Minor League Press Releases

 

Syracuse, NY –The Syracuse Mets took an early lead but couldn’t hold on during Saturday night’s game against the Omaha Storm Chasers, dropping the contest, 6-3. Omaha has now won three out of the first five games in the six-game series. 

Syracuse (44-54) struck first in the bottom of the first, taking advantage of some strong swings at the plate and sloppy defense from the Storm Chasers. With nobody on base and one out, Francisco Álvarez pounded a double off the base of the left-center field wall on one bounce, upping his hitting streak to four games. Nick Plummer then sliced a sharp single into right field, initially holding Álvarez at third base. However, right fielder Nate Eaton threw the ball away from right field on the throw back into the infield, allowing Álvarez to prance home with the game’s first run for a 1-0 lead. 

After that, Omaha (49-48) took control, plating single runs in the second, third, fifth, and seven innings to take a commanding 4-1 lead. In the third and fifth, Drew Waters launched solo home runs to push the Storm Chasers to a 3-1 lead all by his lonesome. The 23-year-old from Georgia has had an outstanding week in Syracuse, going a combined 8-for-18 at the plate with three home runs, two doubles, seven runs scored, and five runs driven in. 

In the top of the seventh, José Briceño doubled to start the inning, moved up to third on a wild pitch, and scored on a Michael Massey sacrifice fly to the center-field warning track. The run came off of the rehabbing Big Leaguer Trevor May who made his second rehab appearance with Syracuse this week on Saturday night. May has allowed two earned runs combined between his two relief innings so far this week. 

In the bottom of the seventh, the Mets got a run back from a familiar face. Mark Vientos entered the game as a pinch-hitter with nobody on base and one out and wasted no time, lining the first pitch he saw over the fence in right-center field for his team-leading 19th home run of the season. 

Omaha scored single runs in the top of the eighth and ninth innings to make it 6-2 and essentially put the game away. Brewer Hicklen hit a solo homer in the eighth, his second home run of the week. Briceño doubled and scored in the ninth, finishing the night 3-for-4 with three doubles and two runs scored. 

Syracuse tried to mount a rally in the bottom of the ninth as Daniel Palka singled to start the inning and moved up to second and then third with nobody out on a pair of wild pitches. After consecutive outs dimmed the comeback hopes, Deven Marrero singled with two outs to score Palka and keep the late rally alive at 6-3. However, it would die there. JT Riddle struck out to end the game and hand Omaha its third win of the week.

 

BINGHAMTON, NY – The Binghamton Rumble Ponies (7-18, 35-59) held a 4-3 lead going into the ninth inning, but Cam Eden’s two out single scoring Luis De Los Santos in a two-run ninth gave New Hampshire a 5-4 win on Saturday night at Mirabito Stadium as the Ponies left runners on first and third in the bottom of the ninth. 

The New Hampshire rally started with a single from Addison Barger and a double from De Los Santos. Phil Clarke followed with a sacrifice fly off Ponies reliever Antonio Santos (2-3) scoring Barger to tie the game at four. Eden’s single with two outs off Dedniel Núñez was the go-ahead tally. Barger went 4-5 with a run scored. 

After falling behind 2-0 in the first on a Zach Britton two-run home run, the Ponies took a 3-2 lead in the fourth. Cody Bohanek’s RBI double scoring Wyatt Young put Binghamton on the board. Johneshwy Fargas’s sacrifice fly brought Zach Ashford home to tie the game and Bohanek scored on a wild pitch for the lead. 

New Hampshire (12-14, 43-52) found the equalizer on a Sebastian Espino home run to left off Ponies starter Jose Butto in the fifth. Addison Barger’s fielding error off the bat of Luke Ritter put the Ponies ahead 4-3 in the bottom of the frame as Ronny Mauricio scored on the play. 

Ponies reliever Willy Taveras threw two and a third scoreless frames giving up four hits while striking out one and working out of three jams with runners on in the fifth, sixth and seventh. 

POSTGAME NOTES: Brett Baty’s 12-game hit streak came to an end tonight… Ronny Mauricio had a multi-hit game. 

 

Wappingers Falls, NY (July 30, 2022) – The Cyclones scored early and held on late to defeat the Hudson Valley Renegades by the score of 7-5 on Saturday evening at Dutchess Stadium. The Brooklyn bats pounded out 14 hits, led by three-hit efforts from Jose Peroza and Rowdey Jordan. With the win, Brooklyn improves to 17-12 in the second half and leapfrogs the Renegades to take a ½ game lead in the division. 

Brooklyn jumped out to an early lead and never looked back, scoring twice in the bottom of the first. With two outs and Rowdey Jordan on third, Nic Gaddis lofted a flyball to deep right field that eluded Aldanis Sanchez and allowed Jordan to score the game’s first run and the Cyclones catcher to cruise into second. After a wild pitch moved him over to third base Jose Peroza had an infield single to score Gaddis and make it 2-0. 

The lead would grow in the top of the 4th after Joe Suozzi and Shervyen Newton led off the inning with back-to-back singles and the pair moved into scoring position on a ground out from Matt Rudick. Rowdey Jordan took advantage of the scoring chance with a triple that split the gap in right-center field to double Brooklyn’s lead to 4-0. 

The ‘Clones tacked on two more runs in the fifth courtesy of a Joe Suozzi RBI triple and a Shervyen Newton RBI single to make it 6-0 headed to the bottom of the fifth. 

Nick Zwack made the start for Brooklyn and cruised through the first 4.0 innings, but after a very long top of the fifth, the southpaw struggled in the bottom of the frame. TJ Rumfield singled to start the frame and Grant Richardson followed with a one-out double to put runners on second and third. Carlos Narvaez then ripped a double on the first pitch he saw to score a pair and trim Brooklyn’s lead to 6-2. Aldenis Sanchez then singled and Trey Sweeney walked to load the bases and put an end to Zwack’s night. LHP Cam Opp (1-2) entered the bases loaded situation and was able to limit the damage getting the second out of the inning on a sac fly before getting Jasson Dominguez to ground out to end the frame with the Cyclones ahead by the score of 6-3. 

Brooklyn tacked on another run in the top of the eighth on a no-doubt homer from Stanley Consuegra – a solo shot – to extend Brooklyn’s lead to 7-3. 

Nolan Clenney followed Opp out of the Brooklyn bullpen and struck out the first eight batters he faced before allowing a single with two outs in the bottom of the ninth which was followed by a two-run home run from Grant Richardson that cut the Cyclones lead in half at 7-5. 

Justin Courtney came on to strike out Carlos Narvaez for the final out of the game to collect his sixth save of the season.

 

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (July 30, 2022) – The St. Lucie Mets shut out the Palm Beach Cardinals 2-0 on Saturday at Clover Park. 

A trio of pitchers combined for to keep the Cardinals off the scoreboard. Tony Dibrell, making his third MiLB rehab start, stranded runners at third base in both of his innings. He gave up on hit, walked one and struck out three. 

Keyshawn Askew took over in the third inning and thoroughly dominated. He pitched six innings and allowed just two infield singles while striking out eight. He got the win to improve to 4-0. 

Trey McLoughlin struck out two batters in a perfect ninth inning for his fourth save in July. He lowered his July ERA to 0.79 ERA (1 ER in 11.1 innings). 

Tanner Murphy drove in both runs for the Mets. He hit a two out solo home run off Cardinals starters Hancel Rincon (0-2) in the third inning. The homer was the second for Murphy in as many games. 

Justin Guerrera led off the fifth inning with a double and Murphy drove him in with a two-out single against Rincon for a 2-0 lead.