St. Lucie Wins 8th In A Row

Another nail-biter, another St. Lucie Mets win. The Mets hung on to beat the Jupiter Hammerheads 7-6 on Saturday at Tradition Field for their eight consecutive win.

The eight wins in a row is a new season high. The Mets are season-best 20 games over .500 with a 52-32 record. They are 12-3 in the second half and in first place in the Florida State League South Division.

On Saturday the Mets jumped out to a 7-2 lead in the fourth inning on Cam Maron’s two-run single off of Brad Mincey.

The Hammerheads closed the gap with a four-run fifth. Matt Juengel drove in a run on a fielders choice and Blake Barber hit a three-run homer off of Seth Lugo to make it 7-6.

Lugo would go on to strand the tying run at second in the sixth.

Jake Kuebler pitched a scoreless seventh and eighth for his second win of the season. He struck out four and stranded the tying run at second in both innings.

T.J. Chism gave the Mets a scare in the ninth. Colin Moran launched the first pitch he saw deep to right field but Eudy Pina hauled it on on the warning track. Chism struck out Viosergy Rosa and Juengel to end the game.

It was the third save in four nights for Chism. In each save he has inherited a one-run lead in the ninth and closed the ballgame out with a perfect frame.

Rosa gave the Hammerheads and early 2-0 lead with a two-run homer off of John Lannan. It was Rosa’s seventh homer of the season and fifth against the Mets.

Pina put the Mets on the board in the second with an RBI single. Maikis De La Cruz tied the game when he scored on Matt Milroy’s wild pitch later in the inning.

Jeff McNeil put the Mets in front 3-2 with a bases loaded single in the third. De La Cruz followed with an RBI ground out and Pina made it 5-2 with another RBI single.

Maron looked like he blew the game open with his two-run single in the fourth, but the Mets never threatened again offensively until the eighth inning when they loaded the bases. However, Maron grounded out to end that inning.

Lannan went four innings and gave up six hit and the Rosa two-run homer. He didn’t walk a batter and struck out two.

Charlie Lowell took the loss. He gave up four hits and three runs in just 2/3 of an inning. - team press release