Mets prospect Jett Williams hits two home runs with Binghamton, Drew Gilbert goes yard for Syracuse

Mets prospect Jett Williams continues to excel with Double-A Binghamton and he showed off his power on Wednesday night.

Going up against the Flying Squirrels, Williams took Richmond pitching deep twice. The first came in the fourth inning with the score knotted a 0-0. Williams launched a Manuel Mercedes pitch deep over the center field wall to give the Rumble Ponies a 1-0 lead. The Mets’ No. 1 prospect would give the Rumble Ponies the lead again in the sixth after launching another solo shot.

Off of Mercedes again, Williams took the fifth pitch of the at-bat to left-center field for his second homer of the game.

It was the first multi-homer game of the season for Williams and he finished 2-for-3 with a walk.

Although Binghamton would drop the game to Richmond, 5-2, Williams was able to boost his stats with his performance. His batting average rose to .288 and he now has six homers this season.

After 51 games in Double-A this season, Williams is slashing .288/.397/.497 with a .894 OPS.

It wasn’t an offensive outburst from Binghamton, which had just four hits total. Williams had two of them, but Ryan Clifford went 1-for-4, driving his 10th double of the season on Wednesday.

Drew Gilbert goes yard for Syracuse

Up in Triple-A, Gilbert continues to show his potential power with his fourth homer since returning to Syracuse.

Gilbert finished 1-for-4 with a walk in Syracuse’s 7-5 loss to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre but has now reached base in four of his last five games. In 45 games with Triple-A, Gilbert is slashing .210/.332/.347 with an oPS of .679, but has had bursts of power.

Gilbert’s two-run homer in the third came after Travis Janikowski, playing with Syracuse for the first time since signing a minor league deal this week after spending this season with the Rays and White Sox.

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