For the second straight night the St. Lucie Mets stunned the Charlotte Stone Crabs by erasing a ninth inning deficit. The Mets scored two in final inning to win 7-6 at Charlotte Sports Park.
The Mets entered the final inning on Wednesday trailing 6-5. It didn’t take long to get the rally started. Eudy Pina led off with a single to center on an 0-2 pitch from Casey Weathers. Gilbert Gomez followed with a double to left center field to put runners on second and third.
With L.J. Mazzilli at the plate, Weathers threw a wild pitch to the back stop that allowed Pina to score and tie the game 6-6. Gomez moved to third. After Mazzilli grounded out, catcher Maxx Tissenbaum failed to reel in a high fastball and it went off his glove to the back stop. Gomez slid safely into home on the passed ball to give the Mets the 7-6 lead.
T.J. Chism recorded a perfect bottom of the ninth with two strikeouts to get the save and complete the comeback.
Robert Coles worked a scoreless seventh and eighth to earn the win.
On Tuesday, the Mets entered the ninth trailing 4-3 and scored three runs - all with two outs - to win 6-4.
The Stone Crabs have now lost three straight games despite having leads in the final inning. On Monday at Jupiter they coughed up a two-run lead when Jupiter’s Viosergy Rosa hit a walkoff three-run homer.
The Stone Crabs jumped on Mets starter Matt Koch early with three runs in the second.
However, the Mets responded with four runs in the third. Leonel Santiago walked two batters and committed an error to load the bases. Mazzilli followed with a two-run double off the wall in left center. Then with two outs, Gavin Cecchini laced a two-run single to put the Mets up 4-3.
Maikis De La Cruz made it 5-3 in the fourth when he scored from third on wild pitch by Kevin Brandt.
All told, the Mets scored two runs on wild pitches and the winning run on a passed ball.
The Stone Crabs tied the game 5-5 on Max Tissenbaum’s two run single off of Koch in the fifth. They grabbed a 6-5 lead in the sixth on a two out RBI single up the middle by Patrick Leonard off of Julian Hilario.
The lead wouldn’t hold though. Pina and Gomez, who got the tying hit and go-ahead hit in Tuesday’s win, teamed up again in the ninth to score the tying and winning runs. - team press release
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