Binghamton 11, Richmond 2

Josh Stinson hurled a season-best, seven innings of two-run work and Binghamton rapped a season-high 18 hits en route to an 11-2 thumping of Richmond Wednesday night at The Diamond, ending a four-game losing skid. Josh Satin roped three hits in five trips to the plate, including the game-winner, a two-run triple in the sixth. The Flying Squirrels jumped on Stinson in the first. Darren Ford blooped a single into left opening the frame. He promptly stole second on Stinson’s first offering to Nick Noonan, who pushed Ford to third with a groundout to second. With two outs, Roger Kieschnick sent a Stinson offering back through the box into centerfield, plating Ford to give Richmond its only lead, 1-0.


Starter Mike MacDonald scattered four hits over the game’s first three innings before giving up the lead in the fourth. The inning got off to an ominous start courtesy of a walk issued to Marshall Hubbard. Eric Campbell made MacDonald pay for the walk with a two-run blast to left on a first-pitch breaking ball, vaulting the B-Mets to a 2-1 lead.


Binghamton (31-34) responded in the sixth. D.J. Wabick doubled to left-center to start and was joined on base when Omir Santos singled. With runners at the corners and no one out, MacDonald was pulled in favor of Ronnie Ray. Satin was the first to face the reliever and lined a bases-clearing triple to right-center, putting the B-Mets ahead for good. Sean Ratliff delivered the final blow of the inning with a two-out, RBI single to right, plating Satin to up the lead to 5-2.



The B-Mets turned the game into a rout in the seventh. Hubbard began the inning with a double to right and was chased home by Wabick with an RBI single off Ray. Craig Whitaker spelled Ray and gave up a homer to the first batter he faced, Santos, a two-run shot to left. It was Santos’ first bomb with Binghamton and it extended the lead to six, 8-2.