ninth to earn his tenth save of the season.
Church (2-0) struck out three over 1-1/3 innings to earn his first win. Salcedo (0-6) allowed the game-winning run in his sixth loss. Four B-Mets relievers combined to throw 3-1/3 scoreless innings after Robles exited after allowing six runs.
POST-GAME NOTES: Matt Reynolds singled in the first inning to extend his hitting streak to 11 games… Kevin Plawecki is hitting .395 with 4 home runs and 21 RBI in the month of May…five B-Met players tallied multi-hit nights…New York Mets catcher Travis d’Arnaud is scheduled to make a Major League rehab appearance with the B-Mets on Sunday night - team press release
Is Plawecki, as of today, a better major league caliber catcher than d'Arnaud?
ReplyDeleteThere's a lot of difference between AA and MLB. Ask d'Arnaud.
ReplyDeleteRight now, that's impossible to determine, but, so far. d'Arnaud is a bust at the plate in the major leauges
ReplyDeleteTravis has shown flashes, he just needs time to settle in. I never expected him to be a middle of the order hitter like some, but I still think he's going to be one of the better catchers in MLB and a very good #7 or #8 hitter. When all of the Mets' young talent matures and a few more acquisitions are made I expect them to have a deep rotation and a long lineup and I expect TDA to be a part of that.
ReplyDeletewe're never going to know what he can do until he's healthy over a long period of a time and he follows and effective #5 and #6 hitter
ReplyDeleteLagares, Murphy, Wright, and Grandy are establishing something but it all goes down the drain when C. Young and Duda come up
Might as well raise Flores and d'Arnaud to 5 and 6