BINGHAMTON, NY – The Binghamton Rumble Ponies (12-28) snapped their six-game losing streak with a 7-2 victory over the Portland Sea Dogs (24-17) in the series finale on Father’s Day at Mirabito Stadium. (Box Score)
Carlos Cortes, Mark Vientos, and Hayden Senger homered and Yoel Romero had a two-run double as part of a four-run third. Luc Rennie (1-3) earned the first Double-A win of his career allowing one run over six innings. It was Rennie’s longest outing of the season. Cortes and Vientos each have seven homers on the year to lead the team.
In the third against Portland starter Andrew Politi (1-6), Senger and Wagner Lagrange walked followed by a single from Will Toffey. That set up Romero’s grounds-rule double over the left-field wall that brought home Senger and Lagrange. Then with Dan Rizzie at the plate, reliever Zack Kelly threw a wild pitch scoring Toffey from third. Manny Rodriguez followed with a sacrifice fly to extend the Ponies lead to 5-1.
Right-handed pitchers Tom Hackimer and Connor Grey both made their debuts as members of the Mets organization. Hackimer pitched a scoreless seventh and Grey closed the game out allowing one run over two innings with four strikeouts.
The Rumble Ponies are off Monday before they begin a 12-game road trip starting Tuesday night against the Reading Fightin Phils at FirstEnergy Stadium with first pitch at 7:05 PM ET.
POSTGAME NOTES: Wagner Lagrange was on base four times…Romero finished 2-4 with 2 RBI and a run scored…Senger’s HR was his second of the season.
7 comments:
Senger on fire. NINE games out of last 15 with two or more hits.
Cortes is an extra base hit machine.
I may have said this before but I would move Nick Meyer back to Syracuse. The only time Syracuse pitched well was when he was there. Then, I'd give him regular at bats in AAA with Hayden getting the majority of time at catcher in AA. Mazeika can back up Meyer while getting at bats at 1B and DH and the same goes for David Rodriquez in AA (who I'd move back down). Meyer and Senger have a chance to be good defensive big league catchers. I think the Mets should develop them as much as possible.
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On The Pitching
The Given
We all know that Jake deGrom is very key to the overall 2021 season's success. He stays healthy, and the Mets are a serious threat. He goes down, it could be pretty much over for the Mets, especially without Noah Syndergaard available to cover some of a possible Jake's injury void. This consideration (although a horrid one for us Mets fans to even have to contemplate) is what must be addressed now. And it is.
Getting busy.
First, seeing who is fit or could be made ready to be fit for here soon. How is Carlos Carrasco's hamstring doing? How is Noah's arm progressing? Also seeing what may be available at the AAA Syracuse level. From here, the Mets will make their decisions as to what may be the best way to proceed.
Will the Mets need one more top end starter added or be able to make due with what they have already here and within the organization at their MiLB level.
The bright spot here offensively is that three of their four injured starting players in the field are set to be returning very soon (Nimmo, McNeil, and Conforto) while JD Davis may take a bit longer to get back. But this should be a real bonus for the Mets because all three are rested and all three are already playing MiLB ball as of this past weekend.
Additional Thoughts
1. We all know that Syracuse is slim of pitching talent for here. But as I suggested here last week, try to see if with more close tutoring (Bartolo Colon's tutoring perhaps) maybe one or two from the grouping of these four (Kilome, Oswalt, Szapucki, and Drew Smith) can be made playoff stretch useful for here. Additional depth insurance I call it.
The NY Knicks head coach (Tom Thibodeau) neglected to do this with his Knick bench players (Frank Ntilikina, Kevin Knox, and Obi Toppin) and they were sat and planted most of the season. You simply cannot develop young talent by having them sitting on the bench game in game out. Some believe that this cost the Knicks dearly in the first round, and by not getting a big/wide Knick center earlier on who could do more than just alley-oops, block shots, and score six points a game. This cost Julius Randle a double-coverage by Atlanta.
Not repeating this mistake (and getting depth maximized) here, does make some sound sense. So develop who you can because you never know.
2. I might also consider trading for another top end starting pitcher. This "just in case with our ace thing" is because that is a base that actually cannot be covered on this team easily. But you have to try. Maybe a top end guy from a team out of it already. Like for instance the Minnesota Twins' and their righty starter Jose Berrios. Jose is in the last season of a $6.1 million a year contract. Maybe sending back towards Minnesota two younger starters of some promise, and then maybe an infielder or outfielder. The Mets do have the depth to consider such a trade I believe.
What else this does is it buys the NY Mets time to get Noah Syndergaard back healthy again for 2022, and without sacrificing the 2021 race going on right now. And Steve C. can sleep again at night too, and maintain a more "TV distance" type of view. You never want to get so close to your work that it actually eats you. What good is that?
Nick Meyer
..is Jerry Grote's clone I think. They look a lot alike in other words. Go check and see.
Jerry is baaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!
On the surface, Meyer reminds one of Grote. Maybe he will grow into a Grote player equivalent.
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