DOWN UNDER: Mets Minor League Results - 8-21-15

                                                     

DOWN UNDER: Mets Minor League Results - 8-21-15

5 of 7 wins, with some great performances, individually and team-wise.

STARS OF THE DAY: Chris Flexen - a magnificent 8 inning performance; 3 Taijeron homers

HONORABLE MENTION: Darrell Ceciliani, David Wright

 SCORES:

Las Vegas (69-58) 8 - Omaha 3

Binghamton (67-55) 9 - New Hampshire 5

St Lucie (62-62)  2 - Palm Beach 3

Savannah  (74-48) 5 - Kannapolis 0

Brooklyn (27-31) 1  - Aberdeen 5

Kingsport  (31-25)  3 - Bluefield 2

GCL Mets (26-27)  2 - Nationals 1

Now Here's the Scoop: 

Las Vegas went with lefty Gorski (8-8, 5.20). Gave up 2 homers in 5 innings, but won because Travis Taijeron hit 3 homers, shades of Yoenes Cespedes. Typical Travis year, with 46 extra base hits in 347 at bats.  .580 slug %.

Darrell Ceciliani (.353) joined the fun with 3 hits and 2 RBIs.

 
Binghamton  hoped for clear skies after Thursday's rain out. Clear enough to pound out 16 hits, and a 9-5 win. Ynoa a decent 6 innings for the win.  Walters and Morris tossed a scoreless inning each, and Smoker allowed 2 in the 9th in a rare bad relief outing.

St Lucie Will miss David Wright, who went 3-4. .375 in 24 ABs.

McNeil, Sabol, and Rosario had 2 hits each. Miller Diaz was ineffective again, 11 hits but unproductive, 3-2 loss resulted.

 
Savannah sent 1-0, 0.73 Chris Flexen out to try for consecutive Gnats win # 17. Flexen was magnifique: 8 IP, 4 H, 0 BB, 10 Ks on 100 pitches.  WOW! Next Met ace? 2-0, 0.44.

Five runs from a well-balanced attack, including a Michael Katz "tape measure blast" and yes, a 5-0 win, and a SEVENTEENTH STRAIGHT WIN!

 
Brooklyn hoped to build upon a tremendous win last night. Nope.  Back to not hitting. Holes back in bats. Another loss.

Kingsport hoped to get Eric Manoah (0-3, 6.35) in the win column. Six innings of 2 run ball. Adrian Almeida threw 3 shutout innings with 5 Ks and got the win thanks to a go-ahead 9th inning triple by Dashing Winningham.

 
GCL Mets got great pitching from Adonis Uceta (7 IP, 1 R, 7K) and 2 scoreless innings from Jordan Humphreys to win a 2-1 squeaker, despite just 2 hits from GCL Mets hitters. 

The two 6th inning runs resulted from two walks and a single, then a bases loaded HBP and a DP ground out.  Overpowered them.  Take them how you can get them.

GOAT - Cyclone bats (.216)