The B-Mets rebounded from a 9-2 deficit at the end of the fourth inning to take a 10-9 lead, but saw that lead evaporate in the ninth inning at NYSEG Stadium Saturday afternoon, leading to an 11-10 loss at the hands of the defending Eastern League champion Akron Aeros. The teams combined for 21 runs and 31 hits in a knockdown-drag out affair that saw both squads squander leads in the contest.
Binghamton (1-2) carried a 10-9 lead into the ninth inning. Righty Jose De La Torre, who had retired the first five men to face him, allowed a one-out single to Matt McBride, which signaled the end of his afternoon. Manager Tim Teufel summoned Roy Merritt to get the final two outs of the game. Merritt promptly surrendered a single to Beau Mills, which advanced McBride to third. Carlos Rivero followed with a single through the right side, which pushed across McBride with the tying run. After getting Cord Phelps to ground into a fielder’s choice, which advanced Mills to second, Merritt gave up an RBI single to John Drennen that gave Akron (2-1) the lead they would not relinquish.
Binghamton opened the scoring with a bang. Centerfielder Kirk Nieuwenhuis squared up a Connor Graham offering for a leadoff homer over the right-centerfield wall to start the hit parade. First baseman Nick Evans and designated hitter Marshall Hubbard followed with singles and Evans was pushed across on a Lucas Duda groundout to make it 2-0 B-Mets.
Akron was quick to answer, however, as the Aeros scored the next nine runs. Cord Phelps gave Akron its first lead with a three-run homer to right off Binghamton starter Scott Shaw.
In the third, the Aeros knocked Shaw out of the game with five more runs. Phelps dealt the blow that knocked the righty out of his Double-A debut, an RBI single that put Akron ahead 6-2. Edgar Ramirez spelled Shaw and allowed the two runners he inherited to score on a John Drennen sac fly and a Wyatt Toregas RBI double that put the Aeros in control 8-2. Shaw was saddled with eight runs in 2.1 innings of work.
Nick Weglarz gave Akron their largest lead of the game, 9-2, with a solo homer in the fourth off Ramirez.
The B-Mets came back with a fury in the fifth inning against the starter Graham though. After Evans and Hubbard walked, Duda singled up the center of the diamond to score Evans. Catcher Luke Montz followed with a three-run home run to left that led to Graham’s departure.
In the sixth, Binghamton took the lead with a four-run frame capped by Zach Lutz’s RBI double off reliever Omar Aguilar, which put the B-Mets ahead 10-9.
Six different Binghamton hitters managed multi-hit days including Evans, who went 3-4 with three runs scored, and Duda, who drove in three men.
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