Triple-A: Syracuse Mets (20-15)
SYRACUSE 3, ROCHESTER 2 (BOX)
A.J. Ewing only had one hit on the night, but it was a big one, as he ripped a two-out single to right field to give Syracuse—playing as the Salt Potatoes for this one—a walk-off win in the bottom of the ninth. Earlier in the game, Rochester twice led by one run before Syracuse evened the score, as Ji Hwan Bae drove in a run in the fourth before Christian Arroyo drove in the team’s second run of the night in the sixth.
Salt Potatoes pitchers were mostly very good, and if you were looking for potential bullpen upgrades in Syracuse after watching the major league Mets yesterday afternoon, Ryan Lambert, Jonathan Pintaro, and Dylan Ross each threw a scoreless inning at the tail end of this game, totaling six strikeouts with zero walks and just one hit allowed by Lambert.
Double-A: Binghamton Rumble Ponies (11-19)
HARTFORD 5, BINGHAMTON 3 (BOX)
Binghamton struck first with a run in the bottom of the first, but the Yard Goats tied things up with a run in the third, took the lead with a run in the fifth, and got to Rumble Ponies reliever Kevin Gowdy for three runs, two of them earned, in his one-third of an inning appearance in the top of the seventh. Binghamton scored one in the bottom of that inning and one more in the eighth, but they came up short in their comeback attempt.
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P Jefry Yan: 1.2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K
High-A: Brooklyn Cyclones (7-21)
BOWLING GREEN 9, BROOKLYN 2 (BOX)
Jonathan Jimenez got knocked around early, giving up four of his five runs in the bottom of the first inning, and Bowling Green never really looked back from there. To their credit, the Cyclones answered that inning with a pair of runs in the top of the second, but the bats were mostly silent after that, as they failed to scored another run the rest of the way. Cyclones reliever Garrett Stratton had a rough night, too, giving up three runs in the seventh.
Single-A: St. Lucie Mets (13-17)
LAKELAND 4, ST. LUCIE 1 (BOX)
St. Lucie opened the scoring with a run in the top of the first, but like their High-A counterparts, they didn’t do much at the plate after that. Reliever Elwis Mijares was the only Mets pitcher to have a rough outing in this one, but the two runs that starter Frank Camarillo allowed in the bottom of the first proved to be the difference in the game anyway.
Rookie: FCL Mets (1-3)
FCL NATIONALS 6, FCL METS 3 (BOX)
STAR OF THE NIGHT
The Syracuse bullpen
GOAT OF THE NIGHT
Kevin Gowdy
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