Mets Minor League Press Releases

 

Syracuse, NY – The Syracuse Mets wrapped up their six-game series with the Omaha Storm Chasers in strong fashion, winning the series finale, 4-1, on a sunny Sunday at NBT Bank Stadium. The Mets split the series with the Storm Chasers, taking three of the six games in the series. Syracuse has yet to lose a series since June 8th-12th against Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. The Mets have won or split each of their last seven series.   

Syracuse (45-54) got off to a roaring start, scoring three runs on four hits in the first inning. The scoring began in a flash. Kramer Robertson led off the inning with a single. Then, Francisco Álvarez took a pitch on the outside part of the plate and pounded it the other way, sailing over the wall in right-center field for his third Triple-A home run and a 2-0 Mets lead. Álvarez, the top-ranked prospect in Minor League Baseball, now has hits in five straight games. The good news continued for the home team later on in the first inning. After Álvarez’s home run, Daniel Palka walked, and Mark Vientos doubled to put runners on second and third with nobody out. After Nick Plummer struck out, Gosuke Katoh singled to plate Palka and make it 3-0 Syracuse after one inning of play. 

Remarkably, that trio of early runs would prove to hold up, as the Mets pitching was downright outstanding on Sunday afternoon. It all started with David Peterson, who allowed just one run on four hits in four and one-thirds innings with seven strikeouts. It was first Triple-A start for Peterson since May 13th as he’s spent the majority of the season up in the Major Leagues with the New York Mets.   

The one run that Peterson allowed came in the top of the fourth inning. Omaha (49-49) scored on a two-out triple from Dairon Blanco, scoring Emmanuel Rivera to trim the Syracuse lead to two, 3-1. 

From there, the bullpen held the fort. Relievers Trey Cobb, Trevor May, and Thomas Szapucki held Omaha off the board through the eighth inning, allowing just one hit and two baserunners while striking out three batters. Szapucki stood out from the pack, working a 1-2-3 eighth inning with another strikeout. The left-hander also pitched out of the bullpen on Friday night, working another 1-2-3 inning with two strikeouts on that evening. Szapucki has spent the season primarily as a starting pitcher for Syracuse.   

The Mets tacked on their final run of the game in the bottom of the eighth inning. Gosuke Katoh tripled off the top of the right-center field wall leading off the frame and later pranced home on an RBI groundout from Deven Marrero. Katoh finished the week with a double, two triples, and a home run. Katoh now has 15 extra-base hits on the season.   

Bryce Montes de Oca locked down the game once again brilliantly in the top of the ninth, striking out two Omaha batters in a scoreless frame to earn his sixth save in Triple-A this season. The hulking right-handed reliever has struck out an astounding 33 batters in 21 innings with the Syracuse Mets so far this season.

 

BINGHAMTON, NY – The Binghamton Rumble Ponies (35-60) fell 9-6 to the New Hampshire Fisher Cats (13-14, 44-52) on Sunday afternoon as the Ponies dropped four out of six in the series. 

After falling behind in the first on a leadoff home run by Davis Schneider, James McCann’s towering two-run shot to left put the Ponies ahead 2-1. 

New Hampshire regained the lead in the third as Orelvis Martinez’s RBI sacrifice fly put them ahead 3-2. Binghamton answered the bell in the fourth as Nick Meyer hit his first homer of the season as Rumble Pony tying the game at three. 

The Fisher Cats then got to Ponies reliever Jordan Yamamoto (1-1) in the sixth and seventh tacking on three in both innings. Cam Eden went deep with a two-run home run and Trevor Schwecke hit a homer two batters later. Zac Cook’s three-run blast in the seventh put New Hampshire ahead 9-3. Cook reached base four times in the game. 

Binghamton rallied for three runs in the eighth as Wyatt Young’s RBI double and two RBI groundouts from Nick Meyer and Jeremy Vasquez cut the New Hampshire lead to 9-6. Ronny Mauricio, Carlos Cortes and Young all came around to score. 

Andrew Bash (7-3) picked up the win for New Hampshire and Gabriel Ponce got his first save of the season pitching a scoreless and hitless inning and a third walking and striking out one. 

POSTGAME NOTES: Brett Baty, Mauricio, Cortes, Young, Meyer and Vasquez each had two-hit games… The Fisher Cats hit 17 home runs in the series. 

 

Wappingers Falls, NY (July 31, 2022) – The Cyclones won their first series in Hudson Valley since July of 2019 thanks to a 7-0 win over the Renegades on Sunday afternoon. With the win, the Cyclones took four of six games from the ‘Gades and improved to 18-12 in the second half while extending their division lead to 1.5 games. Alex Ramirez was the offensive story for Brooklyn as the 19-year-old went 2-for-5 with two home runs and three RBI. 

After matching zeroes through the first three innings Alex Ramirez got things started in the top of the fourth with a solo home run off the batter’s eye in center field to give Brooklyn a 1-0 lead. In the sixth Ramirez connected on his second home run of the game – this one a two-run shot – to extend the Cyclones lead to 3-0. 

The lead would swell in the top of the seventh, again courtesy of the long ball, as Jose Mena and Joe Suozzi hit back-to-back solo home runs to make it 5-0. Jaylen Palmer tacked on a two-RBI double in the top of the eighth to round out the scoring and give the ‘Clones a 7-0 lead. 

Junior Santos, who lasted just 0.2 innings in his start against Hudson Valley earlier this week, tossed 5.0 shutout frames on Sunday afternoon, scattering just three hits and two walks while striking out seven to get the win for Brooklyn. Daison Acosta added 2.0 flawless innings of relief before Brendan Hardy and Dylan Hall combined for the final 2.0 innings of the game.

 

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (July 31, 2022) – The Palm Beach Cardinals pulled off a shocking 8-7 comeback win against the St. Lucie Mets on Sunday afternoon at Clover Park. 

Trailing 7-3 with one out in the ninth inning, the Cardinals scored five times against Mets reliever Michael Krauza to take the lead. 

RJ Yeager got the rally started with a two-run homer that made it 7-5. After Krauza got the second out of the inning, Chris Rotondo kept the game going with a single. That brought up Darlin Moquette, who rocketed a home run to left field to tie the game 7-7. The next batter Thomas Francisco took Krauza deep to right field with a homer off the foul pole to put the Cardinals ahead 8-7. 

Cardinals reliever Andrew Marrero worked around a leadoff walk in the bottom of the ninth and retired the next three batters to end the game. 

The Mets had a chance to extend their 7-3 lead in the bottom of the eighth with runners on second and third and no outs, but Nelfi Contreras recorded two strikeouts and a pop out to keep the Cardinals within striking distance. He got the win. 

Palm Beach led 3-0 through three innings. The Mets scored three times in the fourth inning to tie the game 3-3. Omar De Los Santos hit a tying two-run single. 

The Mets plated four runs in the bottom of the fourth to jump ahead 7-3. Tanner Murphy walked with the bases loaded to put the Mets up 4-3. William Lugo was hit by a pitch to force home another run. Junior Tilien followed with a two-run single. 

The Mets reloaded the bases with one out in the fourth but did not score again. 

Mets starter Jeffrey Colon pitched five solid innings, scattering five hits and allowing three runs. He struck out six. 

Miguel Alfonseca pitched two scoreless innings and Jace Beck struck out three in a scoreless eighth. 

Tilien and De Los Santos had two hits apiece.