Mets Farm Report: July 17th, 2009

Stars of the Night:
AAA – PPD – (Rain)
AA – Lucas Duda
HiA – Carlos Guzman
LoA – Raul Reyes
SSA – Collin McHugh
Rk1 – PPD – (Rain)
Rk2 – OFF

AAA – Buffalo Bisons

PPD – (Rain)

AA – Binghamton Mets

Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Erie 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 7 10 1 Binghamton 4 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 X 8 8 0 Recap | Box | W: Niesen (1-4, 6.82); L: Stanley (4-3, 4.63); SV: Robertson, C (3) HR: ERI: Wells, C (6), De Leon (3). BIN: Duda (5).

After Eric Niesen gave up 3 runs on 4 hits and a walk in the first inning then the B-Mets battled back in the bottom of the inning to take the lead on a Lucas Duda grand slam.  It’s nice for Duda to show some kind of power of just .113 on the season.  Niesen’s stats have just been bitter-sweet since moving to AA with good strikeout rates, but poor ERA and having been too hittable.

HiA – St. Lucie Mets

Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E St. Lucie 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 6 10 2 Palm Beach 3 0 0 0 1 0 5 0 X 9 9 0 Recap | Box | W: Castillo, R (5-8, 3.88); L: Shaw, S (4-5, 3.80) HR: None.

It appears that Brant Rustich has been put in a full time bullpen role.  Rustich was victimized by Jake Eigsti and Zach Lutz errors plus his own poor pitching to give up 5 runs and 1 earned run before being bailed out by Josh Stinson who came in to strikeout the last two hitters of the innign.

LoA – Savannah Sand Gnats

Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Hickory 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 12 0 Savannah 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 1 Recap | Box | W: Ramirez, N (2-2, 5.34); L: Carson (7-7, 2.53); SV: Pimentel (1) HR: HIC: Morrison (14). SAV: Reyes, R (6).

Robert Carson had by far his worst start of the season lasting just 1.2 innings and giving up his 2nd homerun of the year.  Giving up 7 hits while getting just 5 outs is Oliver Perez territory.  Phillips Orta has been much much better of late piching to a 1.50 ERA in June and keeping the walks down to 2 in 6 innings.

SSA – Brooklyn Cyclones

Cmpl. Early: Fog 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Auburn 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 Brooklyn 1 0 0 0 0 1 5 0 Recap | Box W: McHugh (4-1, 3.94); L: Crawford, E (1-2, 1.95) HR: None.

Well talk about an odd complete game shutout. Collin McHugh picked up the win in a 5 inning ‘complete game shutout’ for his 4th win of the season.  Stop batting Robbie Shields 8th move him to 2nd.

Rk1 – Kingsport Mets

PPD – (Rain)

Rk2 – GCL Mets

OFF

Related posts:

1. Mets Farm Report: July 11th, 2009
2. Mets Farm Report: June 17th, 2009
3. Mets Farm Report: July 21st, 2009
4. Mets Farm Report: July 16th, 2009
5. Mets Farm Report: July 17th, 2010