Binghamton Mets (18-16) vs.
Altoona Curve (15-21)
(Double-A Affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates)
RHP Greg Peavey (2-1, 3.16) vs. LHP Joely Rodriguez (1-3, 5.22)
Wednesday, May 14, 2014 • Game #35 • Home Game #22
NYSEG Stadium • Binghamton, NY • 6:35 PM
LAST GAME: The Altoona Curve torched Hansel Robles for seven runs on six extra-base hits, including three home runs, in the third inning en route to handing the Binghamton Mets a 10-3 loss on Tuesday night. Gift Ngoepe, Stetson Allie and Keon Broxton all went deep in Altoona’s big inning. Tyler Sample allowed two runs over four innings of relief to collect the win. It took five B-Mets relievers to piece together the final 6.1 innings after Robles was chased from the game in the third. Dustin Lawley hit his third home run of the season and Kevin Plawecki extended his hitting streak to nine games.
BINGHAMTON STARTER: RHP Greg Peavey makes his sixth start of the season and first against the Curve in 2014. The righty comes into tonight’s start with a pair of wins in his last two starts. Most recently, he tossed a nine-inning complete-game shutout against the New Hampshire Fisher Cats on May 7. Peavey has allowed just one earned run in his last 15 innings of work. Drafted in the 6th round in 2010 out of Oregon State University, he went 6-5 and compiled a 4.80 ERA between two levels in 2013.
ALTOONA STARTER: RHP Joely Rodriguez takes the hill for his seventh start of the season. In his last start against the Bowie Baysox on May 7, he allowed one run over five innings and exited with a chance to collect the win. The Curve bullpen blew the lead in a game Altoona would win 6-5 in walk-off fashion. Signed out of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in March 2009, Rodriguez is pitching at Double-A for the first time in his career.
THE BIG INNING: The seven runs allowed by the B-Mets in the third inning on Tuesday night were the most they have surrendered in one frame since the New Hampshire Fisher Cats lit the scoreboard with eight runs in the seventh inning on July 7, 2013.
PLAWECKI STILL RED HOT: B-Mets catcher Kevin Plawecki has hit safely in each of his last nine games, a personal season-high. He has hit .389 (14-for-36) during the stretch with four doubles, a home run, five RBI and five multiple-hit games. He has raised his batting average by 54 percentage points.
LEAGUE HONORS PEAVEY: B-Mets starter Greg Peavey was named the Eastern League Pitcher of the Week yesterday. The righty earned the honors after tossing a nine-inning, complete-game shutout against the New Hampshire Fisher Cats on May 7. Peavey allowed just two hits while preventing any Fisher Cats from reaching second base. He retired the final 13 batters he faced. It was the 12th nine-inning two-hitter in B-Mets franchise history.
TAXING STRETCH: Tuesday night’s game opened a stretch of 22 games in 20 days without a day off for the B-Mets. Following this three-game series at home, Binghamton will embark on a nine-game, seven-day road trip to New Hampshire and Portland.
FINDING HIS GROOVE: Since bottoming out at a season-low .169 batting average on May 2, Dustin Lawley has hit safely in eight of his last ten games. He has hit .306 (11-for-36) during the stretch with four doubles, two home runs and seven RBI. He has raised his batting average by 46 percentage points.
LEAGUE LEADERS: Matt Reynolds and Wilfredo Tovar are tied for eighth in the league with identical .333 batting averages. Greg Peavey owns the second-best WHIP among qualifiers at 0.89. Matt Clark sits second in the league with a .574 slugging percentage. Darin Gorski has compiled a 3.03 ERA, good for the ninth-best mark in the league.
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