Mack’s Daily Minors Recap - 9-8-2022 Games

 

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The Syracuse Mets snapped a six-game losing streak in style on Thursday night, walking off as 2-1 winners in ten innings over the Rochester Red Wings on a sunny night at NBT Bank Stadium. Mets starting pitcher José Butto starred on the night with seven scoreless innings.   

Butto was working one of the best starts of his career. Butto tossed seven scoreless innings on just four hits with three strikeouts and not a single walk. The right-hander finished with a dramatic flourish. With Jake Alu on second base and two outs, Donovan Casey hit a high chopper to third base that backed up Mark Vientos while he was fielding the ball. Vientos bounced the throw to first, allowing Casey to reach base. However, on the play, Alu got greedy and tried to score all the way from second on the plate. Daniel Palka made a heads-up play, whipping a throw to home plate to nab Alu and clinch the sterling scoreless outing for Butto.   

The Mets scratched across the first run of the game and took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the sixth. After a one-out double from Palka, Jake Mangum came to the plate and promptly punched a single into center field to score Palka and plate the game’s first run. Mangum finished the game 2-for-4 at the plate. He has driven in four combined runs over the past two games.   

Syracuse walked off winners. Meyer started the inning as the free runner at second base with nobody out, promptly advancing to third when Travis Jankowski sacrificed him over via a bunt. Rochester played the matchup game, walking consecutive batters to pitch to the left-handed hitting Dominic Smith with a left-handed pitcher Francisco Perez on the mound. Smith made it a moot point, lofting a fly ball deep enough into right field for a sacrifice fly to score Meyer and give Syracuse a 2-1 win. 

 Prospect stats: 

C  Francisco Alvarez -     IL

DH Dom Smith - 0-3, RBI, .269

3B Mark Vientos - 1-4, .279

1B Daniel Palka - 2-3, R, .266

OF  Jake Mangum - 2-4, R, .300

RP  Steve Nogosek - 1-IP, 0-R, K, 1.19

 

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Izzy Wilson’s go-ahead two-run homer in the seventh inning proved to be the difference as the Binghamton Rumble Ponies (23-35, 51-76) fell to the Portland Sea Dogs 5-3 on Thursday night at Hadlock Field.

After the Sea Dogs scored two in the fifth to take a 3-1 lead, the Ponies once again clawed back in the sixth. With runners on the corners and none out, an errant pickoff throw from Cody Scroggins allowed Mauricio to score from third and Luke Ritter to advance to third to make it a one-run game. Later in the frame, Nic Gaddis drove home Ritter on an RBI single to left center to tie the game at three.

Mauricio was 2-4 with a run scored and a walk while Gaddis finished 2-3 with an RBI, reaching base three times.

Postgame Notes: Gaddis has hits in three of his last four games and has reached base in all four…

 Prospect stats -

2B Wyatt Young - 1-4, .257

SS Ronny Mauricio - 2-4, R, RBI, .253

RP Grant Hartwig - 1-IP, 0-R, K, 0.90

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 The Cyclones scored early and late en route to a 6-0 win over the Winston-Salem Dash on Thursday night. Dominic Hamel collected his 10th win on the season between St. Lucie and Brooklyn and tossed 7.0 shutout frames retiring 15 of the final 16 batters he faced in the game. Stanley Consuegra and Carlos Rincon each had a pair of RBI. Brooklyn’s win lowers the Cyclones Magic Number to just two – meaning any combination of two Cyclones wins or Renegades losses and Brooklyn will win the SAL Northern Division Crown.

Brooklyn wasted no time getting on the scoreboard on Thursday, Matt Rudick started the game with a single up the middle and stole second before JT Schwartz worked a one-out walk. Carlos Rincon, playing in the second game of his MiLB Rehab assignment with the Cyclones, then drilled a 2-2 offering off the left field wall to score a pair and give Brooklyn the early 2-0 lead. After a wild pitch moved Rincon to third, Stanley Consuegra roped a two-out RBI single to left field and Brooklyn’s lead grew to 3-0.

Dominic Hamel made the start for Brooklyn and was outstanding on the mound for the Cyclones. The righthander tossed 7.0 shutout frames for his second consecutive start, scattering four hits and a walk while striking out eight.

Brooklyn tacked on a pair of insurance runs in the top of the 8th with a two-out rally featuring an RBI single from Shervyen Newton and an RBI two-bagger from Matt Rudick to push their lead to 5-0. Stanley Consuegra, who finished the night 3-for-5, tacked on an RBI single in the top of the ninth to make the final score 6-0.

 Prospect stats -

RF    Alex Ramirez - 0-5, .265

RHSP  Christian Scott - DNP

RHSP  Dominic Hamel - 7-IP, 0-R, 8-K, 2.59

LHP    Keyshawn Askew - DNP

RHP    Mike Vasil - DNP

 

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Thursday’s scheduled doubleheader between the St. Lucie Mets and Fort Myers Mighty Mussels at Hammond Stadium was postponed due to more inclement weather. 

The teams will play a doubleheader on Friday starting at 4:30 p.m. 

Prospect stats - 

CF Omar De Los Santos  - DNP

C Kevin Parada - DNP

3B Chase Estep - DNP

2B D’Andre Smith - DNP

SP Blade Tidwell - DNP

SP Calvin Zeigler - DNP

SP Javier Atencio - DNP

 

 

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