Charlotte knots up series with 8-7 win over SyracuseThe Lakeland Flying Tigers held off a ninth inning rally by the St. Lucie Mets to win 4-3 in a game that ended with a controversial call on Wednesday at Joker Marchant Stadium.
With two outs in the ninth and Blaine McIntosh on third base as the tying run, Chase Estep grounded a ball off first baseman Justice Bigbie. Lakeland second baseman Cristian Santana backed up the play and threw to pitcher Blake Holub covering first base and the field umpire called Estep out at the bag despite the Mets arguing Estep beat the throw, which would have scored McIntosh to tie the game.
The loss snapped a four-game winning streak for the Mets. Lakeland snapped a six-game losing streak to St. Lucie.
The Mets jumped out to an early 3-0 lead. They worked three walks against Jackson Jobe in the second inning and knocked Jobe out of the game when McIntosh beat out an infield single with the bases loaded to make it 1-0.
Tanner Murphy and Brad Malm hit a pair of sac flies off reliever Carlos Marcano in the third inning.
The Flying Tigers tied the game with three runs against Mets starter Franklin Sanchez in the third. Santana hit a RBI single for the first run, then later in the inning with two outs, Manuel Sequera hit a 3-2 pitch for a game-tying homer.
Lakeland took the lead for good in the fourth inning without a hit. Adinso Reyes took a leadoff walk from Jace Beck (0-1). Reyes went to second on a Beck wild pitch, advanced to third on a ground out and scored on another Beck wild pitch to put the Flying Tigers up 4-3.
Flying Tigers (3-2) reliever Cam Brown fired four shutout innings with six strikeouts to get the win.
Holub was credited with a scoreless eighth and ninth for his fourth save.
McIntosh went 2 for 3 with two singles and two walks. He was the only player in the game with multiple hits.
The Mets (65-44, 25-19) and Flying Tigers (51-56, 20-22) play the third game of their series at Joker Marchant Stadium on Thursday. First pitch is 6:30 p.m.
Ponies Blanked by Squirrels The Binghamton Rumble Ponies (13-27, 41-68) fell to the Richmond Flying Squirrels 9-0 on Wednesday night at The Diamond, as the two teams split the first two games of the series.
Richmond (13-27, 53-56) scored two in the first on an RBI single from Tristan Peters and a balk. In the third, Tyler Fitzgerald hit a two-run homer off Tony Dibrell (1-1) to make it 4-0.
The Flying Squirrels then scored four in the fifth, capped off by RBI doubles from Peters and Armani Smith. Fitzgerald finished the game 2-2, with three runs scored and three RBI. Peters was 2-4 with two runs scored and two RBI. Each of the first four hitters in the Richmond lineup had multi-hit games.
Richmond starter Kyle Harrison (4-2) allowed just two hits over six innings, with no walks and 10 strikeouts. Harrison retired the last 12 hitters he faced. Dibrell took the loss allowing four runs and three hits over three frames with two walks and five strikeouts.
The two teams continue their series on Thursday night with first pitch at 6:35 PM and pregame coverage getting underway at 6:20 PM.
Cyclones Score Early, Hold on Late in 7-5 Win over Renegades
The Brooklyn Cyclones scored early and then held on late to defeat the Hudson Valley Renegades by the score of 7-5 on Wednesday evening on Coney Island. The Renegades scored four runs in the ninth – all with two outs – and had the tying runs on base before the Cyclones were able to close out the win. Jose Peroza and William Lugo each had three hits to pace the Brooklyn bats. Peroza is now batting .348 (16-46) in August with nine RBI in 14 games for the month.
After a scoreless first inning, Brooklyn opened the scoring in the bottom of the second. Jose Peroza started the threat with a leadoff single and Joe Suozzi worked a one-out walk to put a pair of runners aboard. Jaylen Palmer was then hit by a pitch to load the bases and Matt O’Neill took advantage of the scoring chance with a line drive single to center to plate the game’s first run. Shervyen Newton then worked a bases loaded walk to force home another run and Matt Rudick added a sac fly to extend the lead to 3-0.
Hudson Valley got their bats started in the top of the third when Tyler Hardman connected on his 17th home run of the season – a solo shot that made it 3-1. The Renegades loaded the bases to chase Brooklyn starter Jeffrey Colon from the game. Nolan Clenney was summoned from the bullpen with the bags full and got Carlos Narvaez to pop out on the infield to end the threat.
Brooklyn built on their lead in the fourth when Jose Peroza had a one-out double and William Lugo followed with an RBI single that made it 4-1 ‘Clones. Brooklyn tacked on another run in the fifth thanks to an RBI single from Jose Peroza and then another in the seventh on William Lugo’s second home run of the season to make it 6-1.
Brooklyn would round out their scoring in the bottom of the eighth after Jaylen Palmer led off the frame with a single, stole second, advanced to third on a wild pitch and came home on a sac fly from Shervyen Newton to tack on what would prove to be a pivotal insurance run and extend the Brooklyn lead to 7-1.
The Brooklyn bullpen was dominant for most of the evening, as Nolan Clenney tossed 2.1 scoreless frames before turning it over to Keyshawn Askew who was unhittable through his first 3.0 innings but ran into trouble in the top of the ninth. After getting Carlos Narvaez for the first out, Askew walked back-to-back runners before striking out Eduardo Torrealba giving the Renegades just one out to play with. But Jasson Dominguez doubled into the right field corner to score a pair and started a string of three-straight doubles that would get Hudson Valley within two runs at 7-5. Daison Acosta was summoned from the pen and surrendered the third of the trio of doubles and walked Grant Richardson to put the tying runs aboard. But the righthander settled down and struck out Spencer Henson on three pitches to end the game.
Brooklyn and Hudson Valley will square off again on Thursday evening when Brooklyn sends Junior Santos to the mound. Game time is 7:00 PM.
Flying Tigers Hold Off Mets, 4-3
The Lakeland Flying Tigers held off a ninth inning rally by the St. Lucie Mets to win 4-3 in a game that ended with a controversial call on Wednesday at Joker Marchant Stadium.
With two outs in the ninth and Blaine McIntosh on third base as the tying run, Chase Estep grounded a ball off first baseman Justice Bigbie. Lakeland second baseman Cristian Santana backed up the play and threw to pitcher Blake Holub covering first base and the field umpire called Estep out at the bag despite the Mets arguing Estep beat the throw, which would have scored McIntosh to tie the game.
The loss snapped a four-game winning streak for the Mets. Lakeland snapped a six-game losing streak to St. Lucie.
The Mets jumped out to an early 3-0 lead. They worked three walks against Jackson Jobe in the second inning and knocked Jobe out of the game when McIntosh beat out an infield single with the bases loaded to make it 1-0.
Tanner Murphy and Brad Malm hit a pair of sac flies off reliever Carlos Marcano in the third inning.
The Flying Tigers tied the game with three runs against Mets starter Franklin Sanchez in the third. Santana hit a RBI single for the first run, then later in the inning with two outs, Manuel Sequera hit a 3-2 pitch for a game-tying homer.
Lakeland took the lead for good in the fourth inning without a hit. Adinso Reyes took a leadoff walk from Jace Beck (0-1). Reyes went to second on a Beck wild pitch, advanced to third on a ground out and scored on another Beck wild pitch to put the Flying Tigers up 4-3.
Flying Tigers (3-2) reliever Cam Brown fired four shutout innings with six strikeouts to get the win.
Holub was credited with a scoreless eighth and ninth for his fourth save.
McIntosh went 2 for 3 with two singles and two walks. He was the only player in the game with multiple hits.
The Mets (65-44, 25-19) and Flying Tigers (51-56, 20-22) play the third game of their series at Joker Marchant Stadium on Thursday. First pitch is 6:30 p.m.
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